Please sign a petition asking President-elect Barack Obama to appoint Linda Darling-Hammond as Secretary of Education. Here's the link to the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/... We in the US are always giving lip service to … [Read more...]
All we are saying is give paste a chance.
Yesterday, on the last weekday of the February break, I was in my classroom reading a 25-page standardized, multiple-choice test on poetry. All 8th graders at my school will spend two hours taking this test on Tuesday. Its … [Read more...]
Once Again, Mass Schools & Students Do Best In The Nation
We were alone at the top on three of the four tests, and tied for first on the fourth. That's amazing. In 2005, the last time the test was given, Mass students also were number one on all four tests, so this isn't a fluke.Our … [Read more...]
Creative, New Ways to Fund Quincy’s Schools
Under my proposal, the school district would be able to create the fund using revenue generated from federal reimbursements. Quincy's schools already earn well over $1 million a year in federal Medicaid reimbursements for services provided … [Read more...]
251 school districts aid increased.
But the legislature could have kept aid to every district at the higher of the governor's numbers or last year's downpayment formula's numbers, at a cost of just $15 million above the governor's budget. This means the cuts for 101 … [Read more...]
Towns receiving less Chapter 70 aid than in FY 2003
ARLINGTON 189,351BARNSTABLE 552,173BELMONT 5,971BOYLSTON 20,044BROOKLINE 62,443BURLINGTON 153,157CAMBRIDGE 414,483CANTON 13,641CARLISLE 695CHELMSFORD 523,363CHESTERFIELD … [Read more...]
“Give a Man a fish” and the work of Abraham Maslow – why taxation is evidence of a healthy society
I hope Deval Patrick studied the ground-breaking work of psychologist Abraham Maslow at some point, whether at Milton Academy or Harvard.Abraham Maslow studied a culture that involved both fishing and farming. He noted greater … [Read more...]
What this Masshole thinks is wrong with our schools
In the Globe piece today, we learn that superintendents are getting even higher salaries then previously thought.[For superintendents] the average total compensation is $147,500, according to a Globe analysis of contracts for 162 … [Read more...]
Effective Metaphor for public schools?
Joseph Featherstone, a social historian, speaks about schools as society's 'theater,' the large stage on which our major cultural sagas are enacted and opportunities and casualties of social change are most visible and vivid. We look … [Read more...]
2 Studies: Pub Schools Outperform, 3/4 Mass schools likely to fail “No Child” in 2014
[ click here for PDF of full report ]: [ NCSPE study summary ] Findings reveal that demographic differences between students in public and private schools account for the relatively high raw scores of private schools on the NAEP. … [Read more...]