June 2010
1 post
May 2010
3 posts
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Standardized Test... →
“This is the world, which is fuller
and more difficult to learn than I have...”
– Poems about Teaching - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
April 2010
7 posts
Archive | This American Life →
If you have any opinions about inner city public schools, listen to the 4-25-10 episode about Mount Pleasant High School.
Everything is blooming most recklessly
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
- Rilke
“An oral contraceptive, he said, “would be the greatest aid ever discovered to...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - Promises the Pill Could Never Keep - NYTimes.com
Tough
One of my students today told me she thinks she might be pregnant. And that her ex-boyfriend beat her and still hangs around her house. And that her mom’s boyfriend sometimes hits her siblings. I asked why she thinks so many girls here get pregnant- “The boys make them, don’t you know the boys here?”.
Yeah, I do know boys here. ”Tough” boys. I also know...
Poem Flow: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird... →
I wish I had an iphone so I could use nerdy literary apps like this one!
Looking Past the Spin: Teach for America - Volume... →
a 2nd year had this article in her gchat status as “worthy of reading if only to disagree with everything in it”, but I tend to agree with a lot of it. What does apolitical mean anyway? am I a terrible corps member or just a critic?
style rookie →
I love teenagers. Especially this one right now.
January 2010
1 post
ASU plans big change in teacher training →
This was totally my idea… looking at grad programs at ASU!
December 2009
1 post
“A REINFORCING SHOT OF ARCTIC AIR WILL ACCOMPANY THE SNOWFALL.”
– National Weather Service Watch Warning Advisory Summary
July 2009
2 posts
“In response to a question regarding the biggest leverage points that technology...”
– Obama Administration: Technology at the Heart of Education Reform — THE Journal
May 2009
6 posts
“Some poems are like kissing a porcupine.”
– Blue or Green - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
Holding College Chiefs to Their Words - WSJ.com →
April 2009
1 post
Free Verse: Robert Frost, "Now drops that floated... →
March 2009
5 posts
The Genteel Unteaching of America's Poor →
“The standards-development process should be transparent and participatory,...”
– Thomas B. Fordham Institute - The Education Gadfly
WatchSpoonbridge Shot this yesterday for a piece on the remove of the gigantic cherry from the commensurately gigantic spoon. Needs a Sousa march, as you’ll see. (via Bleat » Spoonbridge
)
February 2009
28 posts
“For reasons that are obscure to me, those qualities we cherish in our artists we...”
– Speaking in Tongues - The New York Review of Books
Writing in the 21st Century- Kathleen Yancy →
“It’s underwhelming the number of good studies done in math,” Ms. Cottingham...”
– Education Week: Much-Used Elementary Math Program Gets Qualified Nod From U.S. Ed. Dept.
“Now, she said, “Writing curricula that are smart invite participation...”
– New slant on writing encourages participation
“the Double Back Around to Pick Up the Children We Left Behind Act”
– Rename Law? No Wisecrack Is Left Behind - NYTimes.com
“BEING A NERD anywhere comes with social risks. Being a nerd in the hood comes...”
– May 2007 - The Test of Their Lives - los Angeles magazine
“If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would...”
– Beware of School “Reformers”
An Unemployed Machinist
by John Giorno
An unemployed
machinist
An unemployed machinist
who travelled
here
who travelled here
from Georgia
from Georgia 10 days ago
10 days ago
and could not find
a job
and could not find a job
walked
into a police station
walking into a police station
yesterday and said
yesterday
and said:
“I’m tired
of being scared
I’m...
“In an effort to improve the school’s test scores, Hazel Park has made a...”
– Homework isn’t done? It’s OK at Hazel Park
“Imagine the outrage if, say, the Pittsburgh Steelers had to move the ball the...”
– Randi Weingarten - The Case for National Education Standards - washingtonpost.com
“The hardest nut to crack is high schools — we don’t have a strong sense yet how...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Our Greatest National Shame - NYTimes.com
“I’ve taken the liberty Of placing my heart In your grasp’s captivity...”
– A Poetry Slam For Valentine’s Day : NPR
“School improvement is most surely and thoroughly achieved when: Teachers engage...”
– Google Reader (32)
Education Week: Scores Found Unaffected by... →
Students who have teachers certified through alternative-training programs do no worse in mathematics or reading achievement than students whose teachers have been certified by traditional teacher education programs, according to a studyRequires Adobe Acrobat Reader released today by Mathematica Policy Research Inc.
On My Way
——-Email Message——-
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: I am on my way
I’m leaving in a few weeks to make a cross country move to Portland OR. I have no idea what my plans are when I get there. I’m just pulling in with a car full of clothes. All I know for sure is that there is something there waiting for me to come find it. Maybe some of...
“I know that talking about standards can make people nervous—but the notion that...”
– NCLB: Act II: Duncan Pushes National Standards
“Leaving Lower Brule is complicated. Ziegler risks being dismissed as an “apple”...”
– American Indian Fighters Punch Back Against Despair - NYTimes.com
“Smooth black button eyes.
Stitch for stitch a great surprise.
Beyond the door?...”
– KGW Studio on the Square Blog: February 4, 2009 Archives
“So prepare for the day when the anteater flies Because that is the day - - -...”
– FAWM.ORG / Canteloupes (anteater)