I don’t know the guys’n'gals at Fordham, though I’ll admit that I agree with them more than I disagree. I don’t know The Quick and the Ed’s Kevin Carey, either - I’m about 50/50 on his ideas. Here’s a lesson to all who have blogs, corporate, foundation, personal or otherwise: Being partisan is fine - just keep [...]

Some old, some new, some blogs, some traditional media. All worthwhile, ‘cuz we’ve got Florida, race and Reading First. The travel debate in Hillsborough County, Florida [St. Pete Times]. The travel expenses are in - board member Susan Valdes spent a lot, no doubt. But $50k over 4 years isn’t all that much if the travel/conferences were [...]

A hearty thanks goes out to the National Association of Secondary School Prinicipals for advocating less administrative responsibility for their members. The less they do, the better - until we start making better administrators. From Flypaper: Richard Flanary, the director of professional development services for the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP for short), who was [...]

In short, the Fresh Air Fund needs to place about 200 children with host families for August. Host families need to be screened - this takes a little bit of time - and August is approaching quickly. From the FAF website: The Fresh Air Fund has provided free summer vacations to New York City [...]

Much has been made of the NYC DoE’s “Truth Squad” push, partly because it’s pseudo-scandal, partly because it’s such a poor effort that deserves a bit of criticism. And, as much as it’s an eye-rolling bother to read 30 inappropriate references to Orwell each day, at least the Ohanians and UFTers of the world are [...]

In case you haven’t heard about the NYC-DoE-KGB-CIA: Employees at the city Department of Education’s press office have a new assignment: They are to scour a group of 24 education Web logs, e-mail Listservs, and Web sites in a hunt for factual errors and misinformation. Department officials are calling the unit the Truth Squad. The squad’s latest [...]

Mrs. Tabor - mother, not wife - works in a non-instructional/administrative role in a public school. As the school year wrapped up, one of the little scamps she sees regularly at the school took it upon herself to draw a little picture. It says: To: Mrs. Tabor It [h]as been a good year with you I will cry [...]

This edition of the Education for the Aughts Podcast addresses three topics: A look at patriotic curricula in public schools - what we had and where we’re not; Grade inflation in Hillsborough County, Florida; Lack of accountability in New Hartford, NY and a financial boondoggle in Utica, NY. You can play this Education for the Aughts Podcast by clicking [...]

I’m doing some reading and recording this evening, so I thought I’d pass along an excellent link forwarded to me by Mr. Russo re: fonts. There’s a tab on this site for my handwriting font and a link for its download. It’s also listed on dafont.com, which is mentioned in the article, and countless other websites. [...]

Apologetics, not to be confused with apology, and then a discussion of some ed-tech stereotypes. I wanted to address a comment from a discussion on another site regarding my post titled A Bit More Education Techno-Twaddle; Why I Avoid NECC, 2008 Edition. I read your post, it was pretty negative. The author of the comment may have glanced [...]