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Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Wednesday 1/27/2016: AAEA Press Conference, then AAPS Board Meeting

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Ann Arbor teachers have a new evaluation system that involves more testing (of students) and much more paperwork, and they are not happy abo...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Five Updates: Who's Covering the First Elected Board, What's Your First Choice, Where's the Money Gone, Who's Listening Anyway, Why Keep Testing

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1. Ypsilanti Community Schools board voted 4-3 not to do a superintendent search --their superintendent's contract will automatically re...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

News and Dismay, Now More Than Ever

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I was rather dismayed to learn that the latest education reporter for the Ann Arbor News, Amy Biolchini, is moving to the west side of the s...
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Sunday, June 8, 2014

Ann Arbor Chronicle Column: Students and the Body Politic

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Do you spend your time thinking about what it means to have a free press? Then you might like my latest column for the Ann Arbor Chronicle...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Principal Principles, Perspectives, and Publicity

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Pioneer Perspicacity   (I was looking for P words--and I had to look perspicacity up, but it's a good choice because essentially it me...
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Sunday, September 8, 2013

New K-12 Education Reporter

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I started a post on school security (coming soon to a blog near you!) about a week ago, with these words: "First of all, welcome to n...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Ann Arbor Schools Budget: Summary, Thoughts, Feedback

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The Ann Arbor School Board is scheduled to vote on the AAPS budget at the Wednesday June 12th meeting. In this blog post, I try to share as ...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Around the County

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Superintendent Searches and Related Information Ann Arbor is in the middle of a superintendent search. I've written about it here . ...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

Part IV: My Commentary on the Superintendent Resignation

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First of all, if you want to read what other people think, take a look at these survey results: Part I:  Did you have personal experiences...
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Friday, March 22, 2013

How Cool Is This?/My Head Is Going to Explode

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How Cool Is This? From the BBC News : So it's here. School Report News Day 2013 is upon us - and about 1,000 schools are due to ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Somehow I Missed Some Dexter and Chelsea News...

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While I wasn't looking, Dexter's superintendent, Mary Marshall, left town for a Superintendent position in Pentwater, Michigan. Ac...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

2012 Washtenaw County Education-Related Election Information

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I'm rather busy with the petition drive , but the election is coming and we do need to vote. Therefore, I am going to try to put up al...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

I Was on the Radio about our Petition Drive!

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Tonight, I was on the radio! I was talking about our petition and the overtesting of students. Read it here --it doesn't look like th...
Monday, September 5, 2011

When is retraction the right decision?

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Yesterday, I wrote a post criticizing our new superintendent for saying that she didn't have a position on school prayer. This was based...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Schools and the Means of Education Shall Forever Be Encouraged

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In case you missed it, the Ann Arbor Chronicle has a lovely piece by John U. Bacon, thanking teachers. Here it is . I took the title of ...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

Top Eleven List: Things to Think About Tonight. Or Tomorrow.

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1. The tenure bills passed the House. All of them. One major change, given how many layoffs have happened this past year...the seniority ru...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Courage in Student Journalism and Other Student Newspaper Awards

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Back in the day. . . when I wrote for my school newspaper. . . it was a monthly. It was an after-school club. We laid things out by hand. My...
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