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Friday, April 29, 2011

Great Stuff!

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Here are some things I heard about and liked over the past few weeks. You might like them too. Diane Ravitch was on Fresh Air with Terry G...

Ben Franklin, Jane Mecom, Public Schools & the Real Tea Party

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Mark Maynard , intrepid (and prolific!) Ypsilanti blogger, drew my attention to this stellar op-ed piece in the New York Times by Harvard p...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Budget Notes: Class Commentary

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This is the second of two posts on the AAPS budget proposal, but let's start with this: all of the local school districts are having bu...
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Budget Notes: How Would Sharing A Principal Work?

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I've got two posts on the AAPS budget proposal, but let's start with this: all of the local school districts are having budget forum...
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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Sunday, April 24, 2011

What You Can Do To Fight The Budget Blues

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I loved this anonymous comment from the other day : I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around ANY cuts, seeing as the state's...
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Local Budget Blues

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Someone asked me what I thought of the proposed budget cuts to the Ann Arbor Public Schools, and obviously I haven't yet seen the full p...
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State Budget Blues

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Here in Ann Arbor, where we have largely escaped unscathed from the past 15 or so years of budget cuts, we are just now starting to feel the...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Why?

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Several years ago, we asked friends and family coming to our house for the holiday to each focus on a particular section of the Passover Sed...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Spy High: Tweeting the Night Away

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Well, this is my first experiment with tweeting a meeting. I was at the Skyline High School PTSO meeting and I tweeted the meeting. (You can...
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Thursday, April 7, 2011

I Spy: More Than a Game at Sky High

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Hot off the presses: This coming Monday, April 11th, at 6:30 p.m, the next Skyline PTSO meeting will be held in the Media Center.  This mon...

Some Charter Schools "Outsource" Management

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I am preparing a series on charter schools in Washtenaw County, and I've decided I'm going to start alphabetically. (I know, you...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

New School Lunch Standards Coming Soon!

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Thanks to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act , the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been developing new standards for school meals. They ar...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Mapping the Charter Schools

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Hey, it's my first foray into making a map on Google Maps! Here is a map of the current Washtenaw County Public School Academies, a.k.a....
Monday, March 28, 2011

Asking the Right Questions

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Rick Garlikov describes the Socratic Method as "Teaching by Asking Instead of Telling." He has an extremely interesting experim...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Progressive Education in the 1940s

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This is a really wonderful little clip about Progressive Education in the 1940s, and so many of the themes are still relevant today!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

There's Lots Going On Locally

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Ann Arbor Public Schools are deciding if they should be open for schools of choice. Here's the proposal , the decision comes next week. ...
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Open Classroom Conference This Weekend

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The conference starts Friday night, and goes all day Saturday. It's titled: Get Up, Stand Up; Democratic Education as a Right There...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Supply. . . And Demand

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Recent discussions around teachers' pay (is it too much? I don't think so) and merit pay ( does it work? ), are closely related to i...
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WISD Superintendent Search

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I'm reproducing this WISD press release in its entirety. My Summary: There are six interviews of finalist candidates for the WISD sup...