The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Team Up with Scholastic to Survey Teaching Conditions Schools Learning from Business Okay, so when I read the title of this article, “Bill and Melinda Gates: Schools Need to Learn from Business.” My immediate reaction was, “Umm, no they don’t. Schools are not businesses Schools are not businesses and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mock Trial http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/03/oregon_mock_trial_competition.html I know that I say it a lot, but I really love when learning takes place in a non-traditional way. I believe that this is going to become even more important as education, specifically public education, comes under more and more scrutiny, that students will have to take every learning opportunity that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2009/09/essay_why_i_loathe_goodnight_m.html There was a time no other words could stir terror for my wife quite like these: “In the great green room, there was a telephone, and a red balloon, and a picture of …” In the dark places of her heart, the places we try never to let our children see, she loathed “Goodnight […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is another article about, what I am calling, ‘recession schools’. The term recession schools is to show the affects of what this current economic recession is doing to our public education system. As I include this new article from the New York Times; I am also discovering new information about how schools in Portland, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There is a bit of irony involved with this article – as the majority of public schools across the country are in the midst of their yearly dose of state testing. Furthermore, college students have just finished up their finals for the year; at the same time, high schoolers get ready to take their exams […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Newspapers are in trouble. With adult readership sinking each year, we as educators can be pretty sure that fewer and fewer of our students are seeing newspapers in their homes at all, let alone having any sort of experience reading them. This is a shame, because newspaper articles can be used to teach a variety […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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