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…
I’m part of several groups – but one that I really enjoy is Teachers Pay Teachers. I consider it to be similar to an ebay for teachers. I know that I’ve discussed it before, so I won’t repeat myself. Instead, to try and bring more attention to it, I’m going to do occasional write-ups on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ve made it this far, then you are asking yourself, “Alright, there better be some really great resources here.” And voila, there are. Google Scholar – This is my favorite source to go to. The number one reason why is that Google Scholar does the searching for you. It doesn’t ever list Wikipedia as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cobalt blue is my favorite color; the bluish-purplish color. There’s something about it that I’ve liked since I first saw it in high school. And Kelly green – the brightest and most vivid of the greens, reminds me of Ireland. Everyone has a color they like, or a color that evokes a response. Color can […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
• Talk about the money, but bring it back around to the ways in which we can reform education. End article on a happy note. * • It takes money to get the best teachers (although I haven’t met a teacher yet who felt that they were getting paid adequately). And it takes money to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now that I have established that schools and businesses aren’t the same (and I hope you agree); what is it that we do? We, the general public, see that our kids aren’t doing well, that there are problems in education. I am not disagreeing with that. Yet, why is it that we automatically jump to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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