by admin | Dec 12, 2012 | Education - K-12
Background: When comparing schools or classrooms or curricula, evaluators have been faced historically with a choice of one or two measures of growth such as average growth per student and ratio of students achieving positive growth; or they have faced a dizzying...
by admin | Jan 22, 2012 | Education - K-12, Education - Post-secondary
DPI warns the reader: “READ THIS FIRST: In order to understand the charts, it is important that you first read the following information.” And I feel obligated to warn the reader that: THE CHARTS ARE TOTAL, UTTER, USELESS NONSENSE!...
by admin | Oct 10, 2011 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Politics - US
The early 1990’s saw the beginning of charter schools that were intended to innovate and address unique local needs in the K-12 schools. Charter schools were allowed to operate without the many stifling regulations imposed on traditional schools by the bureaucratic...
by admin | Aug 20, 2011 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Politics, Politics - NC
Maybe letters to your legislator do matter! Or maybe it was a coincidence. April 20, 2011 SB 724 An Act to Improve Public Education Edition 1 reads in part: “To further ensure that teacher preparation programs are upgraded to reflect a more rigorous course of...
by admin | Jul 31, 2011 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education
Fawned over by the would-be glitterati, Matt Damon’s speech to the Save Our Schools rally in DC received wide accolades as a clear-headed, common-sense speech that spoke to Everyteacher. There are transcripts all over the internet, but here is a summary followed by a...
by admin | May 24, 2011 | Education - K-12
Louisville, KY: May 13, 2011 Two archery teams from The Roger Bacon Academy – Charter Day School competed nationally against 300 other teams and over 6,000 archers. The teams’ scores from both elementary school and middle school qualified them both to go...
