No child left behind

“We need triage,” said Margaret Spellings, the secretary of education. see full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/us/19child.html?th&emc=th

New Orleans education site

This site is an overview of many aspects of the rebuilding of new orleans. After having been down their for a week, all of the issues and problems of the city really hit home. I ahve followed the "Starting over blog for a while and it has been very interesting and informative. http://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/nola/index.html

Math wars anew

Here is an interesting article about revisions proposed for the teaching of mathematics ... http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/03/19/28math_ep.h27.html?tmp=257090407

Waterbury principle under fire

From my perspective, this situation was just so interesting because they could speak out like this. In most industries, an employee who speaks out like this could be well assured of being on the next lay off list. Hope that this gets resolved one way or another for the kids sake.

Education week talks about Iraq

This article is an overview of some of the highlights of Iraq and education after the invasion. http://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/iraq-five-year/index.html?levelId=1000&rale2=KQE5d7nM%2FXAYPsVRXwnFWYRqIIX2bhy1%2BKNA5buLAWG22nDRZWXXULaq9bwrGQA%2Bakk2rlaNZNN2%0AUEL6asgoqkzee7wh3wmw6Db7ApLSxaBZ6GSEFRwBWCVvOe0sqsPvVI2zBGZWBWNW6EcvM0Mhz4Yq%0Al8TU4sMIYuUswihb4mINQRU%2FT2ded93ba1kCCENcd1i1zsWfxUxlvkk9Ejm%2FKwxy2EGrEogmOM1o%0A7kTlNfBdADbFgJIZ9MWbK%2B%2Fy7BYapYqvmMz9Ra%2FqEZv%2F%2BQnhgFxT9zO0uM2v2gZF7i8wtaVssAK9%0A1WvYvXr%2BEknleMOx4f%2FQRRGpFO2RyCP5rtNQlB5iY0VecewBQkoZLUyI%2Fzm3LtbNWil5MT7c4KP6%0A87zfWz2mhgFK81zJcl9NKOZImdJ3Tvsw7lLPB06zUG5EHEhlGmAb4sQCLIf43KR6EDEuU2SwyHiY%0AsRkQvFo3KVYJannDz5%2BuDf3XSD02Zq49ly66r9gSF3W5aJHII%2Fmu01CUZCaisqSNJ4pQafZGazFP%0A9mI8AMfr4Wq46hGb%2F%2FkJ4YCftabgXGegnsU%2B%2FC1acjMeYjwAx%2BvharjqEZv%2F%2BQnhgF2HGxqSbfJe%0AvDU7x8V1YZ9UjbMEZlYFY1boRy8zQyHP%2FRsk4tLIgega9dPXjDLnIqr4fnU6%2BjHZaWIs7W94DJIa%0ACfUmHk64s6A8i0eXniwiQWOdxJ8cMxsyb9MQZ9Oe8b2SAxxsAEIoYw0RSPzBxmb6ewGJ%2B%2BewBo1O%0Aw7FHE%2BvYAid358vxF4DVnmpVkDdyscQeci%2B0MiisJtnRA5%2BZQB25hX%2B1rpCeyczS28jxyqNGenOk%0A5pJ0nO0%3D

autism and vaccine

Another statement on the ongoing debate of Autism spectrum disorder ....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/08/us/08vaccine.html?th&emc=th

Charter School and higher salaries

Article about paying teachers higher salaries, but with larger classes and fewer curriculum choices.

Evolution in Florida

An interesting article on the addition of the theory of evolution in Florida schools.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/opinion/06thu3.html?th&emc=th

Paying for performance

An interesting article about using financial incentives in school:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/nyregion/05incentive.html?th&emc=th

Biological Basis of Social Intelligence

The following article was very interesting. It shows that there is a relationship between social intelligence and brain size and that social intelligence is not just the domain of primates. As I have noticed here at our farm - you can learn a lot from observing animals.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/science/04hyen.html?th&emc=th

Single Sex Education

A very interesting article about splitting the sexes fr education .....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/magazine/02sex3-t.html?em&ex=1204693200&en=7a79845aa09f55c0&ei=5087%0A&exprod=myyahoo

A very interesting article about the power of play

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/magazine/17play.html?ex=1204434000&en=009ea2f9099ba836&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Medication blog entry

Thought that this was very interesting ......

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/the-med-scare/?ex=1204434000&en=3408554c2c920f83&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Back to the Blog again!

Hi folks, back at the blog again as a break from midterm madness at the University of Bridgeport!

Please see the following link for a really good article about the psychology of the free lunch program. As a former free lunch kid I can empathize.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/education/01lunch.html?scp=1&sq=school+lunch+&st=nyt