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Comment on What Doesn’t Work: AUSL by jennifer

jennifer — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:57:53 +0000

I personaly am against the turn around 100% it’s not right to take away the school council and parents ability to have a say,interest,and concern about their childs school . Parents ,teachers,school staff , principles need to keep coming up against agencies like you to make our community, school and world a better place!!!!!

Comment on Imagine Schools Cash in on Education by concerned citizen

concerned citizen — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:54:41 +0000

Dennis Bakke is making money on on public money used for our kids’ education. He takes money that can be used to get and keep the best teachers and equipment by charging school’s higher rent than normal in a “tiered lease system”. He is a taker not a giver in the public spirit of educating our children and should let people like Andre Agassi build charter schools. Agassi donates rather than takes. Bakke is a thorn is America’s growing charter school system and should make money elsewhere.

Comment on Lex Luthor is Waiting for Superman by Pam Royer

Pam Royer — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:12:21 +0000

Hello,

I am a recently retired educator. I have joined Save Our Schools and National Call to Action. You have been blogging about the recent attacks on teachers and public schools. Our national grassroots movement is asking the “real” ed reform bloggers to join with us so that we can all speak with ONE VOICE all across the country during the month of March.

Our theme is “Waking the Sleeping Giant”, which was inspired by the events in Wisconsin and other places around the country. The public is finally beginning to wake up to what’s been happening for the last few years – we’re seeing evidence of this not only in Wisconsin but in places such as Seattle and Rochester.

We are asking you to keep your readers informed by mentioning our July 30 march in D.C. and by providing a link to our website http://www.saveourschoolsmarch.org in one or more of your posts during the month of March.

If you would like to write a guest post for our website, send your post or your comments to saveourschoolsmarch@gmail.com. Or if you would like to endorse our march, let us know and we will list your blog and url on our website.

Posts can also be tweeted with the hashtag #WakingGiant. We offer the march and events of July 28 to 31st in Washington, D.C. as the focal point for this movement, and we ask participants
to link to this event, so that we can build momentum for our efforts. We offer your choice of the attached graphics to go along with our theme “Waking the Sleeping Giant.” We encourage you to use one or more of the graphics to indicate that our organization is sponsoring the march.

Thank you for your help,

Also, see rebuttal movie to “Waiting for Superman” on save our schools websiste!!!

Comment on The Myth of Freedom Writers by Frederika

Frederika — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:19:31 +0000

Matt: This is not the case in my school district. Spots were held open for 12 TFA CMs, even thought we have never had difficulty filling openings at any of our schools outside of a few very special positions like foreign language.

Comment on Why AFT Was Wrong to Have Gates Speak by thatsrightnate

thatsrightnate — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:42:08 +0000

Thanks for all the great comments

Comment on Why AFT Was Wrong to Have Gates Speak by David Reber

David Reber — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:15:34 +0000

Great post. I especially like the analogy about reserving the Bill of Rights for those not accused of a crime.

And, of course, the link at the end

Comment on Why AFT Was Wrong to Have Gates Speak by edlharris

edlharris — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:48:05 +0000

Gee whiz, supposedly 60 years ago, nuns were ding a great job in Catholic schools, including those in the city.

And they did it without merit pay.

Comment on Parasitic “Reformers” Upset as Obey Tries to Save “Edujobs” by edlharris

edlharris — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:46:35 +0000

Obey:
“We were told we have to offset every damn dime of [new teacher spending]. Well, it ain’t easy to find offsets, and with all due respect to the administration, their first suggestion for offsets was to cut food stamps. Now they were careful not to make an official budget request, because they didn’t want to take the political heat for it, but that was the first trial balloon they sent down here. … Their line of argument was, well, the cost of food relative to what we thought it would be has come down, so people on food stamps are getting a pretty good deal in comparison to what we thought they were going to get. Well isn’t that nice. Some poor bastard is going to get a break for a change.”

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Issues/Budget-Impact/2010/07/16/~/link.aspx?_id=FDBA6C158DDD466CAD023CCE6FFA595D&_z=z

Comment on Education Reform and the Status Quo by thatsrightnate

thatsrightnate — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:05:49 +0000

No Ragav, I don’t think you are. Thanks for the comment

Comment on Education Reform and the Status Quo by Ragav

Ragav — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:21:20 +0000

Is America really facing a crisis i.e. lack of quality scientists, engineers and technicians?

Isn’t America really pioneering in research in terms of no. of papers published, patents filed etc?

Personally I can vouch for the quality of higher education in the US. I’ve personally been through it and it isn’t that bad as compared to that of India (where I come from).

so, my question is, how come students who undergo supposedly poor education system in public schools (and thus are poorly qualified) able to successfully go through the quality higher education (which would require good foundation)? Am I missing something?