It’s Not the Size of (the School Day), It’s What You Do With It.

What would you do if you had another hour everyday? Could you get more done? How would you spend that time? In Chicago, the parents are raising money so their kids can spend an additional 1 hour a day at school. At a cost of $385 per student, per year, that breaks down to $2.13 [...]

Education Issues: Cuts to Classtime is Unacceptable Way to Cut Costs

Reprint in full from education.change.org
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One of the highest ranking education officials in America has told Hawaii they’re going in the wrong direction by reducing the number of school days, and that the state and union need to put their personal agendas aside to help their students. Peter Cunningham, the assistant secretary for communications and outreach [...]

Education Issues: Calling Out Bill Gates on Treating Schools Like Corporations

Now they’re eating their own! Mike Smith at Change.org skewers Bill Gates’ plan to provide $200 Million annually to schools willing to take on his ideas for reform. Apparently the idea of basing teacher pay on student test score performance is untenable. What I keep circling back to is this, if we are not to [...]

Education Issues: Performance Pay’s Effect is Weak?

This post was sent to me and sadly I do not have the original link. This brings up the debate between the perpetuated myth of evil business and good education as though the two must remain mutually exclusive. Which reminds me, why do we educate everyone?
Most countries don’t.
So, callous though it may be, I put [...]

Education Stimulus Money Establishes Test Standards, Can’t Fix Test Problems

One-hundred billion dollars of stimulus money is beginning to go into education, prompting states to track students progress more closely, use more rigorous tests, and generally embrace the Obama administration’s reforms. These changes in federal education policy is explained in a report by the Center on Education Policy who are working to understand what the [...]

Frightening: Arne Duncan Say Principals Must Act Like CEOs

Ran across this article this morning . . . in which the author complains that pushing principals to be like CEOs will single handedly destroy education. Hey buddy, we’re already there.
More telling is the vitriol for CEOs. Are all CEOs bad? Really? I missed that. Indeed, anyone familiar with local businesses has met plenty of [...]

How to Fix Education — the Greatest National Security Crisis

Why is it so hard to bring quality leadership to the table in education? Surely we have a decent mix of men and women who have served both in the business world and the education field? But do we have enough to make a difference?
I am a huge proponent of speak softly and carry a [...]

iRant

So this conversion to Mac is not as smooth as I had hoped. Daily, I manage to crash the machine. Too bad it is the middle of my sales season and work grinds to a halt 6-8 times a day for 10+ minutes. I’ve easily added 2 hours of additional work daily just by trying [...]

Not a master, but okay aim . . .

Say what you will about gun control, there is a certain amount of empowerment that comes from understanding how to use tools – in this case guns. I also think it’s useful to know how to drive a dozer, hang sheetrock overhead and mulch the yard, but then that’s what I grew up doing.
Sane people [...]

Small Business Employees

So long time ago when I was a wee little lass in college I worked with a not-for-profit which of course is different from a not-profitable – but that’s another story for another day.
In those sweetly innocent days I thought, gee whiz, when start running real businesses with employees who I can afford to pay, [...]

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