Standardized Test Cheating: Double Standard, Anyone?
Posted in Dunce by indymike 198 days ago (http://mikeseidle.com)Texas High School Baseball Players Charged With Sacrificing Chickens to Improve Game
Posted in Dunce by smarty 284 days ago (http://www.foxsportssouthwest.com)New Level of Stupid: Students Banned for Farting on School Bus
Posted in Dunce by smarty 286 days ago (http://www.dispatch.com)Two Canal Winchester Middle School students were banned from riding the bus to school due to passing gas. The school labeled the flatulence as an "obscene gesture" and suspended bussing rights for the students. The banned students parents were outraged t
Read More | 1 CommentNY Teachers Union Promises NYC Will Be Another Wisconsin
Posted in Dunce by smarty 289 days ago (http://www.nypost.com)Apparently unaware that their protests and the Wisconsin Walk Out failed to stop cost cutting, NYC's United Federation of Teachers is promising to turn NYC into another Wisconsin. Someone needs to let the UFT know that Wisconsin was an epic failure: the Wisconsin union lost benefits for members, jobs were lost and
Read More | DiscussFirst Grade Teacher on Facebook: Students are Future Criminals
Posted in Dunce by smarty 322 days ago (http://www.csmonitor.com)It's amazing how many teachers are getting taken down by comments on Facebook. Yesterday, a New Jersey teacher was suspended over a facebook comment where the teacher claimed students were future criminals and that made teaching feel like being a warden.
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DC Standardized Test Cheating Scandal Implicates Reformer Michelle Rhee
Posted in Dunce by smarty 329 days ago (http://www.thedailybeast.com)The first media report linkng rockstar education reform advocate Michelle Rhee to irregularties in DC school standardised tests has emerged in a Daily Beast report. Rhee touted the improvements in scores at several DC area schools as evidence
Read More | DiscussStaring in Porn Films Will Make a Career in Teaching Difficult
Posted in Dunce by smarty 343 days ago (http://www.imperfectparent.com)Yes, Chicago, Kids Prefer French Fries to Broccoli.
Posted in Dunce by smarty 366 days ago (http://www.chicagotribune.com)Chicago public schools have a little problem. Cafeteria revenues are down 5% and trash cans are quickly filling up with purchased, healthy school meals. Some children are simply skipping lunch and eating when they get home. Seems in the rush to force kids to eat healthier food, they forgot one fact: kids don't like healthy food...
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