Antioch Approves Everyday Math
Antioch District 34 approves Everday Math unanimously. According to the report excerpted below nobody spoke for or against the program before the board voted. Once again, this demonstrates how the apathy of parents and community members allows educrats to remain unaccountable in the decisions they make. By the time parents of these kindergartners realize the [...]
Mundelien Superintendent Can't Spend Money Fast Enough
With the supposed financial problems in Mundelien District 120 after a failed referendum this past March and another referendum already being discussed, you would think the Superintendent would be more careful in how he spends the taxpayers money. You would be wrong; it appears Mundelien Superintendent Stan Fields can’t seem to spend the taxpayers money [...]
Improve Teacher Quality
A Washington based watchdog group called Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights released a report entitled “Days of Reckoning: Are States and the Federal Government Up to the Challenge of Ensuring a Qualified Teacher for Every Student?“. The report blames the states for not following the law and the federal government for not enforcing the law. [...]
Federal Education Money Redirected In Illinois
The State of Illinois will not be receiving federal money for part of the State Administrative funding. Illinois is not alone, 9 other states have been notified of this as well. The U.S. Department of Education has notified 10 states that it intends to withhold a portion of their state administrative funds under the [...]
States Continue to Lower Standards to Meet NCLB
Most people believe that NCLB was aimed at improving the eduation provided by public government schools. In fact, there requirements only force the States to define scores aligned witht the test in their State. This means most States just lower standards to meet the passing requirements instead of actually improving educational quality. This report is [...]
LTE: Everyday Math Rebuttal
There was a rebuttal in the News-Sun Today to my letter about Everyday Math in Antioch. The letter was from the Principal of the St. Patrick School in Wadsworth, Marcella A. Bosnak. Below are excerpts: Hats off to the superintendent and the teachers for recognizing the best math program on the market. Sorry, but [...]
State: School Test Scores on the Way
The School Report Cards are available for each school to look at, but the public will not be allowed to see them until this fall after school starts. I never have liked this practice. Why can’t the public get the results when the schools do? Why can’t parents see how there school is doing for [...]
Education Crisis According to Newt Gingrich
CRAFT has a letter from Newt Gingrich about the crisis in education. Below is an excerpt: The education bureaucracy likes to play a game with statistics. They usually publish data on educational successes or failures only on a statewide basis, so parents and teachers have no way to hold the education bureaucracy accountable where [...]
Education Carnival
The Education Carnival is up this week at the L.A. Times Education blog School Me. There is a lot of good information in this edition that many of you will enjoy. Here is a sampling: Teacher fired for telling charter school teachers what union teachers make. A math teacher asks why are salary schedules necessary? [...]
Homeschoolers: Write, Speak & Analyze Better
I was sent this transcript today from Homeschool Heartbeat. The topic today was how homeschooler perform at the College level and the guest was Patrick Henry College President Graham Walker. [Emphasis mine] How do home-educated students perform at the college level? Mike: We want to talk to Dr. Walker about his experience with homeschool [...]
