Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Blaming the victim, Texas style

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This is a video that Texas now requires all high school students to view. Its purpose is to "teach" students how to interact wit...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

School board members acting like petulant children

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This is how democracy works in this country. The Vermillion Parish school board met to determine whether to give the school superintenda...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Class dismissed

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Talk about your sophisticated ways of poisoning jury pools and public opinion. The Harris County District Attorney's Office found the pe...
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

The militarization of elementary school

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Every Wednesday Military shirts Spring Branch T-2-4 Plan   By 2017, SBISD will double the number of students completing a technica...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Two for Texas

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Hey, make no mistake about it, I love living in the Lone Star State. I've lived here all my life and have no intentions of going anyplac...
Friday, November 2, 2012

Group rips school districts' priorities

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Thanks to the economic meltdown, and the refusal of state leaders to do anything, funding for public schools in Texas plunged. The results w...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Cuffing and stuffing a 10-year-old

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A ten-year-old boy was disruptive in class. No news there. But this young man attended elementary school in a suburban Houston school distri...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Is it too much to ask for?

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My girls are in a dual language program at their elementary school. They get half of their instruction in English and the other half in Span...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

What ever happened to an apple on the desk?

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Teachers at my daughters' school wrote down items they needed on paper cut-outs shaped like apples and attached them to a tree. Now I...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

In defense of learning

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About two weeks ago, Scott Greenfield penned a wonderful essay in defense of algebra . His post was in response to an op/ed in the New York ...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Exporting a bad idea

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Even the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, Wallace Jefferson, thinks issuing Class C citations to students for "disrupting clas...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Creative thinking in public education?

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Possession means actual care, custody, control of management.  -- Texas Controlled Substances Act Sec. 481.002(38) Possession is diffe...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

More than half of Texas students suspended or expelled

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The results of a longitudinal study that followed one million Texas seventh-graders for six years reveals that 60% of those students were s...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Texas looks to cut teacher pay

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"Those damn teachers. They're the ones causing all our problems here in the Lone Star State. They just make too much money. We'...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Making learning fun

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Yesterday I found myself taking my oldest to a birthday party for one of her classmates. I know, I know, a birthday party for a seven year-o...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Refilling the ranks?

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A couple of weeks ago I got to enjoy one of the perks of this job. I serve as counsel for a local teacher's organization - I represent m...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Reading, writing and citing

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Add Texas State Senator John Whitmire (D-Houston) to the growing chorus of voices calling for school districts to stop issuing Class C misde...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Back to the schoolhouse

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A few weeks ago I wrote about the Texas Appleseed report on school districts farming out their disciplinary problems to the criminal (in)jus...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

It's time we stop criminalizing school discipline

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Texas Appleseed , a public interest organization whose mission is to promote social and economic justice for Texans, recently released a rep...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Legislature takes critical look at citing students for misbehavior

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While surfing on Google Reader this morning at the municipal courthouse, I came across a post over at Grits for Breakfast  about the goings-...