In NJ, Public Schools and teachers are under attack by an especially
hostile state administration. But, it doesn't help with what the Fed's are
doing as well.
*
I agree Darlene and Marilyn, in both your final sentences: We are
intelligent, educated people , surely we can do better"; "we have to fight
this"
I would like to add: We're librarians. Who better than us?*
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Marilyn Kulkarni <mask1@comcast.net> wrote:
> You are so right. There are lots of researchers out there who understand
> this but they are unable to do anything bexause of people like Arne Duncan
> who believe in data, charter schools and choice. If you haven't read Diane
> Ravitch's book The Death and Life of the Great American School System read
> it and recommend it to everyone with a brain. We have to fight this.
>
>
>
> Marilyn Kulkarni
>
> Librarian
>
> Brandywine High School
>
> Wilmington, DE
>
> mask1@comcast.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darlene Yasick" <lib027yas@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
> To: "LM NET" <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 1:28:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [LM_NET] nytimes article: A Popular Princ ipal, Wounded by Gov
> ernment’s Good Intenti ons
>
> This article makes me so angry. Where has common sense gone to? It seems
> like everyday we see another example of this type of thinking - suspend a
> student for bringing a butter knife to school to cut brownies, suspend a
> kindergartener for hugging a student, fire a principal because we don't
> track student's progress only measure by a test they can't pass at that
> point in their educational journey. Locally we had a school whose student
> body is composed of severly disabled student land in the bottom 5%- worst
> school for the same reason. Some of the students in this school can't talk
> or take care of their basic needs but they "SHOULD' pass the test. Or as one
> principal said "These student are considered learning diabled 179 days out
> of 180 but on this one test day we expect them to function on the same level
> as our most gifted students" We are intelligent, educated people , surely we
> can do better
>
> Darlene Yasick
> Retired
> Wyoming, MI
>
> --- On Mon, 7/19/10, Kris Fallon <librarychickie@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>
> From: Kris Fallon <librarychickie@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: [LM_NET] nytimes article: A Popular Principal, Wounded by Gov
> ernment’s Good Intentions
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Date: Monday, July 19, 2010, 8:02 AM
>
>
> An illustration of the unintended consequences of testing accountability
> and the RTTT grant. The example of the refugee child and his lack of
> understanding of human space travel, said it all.
>
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/education/19winerip.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th
>
>
> --
> Kristina Fallon, LMS
> Robert Morris School, pk-8
> So Bound Brook, NJ
> librarychickie@gmail.com
> "Only the educated are free." - Epictetus, (Greek-born, Roman slave and
> philosopher- 55 AD - 135 AD)
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