On Fairness, speed of education-reform measures questioned
Posted on November 16 at 7:53 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Not sure why we would want to rush education reform - Why Johnny Can't Read has been a catch phrase since . . .
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Education: Why Johnny Can't Read
Monday, Mar. 14, 1955
When Bestselling Author Rudolf Flesch (The Art of Plain Talk) offered to give a friend's twelve-year-old son some "remedial reading," Flesch discovered that the boy was not slow or maladjusted; he had merely been "exposed to an ordinary American school." Author Flesch decided to investigate how reading is taught in the U.S. Last week he published his findings in a 222-page book, Why Johnny Can't Read—and What You Can Do About It (Harper; $3), that will shock many a U.S. parent and educator.
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On Fairness, speed of education-reform measures questioned
Posted on November 16 at 7:29 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
SEC'Y DUNCAN: We have to get dramatically better. We have a time of economic crisis in the country. We've been arguing we have a time of educational, academic crisis. We have 1.2 million dropouts a year in this country. How can we sustain that? So we have to dramatically reduce the dropout rate, we have to dramatically increase the graduation rate and we have to make sure many more of our high school graduates are prepared to be successful in college and in the world of work.
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GREGORY: She talks about shared responsibility. But educators are saying where is the shared responsibility, the accountability among the unions? Michelle Rhee, who I mentioned, head of D.C. schools, talks about the accountability question from her point of view. Watch.
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MS. MICHELLE RHEE: The one topic that is most important to address in public education today, in my opinion, is how we are going to implement a system of accountability. For far too long, we have had children in our districts who are failing academically, and all of the adults have been able to keep their jobs and keep their contracts and that sort of thing. And that really, that dynamic has to change
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'Meet the Press' transcript for Nov. 15, 2009
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33931557/ns/...
On Cheerleading for Christ in public schools
Posted on November 11 at 5:15 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
gazettefan – There will always be a game if people are willing to play. I am, however, not one of them.
On Cheerleading for Christ in public schools
Posted on November 10 at 7:47 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
gazettefan – Your posting on Nov 9, 2009 at 9:39 p.m. was interesting, however, only a fool would post and actually believe such nonsense. Although I have no interest or time to read all of your 5626 posts, the few I have read lead me to believe that you are not a fool. However, feel free to prove me wrong. It seems that “the game is afoot”.
On Cheerleading for Christ in public schools
Posted on November 9 at 8:22 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
gazettefan – If you would like to mock and demean many of the prestigious colleges that are listed in this profile, that is your right. However, I can attest to the fact that admission to these colleges is highly competitive and the education received is top notch (at least in my experience).
On Cheerleading for Christ in public schools
Posted on November 9 at 6:56 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
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On Cheerleading for Christ in public schools
Posted on November 8 at 7:26 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Access of Religious Groups to Public Property.--Although government may not promote religion through its educational facilities, it may not bar student religious groups from meeting on public school property if it makes those facilities available to nonreligious student groups. To allow religious groups equal access to a public college's facilities would further a secular purpose, would not constitute an impermissible benefit to religion, and would pose little hazard of entanglement.127 These principles apply to public secondary schools as well as to institutions of higher learning.128 In 1990 the Court upheld application of the Equal Access Act129 to prevent a secondary school from denying access to school premises to a student religious club while granting access to such other ''noncurriculum'' related student groups as a scuba diving club, a chess club, and a service club.130
Similarly, public schools may not rely on the Establishment Clause as grounds to discriminate against religious groups in after-hours use of school property otherwise available for non-religious social, civic, and recreational purposes;Supp.6 public colleges may not exclude student religious organizations from benefits otherwise provided to a full spectrum of student ''news, information, opinion, entertainment, or academic communications media groups;''Supp.7 and a state that creates a traditional public forum for citizen speeches and unattended displays on a plaza at its state capitol cannot, on Establishment Clause grounds, deny access for a religious display.Supp.8 These cases make clear that the Establishment Clause does not necessarily trump the First Amendment's protection of freedom of speech; in regulating private speech in a public forum, government may not justify discrimination against religious viewpoints as necessary to avoid creating an ''establishment'' of religion.
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On Cheerleading for Christ in public schools
Posted on November 8 at 7:15 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Two clauses in the First Amendment guarantee freedom of religion. The establishment clause prohibits the government from passing legislation to establish an official religion or preferring one religion over another. It enforces the "separation of church and state." Some governmental activity related to religion has been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court. For example, providing bus transportation for parochial school students and the enforcement of "blue laws" is not prohibited. The free exercise clause prohibits the government, in most instances, from interfering with a person's practice of their religion.
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On Cheerleading for Christ in public schools
Posted on November 8 at 6:57 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Bill of Rights
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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On Milton teachers take action
Posted on November 18 at 8:30 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
DiamondQueen32 - You posted to Hockeyjockey
"If you do not want to be confronted by the harmless yellow shirts and brochures, do not go to the conferences." I surely hope you were not serious. The emphasis of Parent Teacher conferences SHOULD be about the student NOT on the grievances between the union and the Milton School District.