Mar
16
2010
16
2010
Response to Washington Post: “Obama Revise NCLB Law”
This past weekend, as many of you know, President Obama’s new, revised-NCLB plan was released in both the New York Times and the Washington Post. My parents called after finishing up their Sunday morning ritual of newspaper-n-coffee to downshift about ...
Apr
19
2009
19
2009
Students, Sexting, and the threat to Ed Tech
Thanks to Scott McLeod for Twittering the following article from The Washington Post. It describes a terrible ordeal that an administrator went through battling charges of "failure to report suspected child abuse" and potential child pornography after students were caught sexting on ...
Jun
02
2008
02
2008
Make an Offer They Can’t Refuse
The Washington Post reported that the Washington Teachers' Union is "proposing a three year contract...that would eliminate seniority." This would allow administrators to retain newer but more effective teachers while relocating more veteran teachers to positions seemingly more suitable for ...



