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| August 16, 2001 |
COLUMN ONE
‘Edspeak’ Is in a Class by Itself
When it comes to jargon, few fields can top education. Critics say the purpose is to insulate the system from parents, who are often left confused.
By DUKE HELFAND, TIMES EDUCATION WRITER
The next time you visit your child’s teachers, you might ask them to clarify a few things.
For starters, is little Junior LEP or FEP? Does his school provide a FIP and a FAPE? Or does it offer a SLAPAT? 
Then there’s the question of whether he is socially promoting under a rubric for assessing English language development. If he isn’t, you might want to check for phonemic sequencing errors or phonological process delays. This is Edspeak–a language so bewildering that even teachers need glossaries to figure out what’s being said. In the insular world of education, words morph and multiply almost daily as schools dream up new programs and chase new reforms.
Parents and teachers can expect a blizzard of buzzwords this week, in fact, as the state releases Stanford 9 test scores for California’s nearly 8,000 public schools. Adults face a test of their own, figuring out quartiles and quintiles, content clusters and normal curve equivalents.
“It’s unmatched twaddle. Unbelievable bilge. Absolutely staggering nonsense,” says Martin Kozloff, a sociologist from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, who has studied the lingo in teacher training programs.
Some districts, trying to be helpful, publish glossaries. Los Angeles Unified has one featuring 132 pages of acronyms and terminology–with about 4,000 entries–that could tie the tongue of even the most skilled linguist.
Ever hear of misarticulation or normed modality processing?
Unfortunately, the L.A. Unified glossary doesn’t define the terms–only translates them into Spanish. And so, the term “morphosyntactic skills” becomes “conocimientos morfosintacticos.”
Parents, thus, are left befuddled–in two languages.
“Alphabet soup,” says Bill Ring, a father of two Los Angeles students. “I challenge somebody to figure it out.”
Educators, of course, haven’t cornered the market on fuzzy language. Doctors and lawyers, soldiers and politicians–they all speak in code.
But clarity is doubly important in schools, where teachers and parents are supposed to work as a team–and, after all, teach children to communicate. The first step, it seems, would be for the adults to speak the same language.
Critics say jargon undermines this partnership. It allows teachers and administrators to insulate themselves from scrutiny and maintain a grip on power.
“It’s a way to underscore the message that, ‘I’m a professional, give me your kid and leave me alone,’ ” said Jeffrey Mirel, an education historian at the University of Michigan. “All professional language is turf language.”
Teachers babble about “homogenous grouping” instead of saying, simply, that they are lumping together students with similar abilities. Administrators chatter about “psychometrics” instead of calling it what it is: the practice of using tests to measure intelligence, attitudes and other mental processes.
To be fair, plenty of teachers and administrators try to speak plain English. Plenty of parents glean valuable information from teacher conferences and contribute good ideas to their schools.
Still, the language of education can flummox even the most motivated parent. “It’s intimidating,” said Patti Knoester, PTA president of Mariposa Elementary in Brea.
Knoester occasionally jots down a phrase she doesn’t understand at school and looks it up on the Internet rather than appear ignorant.
“I think the administration sometimes forgets that parents don’t know what they are talking about,” Knoester said. “It gets worse as it gets higher up. They become less connected to the parents and the community in general.”
Edspeak dates back nearly a century, to a clique of academics known, fittingly, as “educational engineers.”
According to educational historian Diane Ravitch, these Progressive Movement reformers of the 1920s sought to revolutionize American schools by turning education into a science. They believed that schools should test students and use the results to tailor instruction and determine different academic paths.
That system of education would be far too complex to be entrusted to parents and teachers, the reformers thought. Instead, they argued, “curriculum experts” should rule.
These theorists championed the notions of “child-centered education” (focusing instruction on students’ interests) and “wholehearted purposeful activity proceeding in a social environment” (that one means student projects).
Their ideas–and their jargon–would come to dominate colleges of education, influencing generations of teachers, Ravitch argues in her 2000 book, “Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms.”
Unfortunately, this kind of talk has become the rule rather than the exception in modern-day schools, Kozloff and others argue. It has invaded the most mundane conversations about student achievement.
Even the new superintendent of Los Angeles Unified, a politician by training, has picked up the argot of education. Asked by reporters this week to comment on students’ test scores, Roy Romer called the results “impressive. . . . percentile gains on a normative test.”
The reporters fired back in the same language. “Can you disaggregate the data by ELL students?” one asked.
As education itself has become more specialized, niche programs have sprouted mini-lingos all their own.
Take reading, perhaps the most important subject in school. Teachers engage their students in “phonemic awareness,” “decoding” “systematic, explicit phonics” and “word attack skills.”
And that’s just in kindergarten.
Then there’s “accountability,” the hottest buzzword in schools these days.
Accountability may be the most important reform on the educational horizon, but its lingo sounds like rocket launch codes in Russian. School officials speak of II/USPs and CSRDs, about benchmarking and API growth targets.
“They’re always changing the acronyms that are being thrown around,” said Shana Kensley, 25, a second-year kindergarten teacher in Lompoc, north of Santa Barbara. “It gets a little confusing.”
Case in point: Students still learning English once were known as LEP (limited English proficient). Now they’re called ELL (English language learner).
Why the change? Political correctness. Educators don’t want to label children as limited (that’s the “deficit model”). They want to be positive (that’s the “additive model”).
You might expect veteran educators to be jaded by all these models. But it confounds them, too.
Principal Jeff Carlovsky, with more than 30 years experience, keeps a jargon handbook on his desk at Cabrillo High School in Lompoc, just for those occasions when someone tosses him a zinger.
Carlovsky recently spent five years working in the schools of Washington state. But he returned a stranger in a strange land, unfamiliar with the local dialect. Washington refers to attendance as FTE–full-time enrollment. California calls it ADA–average daily attendance.
“I’m the first one to jump on the bandwagon and say, ‘We ought to get rid of the baloney,’ ” Carlovsky said. “I’d get rid of the 25-cent words, break them down into laymen’s terms.”
Some Districts Offer Jargon Handbooks
Carlovsky’s school district, Lompoc Unified, distributes hundreds of jargon handbooks every year to teachers and parents. The little orange booklets, now in their sixth edition, define dozens of acronyms in English and Spanish. “We run out every year,” said Supt. Debra Bradley.
But Lompoc is one of the few districts to go to such lengths. Most others are too busy keeping their schools safe and making sure students graduate.
A few organizations, including the state Parent Teacher Assn., are trying to fill the void. The PTA last year sent a mailer, with six pages of acronyms and terms, to 5,000 local PTA presidents.
Although brief, the PTA glossary is useful. It not only defines the terms but also offers a pronunciation guide.
And so CSPDAC, which stands for the California System of Personnel Development Advisory Committee, is “kis-pa-dak.” And CALCP, which stands for the California Assn. of Leaders for Career Preparation, is “cal-sip.”
PTA leaders say they are trying to bridge the linguistic divide between school and home.
“Every time a new law is passed or a new test comes up, people immediately break it down into an acronym,” said Pam Brady, vice president of education for the state PTA. “It happens every 10 seconds.”
The PTA glossary catches dozens of acronyms and terms. But because they are so numerous, others are left out.
Perhaps in the next go-round, the PTA can include GPA. No, not the abbreviation for grade point average–this one means Governor’s Performance Award.
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Edspeak Glossary
API: The Academic Performance Index is a scale that ranks schools based on their Stanford 9 test scores, the cornerstone of the state’s school accountability system.
Bench marking: Setting academic goals or targets for students to meet at various points throughout the school year.
Child-centered education: A philosophy in which the abilities, talents and interests of children–rather than set subject matter–drive educational practices and curricula.
Content Clusters: Mini-reports for the Stanford 9 test that break down scores in fine detail–showing, for example, how many questions a student answered correctly in subtopics such as statistics or synonyms.
CSRD: Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration program. This federally-funded initiative allows schools and districts to use research-based reforms to boost academic achievement.
Decoding: Linking letters and letter combinations with their corresponding sounds in reading.
FIP: Full inclusion program. This term refers to the placement of severely disabled students in general education classrooms for the entire school day.
FAPE: Free appropriate public education. This legal term refers to the requirement for school districts and other public agencies to provide educational services to special education students at no cost to parents.
FEP: Fluent English proficient. Children who speak a foreign language at home, but understand English as well as their English-proficient peers at school.
II/USP: Immediate Intervention Underperforming Schools Program. Schools in this state program get extra money to conduct evaluations and introduce reforms aimed at raising test scores.
LEP: Limited English proficient. Students who are still learning English.
Misarticulation: Speech problems in which students do not produce sounds correctly.
Normal Curve Equivalent: A test score that measures student performance on a scale that ranges from 1 to 99, with a midpoint of 50.
Normed Modality Processing: TK
Phonemic awareness: The recognition that words and syllables are composed of bits of sound, a key building block in learning to read.
Phonemic sequencing errors: These occur when a student does not link sounds together in the right order to understand the meaning of a word or a phrase.
Phonological process delays: A lag in a student’s development in understanding and producing sounds, leading problems in reading, spelling or speaking.
Quartile: One-quarter of the distribution of scores on a particular test. Students in the top quartile on the Stanford 9 performed as well as or better than 75% of all test takers.
Quintile: One-fifth of the distribution of scores on a particular test. Students in the bottom quintile on the Stanford 9 performed worse than 80% of all test takers.
Rubric: A guideline for evaluating performance on tests or other measures of learning.
SLAPAT: Spanish Language Assessment Procedures Articulation Test.
Stanford 9: The basic skills test given annually to more than 4 million California students in grades 2 to 11.
Systematic, explicit phonics: Reading instruction in which teachers directly teach–and students practice–letter-sound relationships in a sequence of lessons that build on one another.
Word attack skills: A set of strategies to recognize and pronounce unfamiliar printed words.
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Sources: California Department of Education, California Board of Education, National Research Council, Los Angeles Unified School District
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Aug 3l, 03
A place where ‘fail’ is the four-letter word
School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School, Edward Humes, Harcourt: 400 pp., $25
By Miles Corwin, Miles Corwin is the author of “And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner City Students,” winner of the Pen USA West Award for nonfiction.
The portrayal of minority high school students in books, movies and television usually follows the same tired template: They are invariably gangbanging, drug-dealing, menacing ruffians who need the strong hand of a saintly teacher to spark their interest in learning. In “School of Dreams,” Edward Humes too writes about the tribulations of minority students and their relationships with their teachers. But the students Humes focuses on are not black or Latino; they are not from impoverished homes; they do not attend a crime-ridden inner-city high school. Humes’ fascinating book chronicles an entirely different group of students, with a different set of challenges. Most of the teenagers he focuses on are overachieving, middle-class Asian kids with ambitious, driven immigrant parents. They attend the No. 1-ranked public high school in California, a school that offers, Humes writes, “a prep-school education with no tuition.”
Gretchen Whitney High School in Cerritos is truly a “School of Dreams.” This is a school where discipline problems are rare and test scores astronomical. Its students must pass an entrance exam and must then maintain at least a C-plus average. The teachers, skilled and dedicated, foster a love of learning, and the school offers an array of high-powered, challenging courses, including Advanced Placement classes in 35 subjects.
The students are programmed for success because many of the parents have moved from across the world so their children can attend Whitney. Humes writes: “Thousands of Korean and Chinese immigrants have chosen Cerritos over other communities in the United States because of Whitney’s reputation. Several real estate agencies in town have focused their businesses — and made their fortunes — courting future immigrants by placing advertisements in South Korean newspapers listing homes for sale in Cerritos. Whitney and its achievements are always prominently mentioned in the ads, the lure of the number one public school making an otherwise ordinary, landlocked slice of suburbia irresistible to foreign house hunters.”
Because the parents have sacrificed so much, their children are under tremendous pressure to pass the highly competitive entrance exam, which they take in the sixth grade. The desperation to gain admittance to the school — which spans seventh to 12th grade — has resulted in numerous professional after-school tutoring academies sprouting up in the neighborhood, Humes writes, “at first catering to sixth-grade students, then fifth, and finally rolling back to first grade and even kindergarten.” Once students earn a coveted spot, however, they have no time to savor their success. They immediately embark on a high-pressure six-year journey whose only acceptable destination is admittance to a prestigious university, preferably “HYP” — the school’s shorthand for “Harvard, Yale or Princeton.”
To reach this promised land, many students arise before 6 and study until 2 or 3 the next morning, needing frequent infusions of Starbucks triple grande lattes to stay awake. Few of the teenagers at Whitney, Humes contends, take drugs or engage in premarital sex. In fact, he writes, there is peer pressure to avoid sex, drugs and alcohol. These students are uniformly disciplined, goal-oriented, respectful of their parents and obsessively motivated. Compared with the stereotypical American teenager — a promiscuous, boozing, drug-addled slacker who slides through high school with the minimum of effort — the resolute teenagers Humes depicts are a welcome alternative. And the result of their onerous schedules is impressive. Their average SAT score in 2001 was 1,343 — more than 300 points above the national average and the second highest in the country among public high schools. (New York City’s Stuyvesant High School is No. 1.) They ace the AP exams, and the overwhelming majority gain acceptance to HYP, a University of California campus or other prestigious private colleges.
The critical mass of so many motivated students prevents the kind of peer pressure to fail that is endemic at many high schools, where academic negligence is considered cool. Whitney is a safe haven where students can strive for success without fear that they will be hazed for being nerds or grinds. Still, one wonders after reading “School of Dreams” whether these students have sacrificed their childhood for academic success. Humes describes the rigorous schedule of one girl whose parents moved to Cerritos so their child could attend Whitney: “When she turned eight they packed her off to after-school academiesThere were the twelve years of piano lessons, the ten years of violin the eight years of Chinese school She has studied with obsessive determination, four hours of homework most nights (even weekends), summers spent watching her friends head off to tan at the beach while she hunkered down under the fluorescent glare of SAT cram classes Summer vacation has always been an oxymoron filled morning to night with programmed learning, reading lists, math and science camp ”
Humes reports that students descend into depression — not for failing a class (which is unthinkable) but for earning a B instead of an A. Several Whitney students confided to a teacher that they were beaten by their parents for failing tests. Another student suffered a nervous breakdown. Whitney graduates who endured the rigors of the school under the thumb of demanding, overprotective parents discovered that they were psychologically and socially unprepared for college. Many had difficulty adjusting and making choices, overwhelmed by their newfound freedom. One former student who grew increasingly depressed during his four years at Harvard committed suicide.
Humes does a fine job of portraying the pressures that Asian students face, their drive for success and their attempts to appease and satisfy their parents. He worked at the school as a volunteer writing coach, and his well-written cameos of the students are enhanced by their own autobiographical essays. His approach is nonjudgmental; he allows his readers to make up their own minds about the students’ single-minded quest for academic excellence. Readers, however, would have benefited if he had presented fuller portraits of the parents, including their perspectives, their hopes, their sacrifices and their reasons for the pressures they put on their children.
Whitney is a public school that works — an institution of excellence despite receiving less money per pupil than any other school in its district. But the school’s top ranking in California — based on the scores of statewide tests — has engendered resentment from teachers at other schools in the district, who consider Whitney elitist, the source of a massive brain drain, a place where blacks and Latinos are dramatically underrepresented. Whitney’s ethnic breakdown is about 70% Asian, 9% Filipino, 6% Latino and 2% black, compared with the school district totals of 32% Asian, 9% Filipino, 37% Latino and 10% black. (At Whitney and in the school district, 12% to 13% of the students are white.) While Whitney does siphon off the best students in the district, some of its supporters contend that the admissions process is a meritocracy whose applicants are admitted solely on the basis of test scores, without regard to race or parental influence. But that argument seems specious, considering the costly private tutoring and test preparation courses that only a fraction of students in the school district can afford.
It is difficult to imagine how a public high school that selects its students on the basis of a sixth-grade admittance exam and has a student body of predominantly bright, middle-class Asian kids (half of whom test gifted), and whose parents are involved, well educated and demanding, could not be a success. And while the school struggles for funds from the district, a parent-run foundation raises a considerable amount of money for computers and science-department equipment and even sends a teacher delegation to the East Coast to meet with admissions officers from Ivy League and other private universities, establish contacts and promote students in person. Still, its advantages aside, Whitney can serve as a model for administrators and teachers at the typical overcrowded, underfunded, problem-plagued American high school; there are valuable lessons to be learned here.
But there are also admonitions that should be heeded by dutiful children who abandon their dreams to please their parents, and by parents obsessed with high school grade-point averages, who do not realize that their children’s pursuit of the American dream is not a sprint but a marathon.
I9/l8/05 – A free-market primer for the classroom
‘Education Myths: What Special-Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools — and Why It Isn’t So’
Jay P. Greene
Rowman & Littlefield: 268 pp., $24.95
By Richard Lee Colvin = 00000, biased, n? sub…
ANYONE who appoints himself a myth-buster also, implicitly at least, claims to be an unbiased arbiter of evidence. Jay P. Greene, an ardent believer in the salutary effects of competition and privatization on education, is hardly that.
In his new book, “Education Myths,” Greene contends that the views of teachers, their unions, administrators and education professors carry undue weight in debates over how to improve U.S. public schools. He says self-interest drives educators to advocate what, in his view, is just so much featherbedding: more spending, less accountability and staunch resistance to any challenge to their monopolistic dominion. Parents and policymakers should listen to “neutral” parties such as him, not to educators
Greene, however, is hardly neutral. That’s clear from reading this book, much of which draws on his previous work as a senior fellow for the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a New York think tank that promotes free-market alternatives to public programs. The widely published essayist, well-known in education circles for energetically marketing his ideas, is effective at marshaling evidence for his views. He doesn’t take his readers into classrooms or introduce them to teachers and students, their problems and challenges. Instead, this book is a relatively quick and painless journey through the labyrinth of education research, if a selective and unconvincing one.
Greene deals with four broad areas:
1 resources, which include education spending, class size and teacher pay;
2 outcomes, meaning test scores and graduation rates;
3 school choice, including an analysis of the effects of competition; and last, the effect of student
4 testing. In each area he cites studies that back his claims and discounts the methodology or import of those that don’t. Where the evidence is thin or contradictory, he offers conjecture and interpretation.
He reports, for example, that education spending has increased more than sevenfold since 1945, belying the widely held view that it has declined. But spending more, he argues, doesn’t produce better-educated students. He’s right, of course, if new money is spent exactly the same way as the old money, as it usually is. Indeed, paying teachers more money for the same work may make them happier, but they probably won’t teach differently and children probably won’t learn more. But it’s also true that low salaries are not the top complaint of teachers. Working conditions, weak leadership and a lack of support are greater concerns, surveys of teachers show.
Still, he adds little to the debate over whether schools have adequate money for what they’re asked to do. New Jersey, for example, spent more than $13,000 per child, on average, in 2002 while Utah spent less than $6,000, federal statistics show. That wide variation makes it difficult to evaluate Greene’s claim that the nation as a whole spends plenty on the “education system.” In fact, the education system Greene refers to doesn’t exist. Try telling kids who don’t have books, music classes or science labs at their schools that the “system” has enough money.
Greene favors private schools, saying that they promote integration and that many get better academic results than public schools at a lower cost. It’s true that private schools generally don’t discriminate on the basis of race anymore, and many even strive to offer scholarships to diversify their student bodies. But that doesn’t mean, as the author asserts, that white parents from the suburbs will send their children to integrated inner-city schools in search of a high-quality education in a diverse setting. @@@@@@@@@@@@ ???
More important, private-school spending is lower on average because most private schools are church-subsidized, pay lower salaries, have larger class sizes and don’t provide transportation or offer comprehensive curricula or the array of special-education services required of public schools.
Greene cites studies of programs in Milwaukee, Cleveland and a few other school districts that give parents vouchers to pay private school tuition, which show small positive effects on test scores, mostly in math and almost exclusively for African American children. In the same chapter, he acknowledges that these studies have inherent weaknesses in methodology and that therefore the strongest claim that can be made is that kids with vouchers do no worse than those who remain in public schools, at half the cost. ?????? wow
Greene also says it’s a myth that so-called high-stakes tests, ones that have real consequences for schools and students, such as preventing them from graduating if they don’t pass, are unreliable and drive up dropout rates. Tests do provide valuable information and foes do overstate the downside. But he’s wrong in claiming that tests improve education. Rather, improvement comes when educators use the results to change how they teach. @@@@
One of the most important myths he does dispel is about teacher compensation. They aren’t underpaid when their generous health, vacation and pension benefits are considered.
For Greene, however, statistics can sometimes lead to absurd conclusions. He contends that student achievement would rise if big districts were chopped into small ones that had
to compete for students the way private companies compete for customers.
Breaking up Los Angeles into districts the size of Manhattan Beach or Beverly Hills isn’t going to change the quality of teaching or make poor and immigrant kids from single-parent or no-parent families without healthcare suddenly perform like the children of well-paid executives. biased
Greene’s big idea comes from economic theory, which drives policymaking these days in many areas, including healthcare, the environment and correctional systems. The idea is that human beings are rational and will respond to financial and other types of incentives to work harder and more productively.
He has faith that “the power of incentives to change behavior, and therefore to improve outcomes … is a pattern that emerges across the whole body of evidence in education.” He calls it a “meta-myth” that in education, monetary incentives produce the opposite of what’s intended. @@@@@@@@@@@@
Greene is right that performance matters far too little in education. That’s why policymakers across the country are giving parents more choice in where to enroll their children and are experimenting with teacher salaries that reward performance and additional training. In his concluding paragraphs, he acknowledges that incentives alone will not transform public schools. But there’s little in the book to show that he has much doubt.
Those who share Greene’s views will welcome this handbook of supporting arguments; others will find themselves thinking “Yes, but … ” as they read it. The author has made a career of simplifying education issues and poking holes in the conventional wisdom that seems to drive U.S. education policies.
But being provocative, though valuable, does little to ensure that American students will learn far more than they have in the past. Bad ending.
Richard Lee Colvin, [jerk] a former education writer for The Times, directs the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Columbia University’s Teachers College.
9/25/05 –
As Test Scores Jump, Raleigh Credits Integration by Income
By ALAN FINDER
Wake County’s effort to integrate schools economically has led to drastically improved test scores, officials and parents say.
RALEIGH, N.C. – Over the last decade, black and Hispanic students here in Wake County have made such dramatic strides in standardized reading and math tests that it has caught the attention of education experts around the country.
The main reason for the students’ dramatic improvement, say officials and parents in the county, which includes Raleigh and its sprawling suburbs, is that the district has made a concerted effort to integrate the schools economically.
Since 2000, school officials have used income as a prime factor in assigning students to schools, with the goal of limiting the proportion of low-income students in any school to no more than 40 percent.
The effort is the most ambitious in the country to create economically diverse public schools, and it is the most successful, according to several independent experts. La Crosse, Wis.; St. Lucie County, Fla.; San Francisco; Cambridge, Mass.; and Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., have adopted economic integration plans.
In Wake County, only 40 percent of black students in grades three through eight scored at grade level on state tests a decade ago. Last spring, 80 percent did. Hispanic students have made similar strides. Overall, 91 percent of students in those grades scored at grade level in the spring, up from 79 percent 10 years ago.
School officials here have tried many tactics to improve student performance. Teachers get bonuses when their schools make significant progress in standardized tests, and the district uses sophisticated data gathering to identify, and respond to, students’ weaknesses.
Some of the strategies used in Wake County could be replicated across the country, the experts said, but they also cautioned that unusual circumstances have helped make the politically delicate task of economic integration possible here.
The school district is countywide, which makes it far easier to combine students from the city and suburbs. The county has a 30-year history of busing students for racial integration, and many parents and students are accustomed to long bus rides to distant schools. The local economy is robust, and the district is growing rapidly. And corporate leaders and newspaper editorial pages here have firmly supported economic diversity in the schools.
Some experts said the academic results in Wake County were particularly significant because they bolstered research that showed low-income students did best when they attended middle-class schools.
“Low-income students who have an opportunity to go to middle-class schools are surrounded by peers who have bigger dreams and who are more academically engaged,” said Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation who has written about economic integration in schools. “They are surrounded by parents who are more likely to be active in the school. And they are taught by teachers who more likely are highly qualified than the teachers in low-income schools.”
To achieve a balance of low- and middle-income children in every school, the Wake County school district encourages and sometimes requires students to attend schools far from home. Suburban students are drawn to magnet schools in the city. Low-income children from the city are bused to middle-class schools in the suburbs.
Some parents chafe at the length of their children’s bus rides or at what they see as social engineering. But the test results are hard to dispute, proponents of economic integration say, as is the broad appeal of the school district, which has been growing by 5,000 students a year.
“What I say to parents is, ‘Here is what you should hold me accountable for: at the end of that bus ride, are we providing a quality education for your child?’ ” Bill McNeal, the school superintendent, said.
Asked how parents respond, Mr. McNeal said, “They are coming back, and they are bringing their friends.”
Not everyone supports the strategy. Some parents deeply oppose mandatory assignments to schools. Every winter, the district, using a complicated formula, develops a list of students who will be reassigned to new schools for the following academic year, and nearly every year some parents object vehemently.
“Kids are bused all over creation, and they say it’s for economic diversity, but really it’s a proxy for race,” said Cynthia Matson, who is white and middle class. She is the president and a founder of Assignment By Choice, an advocacy group promoting parental choice.
The organization wants parents to be responsible for selecting schools, and it objects to restrictions that, in certain circumstances, make it difficult for some middle-class children to get into magnet schools.
“If a parent wants their kid bused, then let them make the choice,” Mrs. Matson said. “But don’t force parents to have their kids bused across town to go to a school that they don’t want to go to.”
Supporters of economic integration contend that the county offers parents many choices but that the school district needs the discretion to assign some children to schools to avoid large concentrations of poor children. “I believe in choice as much as anyone,” Mr. McNeal said. “However, I can’t let choice erode our ability to provide quality programs and quality teaching.”
The board of education had two motives when it decided to make economic integration a main element in the district’s strategy: board members feared that the county’s three-decade effort to integrate public schools racially would be found unconstitutional if challenged in the federal courts, and they took note of numerous studies that showed the academic benefits of economically diversifying schools.
“There is a lot of evidence that it’s just sound educational policy, sound public policy, to try to avoid concentrations of low-achieving students,” said John H. Gilbert, a professor emeritus at North Carolina State University in Raleigh who served for 16 years on the county school board and voted for the plan. “They do much better and advantaged students are not hurt by it if you follow policies that avoid concentrating low-achievement students.”
One sign of the success of the Wake County plan, Mr. Gilbert said, is that residential property values in Raleigh have remained high, as have those in the suburbs. “The economy is really saying something about the effort in the city,” he said.
About 27 percent of the county’s students are low-income, a proportion that has increased slightly in recent years. While many are black and Hispanic, about 15 percent are white. Moreover, more than 40 percent of the district’s black students are working- and middle-class, and not poor.
Wake County has used many strategies to limit the proportion of low-income students in schools to 40 percent. For example, magnet schools lure many suburban parents to the city.
Betty Trevino lives in Fuquay-Varina, a town in southern Wake County. Ms. Trevino drives her son, Eric, 5, to and from the Joyner Elementary School, where he goes to kindergarten. Students are taught in English and Spanish, and global themes are emphasized at the school, which is north of downtown Raleigh, more than 20 miles from the Trevinos’ home. With traffic, the trip takes 45 minutes each way.
“I think it works,” she said of her drive halfway across the county, “because it’s such a good school.”
Many low-income children are bused to suburban schools. While some of their parents are unhappy with the length of the rides, some also said they were happy with their child’s school.
“I think it’s ridiculous,” LaToya Mangum said of the 55 minutes that her son Gabriel, 7, spends riding a bus to the northern reaches of Wake County, where he is in second grade. On the other hand, she said, “So far, I do like the school.”
The neighborhood school has been redefined, with complex logistics and attendance maps that can resemble madly gerrymandered Congressional districts.
The Swift Creek Elementary School, in southwest Raleigh near the city line, draws most of its students from within two miles of the school, in both the city and suburbs. But students also come to Swift Creek from four widely scattered areas in low-income sections of south and southeastern Raleigh; some live 6 to 8 miles from the school, while others are as far as 12 miles away.
Ela Browder lives in Cary, an affluent, sprawling suburb, but each morning she puts her 6-year-old son, Michael, on a bus for a short ride across the city line to Swift Creek.
“We’re very happy with the school,” Ms. Browder said. “The children are very enriched by it. I think it’s the best of both worlds.”
Of the county’s 139 elementary, middle and high schools, all but 22 are within the 40 percent guideline, according to the district’s data. Some are only a few percentage points above the guideline, while others are significantly higher.
The overwhelming majority of the 120,000 children in the district go either to a local school or a school of their choice, officials said. Slightly more than 85 percent of students attend a school within five miles of home and another 12 percent or so voluntarily attend magnet or year-round schools.
Although the figures can be calculated many ways, Mr. McNeal says about 2.5 percent – or about 3,000 children – are assigned to schools for economic balance or to accommodate the district’s growth by filling new schools or easing overcrowding in existing ones. Most of those bused for economic diversity tend to be low-income, he said.
A school board election will take place in October. While the board has continued to endorse economic integration, some supporters worry that that could change one day.
“It’s not easy and it can be very contentious in the community,” said Walter C. Sherlin, who retired two years ago as an associate superintendent. “Is it worth doing? Look at 91 percent at or above grade level. Look at 139 schools, all of them successful. I think the answer is obvious.”
When Preaching Flops By DAVID BROOKS American schools are awash in moral instruction — on sex, multiculturalism, environmental awareness and so on — and basically none of it works. 6/07 nyt
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/just what I’ve ALWAYS thot, but this didn’t say much – Comic Books in the Classroom Teachers who would once have dismissed comic books out of hand are learning to exploit a genre that clearly has a powerful hold on young minds.
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Generations of children grew up reading comic books on the sly, hiding out from parents and teachers who saw them as a waste of time and a hazard to young minds. Comics are now gaining a new respectability at school. That is thanks to an increasingly popular and creative program, often aimed at struggling readers, that encourages children to plot, write and draw comic books, in many cases using themes from their own lives.
The Comic Book Project was started in 2001 by Michael Bitz at an elementary school in Queens. Mr. Bitz now serves as the director of the project, which is run out of Teachers College at Columbia University. Since its creation, the program, which is mainly conducted after school, has spread to more than 850 urban and rural schools across the country. It has gotten a big push from the current craze among adolescents for comic book clubs and for manga, a wildly popular variety of comic originating in Japan.
The point is not to drop a comic book on a child’s desk and say: “read this.” Rather, the workshops give groups of students the opportunity to collaborate on often complex stories and characters that they then revise, publish and share with others in their communities.
Teachers are finding it easier to teach writing, grammar and punctuation with material that students are fully invested in. And it turns out that comic books have other built-in advantages. The pairing of visual and written plotlines that they rely on appear to be especially helpful to struggling readers. No one is suggesting that comic books should substitute for traditional books or for standard reading and composition lessons. Teachers who would once have dismissed comics out of hand are learning to exploit a genre that clearly has a powerful hold on young minds. They are using what works. [what WORKS]
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‘If you’ve got a trade, you’ve got it made’
Forcing all high school students onto a college-prep track is not only wrong, it’s dumb.
By Mike Rustigan
January 13, 2010
One repeated theme in President Obama’s education agenda is that he wants the United States to have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. As he put it in an address to a joint session of Congress, “We expect all our children not only to graduate from high school but to graduate from college and get a good-paying job.”
Although I applaud the president’s strong commitment to higher education, he is seriously neglecting the importance of vocational training in school. Not every student needs to go to college. There are plenty of high school kids who find college-prep classes boring and irrelevant. Many drop out because they feel school is not preparing them for anything practical. Most of these kids are not lazy or defiant; they just want to work with their hands, learn a skill and pursue a solid, honorable, blue-collar trade after high school.
For too long, academic elites and politicians — both Democrats and Republicans — have oversold us on the necessity of getting a college degree. We have reached the point at which it has become almost un-American to admit that for a sizable number of our young people, college is a waste of time.
According to a growing number of demographers and labor experts, the U.S. soon will be experiencing a severe shortage of skilled workers. Blue-collar baby boomers are retiring, but schools aren’t preparing the next generation to take their place. Our nation needs blue- collar workers — skilled mechanics, machinists, welders, carpenters and electricians, as well as computer, solar and cable technicians, etc. — just as much as it needs college grads.
As one retired plumber told me: “No one is going to outsource your local repair guy. If you’ve got a trade, you’ve got it made.”
Most European countries offer a strong two-track system — one for the trades and one for the university — whereas the majority of our high school graduates have no employable skills whatsoever. Of course kids should be encouraged to consider college and achieve academically, and they shouldn’t be pushed into a noncollege track against their will. But we are currently ignoring an important cadre of students who need something different.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who benefited from vocational education growing up in Austria, has repeatedly sought federal funding for similar training programs. But he is swimming against the tide. In high schools across the nation, vocational programs have declined in number and quality.
Back when California had perhaps the best public education system in the nation, career and technical classes were considered necessary and respectable. The leading educators of the 1960s and the 1970s had a good understanding that there are multiple paths to success. The recent decline in vocational education flies in the face of the growing demand for both male and female high school graduates skilled in the fields of health, electronics, automotive, home improvement, wood and metalwork, culinary, green energy jobs and a vast number of technical support and repair services.
To be sure, basic reading, writing and math proficiency is necessary for all graduates. But for the state of California to expect every high school student to meet university admission requirements is not only foolish, it is tyrannical.
Much has been written about the lack of discipline in kids who skip classes and eventually drop out. As the cynics keep telling us, nothing can be done with these lazy, low-achieving slackers because the root causes are broken homes and lousy parenting.
Yet, in my experience, when you offer these same kids the right form of education, they flourish. The magic of learning something that is useful and relevant sparks a strong desire to achieve. The transformative power of education is convincing. Right now there are hundreds of new, experimental, small-scale shop programs throughout the nation that are showing very promising signs of success.
Obama needs to visit these pioneer programs. His heart is in the right place, but he should be pitching vocational education just as vigorously as he extols a college degree. I’m betting we would then start to see fewer dropouts and more young adults with a chance to become productive members of society. #
Mike Rustigan, a professor emeritus of criminal justice at San Jose State University, teaches classes to police and probation officers throughout California.
Copyright © 2010, The Los Angeles Times
/ A Crack in the Wall The Supreme Court should call for a school choice program in Arizona to stop discriminating on the basis of religion.
A Mission to Transform Baltimore’s Beaten Schools
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Andres Alonso, a Cuban immigrant with a Harvard degree, brought sweeping changes that upset some people but helped improve one of the worst school systems in the country.
/ School touted by Obama made dramatic turnaround
By Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times
…progress at Randolph, the school still faces great challenges…But still only 19% of middle school students there do math at grade…numbers are higher for high school students, but still far from…t proven.” nicholas.riccardi@latimes.com
Thus: Reporting from Denver —
Five years ago, students walked the halls of Bruce Randolph School in packs of 20, to avoid being jumped by gang members. Classrooms were full of thrown paper and insults. The state was poised to shutter the place.
Now the students stroll leisurely down the halls, which are lined with banners from colleges and posters noting awards the institution has won. Its latest accolade came this week, when President Obama singled it out in his State of the Union address as an example of how troubled urban schools can turn around.
“Three years ago, it was rated one of the worst schools in Colorado,” the president said. “But last May, 97% of the seniors received their diploma. Most will be the first in their family to go to college.”
Camera crews and reporters have traipsed through the school all week, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) — the former head of Denver’s school system — spoke to a jubilant school assembly via Skype. Those who have worked to turn around Bruce Randolph are heartened by the attention.
“It just gives us a burst of energy,” said Taylor Betz, a longtime math teacher. “It helps confirm we’re doing the right thing.”
But what makes Randolph different is that it escaped many of the rules that burden other urban public schools. State legislation was pushed through to allow the 900-student school to extract itself from district regulations and the system’s contract with its teachers union.
“When you get a school leadership and a faculty that are very committed to working together and working in behalf of kids — and you lift from them so many of the rules and restrictions that we have, that school can flourish,” said Denver schools chief Tom Boasberg.
The idea remains controversial. Boasberg noted that efforts to create more schools like Randolph have been fought by the teachers union, which did not return a call for comment Friday.
Randolph’s two-story brick building looks more like a suburban school than a stereotypical troubled urban one. The campus was opened in 2002 because its neighborhood in northeast Denver — an assemblage of clapboard houses threaded through an industrial area dominated by a dog food processing plant — lacked a middle school.
But the new student body consisted of kids from rival schools and gangs abruptly thrust together. The first principal left after two months. By 2005, it was ranked as the worst middle school in the state. The district decided to re-engineer it and sent in Kristin Waters to be the principal.
Waters and her number two, Cesar Cedillo, decided to implement strict academic standards. They interviewed the school’s 48 teachers to determine who should stay. “Many people responded with: ‘Yes, but they [the students] come from poverty. Yes, but they don’t speak English as a first language,’ ” Waters recalled.
Those teachers, she said, were let go. Only six were invited to stay.
Waters and the teachers decided to expand the school to a sixth- through 12th-grade operation. As the school grew, Waters was forced by the district’s contract with the union to take teachers who had lost jobs at other schools. Administrators and teachers alike grew frustrated with having to deal with the bureaucracy.
“Our kids come to us and ask us for things,” said Betz. “We need to make real-time decisions and not turn in a form and wait two months for our union or our district to decide.”
Prodded by reformers, the state Legislature passed a law allowing schools to draw up their own contracts with teachers if 60% of the teachers there approve. Randolph became the first school in Colorado to use the program. Now the administration can quickly decide from year to year if it wants to, for example, replace a librarian and gym instructor with special reading instructors to help students.
Students feel the difference.
“They communicate with their students rather than arguing with them,” junior Larissa Orona said of her teachers.
“They really want us to go to college,” added another junior, Noemy Rodriguez.
Though there has been dramatic progress at Randolph, the school still faces great challenges.
It has vastly increased the percentage of its students who can perform at grade level. But still only 19% of middle school students there do math at grade level, and only 26% read at grade level. The numbers are higher for high school students, but still far from perfect, said Cedillo, who is now the principal.
Jack Jennings, president and chief executive officer of the Center on Education Policy, said Obama needs to be sure he doesn’t use stories like that of Randolph’s turnaround to jump to simplistic conclusions — like that all that’s needed is to weaken teachers unions.
“You really have to come back in five years and see, did the new teachers stay or get burned out?” Jennings said. “They should be careful about prescribing remedies that aren’t proven.”
Copyright © 2011, Los Angeles Times
Let Kids Rule the School By SUSAN ENGEL Eight teens were given the chance to create their own curriculum, and the results have been transformative.
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School Reform’s Fragile Success in the Bronx
Orderly Toddlers? Try Uniforms A growing number of preschools and child-care centers are requiring children to wear uniforms.
The Limits of School Reform By JOE NOCERA What happens outside of school matters just as much as what happens inside.
Charter School Battle Shifts to Affluent Suburbs By WINNIE HU
Charters, normally thought of as a way to help poor areas, are being proposed in places that have good schools. wow
Students of Online Schools Are Lagging By JENNY ANDERSON
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/Come the Revolution By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Through ventures like Coursera, world-class learning is coming at bargain-basement prices. https://www.coursera.org/
Give Schools the Power to Punish By DENNIS M. WALCOTT In theory and practice, the system for disciplining teachers and administrators for sexual misconduct is a recipe for disaster.
Study Links Healthier Weight in Children With Strict Laws on School Snacks
By SABRINA TAVERNISE The study, conducted over three years in 40 states, is likely to stoke the debate over government efforts to reduce obesity rates.
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Charters draw students from private schools, study finds By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times Story | August 28, 2012 | 12:05 AM …have to pay for it.” Most charter students in fact come from…most needy students. But charter advocates countered that the…executive of the California Charter Schools Assn. howard.blume@latimes.com
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Charter schools are pulling in so many onetime private school students that they are placing an ever-greater burden on taxpayers, who must fund an already strained public education system, according to research released Tuesday.
The study by a Rand Corp. economist found that more than 190,000 students nationwide had left a private school for a charter by the end of the 2008 school year, the most recent year for which data was available.
And charter schools have exploded in number since that time. The Los Angeles Unified School District has more charters, 193, than any system in the country.
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This student migration is especially apparent in large urban areas, where charters are drawing 32% of their elementary grade enrollment from private schools, study author Richard Buddin said. The percentage for middle schools is 23%, and 15% for high schools
Charters are free, independently managed public schools that are exempt from some rules governing traditional schools. Most are not unionized.
About 10% of students nationwide attend private schools — a number that is dropping.
Between 2000 and 2010, for example, the number of students enrolled in Catholic schools declined by 20%, according to church educators. In the final five years covered by Buddin’s study, which looked at data from 2000 through June 2008, more than one-fourth of the students who left Catholic schools enrolled in nearby charters.
The transfer of students from private schools to charters has increased public-funding obligations by $1.8 billion, said analyst Adam B. Schaeffer of the libertarian Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom. Cato paid for the study.
“On average, charter schools may marginally ????? improve the public education system. But in the process they are wreaking havoc on private education …??????? driving some schools entirely out of business,” Schaeffer said.
“For too long, charters have been seen as all positive,” [of course] he added. “This reports highlights that there are trade-offs.”
Buddin, who is not affiliated with Cato, was circumspect in interpreting the numbers. He noted, for example, that an influx of politically sophisticated private school families might generate support for increased public school funding.
The study’s findings were no surprise to L.A. Unified school board member Steve Zimmer.
“Parents of means have always had choice when it comes to schools,” he said. “The difference is that with the charter movement, they don’t have to pay for it.”
Most charter students in fact come from traditional public schools. One consequence of that, Zimmer said, has been teacher layoffs within the district. ????? It also has meant less ??????? money coming into L.A. Unified, leaving the district with fewer resources to serve its most needy students.
But charter advocates countered that the growth of those organizations was a testament to their academic success and popularity with families, and that the movement should be nurtured and emulated.
“We think we are bolstering the public school system by creating new options within it and showing that it can be reinvented in ways to better serve parents and communities,” said Jed Wallace, chief executive of the California Charter Schools Assn. howard.blume@latimes.com
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FWIW, Dan Rather has a solution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvBYJBTKRn4 Yet LAUSD & the rest of the USA don’t want to hear the solution. There are school systems out there that give better results than the status quo, the Finnish model! That no one is listening doesn’t surprise me either.
Einstein: Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results!
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alberteins133991.html#DYV4m61dsLq9S3Oj.99& No we parents don’t need to be physicists to fix this problem!
/ag: gov funds pub and ch schs but not pri. Charters became better so folks of pri schs went to them. So gov has to provide more $. So go for vouchers. Do the finns do this? maybe the charters are a middle ground.
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/ Reading, Math and Grit By JOE NOCERA Character matters as much as schoolwork, or maybe even more. And new initiatives are showing how it can been taught.
/ The Elite Eight, on the Federal Radar Controversial admissions policies at New York City’s top high schools deserve more scrutiny.
/Gym Class Isn’t Just Fun and Games Anymore By MOTOKO RICH It is no longer enough in some schools for students to run around during gym. Now they are often taught math or English or health at the same time.
/ Grouping Students by Ability Regains Favor in Classroom By VIVIAN YEE
Proponents of grouping students, which was criticized in the 1980s as promoting inequality, say that done properly it helps them cope with students of widely varying skill levels.
/The $4 Million Teacher South Korea’s students rank among the best in the world, and its top teachers can make a fortune. Can the U.S. learn from this academic superpower
/Opinion: What Can We Learn About Teaching From the Koreans?
The Common Core and the Common Good By CHARLES M. BLOW
American schools need rigorous standards to make kids competitive in a global job market.
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Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm By JENNIFER MEDINA
Critics say “trigger warnings” would undermine academic freedom and stifle discourse, but proponents say it is common sense to alert students who may have trauma in their pasts.
Should the Government Grade Colleges? Should the government rate colleges to hold them accountable for graduation rates, student debt and access for the poor and minorities?
/ Segregation by Ability Should public schools track students into gifted education programs? 6/l4
/ Elite, Separate, Unequal By RICHARD D. KAHLENBERG
New York City’s top public schools must become more diverse.
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By DANIEL T. WILLINGHAM
But a lot of the training they get in school is. We can do better.
Zuckerberg’s Expensive Lesson By JOE NOCERA
What happened to the Facebook founder’s $100 million gift to Newark’s schools?
/ What the Privileged Poor Can Teach Us By ANTHONY ABRAHAM JACK
How to bottle the advantages of prep school.
State of the Art: Udacity Says It Can Teach Tech Skills to Millions, and Fast
A Special Education By JOSH MAX The question of whether my schooling hurt me or helped me has haunted me my whole life.
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Economic View: Urban Charter Schools Often Succeed. Suburban Ones Often Don’t.
/ The Counterfeit High School Diploma By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Most states still have weak curriculums and graduation requirements that make high school diplomas useless.
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Why veteran teachers aren’t surprised young people are shunning the profession
George Skelton
Judging from my email, a lot of California public school teachers are demoralized and questioning their career choices. They’re not at all surprised that fewer and fewer college students are going into teaching. My column last week about a growing teacher shortage triggered a barrage of responses….
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Straight From High School to a Career By KATHERINE S. NEWMAN and HELLA WINSTON This country has good blue-collar jobs. We need to train high school students to fill them.
/ More School Choice for Detroit’s Children, Not Better Schools By KATE ZERNIKE
Michigan leapt at the promise of charters 23 years ago, betting that more competition would improve public education. Instead, old problems grew worse.
Economic View: Why American Schools Are Even More Unequal Than We Thought
Finally!: Adam Grant: Why We Should Stop Grading on a Curve
You wonder if some of this isn’t to skim off the cream, leave the dummies behind
Californians, Having Curbed Bilingual Education, May Now Expand It
By JENNIFER MEDINA
A ballot measure in November seeks to overturn limits passed in 1998, an effort that will test how the state’s attitude toward immigrants has changed in two decades.
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Seeing Hope for Flagging Economy, West Virginia Revamps Vocational Track
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Nearly two in five high school students now take vocational classes, including simulated workplaces designed to prepare them for good-paying jobs.
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The case for mutual educational disarmament
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Economists tend to be big fans of education, which is perhaps not surprising given how much of it they consume and how well their textbooks can do. Alfred Marshall, writing in 1873, hoped that education would help erase the “distinction between working men and gentlemen”. Gary Becker of the University of Chicago reimagined education as an investment in “human capital” that would earn a return in the market much like other assets. Harvard University’s Greg Mankiw, whose books have educated more than most, once calculated that differences in human capital between countries could account for much of their otherwise inexplicable differences in prosperity.
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But economics can also be scathing about schooling. The theory of signalling likens many educational credentials to peacock’s tails: costly encumbrances, useful only as conspicuous proof that their owners are intellectually strong enough to bear them. And in “The Social Limits to Growth”, a book published in 1976, Fred Hirsch, once a writer for this newspaper, pointed out that education is often “positional” in nature. What matters is not only how much you have, but whether you have more than the next person. ????? For many students it is not enough merely to acquire a good education. They must obtain a better education than the people jostling with them in the queue for sought-after jobs.
Positional goods are, by their nature, in strictly limited supply. Everyone can in principle live in a good neighbourhood, attend a good school, and work in a good job. But logic sadly dictates that not everyone can enjoy the nicest neighbourhoods, best schools or most prestigious jobs. As Hirsch pointed out, “what each of us can achieve, all cannot.”
An unhappy corollary is that one family’s outlays on schooling raise the bar for everyone else. Families are drawn, often unwittingly, into educational arms races. They spend money and time on after-school tutoring or extra-curricular activities (so-called shadow education) in the expectation that it will improve their child’s position in the queue for advancement. But they quickly discover that everyone else is doing the same, leaving them in the same position as before. They are in fact worse off, because of the costs and frustration incurred. “If everyone stands on tiptoe, no one sees better,” Hirsch noted. And their feet also hurt.
These arms races are often particularly ferocious in East Asia. In China and South Korea, schoolchildren face nationwide “high-stakes” tests—the gaokao in China and the suneung in South Korea—that play a big role in determining whether and where they can go to university. In China’s cities, pupils spent 10.6 hours a week on after-school tutoring, according to a report by Frost & Sullivan, a market-research firm.
The governments in both countries have tried to orchestrate a kind of collective disarmament. South Korea imposed a 10pm curfew on cramming schools in 2009. Inspectors would go on patrol looking for schools with their lights on. (Some schools covered their windows with black tape.) China has been introducing restrictions on after-school tutoring at an increasing pace since 2018. Last month it barred tutoring firms from listing on the stockmarket, raising foreign capital or making a profit. The strictures have wiped tens of billions of dollars off the market value of China’s once-booming edtech sector.
Will these measures work? It is almost impossible to stop families hiring private tutors to teach their children in their own homes. And if shadow education is successfully curtailed, the arms race can take different forms. Parents who cannot buy a better education directly can instead buy homes near better schools. A study by Xuejuan Su of the University of Alberta and Huayi Yu of Renmin University found that when the management of a public elementary school in Beijing is taken over by another better-regarded school, property prices nearby rise by an average of 7%.
The arms race is notably less intense in parts of Europe. In Norway and Sweden parents show little demand for tutoring—the wealthy even less than others, according to Steve Entrich of the University of Potsdam. And overeducation is less common in Germany and other countries that sort children early into academic or vocational schools, with little mobility between the two, according to a study by Valentina Di Stasio of Utrecht University together with Thijs Bol and Herman Van de Werfhorst of the University of Amsterdam. Vocational schools are supposed to teach what employers want recruits to know. That may limit the scope for credential inflation. For better or worse, they also remove large numbers of students from the race for more academic laurels.
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Both China and South Korea have begun promoting vocational education. China’s latest five-year plan (which concludes in 2025) promises to explore an “apprenticeship system with Chinese characteristics” and to “vigorously cultivate talents with technical skills”, according to one translation. Some of the edtech firms squeezed out of after-school tutoring are exploring vocational education instead.
Germany’s custom of placing children on different tracks at age ten or 11 also invites an interesting thought experiment. What if the gaokao (and similar tests) were held earlier in a pupil’s career? If these exams truly test the knowledge required for university, they must be held just before university starts. But if such tests mostly serve as filters, sifting better students from worse, they need not be held so late. An aptitude test at 16 years of age, say, will probably generate a similar ranking as one held two years later. The tests would remain stressful. But an earlier gaokao would save families a year or two of costly cramming, shortening “the obstacle course”, as Hirsch put it, without much changing the results. Such tests will always have high stakes. But they need not require such high effort.
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J.R.O.T.C. Textbooks Offer an Alternative View of the World
Descriptions of civic life and some key historical events differ from the way they are taught in typical public school textbooks.
Why are Vietnam’s schools so good? (economist.com) 7/23
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put in ll+, wc out at l4, thus teach trades.
sent sunny hills to donna. try suzie, ma
see ed2 [=j!] ed fads on net
see stopped here eth2 – integration
sch waste is sch2
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nature disney wildlife flics, soil sample, rain, snow, humidity, fall foilage?, tornado?, farm?, compost, gardening?
sports fatigue, conditioning, stiff, perspire, no drink, no sodas, pacing, extra effort, ego?, macho, quiet guys, indivi vs team, teamwork, the 4, tennis, golf, surf, indivi vs team. predestined, disc, effort, earning letters & letterman’s sweaters
practicalities physics as applied to daily life?/ which schools best for which trades and fields.
soc studies singles, divorce, kids-5 lb sac, to clarify goals, class?
ment & biases: pros, media, ed, psych, soc,
disadvantaged slums, handicapped expo?, spec diseases, hmless, mr’s, refugees, hylond hm, 3rd world – tj, charity guide? vol wk in hosp, nursing hm, goodwill, charity, or esl
econ cap over soc
ethnics gypsies, melting pot?, amish, hopis, cajuns,
human nature – how to play game, psych, maturity,
hist as it AFFECTS the present. blk hist,
mentalities – biases here? radicalism
soc problems crime, vice, aa, mh, gays, jail, morgue, gamble-pyramids,
religion diff ones, iran?, no ireland, partition of india, spanish inquistion/ adults grow out of it/ bakker, swaggert
what they don’t tell you blk hist – tubman, indians, east, jews, biases of fields
method? learn by doing, framework vs explore/rate all/ write to learn and think/ and enter into comp-/ kids to trac their own devel.? in part
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sports self-defense, swim?, gym? call this gym class? -optional?
SOC STUDIES
alt. lifestyles: single parenting – 5 lb bag, divorce, creative,
ment & biases: pros, media, ed, psych, soc, jews
disadvantaged and others? handicapped expo?, spec diseases, white slavery, refugees, hylond hm, 3rd world – tj, charity guide? and how pri agencies are sector is better than pub
vol wk in hosp, nursing hm, goodwill, charity, or esl,
econ cap over soc
ethnics & alt. lifestyles gypsies, melting pot?, amish, hopis, cajuns,
human nature – how to play game, psych, maturity,
hist blk hist, indians, jews, eastern civ
jail-w/ chart, morgue, gamble-pyramids,
religion diff ones, church and state -iran?, no ireland, partition of india, spanish inquistion/ adults grow out of it/ bakker, swaggert
grad which schools best for which trades and fields, mil, assistance.
fam vs sch teeth, grammar, study habits, tv, diet, chores, vals, travel, maturity, ALL the vals, career, child abuse, spanking,
evolution,
should at least tell you which subjects they CAN’T cover [religion, gays, .. and why/
If this were done, according to some conservatives, it would show many *working class students want to leave school around l4, go to work, and later start a family. [They would be better able to if the minimum wage was lower, there weren’t work restrictions, and unions didn’t bar them. (Indeed, unions got politicians to add the llth and l2th grades [to keep young people from competing.])
fam: mh, mature, $ mang, swim, scouting, y, summer camp, gym?, self-defense, news?, boys club, chores, wk, trips, cars?
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ams don’t value the past
/ more bks about civil war than any other event in u.s. hist
/ the expanding environment approach and s.s. more in pub system
/ good schs, but no good systems
/ pri. teachs didn’t
/ pri did more hmwk
/ teachers who don’t know how to teach, get thrown out by kids
/ no. of ed courses is increasing
/ conflict of int. twix ed schs and their certifying teachs. ‑the big cert.
/ pri schs much better than pub in nyc
/ tv’s influence
/ kids did well on harriet tubman and underground rr, but poor on rest of the era ‑ thus it had no context
/ tv good for rural kids/
l/3 do no hmwk
/ tv: monitor it and excite kids about ed things
/ stopping tv means kid goes next door to friends tv
/ only l6 yr old wants is drivers lic.
/
kids know what they want to know
/ [never bring up what has worked]
/ hist was messed up to be contemp develop… new plan that won’t consider texts
which aren’t interesting
/ no copywrite on texts?
/ mcguffy readers worked
for l/2 nation. series of 6 up to 8th? grade‑some are still used
/ michner/ basal readers
/ aesop’s fables
/ [character development woven into the eng text I saved]
/ newspapers
/ famous phrases
/ good texts are rare ‑ didn’t mention em
/ mort.. adler
/ the standards aren’t that diff for adults and kids
/ we chose em for kids the way we do for ourselves
/ reading level jumped 40% by…. time/life?/
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teachers running mimeo machine
/ rating texts and profs
*-the nat. spelling bee typifies the impracticality of academia: youngsters learning to spell words adults have never heard of [and everyone chuckles] it should never go beyond words that are common to the n.y. times. waste of valuable time. glad kid said, who finds these words./
=== wall st j article ==========================
* 30% of hi sch stu don’t grad [so what-diploma=0]
/ greater need for workers who are intellectually broader based=? even at bottom level [?]
/ ed system failing the bottom l/2 of the stus [something sig here]
pro
/ needed: interpersonal skills, teamwork, logic, ability to learn, problem-solving, critical thinking
/ inner city kids learn better when they see the application [of their lessons] [ as they are w.c.]
/ stu alt twix wk and sch, ultimately choosing how far to pursue sch.
/ l9th cent [tracking? – l to college & and l to factories which fools lst and depress 2nd [my words, but ty]
/ ed resents advice from biz [ty]; ed say their not in biz to prep kids for work [ty] inner cities worse, of course
/ thus biz finds it easier to train workers than to try to [penetrate the impractical ed mindset]
/ lot more training vendors supports this – double the no at conventions comp to a decade ago. [figures]
/ employers [and pub] pay schs [thru taxes] to do job, then have to pay again to do job themselves./
===== end of that goooooooood article === find it – under sig?======
write penny, where to visit, do, be, fam tree, grandfolks, biz lets.
jargon language arts, hm ec, p.e, test out, separate out, interpersonal skills
fam vs sch teeth, grammar, study habits, tv, diet, chores, vals, travel, maturity, ALL the vals, career, child abuse, spanking, evolution, head on. sch to hopefully catch some things. then only resp to tip off fam?
health, teeth, chores, trans?, bikes, cars, garden?, clothes, most vals, religion?, summ camps, trips, scouts,
=========== chrono of classes =======
Wilson
3 r’s, hist, soc, geo?, made notebks?, eng ‑ repetitive, thrilled at hmwk Willard
civics, soc stu, memorized caps of sts., span, hist, math, sci, typing, art,
- ec-jumping on fl-cakes/
4 shop classes,
hi sch
3 r’s, hist, span, sec, chem, physics, choir, soc. studies, algebra, solid geometry, spherical geometry, trigonometry, used 0 and didn’t help me think.
cg another ridiculous hoop
papers: fosdisk, fbi
======== chrono of activities ============
Jefferson
palomar,
Wilson
made notebks?, repetitive, thrilled at hmwk pepito & joanne/
books oz, homer price, augustus, hardy boys, nancy drew, mcguffey’s
Willard
- ec-jumping on fl-cakes/
4 shop classes,
p.e. ingman, lund, after sch sports vs paper route
dances, carla wonger?, the “last dance”= dream, I’ll see you in my dreams.
our 4 hangouts: nutrition on bleechers?, lunch outside the tennis courts, after school under the banyan? tree. also drug store
/ before sch?
hi sch
lst time for sum sch.
/ romeo and juliet
ethnics, work on bikes
/ cars, dr. lic, dates, no pe?, study hall, wk?, college prep vs …. hang outs? on and off campus clubs, booze, no pot, styles, curfews?, class?
cg easier due to sports, clubs, scouts, lessons: effort, disc.
————- end of chrono ————————————
issues
equality vs elitism, tracking-vs? academic?
/ elitist vs egalitarian in a dem.
class
how and when should a stu find out he’s limited
/ mandatory schooling till l8
/ growing no. in voc and gen.
/ more ed=more $, but plenty don’t want more $. and this vs drop out at l4
religion
sun sch‑episcopal, methodist, released time, diff churches for me
/ church crowd -bj, steff, dot, scott, sheila,
/
0 on detecting my teaching ability or my study problem
scorecard?
/ ethestics/
sec skills/
teachers freshly, egger, pestilacy, bouchez,
see val, pro, ll, lib +, iq, gild
dk how a battle is fought.
soc friend is as does
/ lonely from self
ny
/ esthetics
/ l0%
values sex ed, chores, career, smoking!, clean-cg
/ creativity for those
reading [outside] comics, hardy boys, nancy drew, fiction, mysteries, detective, dickens, london, lewis and clark, columbus, twain, r & j, best l00 bks- for the jr hi or hi sch grad,
skills light goes on for some when they have a course in whatever- but probably only a very few
/ putting on plays vs ham act
/how to play the game
my loves hist, pol, physics, cap vs soc/
title my hi sch. “ed”
/ could I USE my ed
/ or did I USE my ed
/ Did my ed help? did sch. help me? w
/ tito saw need for formal ed of college/
peers – personal screening. soc contacts via college as couldn’t wait for college kids to come back when at buffims
/ rites of passage/
lessons dance lessons, music lessons, swim lessons
/ fam let us choose careers/
clubs toast, soc, span, coterian, sea scouts, philos, 8 balls, bachelors, sports indiv vs team,
/ teamwork, sportsmanship [but undefined], disc, effort, skill?, fun, testing, challenge, health?, predestined
extra curricular art, music, sports, clubs, talent show brought out some, proms, stu gov
letter tj and I wrote to complain bout h.s.
religion sun sch, released time, fred, sheila, diff churches, gandhi, syn rel and phil, riverside, peale,
scouts cub, boy, sea, role models, improvise, devise, challenge -later san jacinto & whitney. y camp
work what you learn from it: some geared for routine, repitition, [a screener of class]
soc 8 balls, batch, frats, spec int?, dances
misc kids to trac their own devel-on computer, and to clean sch.
/ lao tse +
/ marva
methods rate all
/ write to learn
wrong
irrelevant test questions irrelevant: if train A goes l0 mph and train B
but that’s only one I can think of
music piano, clarinet, and accordian, choir.
texts … hist texts so dull? no adult would read them said gal on buckley
/ texts bad due to .. vested interests?
/ why change em. how many did you want to keep
/ way texts are adoped on a statewide basis/
nutritican lobby didn’t take junk food or birthday cakes or ice cream for
/ 3 lb bks ‑ too heavy
/ too much emphasis on graphics, appendix, t of c?,
/why change em/ mcguffey’s
fallacies too much on pop, whiz bang, celebrate, gloss, psych, everyone’s a cheerleader – guy leaping at twins grad in jeans.
class smart and dumb in same class
/ amish till 8th grd
/ church of light
/ no skills, dk real world,
recs
books augustus, oz, homer price, the library woman
/ how much did we kids learn from comic books
/classic comics
/ good and bad material
/ bk reports
/ michner
counseling no int test, no counseling to speak of ‑ of what type
briggs myer
/ should be able to sue counselors
/ no tests showed my abilities – testing here should support not resist interests
/ very common to hear of poor counseling – irish said it was bad
definitions – lack of: manners, sportsmanship, disc? trad vals, teamwork,
musmos
to pass on the cul
hist pol, soc, econ. alex, ceasar, greece, rome, law?, mercantilism, king arthur thru flics, indust rev, magna carta, various rev., all the wars?, slavery
hitler, stalin, mao
biblio, rate tv, why taxes, am myths & others, job refs.
learn about – real world
misc – recs aa, daytime tv, clear goals=alt lifetyles
/bibio – ratings/ use tv
/ pri!
/ caps, isms, media, tabloids, soaps, hobbies,
priv vs pub
/ pol,
/ op, pess, cyn, realism,
/ freedom hse, vocab, concepts=?,
method? framework vs explore
/rate all
/ write to learn and think
/ and enter into comp-
/ kids to trac their own devel.? in part
put in fun parts here clubs, sea scouts-sal, dances, parties, dating, school picnics, football games, and dances afterwards. bch,
dals, when church and state are not separate ran]. divisiveness [No. Ireland, the partition of India,]. scandals. holy wars
religion the contributions and failings seen academically [not devotionally]: abuses, scandals, when church and state are not separate ran]. divisiveness [No. Ireland, the partition of India,]. scandals. holy wars
career counsel- This makes him happier and more employable.interests. Students should know where to get the best books on the best schools for their line of interest. This makes them more employable.
one of the main reasons for votings – skip.
-how polls and surveys are manipulated.
hum nature people believe what they want to believe -psychshame w
/ wel? thru lay teachers.
======w=========
my loves hist, pol, physics, cap vs soc
/ bout same as 4 l6
w/ tito saw need for formal ed of college/
peers – personal screening. soc contacts via college as couldn’t wait for college kids to come back when at buffims
/ rites of passage/
lessons dance lessons, music lessons, swim lessons
/ fam let us choose careers/
clubs toast, soc, span, coterian, sea scouts, philos, 8 balls, bachelors, sports indiv vs team,
/ teamwork, sportsmanship [but undefined], disc, effort, skill?, fun, testing, challenge, health?, predestined
extra curricular art, music, sports, clubs, talent show brought out some, proms, stu gov
letter tj and I wrote to complain bout h.s.
gym
misc ===========================
responsible citizenship
/ gym class for conditioning charted, self-defense, swimming, and gym.
learning the 4 sports not beneficial, but who’d want to admit it?
fill or pass time – antiseptic ed = no race, religion, soc. problems,
/ nursing and sec. skills
/ rate bks and profs
/ vocational decathelon/ credit for whatever matures him – clubs, scouts, sports,
/ need stake in their future
/ passages? They would learn where to find and how to use the best books on the best schools for their choices.
confusion: files w x y
/ mil, assistance. biblio and lib for best book on ea. field, best ref books
more employable as has demonstrated he knows who he is= what he wants and has to offer.
biblio for self-ed
/ ed should be self ed and comparisons
crime taught w
/ chart
/ 60l’s
/ welfare?
so many courses taken “as good idea, as part of lib ed, to bal our ed, provide a basis, make us appreciate ….” all should look back on what was useful, but no one wants to or wants to admit a lot wasn’t useful
/ burs=avoid gov.
/ antonyms, etc,
/ anticeptic = sea scouts best for sall
/ jr promenade
/ credit for summer job???s
/ band vs orchestra
/ took clarenet at wilson/ and accordian lessons for personality
/ phillips crusaders
/ pri sch kids PREFERRED pub sch
/ wealth=autonomy-happiness is being able to do what you want
/ we almost lost war of l8l2
/ death ed
/ voc ed=0
/ u s news
/ vote
have to live thru pyramid, day after, last temptation of christ, bakker, pyramid, watergate, viet, a war or depression
/
could become video pen pals w/another language class or the school could adopt another school like sister cities do
outside sch: scouts, swim, trips, wk, chores, cars.
clubs good for belonging, blend, fun, coop, spec int.
needs: atten. approval, belonging, role models,
class
/ sex ed w
/ vals
/ white slavery
/ radicalism-ment
/ welfare
/ big 3
/ bk on tv earning credit for what you know?
/ independent study/
human nature: play to strengths
/ what do you need to know – papers will show – wk too
/ rate all of tv/ cohabitation
/ kids grow up real fast on st=what
/ lay teachers and practical profs
/ sub and objectivity/
sholzenizen – the gulag was his univ.
– recs aa, daytime tv, clear goals=alt lifetyles
/bibio – ratings
/ use tv
/ tabloids, soaps, hobbies,
how knowledge of hist affects one’s view of the real world – explain
diff forms of gov., to appreciate why he pays taxes and votes. all of it can be covered quickly. obj… and biases here? soc life? sex ed
formal vs self ed
/ priv vs pub
/peer ratings of what each other need.
/ pol,
/ op, pess, cyn, realism,
/ freedom hse, one’s own biases, vocab, concepts=?,
7th grade sci w/ freshly
/ speaking in front of class
/ incentives: the sooner you learn x, the sooner you get y
/ what do stu learn from tv
/ sportsmanship= they’ll learn sports on own – we never saw a rule book
/ capitalize on fads: marbles, tops
/ climbing mts/
optional p e as marva said, it’s p e till ll:30
drivers ed should show wrecks and visit? wrecking yard
in eur, they grad w a skill
/ we took speech in h.s. and some took theater
/ sch. plays
/ ham acting
/ write their congressmen?
/ visiting state city hall, county seat, etc. visiting factories
having to leave parties early in jr hi cause I had to work the next day at lq
why sports if little league – what others are like this – scouts.
ma tried having a new word each meal – phased out, and said classical music around her house when young – so ….
hum nature clique went on to do well
/ math: decimils
slo processes: vocab, read?, writing, speaking, pr?,
/ what books would students pic
/ why cathy kellenberger + hated school
/ speak one way with friends and fam and another at some jobs
/ idiomatic expressions – only for foreigners?
/ charity guide [dream on]
/ assembly line work
/Book reports seemed like a good idea, but I don’t remember them “taking hold”. I remember enjoying some stories by Dickens and Twain.
but not enough London, Ernie Pyle, hardy boys,
religious ones in h.s. had more humility and integrity. what about after?
-ed as screening out process
/ reunions
/ nerds – squares
/ becoming free for the lst time after h.s.-thus wk permits, min wage, class -st fam,
/ up the down
/ travel, climates, taxes, death?
/ cumulative
/ dem ed=smart and dumb
/ being allowed to take span just to get a grade
/ times tables?
/ tv – fight it or use it
/ pub vs pri – uniforms?
/ we had assembly programs
any speakers leave an impression? bob richards, maramoto
/ a skill – eur
/ kids can’t find countries; solution a course on geo. ty. you don’t NEED a full course
/ teachers have to be a friend lst./
hum nature people the same, born, live and die in same place, provincial, pro wretle, roller d, tabloids, soaps, televeangelists, mil
on campus clubs vs off
/ learned most in independ pursuits: papers -dup under college
/ pub ed has too many vested interests
zip on smoking throughout sch – even college
/ w.c. join serv?
/ was graduated from college
misleading: the more ed the more $. more ed takes more iq and effort, long range thinking; also lot are not interested in lot of $ – dup under college
/ – kuala lampur
/ afs, ayh
/ library-what is there to know: biblio, best schools for the many types of work, profs, counseling,
/ could programs on tv be assigned w
/o conflicting with fam’s viewing? – could in college. thus all docus
grads of priv schs not much better off -source?
does the higher ed of jap… make em better citizens?
teaching frosh helps
/ prof can’t give frosh texts or tests he used 20 yrs ago
/
mislead by contest for algebra – levers, etc.
/ guy sued sch for not teaching him wisdom
/ consumers should eval: stu, parent, employers
/ val free
/ biz
antiseptic 0 on gays
nat vs. physical sci.,
other thrills – beck’s classes
/folks said I grew lot at cmc
/ see old college notes hopefully if I do one on higher ed
/ what was driven into me in hist and poly sci
amazed at people who’ve been couple of yrs to “college” j.c. – herman, dot,
/in my int in pol, no one pointed out the people part vs the issue part.
/ pledge to flag, mac’s return, elections‑jr hi all said same thing. cliques? paddling, dress codes, never heard of mater dei, fam, part of town, several articles here: the influences of youth. geo herron said it went down ‑ others too
/ everyone’s for ed and lot of ed =0
/ feel bad in being so critical, as many adults gave so generously of themsleves – but in a way that’s the point
/
elec. eng. – built a radio one summer
/ memory work
/ fam vs sch re health, values, diet, soc, chores, anything vs church? formal vs self ed
/ a=pie r squared – 0 on triangle and 4 is to 8 as l is to x – used it maybe l0 times?
/ show and tell
/ eur more cul and have skills
/computers for writing, math?, fam. tree, draw, hist? etc., filing
/ fights/ ivory tower
/ box tops, flip comics,
every kid needs a backyard and a garage
/ appreciate the hard job parents and teacher’s have
/ fam tree? as part of hist? & into computer?
ma wouldn’t have passed twins jr. yr comp in 5th grade.
/ [gov lam said the same] [top idea-just thot of it]
flics= intense; viewers “experience” it
/ coaches don’t need b.a.
/ missing: sm biz, fam biz,
/ didn’t we take field trips? w
/ steve brooks in bus
/ thrift shops
/ jap hi sch grads can do advanced math
/ feel sorry for ed establishment who tried so hard, [but were part of system]
w.c. into the trades
/ smart enuff to drop out
/ herm liked [practical spelling bees]; said study hall good for those who can’t study at hm -tv or fam hassles [vs asian ma’s], said sports good fun therapy for troubled youth; said susprised at smart ones who dropped out, went into mil or trades.
/ mil worse than sch but good for j.d.’s, which shows what should have been done
/ sch vs fam re grammar
/ class: mr’s – mainstream, [jap] slower and faster stu. – mgm’s
/ AA
/ babysitting
/ stat, accounting
/ dropouts that eventually do well
/ easy to misinspire and misquide youth with pos thinking and idealism
/ i remember carrying heavy books.
/ library should? be an inspiration?
/ all the thankless? hrs adults put in. [reasons teachers quit]
/ maps with spots where their dads served or where their fam lived.
/ sch is the academic approach to life [so biz can’t get thru]
/ teachers in it for idealism and then sec?/
/ tell you how sig to vote, not how you can’t figure out the issues
/ can’t self ed as effectively w/o biblio and ratings
/ indian guides
/ hist-fam tree dup?
can’t get anywhere w/o a h.s. dip yet func. illit..
/ graduate charmer who can bs
/ nursing
/ basket weaving
/ sq root
/ cliff did not? learn
/ pluralism – tolerance
/ I don’t know
/ drivers ed
/ those who remember all like jon dean
/ crooks that came out of prin?
/
ny times-w/bias
/ credit for wk
/ sooner into the real world the better – antioch
/ parachute bk
/ musical ear – imitations
/ amish 8th grade
/ bias
/ only bks I remember: exodus, hawaii, ugly am,
/ should be a max weight for bks? – skip
/ they should pay for bks
/ boy’s life
/ odds against inner city kids
/ all you need is desire-dup?
/ teach the bk WITH the movie or TV
/ candy machines in sch
/ parroting
/ calculators
/ vs japan
/ no wonder kids sour
/ a foreign language makes you appreciate your own-so what
/sch are not soc agencies.
fads 3/4 lenth shirts, blue suede, yo yos, tops, marbles, trading cards, hula hoops,
== and lay teachers
soc problems map of those in one’s own town and in a nearby typically? big city.- average. area. & ny; union corruption,
pysch: adolescence, rebellion, id,
any exp, good or bad, that contributed in the long run.
Parents and guardians would be rewarded for more,
/ test would be age related. and would test progress compared to from what one started with, also for the maintenance] other fam resp, insights gained from advantages, and from adversity – character, integrity. – peer ratings? big 3 which kid you were. smarter ones get sick less. this would involve the fam more. male, female. less reason to bitch. summer camps, fam trips. employabilityn
Is there a school or anything that comes close to this.
perfect example is after sch sports vs paper route; another is the more sensible ones get sick less.
genius of this is that it’s exactly what career counseling pulls out!
can be being a parent, period.
maturity: realism [which would appear cyn to academics], insights, awareness, humaness, naturalness, [see immaturity] travel, ham radio, stamps, scouts?, little league, spec int., eaning your own tuition, clubs, wk, hum. nature, maturity, trad val, swim, music?, lang? shrinkage-grp., writing, vocab, living diff places – depending on what you learned?, 4-H, resp in looking after siblings, chores?, employability, insights – racial, handicapped? church?, reading, tv, sports?, natural talent? all this would help keep you on course as you could fall off
/ health= weight, stamina, coord?, smoke, alc,
/ soc life contributes
contributing to academics reading, travel, living elsewhere, sum camp, sensible tv,
contributing to tradval, maturity, career counseling hobbies, clubs, sports, wk, stu gov,
/ chores, skills, adversity? [soc life?,
contributing to maturity mature role models, openess, touch w
/feelings, capability of giving and receiving love, tolerant? see list
health is stamina, flex?, blood?, disc?, weight,
basic gym is bal, coord, conditioning, know how to fall laterally & roll, absorb blows, be agile and quick?, land on feet, how to fall straight down: get cent of gravity low and absorb the blow more fair, challenging, efficient, and sensible than our present system. responsible parenthood
wordprocessing?
(Indeed, it was the unions that got politicians to add the llth and l2th grades to keep young people from competing for jobs.)
add maturity list? – no
tests should show it’s not sch’s job to babysit – is this said by drop out by l4?
“career counseling” It makes students work on discovering their primary interests.
could this be a sep article entitled practical academics – h.s.
And I would require studying:
He would be tested academically weekly and the tests would be cumulative. If he failed, he would be set back a week, not a year. The other tests would be less often.
immaturity- me, smith, dot, hutch, scott?, ann, dj, how, marge, whitney, singles, as pro life parallels soc?
if you doesn’t like trad vals, then no interest in ed; but swers think opposite.
/ maturity and trad vals cover socialization?
career counseling is like college admissions – they look at the whole stu.
None? of us had encyl… we had bk of knowledge but didn’t use it
/ ed is more than bks
/ tests to involve peer ratings? & rate teachers
/ getting the ged at night? shows whether or not stu should have dropped out and can get what they want at night.????
/ the hoops ones supposedly has to jump thru – the l2 yr sentence – before fam, mort, career.
sensible psych
/ career counsel needs reality re iq
/ goal counseling as some don’t want careers
/ maturity = socialization/
sportmanship pacing, fair, control, disc.
tests given by testers not teachers
human nature not so much working hard as working smart
teachers lay! as more reality, easier to drop, less brainwashed, less part of the ed establishmenty
no one wants to admit it
/ seems like good idea
/ vs you can wk the rest of your life
/ double credit for living elsewhere – 50% for travel
/ / moks big ed for what – key punch
/ hoops vs freedom- l2 yr sent.career counsel: This is almost as important as maturity and certainly lends itself to it. It can make his education more relevant and meaningful.
[Besides, as we become more competive in the world, we don’t have the luxery.] one look at jap.. schs
/ sch vs ed/
would have to maintain a high enough overall average in the above to “earn” the opportunity to study academics. then another “sentence” for those who had to serve in the military in those days, then some freedom before family, job, and mortgage.
/ can’t penalize a kid for him fam, but you have to start standards somewhere – bad fams will penalize them anyhow
/ tom agrees that ed estblishment is powerful and out of it. maturity before vals? A “l2 year sentence”, as one author put it. When you consider that life is short, and that there is little time before adult responsibility, why waste it with idealistic schooling?
/ swan lake
/ credit? for after sch wk vs after sch sports
/ composite score
/ farm out the trades??? very tricky – better to give credit for pd or vol work, which is indicated.
/ ged is faster.other points
Teachers said they had no favorites. They didn’t play favorites, but they had them, like we had favorite teachers. Everyone has them [those they have more in common with], but those in positions of authority shouldn’t mention them and never play them. It’d be better to approach it this way than to idealistically claim no one has them.
Another matter: we were all “equal” which implied equal ability. Hardly. Some students had far more in sports and academics, and others had to work twice as hard. With everyone in the same class, the faster ones were bored and the slower ones frustrated. Why not have “advanced” and “regular” classes?
Diagraming sentences, prefixes and suffixes weren’tmusic lessons,ged is faster.
indeed many send kid to sch in order to mature.
Some of our texts may have been interesting, but we didn’t keep them. The last gave us a taste of democracy [and trimmed the sails of social climbers.]
P.e. how to get into top shape at least once. – this is all implicit.
reading: comp, vocab, speed
/ dances like clubs
/ termpapers
/bikers
/union corruption
/ should be able to test your self-ed.
bob clegg: said could cover l2 yrs in 4., girls should have shop; He grad h.s. in 3l and went 2 yrs to college, and stopped due to depression
/ he went to work part time at l2
/ dk child labor
/ bot 4 cyl 24 chevy/
/ relief maps
/ the extremely small percentage of atheletes that get into professional sports for a career averaging 3 l/2 years.
/ p.e. for coord?
/ slo and fast learners.
/ NOT utilizing tv is idiotic and a matter of false pride. ed can’t spend the jillions tv does. tv reaches the pop market at various levels. [bet schools dont ‘t even tape rare programs – victory at sea; crusade in eur, 20th cent., the unknown war, the world at war, docus on iwo & reunion, one on mt. troops who later developed skiing; kids can play p.e. cause they don’t develop large? sweat glands till puberty?
/how many who say they wish they had ____ in sch, never tried to get it later – human nature. like losing weight
We usually had slow and fast learners in the same class, which put a burden on the teacher.
/ got our jr. life saving badges one summer.
/It would also show that some students do not want a career or college. They should be allowed to leave school early and go to work, without being labeled “dropout”. They would be happier and wouldn’t slow down the students that are more academic.
/ what to do w/ creatives Such an approach would also benefit families, schools, and employers.
Altho Fred was average in academics, he would be strong in the other four areas and ready to move on. Bob had the talent, but Fred had the family.
Suppose Bob from one family was very smart but spoiled and immature; and Fred, from another family was not smart, but his family taught him good values through chores, homework, sensible TV, 4-H, etc. Bob coasts through school getting all the academic credit. Why shouldn’t Fred get credit where his strengths lie? A comprehensive approach would do this.
/ could have used the time to fix up houses
/ what I learned from captions on pics of voltaire, napolean, gandhi – dup?
/ the neigh sch=the neigh mono
/ what about problem of not revealing maturity test scores.
/ l/3 ams l8-24 can’t find the pacific ocean on a world map.
… competition for stu la : schs are monos based on geo. thus if you live in a good neigh you may have good schs . if bad, bad. top down mng of ed is passe. as the agrarian based sch calandar of late l9th cent. teachers have few incentives to produce. the pub. doesn’t have enuff power.
/ 7l% want to choose sch.
/ magnet schs are orged around and academic or voc theme. they have to compete and thus need freedom to hire and fire and design curriculum. free frin reg. just what cos do. this market exists in colleges which are the envy of the world.
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Teaching bout religion in pub schs possible if approach is [us news 7/4/88]
-is academic, no devotional
-explain the role of religion in hist and civ, take a lterary aproach to relgious works or brings awareness w/o impoyin acceptance of …
– does not invoke rel auth ro teach moral vals
– does not promote or denigrat a particular religion
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/should be penalized for continuing smoking
A case can be made for not educating someone who persists in remaining immaturity. no, i’m not sure of this. ed can be so irrelevant anyhow.
(3) Career counseling [the name of the game in job satisfaction]
We all know people who got into the wrong field. Career counseling lessens the chance of this by making a student work on discovering and pursuing his primary interests. Such counseling is so basic, there is almost no point in educating someone without it.<
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Instilling tradvals is no simple task. some fams and schools are better than others at this and should be given credit periodically as their child proceeds thru school by having this show up on tests scores and other????. such values are absolutly basic to:
Maturity the name of the game for personal happiness. It can be detected?, defined at whatever age level, … determined by tests, and promoted with counseling etc. While it has not been the sch’s resp, it should be to some extent?
Teachers would rather teach students who are mature for their age than those who are not. ??????? Makes more sense to teach a stu who is mature for his age, than a mixed up youth. why grad immature and take yrs to find out and then work things out.
Career counseling is parallel to maturity. The person who is knows what he want to do is has as much advantage as the person who has his head on right. Such counseling begins the lifelong process of discovering and pursuing what one’s primary interests are. W can be vital to finding one’s work.which … now explain
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The fam that instilled trad VALS thru these activities and at home would get credit periodically as their stu proceed thru sch. The same would be true of what they did for their child’s maturity, health, and career counseling.
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The families who made the best choices would be rewarded by their child’s gaining: higher test scores in the five basic areas above, a far more efficient education, an early graduation, and his being better prepared for life.
/ cut p.e. in l/2
/ could have done it in 6 yrs or less and used the rest of the time to learn a skill.Besides sportsmanship, I don’t remember particular benefits from this. There were plenty of chances for it outside school.<
Such counseling is so basic, there is almost no point in educating someone without it.
/ only 40% grad h.s. in france
/ 40% of col grads in spain still out of work 2 yrs after grad
/ long waiting lists in eng for pri schskids here placed according to age, not ability. said v. sig.2nd to last par need more? /
newsweek lot of parents lie bout which dist they’re in so they can send their kids to better schs. one who told truth had to pay non-res tuition of 3k. 5k in one. illegal stu. la law allowing sch nr babysitter probably increased fraud. law to restrict rights of whites to transfer kids to sch w over 70% whites. in chi, rels save to rent an apt in good for l mo to establish residency. truant officers catch kids sneaking in. taxpayers don’t want to support outsiders. #
why don’t schs rec, tape, and test docusgeraldo rivera vs m. adler
what you learn from sch, fam, sports, etc.
teachers who influenced: coleman, wooley, ingman, mcknight, mcgee, roger.
/ ll+ exam. no apprenticeshiphow useful was h.s.career counseling=job hunting
/ schs paid by how many kids they had in sch, not by how well they were ed
/licensure – cutting hair -why don’t schs give haircuts, make clothes, shoes, etc.
/let em leave at l4
/oral and written expression /
la minn the lst to extend choice. thus slick catalogue as schs vie for stu. 2 key assests: stu & $. could prove fatal to rural dists. and could increase gap twix rich and poor. ‘most dramtic thing you can do to improve ed” crap about racial bal. could drain brightest and best athlets from small or resource-poor districts. 90% of trans are for convenience – one sch has latch key program.
/la the idea is becoming fashionable. e. harlem has it.
*sig quality of the sch make big diff in ed of similar children.
*The most effective schs are those free of cent. bur and unions, and run by strong principals who involve teachrs. Most large system don’t allow such schs. [why] but choice breaks the monopoly. 25% dropout and 20 mil adult illiterates.//
*/hispanics drop out at 45% rate, but of those who tutor others -only 2% -tv/
/lot can’t write a good report, so teach em to write – yet few jobs for writers
improving academics
3 r’s but more practical
health the effects of smoking, drinking, drugs, etc.
hist A brief run through world and U.S. history [including gaps and distortions].
the news Weekly oral and written assignments on the news as presented by a major paper, the networks, and documentaries to teach: vocabulary, writing, and bits of geography, politics, economics, human nature, economics, common myths, ethnic groups, social classes, the biases of various fields, and the influences of the various religions.
the less advantaged immigrants, migrant farm labor, handicapped, retarded, the 3rd world – earning credit through volunteer work.
social problems child abuse, runaways, gangs, delinquency, vice, crime, mental illness, the homeless, and slums – through field trips and documentaries [Scared Straight, Toma].
/0 on slums, pov, minorities,
/the excellent ed steve jacobs had
/the folly of NOT using what’s on tv – shows how they side step everything
/whole thing bout ed is the REAL world
/speed reading
/amazing: can’t even tell you what health is
/ not graduating must be unfair cause it’s grad.. in bs – my dip vs steve jacobs – why didn’t his mean more
/what ed does is separateno llth and l2th grades before ______
/diploma basic, but is it and where it’s from must mean something.
/mature students would get preference
*/25% dropout rate nationally and 20 mil illiterates- said la l/5/89
/they learn our stu don’t know geo and what do they propose – a full course – weak/
vocational ed doesn’t work, I’ve read. religion in those days. jim bastian said too neg?. ratings=vouchers
/sch vs hm/
/obvious the solution to the problem of ed doesn’t lie with educators
/should teach how to read the media-ed ranking fine for asia, but not here. it’s a threat to “anyone can make a new start”. before wwii less than l0% went to college.
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– ed offers the am dream, but promotes rigidity. thus harder to change course at 40 – sig. people take their iq and their schooling as judgements of their ability -sig.
Iq and sat scores have become destiny for many ams. kids here placed according to age, not ability. said vo?. sig should have had a course on the trials of early ims in h.s. and c.why don’t schs rec, tape, and test docus
/should teach how to read the media
/spec sch for hmless kids. understanding, motivating sch hi pt for one okie
learning in am roger mudd 4/89:
/jap folks can’t leave much to kids, so they leave ed – lot of sacrifice
mid kids doesn’t want college but is hired before grad. 240 sch days there and l80 here. grad with 3 yrs more there – grad here and go to jc to learn what they missed. thus 5 yrs behind? motorola spend tons to teach em. ny life ships work to ireland. kids there commited to jobs for life? 350 us cos there. we venerate. all a joke and charm and fun.
sig some coaches feel they alone teach what’s needed for wk: team, disc. coop, effort, pacing,
sch uniforms in ireland and jap. am personal gal: am kids spoiled. world owes em a living. corp am has adopt a sch. NO mention of pri. s. carolina improved their schs with a tax only after they got the voter behind it and lot of white went back to them.
/ us lst to make pub ed compulsory. and was? a gem? h.s. grad here can’t get job. no slouch in jap? our teach and shrinks would have to live in jap to even consider such challenge and that ed there is not a joke and not mostly sports, etc.
/postrel 3/89: folks hide pri lang deal at pub sch from sch bd. schs are the last bastion of unbridled egalitarianism. [not done well] equity the goal despite consequences. don’t improve ed for anyone unless for everyone. [so rich can’t help their sch more than poor?] confuse equity with fairness. vouchers would let good stus leave bad ones in some schs. [good suppose to rub off on bad? in my day]
the class character of the school = the students’ families)
/keith said lst l2 yrs. more sig than college
/sub and predicate, hypotenus, logrythm, exponent, expoentiallyholy angles parochial sch in chi. uniforms, stand when answer. $700/yr tuition.resp of BOTH parents. they get as many male teachers as possible. yr rnd.
/a. linc wrote w/ charcol on a shovel.
/stu w/ heavy coats on, earing, funny hair, cap, eating.
/ed based on prop tax! 7k/stu – princeton and 2k/stu in kentucky. no mention of col, taxes,
/tons on ed, but never look at ims, pri. blk muslims,
/imagine being told on entering j.c., you’re starting over.
/ed doesn’t know or care that biz is ed staff
/too much emphasis on being an extrovert and being social – vs being creative, tech, sci, etc.
/very sad bout burnout teach who was being consulted. back to camera.
/never kept notes nor looked at notes
/those who can’t – teach, and those who can’t teach , teach gym.
/stus in undershirts, shorts. stus with poor self-esteem don’t learn. job that breaks your heart every day. [free market could solve this]. alternate certification in nj [like cath lay teach?] at ridgewood – it works. and l5 states are looking at it. 0 on pri sch. shortage of minority teachers [0] i say lst determine ability, then comp exams. esl was the perfect example. making phd do hall duty. susan english felt trapped. lst thing should be sensible titles – nature science. teacher isolation [from peers] and need for big voice.
/motorola + teach what was missed in hs [probably in far less time]
/do shs have safeties like we did
/reform ed along lines viet achievements have shown – honoring teachers
/will transfer violent stu to another sch w
/o telling his new teach and 0 on record to keep it clean as a right?
/ed: bks dumbed down – not clear – due to gablers, teachers?, user fatigue?, lcd, have to please everyone. gram and 2nd sch resist tech [like tv] whereas college is nothing but experimentation. xxxxx as they can’t define ed. video bank where kids pulled out what they wanted and added the commentary [bout truman and mac] great. also carmen san diego where kid teaches himself. latter started off as game. [kids learn more thru games?] if junkyards and rental yards can learn comps, the rest of us can.
kids write l7 wpm freehand and 24 with comp and submit termpapers twice as long. [journals].
part of ed should be to find what TYPE of mind you have – computer, mechanical, creative, artistic, teaching?, $, admin, sports, biz, farm, language ..
how do you find what a kids likes – kid like me discovers physics, geography, hist
schs fail to credit what farm boy knows bout farms, city boy knows bout city -strikes, gridlock, museums, cul?. minorities. goober peas? hush puppies, shoe fly pie, jumbalaya, egg cream soda,
/job – my being a snipe in cg, prejudice, vs non intellect
/teacher shortage coming.
/daily paper: vocab, hist, geo, ism, weather,
/eur kids sch yr longer. study groups for peer pressure – one grade for the group. you forget what you learn, but you remember what you do
/can’t assume ed makes people better citizens – look to ims for that
/4th or 5th grader serving food in cafeteria line in classrm – in japeur – steve -better ed
/said 60s and 70s did ed lot of damage
/what helped me in cg the 3, not academics
/never even thot of a quit smoking clinic in ed or c
/computer types that do all they can to confuse it
/just like a lot can’t give directions
/ed should START with the most influential men [and events] in hist: lao tse, the religious leaders:
alex the great, napoleon, ceasar, martin luther, aristotle, galileo, davinchi, churchill?, hitler, columbus, edison?, marco polo, gandhi, vasco de gama, pasteur, einstein, copernicus, kepler, pasteur, lincoln, guttenberg, gunpowder?, ptoelmy, shakespear?, pathagorus, great books, goddard?, meiji?, peter the great, katherine the great?
/what you learn, you forget, what you do, you remember: thus you remember the games it took to get thru college, not the lessons.
/r. samuelson w post 4/24/89 not a good one
our teens live in dreamland. less than an hr of hmwk/dy.
-an adolescent subculture that’s been evolving.
-stus of similar backgrounds do better at cath hi schs. where stu do 50% more hmwk and have more math, eng, and hist. folks of pub sch stu don’t use as much auth. since 60’s schs less demanding. folks of cath schs use more auth. [so cath schs do].
recent reforms in pub schs have made slight diff.
40% of hs stu hve jobs. most are mc.
our cul: rights. question auth. self-exp. [starts to blow it]
parental guilt contributes. [how] kids should enjoy youth. sch shouldn’t spoil it.
am stus score lower in [academic] achievement than asians, but they and folks are more satisfied. [as all are spoiled] #
/david t. kearns. chm of bd of zerox. 800 long ridge rd, box l600 stamford ct. 06907-l600 gen info 800 334 6200
he would like my ed,c. I sent em 6/89. he wants biz in, vouchers. he wrote winning the brain race.
op said biz and ed can’t tell ea other what to do.
I say parents should chose sch and all. restructuring=princ gets to run show. ed prone to fads. yet timid. l/3 fams have kids in sch. ark schs turned round in 83.
missed marva. parent vol in cafeteria.
/hired bilingual aide for laotian and his bro – really helped
/pics sig in text, graphs are like pics – stics in mind
/why no lessons via computer
/my complaint w/ ed is mised and over ed
/career counseling – some of the best ther you can have
/parochial schs: dress, polite, locked doors. lot of cath schs closing [sad] as it benefits inner city.
/ cath sch stus score higher than pub. minorities in cath schs do better too. less of a gap.
/ less dropping out. and more on to college
/edn – wasn’t it true that all put in same class so less talented would be helped?, but we didn’t have enough to sep?
/cath schs: disc and higher parent involvement, rigorous academics. 75% of courses are required vs fat catalogs for pub schs. $9k less/yr for teach but more satisfied. have to be cop in pub schs. teachers stay after sch more in cath. boys line up in halls on one side, girls the other. 4 basics: respect space and prop of others; talk quietly in halls; no loitering; show respect to all adult of sch. some parents vol
/student scores are going to vary from bev hills to so cent so maybe the st average is misleading.
/farce of ed for seniors is shown by how much more they learn when buckling down in a good college. – look at me – tho a yr’s break.
/la 5/2l/89 biz can’t grow w/o clerical help. can’t find it.
25% not ready for lst grade in us. in inner city as hi as 70&%. most schs held accountable on for attendance.
/never look at schs of black muslims, jap, caths – never look closely
/why didn’t hist class have us see victory at sea or crusade in eur
or read it. how dumb do you get
/telling kids they are all smart is like telling them they all have the same athletic ability – sets em up
/people in every field need to learn how to talk
/graphs and charts are espec nec for the less ed or less thinkingç
/ those plastic outlines of subjects in college bookstores
/incredible in sch they didn’t test our stamina, heartbeat, etc
/see gilder l78/and l78
/screening processed, c – comprehensive exams
/ never knew if penalized for guessing
/ cajuns, menonites,
/trad val, mental health, phy health, career, academic
/whitney’s girls fought hi sch, got out, did well.
/ed. a book called “earn credit for what you know”.
/ on 60 min. a college that gives credit for watching tv.
/edn should have to study the conditions of 3rd world
/role play in sch – lst aid, crime, re,
/ed. what’d I’ve learned from tv: media and others
/ed – terrible texts due to so many vested interests
/5l% would send kids to pri sch if they could
/jap. their stus use binocs to see bd. make out cath schs seem like picnic. /thrill of hmwk for lst few and only? times in 6th? grade
/ed is a sorting out process which we should be honest about. – mr’s
/folly of a class ring for $2l.
/malcom x read dictionary. his auto should be part of ones ed. king’s bk too – stride toward freedom
/5l% would send kids to pri sch if they could
/nj recruits bright col grad w/ no ed requirements to teach – takes all it can get
/ == in ed is a disaster . thus boredom. vs mgm or mr
/never used sq root
/teens see 6 hrs of tv/day. bigger infl than sch.
/sec of labor brock said 60s were 0 in ed with open clas.., no grading, etc 7/87. no mention if pri was dumb enuff to try it and drop it quicker
/96% ofparents would get out of publ schs if possible.-shlafly
/some schs serve 3 meals/dy. some provide child care
/should have had the virtues of cap drilled into us in sch
/tons of complaints bout sch guidance counselors
/32% more aid for bright stu than before. us news 7/27/87
/in ’65 7% of teachers wuldn reenter field; in 84, 24%;
in 87 4l% of la teachers. course ny’s a joke
/never heard bout mater dei or that now most are prost….bedell: full.. [hs?] passes, not retains stus. elem? check for lice, bruises, teeth. 30 lang in full. class size not nec relevant. fam is rotten.
we put our least able teachs and prin in worst schs.
/bergeson raised 4, told em lots, but didn’t register till teach told em. /l2k for dalton nyc. open enrollment w/in dist. which gets peolpe worked up over sports and teachs transfers. l5k at uci. cal biz roundtable has brought needed reforms.
/l% dropout rate in jap. 30% here has to be hs
/[need to break ed’s mono over ed – let in biz, non pro, ]
/we lived l00 yrs on women teachers before pub ed.
/sch bds let ed go down in 60s [out own cul rev]
/kids in one sch in india write in the sand
/ed doesn’t encourage the trades? too much stress on college?
/after prop l3, the drop out rate went up.
/m. collings stu gained 6 yrs in l. her book reminds you of the thrills and boredom of sch.
/sch is a big talk show. ==, esthetics, citizenship
/bilingual started ’74
/horace’s compromise by ted sizer. good for k-l2 said suzie charlton
/class. logic: tim said the 9l was not crowded implying I should have taken it, but he took it at l2:30 pm./
/said what ever tastes good is good for you. these things wear you out
/job of ed to pt out what can only or learned best by exp
/ed here a joke. in eng they finish l5-l6.
/pub schs in good areas, scasdale, are great and favored [?]. opposite in ghettos. and gov reinforces both. fried
/supreme crt said 0 bout aid to rel schs til ’49. sow
/pri schs have raised scores for minority stu faster thn pub. most stu in cath schs are protestant [incl ghetto] sow
/schs better in past when more local control
/m. collins used mccuffey’s
/can go to any sch in cal, but $ doesn’t follow stu
/ed went astray in 60’s – shanker. handicaps rep l0% of budget.
/ed should role play – first aid, crime, accidents
/% of hs grad that go to college. us has highest
/placed according to age, not ability.
/no pub schs when const written. moyers
/track and swimming = individual sports
– sch never as powerful an integrator, equalizer, or socilizer as portrayed. in am most of best elem & hi schs are pri or in expensive suburbs. fallows
/twix ’60 & ’89 fed $ up 600%, yet sat scores declined steadily
pets, chores
/ suicide counseling. many cut bac sports & musicw post: 9/89 % who support the following in pub hi schs:
82% – brkfst for poor kids.
77 – birth control info.
69 – health guid. to pregnant stu
5l – psych counseling for troubled FAMS of stu
80 – manners and morality
29 – religion but
majority anti
birth control devices at sch or
abort counseling
74 – health problems
69 – head st
58 – day care
90 – drug ed
66 – drug tests for stu
80 – ” ” teachers
70 – search any stu lockers
56% – poor marks for h.s. ed gen but 60 said their schs good
/wlnut elem in norwalk-lamirada has open enrol.. waiting list. cent oc wants it more than so oc. 69 – 55. comp for best atheletes. favors rich as can afford trans. will upset racial bal. will make em more segregated. will make inequities greater [sig]
/any mention of cost effectiveness [re results?] in ed
/classes should be so intertesting, no disc is nec.
/ed world probably as idealistic as sw
/great comp to get into better elem schs in man.
/self-esteem supposed to be more sig for ed than iq
/dc has one of the most $ ed systems and hi drop out
/assumption that everyone is and should progress thru the grades evenly
/giant playgrounds -more so out here?
/ed $ up 6 fold in 60s and 70s
/ed = what’s left after you’ve forgotten all from sch = einstein
/biz and trade schs – you NEVER hear bout em – cept few neg pieces
/mcbeth, odyssey, illiad, julius caesar, scarlet letter, mobey dick. hamlet. huck finn. tale of 2 cities. romeo
/hs dropout can be seen at 8 yrs old
/highest % of h.s. grads to college in us
/ed so dumb they don’t even rec things on tv.
/ed: wk in nursing hm. take notes and see how they compare with profs,res
/ed – minorities and whites and never check results
/i remember one geo map with all the features: archipeligo etc.
/lot of dumbness irregardless of ed
/had cable 3 wks and can’t believe what i’m learning.
/chinese have to learn 3k char to read a paper
/could ed levels have dropped due to minorities
/sick of stuff on ed. we spend the most
/ stu and come in last in math, geo, sci? nat standards.
/etna puts prospective workers back in sch. cincinatti bell, fed express .
only 20% passed test for ny bell. 20% passed eng and math for motorola – 5th grade math. 25% of cincinatti’s hi sch stu drop out. biz leaders have to get involved. they shouldn’t have to. poor apps even on cap hill. would I have heard of same. chuck said had to go downtown for sec. randal complained. average am teacher earns 29k. ’89.
40% do not go on to college. and we’ve dumped on em too long. very true.
more do here than in any other country? make it exotic: space, tech, comp..
we have lowered ed goals for soc justice. sig
/charts, tv, pics in bks. are visual learning
/rock around the clock and blackbd jungle were threats?
/drop out rate 50% in chi – worst in us. why not use sch bldgs on weekends – do priv?
, see marva we have lowered ed goals for soc justice. sig jack anderson. /so much you can believe till you exp it – till you see it with your own eyes – jim, joe, etc. THAT’S your education.
/so that’s why ed should discuss REAL life – what affects stu. what’s happening to them now.
/cul literacy = some knowledge of: jon adams, susan b anthony, benedict arnold, dan boone, john brown, aaron burr, jon c calhoun, hen clay, james fenimore coopr, lord cornwallis, davy crockett, emily dkickinson, stephen a. douglas, frederick douglass, jonathan edwards, ralph wldo emerson, ben ranklin, robert fulton, ulysses s. grant, alex, ham.., nat hawthorn.
/ adam and eve, cain and abel, noah and the flood, david and goliath, 23rd psalm, humpty dumpty, jack and jill, cinderella, jack and the bea stalk, penter pan, penochhio
/ achilles, adonis, aeneas, agamemnon, antigone, appolo
/ robin hood, paul bunyan, satan, sodom and gomorrah, the l0 commandements.
/that teen cheerleading conf. at uic – too much rah rah and put on
/they try to make some subject academic
/donna had to give ea kids 52 marks.
/for some h s stu, their job means more than sch. [well of course] how do we expect stu to get excited bout sch
/never pointed out the diff minds: comp, art, creative, mech, etc
/repeat themselves again and again
released time christian ed
/why ed, past a certain pt, a person who walks by the paper ea day and never looks at the front page.
/20% on assem line can’t read manual at gm. 80% of applicants at motorola couldn’t pass 5th grade math test. only 3% of the applicants for ops and repairmen at Ny tel qualified for job as …
qual of applicants keeps falling; the skills needed keep rising. biz getting involved in ed out of nec…
/eds worry bout commercialization of sch. but this is trivial compred to benefit. biz involvement holds more promise than any other trend in ed. in one area biz said drop voc ed if you want out help. it worked. biz ed explosion in boston. ny life airlifts its claim to ireland. ibm’s program has worked. pizza hut, ford, polaroid, zerox, burger king sponsor programs.
now flaws: biz must learn results won’t be quick, teacher must be better preped and paid, and need changes in hm.
ed must learn corp principles equally valid in classrrom: standards and accountability. [don’t hold your breath] [could do it all better w/ mw] wrong title was sending [0] cos to sch. gergen ll/6/89 us news
/if “ed” one didn’t get anywhere, why bother with “what ed should be” – cause I want to
/the “ed congress” of 63 lbj – and look at results
/hi sch in my day: open campus. no security guards. no weapons. no grafitti.
/role playing for wrecks, crime, drunks, dating
/22 of the 40 ’88 finalists in westinghse hs sci emp were foreign born or kids of foreign born. in sd, l of every 4 valedictorians and salutatorians has rcently ’89 ben viet. in boston l3 of l7 valedictorian of ’89 wer foreign born.
/l3% of our kids – 40% among minorities – leave sch illiterate. us news l2/25/89/5l% would send kids to pri sch if they could
. one rev said the harder one’s life the faster the maturation. and reporter said the more matuere , the more eager for academics??????
/talk shows are [sloppily] ed the pub in ways schs aren’t.
/tv is the 3rd parent
/something about dropouts, need for “ed” for wk and real world of work. the word is practical ed.
/better schs 25 yrs ago in ca. us news 2/5/90
/efficient ed is far less expensive ed.
/really disappointed in m collins jive talk. tv. 2/90. i wouldn’t want to work with her.
/in h.s. we had spanish kids taking span
/ no test for lang ability
/of l2 yr olds, 20% couldn’t find us. 20% thot brazil was us. l/3 couldn’t find alaska.
/cal has highest teen ow births. and optional sex ed
/k-l2 = 0 but in c we’re tops. xxxxx
/some blk principals look terrible
/i remember teaching esl to stu who seemed incapable of learning
/music center barf with fine arts contest for donna’s teaching. ma’s flowers, etc. hap had to rent a tux. said he’d never put his fam thru it again.
/which schs produce stus best for what , most mature, achievers, creative, etc.
/hi sch grad rate 72% l/90 us
/ny spends twice as much in pub schs as parachial schs do and gets less than l/2 the ed. buckley [so parochia sch could ed 4? times as many w/ same $.]
/probably learn more from tv bout wildlife than from sch. war too?
/farce of art class in jr hi. painting in grammar sch. finger paint, but did keep that ashtray.
/ir festival at santiago hi sch, gg: 663 62l5 see lte.
dk where to park. very dark parking lot. dk where festival was. lot of kids hanging out?
food booths out front poorly organized, lighting poor,
once inside: people in the way, lot of teens hanging out and in the way. dragon dance too loud, fashion? show too loud, couldn’t hear the tv videos. unclear what exhibits were about. people shouldn’t have been handling the animals.
the baseball team wearing their uniforms – I got impression they were looking for attention.
some unkempt students, with inappropriate behavior – no idea of hosting.
whole thing disorganized, and totally unsupervised.
taxpayers, students, teachers, and relatives deserved far better.
I’m glad I’m not a teacher or in any way part of the mess that is the public schools today. It sure wasn’t that way when I was young. ’57
hurt the floor? that form: if you take it, put it back, etc.
/could have had tales of escape, camp, etc. girl that yelled.
/jon leo us news 4/2/90
/sig: schs are de facto soc agencies. teachers expected to deal w/ wartime conditions: pov. discrim, crime, drugs, broken hms, child abuse.
[police are supposed to be swers, biz is]
/calif had a task force on self-esteem for $735k. idea of this as a pub policy issue. it’s the dom ed theory around the us
self-esteem stuff [theraputic massage, pos think & psychic boosterism. [est?]] is terrible idea.
[l] no research says it works.
beh is rarely changed by thus self-esteem stuff. it doesn’t raise grades, parental hoovering and fear of failure do.
[2] its hostile to learning and intellect, comp, achieve, success. after all if we’re all perfect, why strive. have to accept all kids as they are. don’t criticize, nor challenge which could end in failure. no hard work. keep dropping standards. vs
real self-esteem come when kid learns something and masters it. it is a BY-PRODUCT of real ed, not a sub for it.
how much this brings up donna, viets, crystal,
/teacher said no fail started few yrs ago [90 now]. since they can’t fail, they don’t try: no boks, pencils, paper, or hmwk. thus smug illiterates
/ed didn’t see my perception, creativity, or need for independ – weak?
/why rich and poor schs have diff $
/bi-lingual for 22 yrs. l53 langs. us. most controverial part of pub ed. only 4 of 7 passed con ed’s eng test and none were from bi . 78-22% of teach in la opposed. stopped here. w post wkly 4/30-/90
/sch’s a joke, yet stu not supposed to drop out xx
/pri schools succeed in inner cities all over the country – postrel
/sch $ based on prop taxes
/choice of schs in minn 5/90
/beat so africa to death and ignore tibet. criminal of media and shows how bad our ed is.
/rop wouldn’t do em – but couldn’t really ask em to, but why ask their loving students who need the real world.
/schs inc based on prop taxes – this is a political time bomb in texas
/never have stu teach other stu
/kentucky stopped rich folks from spending more on pub ed to make it more =. us news 6/25/90
/latin supposed to give you good basis … prefixes, suffixes, roots,
/conflict busters. self-esteem. ad nasium
/visual learning – pics in hist texts – gandhi, nap, voltair
/computers teach kids how to use em, but not applicable beyond that. t wolfe.
/took 2-3 yrs to dump bad teachers in la. couldn’t find replacements. jr hi children 7/90
/letter grades, numerical grades, letter grades
“how to play the game”,
/no wonder viets get ahead in sch – it’s so damn easy
/better schs 25 yrs ago in ca. us news 2/5/90
/us is among tingiest industrialized natoins in per stu ed spending as a % of per capita income = ? [vs % of gnp] . us news aug 6 ’90
/out of sch at l4 vs japan
/teach all before pregnant
/lot of ed programs failed. miserably
/why not a first aid class like this: real quick overview. then l/3 stu at their bks. l/3? victims, l/3 to aid them. victims tell symptoms. helpers guess at what to do and do it and are coached by stus with bk. then rotate.
/val of ed in what domingo and other do NOT knowroger hughes: ela = eng lang advocates wants for to learn esl, then study. lead = learning eng advocates d…..
why don’t mex teach their customs on sat.
/any other countries have bilingual ed
/why we fight – should have seen it in jr hi
/why not option of advanced classes w/ no recess
/brookings report on choice said best schs had least gov interference. parental involvement is sig. 9/90
/kids can’t make it in pub schs. – cept for asians and many whites. it’s a mystery. not so in pri schs
/always the northern arguement bout civil war. same with civil rights. chas powell, who grew up in so, said he was taught the war was over sts rights, industrial vs agraian, etc.
/had to rent tux for coleman’s deal
/learn more when kids teach ea other. pts for amount of improvement
/soc studies began in 30s to make hist more relevant. it mixed hist with psych, anthro, ethnic .. civics, +. in some schs, any of these qualifies as s.s.
title to improve education
/see how to teach hist.
/new republic says schs in nj are corrupt
/should be able to get full report on disk upon grad
/never told what to do when pulled over by the police – should have been a test. same w/ first aid. but did get some in scouts – which was more HANDS ON.
/only 32% of l7 yr olds knew when civil war took place
/w. germ sch yr is 2 mos longer than ours. koreans kids go to sch on sat. l0/90
/police scandals about every 20? years in many big cities Since young people in high school and college are not taught about nor required to gain experience in the real world, they are not prepared for the it.
/visual learning better for kids. experiencial learning also – scouts
/new rep l0/90 almost w/o exception increased funding has NOT improved ed. many sch dist in ny are corrupt. populism, inless it si dirercted at specific malefactors, has little appeal.
/we used to get scholastic mag which had ads. thus channel l is no biggie.
/we used to get scholastic mag which had ads. thus channel l is no biggie.
/at l6 in germ. you can get into l of 400 apprenticships. paid by gove and biz? 3 yrs. some gen ed. geared toward real world. thus competitive. kids like it. and stay on with same co.
/we never had a classroom decorated so much
/essays about how much people [and you] change from 2 yrs ago.
/ed’s lst resp = prep for wk, life, ….
/ex students
/alt cert of teachers. in nj? working well
/female impersonators, transvesites, transexuals, bi-sexuals, s-m, voyerism, the criminal mind, bikers, spec diseases, flics. what you should have learned from them. from rel scandals.
/the iron rd [rr] on the am exp. should have been in sch
/bilingual ed. has failed to mainstream stu. done opposite. premise that stu when taught lst in their lang develop self=esteem and pride in their cul. [f] but this segregates em, and slows their eng. practical results not measured. nr
/one teacher asked kids to sned lets to freinds asnd rel in all 50 stastes and posted them on a map
/interactive tv in class. kids don’t want to leave at bell and come back at noon.
/ed: never ending problems and never ending exotic solutions just developing.
/in sch, we never had any hyper active kids or learning disfunctions or dislexia
/cuomo said our kids go l80 days
/yr. foreign go 240. extending our yr gets parents and tourist industry worked up
/when i think of cor + I think why raise a kid w/o a computer
/art class in jr hi a waste. painting, and finger painting in elem – a waste. clarenet lessons, piano, release time chr ed.
/ed = how to listen. 2 way conv.
/good teachers and good stus need each other to function properly. [and good system ] both are resp for success in the classrm.
/ed preps stu for college when 80% will never grad from college. [that’s just how relevant they are]
stus don’t need ba for most avail jobs. biz don’t like having to give remedial wk.
/airheads jabber away so much you never get a chance to think.
/sch of last resort. de lasalle, kansas city. no bells – to kick em in the teeth. grades, clubs, exculsion. contracts. great progress. gum with mouth open. encouraged lots. caring. univ of misouri. tv ch 4. no sports. no honor roll.
/fights handled by peer mediators
/choice working
/ea hi sch in sa and gg has a cop on campus. kids took up a petition against graffiti. got 2k signatures, and it went down a lot. no? gang colors or insignia, graffiti allowed. cons sch bd members ousted libs over disc in ’75
/kids better off spending couple of hrs day in sweat shop
/aides should test, not teachers
/sig of visual learning: debates of nix
/ ken and reagan
/mondale
/how many of your former textbks would you rec to your kids !!!!
/6l% of teachers report poor to fair morale. ’90. ap
/72% of minorities favor choice, 62% of ams do. us news l/9l
/polly williams got law which gave $2500
/kid voucher for pri sch. L. and R liked it. sig
/hi sch stus can’t find china on map. bout l/2 of hi sch jr’s didn’t know 9 is 9% of l00. 95% couldn’t figure out a bus scheduale. am biz is said to spend as much teaching basics to grads as the hi schs spend. [incredible]
/to have stu get out in the real world and learn by doing would save tons of inefficient ed.
/people grow out of religion
/computers show a big truth about ed: what you don’t use, you forget -volkswriter, ldir, bul bds, parity error,
/phonetics [useless?]Like ed, it’s not the job of the mil to work on soc problems: illiteracy, patriotism, sub parent, quotas = to “distribute” the task among social classes and racial groups.
-biz wk 3/25/9l
/wish I’d had a computer since the 3rd grade – cable tv too
/visual learning = cops beating rodney king
/teacher said math best at promoting clear thinking
/gail: cdm kids – so rich they think they don’t need an ed. disc worse than 30 yrs ago. some fams care less.
/get you using a computer and THEN teach you how it works
/teachers dressing sloppy too
/pay seniors to work in the schools in littleton, col. 3/9l w/ some break on their property taxes
/memorization must be overated in ed
/average hs dropout today makes 20?% less than the one l5 yrs ago.
/ed: renassance, fun, magic, tutors, friendships, exciting, special, vols, bright, going places.
/bush and new lamar alex are for helping pri schs. sig. 4/9l
/5l% would send kids to pri sch if they could 89?
/what did i enjoy lst l2 yrs. eng? physics, hist? typing?
/what could I have have enjoyed if taught right: mech, sports?, out of doors, ethnic? travel, geo? lang?, field trips? scouts, hse repairs? car main- pomeroy’s Another time I taught lst grade. no discipline. If none in the lst grade, what would kids be like by high school?
/ cursing whole biz as it was like sw?
/ reducing all to lcd
send it to sowell I used the rest of my lunch hour to get away. Please do not return this. If you can’t use it, no need to reply.
/what if stu disobeys. no answer
/we have lowered ed goals for soc justice. sig jack anderson.
/ed must learn that biz principles of standards and accountability are equally valid in classrrom:. [don’t hold your breath]
/some teacher with l9 yrs exp. taken to crt for yelling at stu. hitting one w/brush. and putting soap on finger sucker. using baby talk in crt
/ibm’s and no bks – idea for some sch.
/never knew if wise to guess on tests – wrong subtracted from right
/finals isn’t like life
/why should a trade sch come AFTER hi sch
/ed should be ideal vs real
/how to find the sq root
/8% of dropouts, leave sch for their safety
/ed: some kids’ folks give them an edge? adavantage? by providing and working with them on: typer, tv, erasable bond?, dad’s sec, newspaper, watch news, docus, cable, ed vacations?, bilingual, scouts, vcr,
/pros and cons of encyl on cd rom vs as a set of bks
/can i remember any field trip from sch? to museum? out of doors? factory?
released time christian ed.
/r. morin [0] of w post 7/29-/9l. 90% of kids in us go to pub sch.
populist view: pri schs are elitist and somehow unam. 37% prefer pub as diversity, the real world. more sports in pub. most sour on pub ed, but upbeat on local sch. #l5% [of any high school] go to college for 2 yrs
/if teaching kids vals: litter, trash, grass, water, materials, paint, landscape,
/teen don’t believe adults cause they’re not brot in contact with reality. thus go to morque, e room, drunk tank,
/whomever can preen themselves forever on ed as it involves youth and ideals. wallow, repackage
/if robin hood law spreads mc and uc will send kids to priv. develop?
/seemed like about 8 countries have longer sch yrs. time mag at dr suns.
/ed’s noble goals vs crap across the st
/uniforms in russian schools.
/people say they move for better schools is probably way of saying they moving for better everything.
/sat: eng and math. what the hell is math about – didn’t help or affect me.
/privileged kids do better vs asian ims.
/newark spends more
/stu than nyc & has all kinds of blk admin.
/dr. sun – his gals trained on the job.
/so some say improve schs. others say bring in the ims !
/hmong [silent h]. 90k in us. [40k in fresno] 20k in wisconsin & had great difficulty coping. l/2 on wle, l/2 uib, but their kids are score usually 40% higher than wisconsin students. almost none drop out. about l00% grad from hi sch. hi % headed toward college or tech sch. send us more hmong. j. leo 9/l5/9l [missed pt: we should shape up]
/l99l verbal sat scores at all time low, and math scores declined for lst time in ll yrs. us news 9/9/9l 84$ of us 4 yr colelge use em for admission. they are supposed assess reasonsin skills, and unlke achievement tests, it is not linked to what schs teach. thus isn’t a report card on the schs. ty %^%&%& then they show [why] table which shows the higher the fam income, the higher the scores. it proves what I say. #
/stu in pri sch are less than l% of total p 35 vs ll% p 38 – invest.. vision aug
/sep 9l. decentralization & autonomy. lib brookings pushing it. pri schs have avoided public scrutiny. they’ve enjoyed UNparalleled freedom from gov reg. but dumb critics think this has kept them from making sig contributions. [how stupid] their independ is more sig to them than growth.
their kids are privileged but few. most privileged kids go to pub sch.
/they often say poor ims don’t get far in sch. of course, dummies, they’re at the bottom – that’s why they come here [cept for hmong].
/tracking
/we never saw teachers smoke, but did occasionally hear of smoke coming out of their lounge
/urban day in milwakee. choice. all black. pri. for ed, not integrate. pri teach make l/2 of pub. 60 min. ed union is anti. naacp too as not integration. done at l/3rd the cost. l0/9l kennedy is anti, but his kids go to pri. same with jessie jackson. pub schs pass kids with l.5 .
/cable for kids with clues that informercials are 0, soaps are .., no dirties, framework so he can pursue his int, thus showing them.
/ed as a priviledge, not a right? same with other????
/several decades into this cent, hi schs were expecte to seve only a tiny elite bound for college.
/pri sch doesn’t have to hire over ed, over qual teachers.
/tests & report cards should be more often and cumulative for kids and parents sake like that esl place on 42.
/life sci = bio why teach a stu to hate a subject? bk, prof, subject.
/you never hear of the success or relevancy of trade schs.
/why no sensible demos of disc.
/go for, ged’s,
/viets and ed is all the more reason for comp exams and sensible ed
/my periodic, cumulative way of testing would be much fairer to slow students. i could redesign ed with my eyes closed
/ohio has some of highest scores and lowest amounts spend for ed
/were there any good times in ed or c. thrills in library. physics, eng, hist.
/when stu choose their sch, they id more with that sch.
/pri sch. don’t have to handle bilingual, handicapped.
/most hi sch grads don’t go to college. of those who do, l/2 never finish. those who do are 25% of the hi sch grads. w post. oct 2l-/9l so why most schs geared toward college? w post ll/9l
/faith in pub schs is fading fast: drugs, violence, bur bloat, poor ed. “common” schooling reaches back to early l9th cent. 85% of folks polled by houston post thot this kids unsafe in pub schs. worst in cities. 90% stu sent to pub in 80s. but pri sch s up 30% and pub schs down by 3%. bush wants to redefine “pub” as “whether orged priv, pub, or rel, if it serves pub and is held accountable by pub provides pub ed. as same is true of c. choice was launched in early 80s. foundered. but since mid 80s plans have grown. fundamental questions – [all of em stupid.] us news l2/9/9l
/when it comes to education, you’ve never heard such righteous indignation [and hypocisy]. save the world. it’s a mess in the next city. libs won’t look at pri. the pub sch teachers’ union looks out for teachers lst. admins play games to hold on to jobs and build empires. pick on inner city. schs to be soc agencies, but take away all the tools – disc. all must progress together.
/exciting
/the difficulty of using a bk when learning a computer shows the need and lack of clear writing and how [such?] learning is more doing than studying. in other words the irrelevance of book learning? develop
/l/4 of the biggest schools use metal detectors. tv. 9l.
/ed alts. out of minneapolis. they run schs.
/ed reflect the cul, i say
/panel on ed. marva collins, etc. all so verbose. rh, j, emotion, tech, hog spotlight, soapbox, self-right. inflamatory. they always point to inner city kids. what does poverty have to do with the brain.
/what happened to double session. some schs were on that yrs ago.
/edn – how safe is my home? fam tree. motels too.
/program alto in ga. where they help flunkers enuff to catch up with peers as incentive. as one they fall behind peers, it crushes em. and 90% drop out.
/schs are not soc agencies, health clinics,
/silber: down on schs of ed.
/sch tests what a person has learned in sch, not what he’s learned from life.
/should teach idioms? and slang.
/go for, ged’s,
/amazing that we were not tested on things outside sch: the tube.
we did have something on current events – a special newspaper.
I feel sorry for some teachers who had us make “notebooks” on transportation or whatever. we had a little on using the library. term papers were terrible. and taught backwards. feel sorry for teachers who had us paint, use up lab materials?, that box in woodshop was good, but metal shop?, elec shop?, drafting? sad. didn’t learn bout weather????/ed – should teach pitfalls of youth, jim and tammy,
/not using pri schs is best way to hold all back. milwalkee
/why don’t cons show more int in dumb ed
/what did I get out of shop – a box. and summer course of making a radio.
/painting in 7th grade. sad
/read romeo and juliet in hi schtaught to speed read,
/folly of fluent speakers taking basic spanish in our hi sch.
/what’s problem solving?
/comics, docus, flics, games?, carmen?
/credit for knowledge of cars, home repairs, farming, r.e., biz
I couldn’t fit this in: We were prepared for college when probably only went, and, of those, half finished (according to present trends). So if it prepared us for college and half didn’t go, that half was not prepared for the outside world.
working for the government.
and be able to graduate early.
/sch shouldn’t be the only place you get an education.
/what about hm schooling by tv, sat. dish, etc.
/world hist = western civ.
/schs nor biz shouldn’t be soc agencies.
/teacher in a bad t shirt. l5% of urban teachers threatened. 3% attacked 92. tv. thus idealistic course for stu with singing, good will, etc.
/jackqueline adams on ch 2 [eve news?] 2/ll/92 saying for past 20 yrs the focus has been on keeping values out of the ed. sig sig sp.
social classes,
/not enough vocabulary,
/what DID we read? poetry? romeo and juliet, jayne eire?, no hardy boys or nancy drew. augustus? homer price. wizard of oz? k2. there was a series on daniel boone, davey crocket. uncle tom’s cabin. mark twain?
scarlet letter in hi sch or college. and what was great about it. moby dick – same. what was the 3rd great am. novel.
/what sch did NOT tap: comics, tv, radio, papers, teen problems,
/ed and c to lamar alexander, sec of ed. 2/92 Also we could have been given a list of what to read to educate ourselves upon graduating.
/physics was good but not applicable
/to sir with love showed what sw and ed should be.
/mc sch should have had kids out watching the truck grind up branches?
/probably all gays wished they had been told properly.
/0 in sch on how not to be a victim of a crime.
/academic decathelon modeled after sports at jr hi. in utah. the excitement of a contest is sig to kids. chance to be hero of sch.
92 former sec of ed terrance? bell pushing this. bill blakemore abc news. academic games commissioner.
/have to live thru to believe: pyramids, jim and tammy, jb, watergate, vw,
/l0% calif kids in pri schs. la
/inventors should be bigger part of ed
/why teach span kids eng. teach em in span if you have to teach em and save $. bilingual teachers get paid more.
/ty report on ed – long into, saying nothing, posturing, turn channel.
/did any field trips in sch do anything for us?/study guide for roots. grades 7-l2.
/no mw would bring the young + into contact with reality quicker – best ed.
/almost l mil stu in nyc. ll0k are cath. [vs pri?] pub sch grad 38% of their stu. cath schs grad 99%. with higher stu/teach ration. pub: $7l00/stu/yr. cath sch $l700. pub salary $39k pub $23 pri [vs cath]. thus almost 99% success at 20% of the cost.
/afraid choice would stir up favoritism, equity, ethnic diversity. 92/soon as eds get tenure, they sluff off. dj via eds-one with narco lepsy couldn’t be fired.
/biz blames schs. [hi tech jobs vs serv jobs]. us will NOT need hugh numbers of highly skilled workers. but mng says this to cover up THEIR failures. also it keeps gov out. now blows it. some say ed kids and we’ll develop better jobs, when evidence shows that demand for high skills will create the supply.
- post 4/6/92 #
/not enough tutoring of stu to stu, older to young. to spot talent for teaching.
/civics = ?
/ed. skip all theory. start at other end of good schs. THEN their techniques.
/teachers never let us see them smoke.
/if we’d only maintained & fixed washers, mowers, cars, tv’s, vcr’s, /viets kids liked to hear their tape as it was them and their learning songs and bits. good for reinforcing learning and their fun, etc.
/classes should be so fascinating, no disc nec. and stu will do hmwk etc. till they drop. if no stu has no obligation to try.
/w.j. bennet taught in l00 schs and learned the teacher is the critical factor.
/i remember a lot of spelling tests
/thurow: we were l00 yrs ahead of rest of world in mass compulsory ed. rest started after wwii. now we keep up thru 6th and then blow it thru l2, then excell in college.
/kids here placed according to age, not ability. said vo?. sig
/sch was better in my day, but not because we had sch prayer.
/why is prom night such a problem.
/vouchers vs? choice
/a compost drive – like a paper drive. garbage drive
/what color is your parachute should be part of curriculum
/if ba in soc sci, i should know val of civics.
/title: How “education” misses the real world.
/the study of latin.
/hi sch: could have learned to fix power mowers, washing machines, sprinklers. making homes energy efficient. compost.
/functionally illiterate get into comm colleges. said mensa
/schs used to send old desks, bks old globes, broken memeograph machines and antique typewriters to africa, to missionaries in so am.. now they’re going to miss. and received as a godsend. w post. 7/20- 92
/schs in gary ind. used to send old desks, bks old globes, broken memeograph machines and antique typewriters to africa, to missionaries in so am.. now they’re going to miss. and received as a godsend. w post. 7/20- 92
/judy jefferies: no values permitted in sch. no disc. feared some 5-6th graders.
/lopsided ed.
/free choice of schs raises questions of favoritism, equity, ethnic diversity. la 92
/teachers have low status. tv 92
/I don’t think we ever had first aid in sch – even college- only boy scouts, lifesaving swim course – jr lifeguards. also as reg lifeguard.
/nat testing must be the wrong approach.
/working on car shows the val of EXPERIENCE. should do this w/bk wk and find the errors in the bk.
/interships at pep boys, hm depot. – not the mark of scholarship.
/l0% of kids, k-l2, go to pri or parochial schs. l/2 of later are catholic.
/parochial = church, religious,
/other countries give folks $ to send kids to any sch. la 9/92
/l5 yr old viets come here with lst or 2nd grade ed, but must enter grade according to his age. la
/terrible thinking in ed
/uniforms in la habra pub schs 9/92 for less gang and peer pressure for $ clothes.
/functionally illiterate = can’t read a newspaper article, can’t read an instruction manual, [can’t fill out app?]
/and ed is 3 r’s, vocab, obj, being able to think, speak, act? a certain way?
/ g. will on cal 92: ed lobbys sense of limitless entitlement. they used kids in their campaign.
/carnegie: choice not as good or bad as thot. 2% use it, mostly for non- academic reasons, vs 70% favor? em or would use em?????? tv l0/92
/sch choice in nyc and l3 states. 92 critics say its racist. j. kozal is one.
/nyc spends l/2 of what rich suburbs spend [vs cath schs which do better job]
We could look to Japan whose students graduate from high school with three more years of schooling than ours.
/schs i in trying to be all things to all people – soc agencies, etc.
/hi sch dip = 0 said kearns of zerox
/as pub becomes more aware of how many stu are il, support for pub ed may decline. atlantic.
/illiteracy rate affected by ims. ims costs as adult ed nec.
/fried: we have choice and private sector in higher ed – far more than in elem and 2nd. we have best colleges in world and some of the worst? elem and 2nd. 92
/p.e. and shop were tangible and concrete as was soc life? other courses should be. the opposite sex? manners,
/choice for asians !!!!!/some schs banning gang attire. 7/92 basevall caps, raiders jackets, colelge sports shrits, bandannas, monogrammed belt buckels, tank-style undershirts, dropped suspenders, net shrits. biker wallets, mil type boots.
/sat scores are far below past gen. 8/92/industrial arts
/they want to put jd on schs. and dumb sch types will take it.
/sch on tv ran biz’s and had stu’s work there for credit. l2?/92/do our kids have more holidays IN the sch yr
/how many kids are wasting time in sch? how much of their time is wasted? which schs are the most efficient in terms of …. spoon fam.
/tradval and impractical ed should be clashing somewhere.
/nea is more powerful than coal miners. bennet
/experience drills lessons into you.
/no cafeteria at my grammar sch. nurse?
/i wonder if the less ed you have the worse your thinking – bernie.
/heritage said pub schs are failing 96% of stu. vast majority of parents favor sch choice and options.
/majority of pub sch teachers in chi send kids to pri schs. sig. 92 said heritage.
/56% of the pub sch teachers of chi send their kids to pri schs. 93
- bennet.
/what happened to schs being paid on basis of performorance. = real world.
/wc – look at the $ the ed system lost on tim butler and steve monteque,
/could amish be better off with an 8th grade ed.
/should be list of what books for trades, cr, c, sw, ALL fields. parenting,
/ed courses so bad, they scare off the good students.
/sow: lot more cheating in schs now. nea = 0. ed is permissive.
/la habra sch had safeties? we had em in gram sch and jr hi. did they disappear.
/choice is vouchers, open enrollment, tuition tax credit,
/shopping, budgeting, cooking, cutting hair, grooming, home repairs, car maintenance, 4-H, driver’s ed, character !, gardening.
maturity re: religious pitfalls.
/emergencies= first aid, flat tires, car breakdowns, quakes
/need to make hi sch dip and ba meaningful.
/we read great expectations. so what.
/apprenticeships without pay
Uniforms in La Habra Schools and in Baltimore grammar schs. they defuse classes. They promote idea of work clothes vs play clothes.
/30% drop out of hi sch. thurow.
/utah has highest literacy rate 94%. as they val ed.
, graphs,
/credit for merit badges
/2nd grade level reading for ma with hi sch dip.
/mark shapiro back around 25th? reunion, 82, said he saw how unprepared each frosh class was. and it got worse every yr. they’d shape up once they understood.
/part of ed should be realizing what you can and cannot do.
/nothing I’ve ever seen gauged the parents resp in ed, pov?
Find out why private schools are more effective than public schools.
/ed follows trade – peter the great
/teachers are people who never say anything once. g. will
/ged cert
/ed, c sent to bergeson
/int friendship cr for stu 800 760 0905?
/the more i work on sch2, the bigger the arguement for pri. sig
/our kids can NOT get an ed in our schs, yet asian-am kids do with limited eng. fix
/nader says we should have been taught how to shop in sch.
/competition is the real world, why not in ed
/2 in ed agreed with sp. 4/93
/la grads only 60% of hi stus. chi grads 49%. 93
/hmwk is obsolete, tardiness is the rule.
none follow rules.
/edn – you are not perfect re sex, temp, power,
/problem-solving
/teacher said she could only teach 20-30% of the time. 93
/blk studies teaching blk kids that white am in their enemy. 93
/choice in des moines. thus white flight = $ flight.
/traffic sch: what do you do here, there. what are chances of … practical.
/shue program: seniors tutoring kids after sch. teachers see the diff.
/can male teachers wear earings?
/teachers are leaving the pro in record numbers. la 93
/spending for k-l2 doubled in 80s as test scores fell. am spends more for ed than any country. $6k/yr in la. 93
part of reason ed anti val is sep of church and st.
/cath schs spend about a 3rd the $ pub sch do in us. [so why wouldn’t we save on vouchers]
/graduation announcements = 0. class ring too.
/even kindergardners “graduate”
/we grad w/o skills. germs grad with em.
/iq tests are in bad odor. w post 93. steven j gould doesn’t like em.
/crossing guards should have recorders.
/a pub sch teach averages $500/yr of own $ spent on materials for stus. harpers 93
/ed, c sent to heather layton. stu on st bd of ed
/la crosse, wi. bussing across income classes. the lower income ones had more soc and emotional so harder to teach [and visa versa]. thus not race but class. tv 93
/ in ’90 sa had nation’s highest hi sch drop out rate 36% and irv had lowest 2%. pri and parochial schs in sa avoid violence and bilingual ed. – mater dei for one. r 9/92
/david kearns – dep sec of ed. [zerox guy]
/apprenticeship programs in hi sch in oregon. j. eugene. sheldon hi sch. 93
/we couldn’t wear our pants low in sch. nor taps.
/special schs in so. car. pay someone to prep stu for jobs that exist. tv 93. thus attracting many foreign cos. spartanburg. the schs cost lots but bring in tons biz.
/sent jim shaffer tradval2, job, c, sch, sub
/ftree would be worthy project for sch/schs should have beh codes. teachers should not be accused of brainwashing when insisting on decendy, honesty, fairness.
/sow: parental auth is undermined and discredited. educrats. ed grp is mendacious in its self-rep.. to the pub.
/teacher attire and grooming
/Less int in supporting schs with prop taxes [considered redistrition]. mich revoked this. which brot [?] inequities.
(church schs see pub schs as relativists.)
/schs real slow on dress codes. 93 ag
/lower test scores – nat. 93 la
brot our lunch to elem sch.
/more hi schs having wk study programs 93
/hollywood hi: 57 langs. stu in undershirt. teach in blue jeans, dung.. shirt, short sleeved. hanging out. hair. kids in bermudas. 2 cops at sch. metal detector?/fee. 89 pub schs crowd out pri ones. sig sig. 286 july 89.
/hist should be taught as how it applies to the present./recycling, reproduction, and retaliation.
/need to bring people in contact with reality as soon as possible.
/60% grad from hi sch on time in no. car. in minn 90%. 93
/get bad grade in hi sch and can retake the test couple of days later, said for stu on tv 8/93.
/83% of grads of cath hi schs go to college vs 52% of grads of pub schs. prost… folks send kids there for vals. tv 93
/ed vs cs
/computers show that you learn by doing. bks=o. so they have to call it a computer “lab”.
/right to your feelings. where did you ever read that?
/ethnic workshop at oak glen sponsored by nat .. of christians and jews. why not teach it in sch.
/credit for summer camp? merit badges.
/only or biggest? diff twix pri and pub ed is the folks int. sig. tv.
/schools paid out in damages as they didn’t take care of sexual harassment. 93
/why don’t schools have a compost drive
/can use calculator now when taking sat. 93
/reform bs by honig etc. = 0
/teacher union dues come originally from taxpayers.
/critics say pri schs will deprive stu of a communal exp, but most pub schs contain only one segment of a multitiered soc and many do a poor job of transmitting any common cul heritage. un news. l0/93
/trade sch where you learn it vs apprenticeships where you do it./ed keeps saying, oh, we’re reforming, just give us time.
/since prop l3, $ for ed has dropped from near the top to 4lst in nation. la 93/i say help only the talented poor kids [ed].
/m.v. hi sch gal said stu shouldn’t wear gang clothing.
/hi sch students were asked what kind of school they’d pick. I thot, what kind of sch would I pick. answer: international, practical, dealing with real world, one that got you work experience, co-ed, class, intellectual, fun, creative, sophisticated./report on am ed. by alec. impractical but: no direct correlation twix spending and performance. sm schs do better. l0 best sts: io, nd, sd, mn, ne, wis, idaho, utah, wy, kn.
/in 9l: of ll nations [which] us hi sch? stu last in math and next to last in sci
/what trad voc ed [pub or pri] teaches and what cos want has been 2 diff things. 70% never work in field of their training. us news ll/1/93
/[lib?] critics worry that voc-ed stus take easy academic classes. [of course dummy, they’re wc] us news 93/a great deal of valuable TIME is wasted in school/at schs I would have the computer room open at lunch and after sch to see what they did. no games tho.
/never taught manners in sch.
/jo ellen on ed: skills down and grades up. come to own vals. /backpacks to sch. drag? not in our day.
/kids with back packs at greater danger for molesters.
/no lockers = incredibly stupid.
/what are math skills. did I ever need any
/robin hood law re schs and prop tax. bussing, scholarships.
sol depends on all the diff ways all services are funded. vs non parents. equal op vs cut off points for those mot., deserving. also class [trades].
/educators never use the real world as that would show how stupid and irrelevant they are. sig.
/fast food in schs: less healthy, more $$. done partly to keep em on campus.
/safeties in jr hi. similar in sr hi.
/youth should be working on vacuums, washers, dryers, mowers, vcr’s, cars,
/germ stu grad with 3 lang.
/child endangerment, manslaughter, etc.
/shopping, budgeting, cooking, cutting hair, grooming, home repairs, car maintenance, 4-H, driver’s ed, character !, gardening, insurance.
maturity re: religious pitfalls.
/emergencies = flat tires, car breakdowns, quakes
/all could have been easier to teach and learn with graphs
/if you’re in after sch sports, you shouldn’t have to take p.e. military life,
/ged cert How Useful Was a High School?
/why educate without instilling character.
/i think this piece is brilliant. of ed
/reading, writing, and retaliation. in sch and admin denies it.
/what would make more sense than to have kids work on bikes, mowers, dryers, washers, hot water heaters, furnaces, a/c, cars.
/why doesn’t sch teach the idiotcy of riots, devil’s night, representing your race.
/kids should learn how to shop [gar sales, thrift shops] for THEIR clothes and $, and maintain appliances,
/glad for sep of church and st in ed.
/pedofile teachers moved from sch to sch. like priests.
/shabby teachers and princs on tv. one said lot of kids turned up missing long after the quake.
/ed for minorities and the less advantaged should be all the MORE practical. sig
/3? of every 4 stu in us sep by tracking. dj said wc stu given far more support in eur, jap./why did tj dislike webb sch.
/good teachers: lund, engman, coleman, warren beck.
/how many texts do stu keep?
/all thru sch, my summer or temp jobs had nothing to do with what I was studying and visa versa./al shanker dumping on full inclusion of disabled into reg classrooms, when they need spec teachers. like mi’s out of insts. [for same reason?] for socialization. but that is only one reason. and schs are for many reasons. advocates say sep but equal parallel. as blks have same abilities. spec ed must be judged on what it produces, not on our wishes for inclusion, which [disregards results] [lcd] new republic? 94/stus are given deadly dull materials.
/pursuit of egalitarianism leads to mediocrity.
/suzie didn’t want to hear about teaching to the middle of the class./no one asks pri schs how they do it.
/should be able to self-ed yourself and take oral and written test to see what level you’re at. – like with spanish./neigh sch vs gifted schs.
/grading on the curve. what crap./i HATE educationalese = roundabout way of saying the obvious/practical ed: study what they live !!!/little or nothing on ethnic rel in sch
/bal music during hi sch? lunch hr. for ethnic rel.
/never study ethnic schs.
/am leads at the top with tracking and the bottom, in drop outs.
tv 94
/sch almost has an int in keeping stus away from the real world.
ag
/ford has to teach 3 r’s to new workers with hi sch dips. 4/94 didn’t use to have to. costs em a lot.
/so much silliness in ed
/80% jobs won’t need ba. 94 hi sch is set up for c./am hi sch kids spend half the time on academic subjects as do germ, franc, jap. us news 5/l6/94/40 min classes done away with. some now 80 min. sch open till 8 pm
/lot of former criminals driving sch buses. crusaders 5/94. shirt out, teeth missing. one molested disabled kids. all pass buck. music in background.
/nat geo bee. 94
/spelling bee is an exercise in irrelevance.
/dropping curve in sat tests. 94 tv.
when boys leave eton at l7? they have a college ed. /clarence thomas. [anti] new math /my whole philosophy on education is based on its being removed from reality. thus students from the start should have far more responsibility. be exposed to the real world at a level appropriate to their age level – meaning increasing levels of chores and responsibility in maintaining the home, school, and in the community
/credit for summer camp?
/why don’t schools have a compost drive !!!!!
(When in Rome, Steve’s Latin didn’t do him much good.)/tel law should be part of ed./some female teachers shouldn’t wear pants at sch.
/remember dreading report cards? a kid should know of is progress weekly or monthly. it shouldn’t cause the admin much trouble to track it.
a teacher is good when the kids love her. [pop]./uncle tom’s cabin/val of job training doubted. al 94
/nothing is sch ever clued me into lc and eviction – cheri/murray’s co author said there’s nothing the bottom can do to repay the cost of their ed. lst thot bout cost I’ve seen./bilingual ed hasn’t worked. j. leo. 94
/sig wc stus probably drop out of academic schools more than trade schools./thurston middle sch in laguna has a mh clinic. 94/why so many books on tape, but none for credit.
eton: boys must be enrolled between ages of 3 and l2 mos. so their ma’s have to time their births. when boys leave at l7?, they have a college education.
/you wonder how much ed was wasted on cheri, steve3, etc./I don’t feel like a better person because I’ve seen zoos or circuses. rodeos. aquariums. averies.
/why is the end of hi sch such a transition. [because it’s been artificially postponed?]
/i wouldn’t have missed football.
/stus need teachers from the real world.
/think of all the time wasted in school when we could have been learning how to maintian and fix homes, cars, mowers, appliances, broken down women/reading scores have gone down every yr since the start of tv.
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/Sunny Hills hi sch in fullerton has an excellent reputation. people in asia know about it. it offers five levels of korean. no discipline problems so teachers can teach more. teachers work to stay ahead of students who read books in advance, do more work than required on projects, and turn in homework on time. students rarely skip class. extremely high motivation. students are confident and they think ahead. no dropouts. 75% accepted at 4 yr colleges. 48% are asian; 39% are white. immaculate campus with flowers. one teacher said students would have trampled the flowers at her previous sch. 94 la. 0 on the net about it.
/Gretchen Whitney High School in Cerritos is better. See ed4
/if ethnic tensions in sch, then sch thinks you need a COURSE./wc class KEPT from trades by c oriented hi sch.
/irv has lowest drop out rate 2% in us; sa has highest 36%. l0/92./schs having to compete for kids in la. !!!! la tv. 94./calif has l00 charter schs. 95 [= more choice?]
/if you played after sch sports, you sure didn’t need p.e.
leading to marketable skills./studying music at sch = joke./some of these asian kids are so much more clean cut, well mannered, etc. than ours. too bad these local schools don’t do em justice. 95/kids should be ed enuff to be able to break out of rel. a dershowitz. hassidim were totalitarian with their kids.
/kids should be ed enuff to be able to break out of rel. a dershowitz. hassidim were totalitarian with their kids.
/teach but don’t touch. to avoid lawsuit. 3/95
/fundraising for warner./guy back east had manual on how to st a pri sch
/sch lunch vs pri schs.
/trawick said bd of control was one of the few worthwhile parts of the job.
/don’t you sometimes wish you’d worked in a library or a bookstore? also a lawnmower shop, auto repair shop, nursery [for fags], wood shop, real estate office, small appliance repair shop, computer store, pet store./in 50s 2/3 or $ was spent in the classrooms. now it’s less than half due to bloated burs. 95
/tj’s pa had him take another sem or so of typing./63% of am hi sch stus think gov should own the banks, rr’sd, stee cos. optimist
/shop as after sch or vocational?/my ideas would put more resp on the folks and reward them for their wisdom./rewarded for knowledge of computers, mowers, cars, hsekeeping, work habits./schs hold kids bac. ag mgm’s and slows could move at own speed./ed is a privlege, not a right.
/truancy vs red eye sch for ims late at night. weak./gifted stus have over l30 iq. but varies from st to st. distorted in so. for segregation. gifted don’t like boredom.
those with less, but other skills can do well enuff in gifted classes.
/adjust curriculum every day for every stu. tv to make it fair for all. flaw: the most int classes are for the gifted.
/charter sch is a pub sch run by parents, not bur. exists in l4-l7 states. 95.
/ibm’s show diff twix theory and practice. not till you use em: sort, search, spell, word count, thesaurus, dict. vs scanner.
/Helena said r.e. was the same – sch was zip compared to practice./I wonder if there is a college or any kind of school that guides and PLACES students as it teaches them. and if they get credit./why were fluent spanish speakers in our span class in willard or sahs?/k-l2 sch is too egalitarian. ag./see MARVA/i’d say marva collins stus got values there./send ed, c to marva/to sir with love – class, disc,/what’s an ed without character, career clinic.
/up the down staircase. to sir with love/eng schs are strict. ukraninan too.
/i can’t believe schs do NOT have lockers. disgraceful.
/impracticality of writing term papers in hi sch. to learn how to use the library. footnotes. /mixed fast and slow learners/ww: marva collins sch tuition is half of pub sch. marcus garvey sch, slauson bl in la is good one in bad area. /ww: parent can’t get his l7 yr olds grades without kid signing release.
/vs boy scouts./why is everything new in ed?/i remember sometimes not liking hi sch and wanting much to go to c.
/kids shouldn’t have to be bored more than nec in sch etc.
/she taught not by explaining but by doing: hands on, practical exp. ir fair at gg sch. /tradval to combat jd. why ed a jd/plastic sister in law made better impression last night. can’t tell she’s 5l. but she gets off on her job – teaching, and it’s joan of arc, saving the world. too many educators are like that./org got lst charter sch. 95
/jason kim, 24 yr old sec guard. must be no ed. as comm is poor. grew up here./kids go to computers on lunch hr. said prin of pri sch./where in world do stu get the most practical ed? sig?
/$l2k/yr on kids in newark and only 7% grad hi sch. 95
/kondrake said states have blown it in ed. barnes said libs too. 95
/how many of your texts would you keep or rec.
/why do pub schs like sunny hills do well?
/trade schs vs other schs.
/school tries EVERY stupid idea: open classroom, new math, pass/fail, no grading, dual admissions, multiculturalism, free /a college that followed my guidelines could grant a quicker and more practical degree/if our book’d had more graphs in c, we would have learned lot more and kept bks./how teachers’ unions are wrecking our schs. us news 2/96
/viet man at sch deal said viet kids lucky to go to sch.
/no baby talk. ed
/il’s force test scores down in calif./teachers and stu should dress better to show ea other and sch more respect./those that can do, those that can’t teach./sch should prep for real world. THEREFORE: tradvals, etc./teach ethics re past present future – peers, serpico, drs, wall st., law. rel?/schs reflect the cul.
/sch vs lst jobs.
/only in ed are the admin do dumb they’d create a sys in which a kid would have to repeat a whole yr.
/fee: sch cafeteria vs fast food vs bring it
/a hi sch grad in jap has gone to sch as many hrs as a col grad here.
/nat geo bee.
/if foreigners are better in math, hire em.
/do pri schs have quotas as much as pub
/empire building in ed, rel, ?
/the idea of what PRACTICAL things kids can use computers for fascinates me. lst of all i’d have the screen close to the keybd so they don’t have to keep looking up and down. 2nd i’d have one open during lunch hour and SEE what they prefer./sw [& ed] should probably teach em 2 worlds like that l5 yr old’s column in la. like morris at u. settlement.
/ed has to join the real world.
/i hate MTV, but they had a discussion on masterbation. all of a sudden i realized it was the lsttttttttttttttttttttttttt discussion i’d EVER heard of the subject.
and drove home. (There was a teacher to take my place.) I cursing the school system (but grateful I didn’t need it). /sports sig as class is not/we got all those lectures on paying atten in sch, when if more relevant …./gary thinks rel pri sch taught his kids how to learn.
/milwakee and cleveland – only 2 voucher programs in us l0/96
/lot more sexual harrassement at sch 96. grabbing, profanity, etc.
/sch should be like a good trade sch, which should be like this: you study a little, then do, then study, do, study, do, on and on in a way that makes you see how vital good books are, how doing is more sig. course sch should be in comp with others and thus have to find the best books/last thing in recs for ed and c are academics.
/basic law should be part of ed, c.
/it’s baby sitting/if kids worked some, it could make ed more relevant?
/cath sch beating pants off pub schs in chi, ch 7 l?/97 paul valis is hd of schs
/devry gives a ba?
/in school, everything statement is not followed by ‘ok?’./jr c does what should have been done k-l2 tv.
/how much more to teen boys learn bout life from sports than from academics.
/guys who traded rims didn’t know how to figure mpg.
/ga should be taught in sch/part of ed is exercise in ego of faculty/studying latin/trawick said working with bd of control was one of the few good parts of the job/credit for: vac, dises, mow, sew, type, garden, -manners/sully became arch the best way in my mind. refreshing.
/should teach ga/perspective on religion/perspective on religion, mh, soc, lib, passages/coleman report found out what affects kids most in sch is the fam. said monihan? it was rejected.
/schs eliminate lockers for security. tv 97. more backpacs for kids. i thot lockers at sahs were great. jr hi’s, even grammar schs should have em. do c’s have em?
/demerits in hi sch
/how much of ed is wasted on w.c. linda, mingo/mad comics/s jacobs went to lowel hi sch with the tops in sf, but top fams send kids to pri schs now. 98/on the job training as there is so much change. thus how long out of which jobs makes one way behind. sig?/trad vals lst – do they include phy and mh/rev concept in ill where stu who don’t do well, fail. tv? 97
/teachers dress grubby
/article long ago said stop building palaces for our kids.
/what really ticks me off is no lockers on some schools. so kids have to carry heavy backpacks from class to class. really, if there is a dumb idea, the schools will use it. they do EVerything except prepare students for the real world./i don’t remember any bullies in sch. nor serious name calling/kids ahead of teachers in ibm.
/ed can’t keep up with what kids know bout puters.
/not a word about mr’s, gays, gypsies, aged,
/read miserable masochistic essay by teacher. [was i the same at geo sch?] thus recs are obvious recs: no idealism, thus group stus according to ability, mot, etc. fix resp [folks], my 5 recs [practical], get em into real world, ed is not cure all, start teachers with practice teaching. not all things to all people – need practical limits/i – thus stop trying to save the world/teacher bored kids till he taught em biz. then succeeded. tv [more sig for poor – to sir with love] /blacks want vouchers, blk leaders don’t as they have more clout if gov runs it. 98 fried.
/if in jr hi i’d had chance to clean old engines, lawnmower or whatever. folks missed that? bikes.
/la has uniformed cops at jr hi and hi schs. 5/98
/fred barnes: sex ed didn’t work, nor drivers ed, …
/ed studies wrong results; should study from end of jobs, life.
/ed is a morality play
/mh aspect more sig now after sch shooting in col./8 yr old in visual arts.
/schs never allowed jerry springer type conduct: raising voice, constant interruption, dom.., in your face, disrespect, incivility, sass, threats, out of chair, /need cams in sch buses AND classrooms/if kids worked some, less horror of child labor/prep for real world. THEREFORE: tradvals, etc.
/job counseling – a better term?
/preped for c when only half go etc. thus trades.
/no one should grad without a resume.
/ed could be more efficient, practical, useful/sch should prep for real world. THEREFORE: tradvals, etc.
/is there anything sch is not?/credit for mil/should know of freaks, handicapped, /ed is always reforming itself, new this, back to basics, new that, back to basics.
/saw a wonderful asian girl go by front. So clean. 4th? Grade with hefty backpack. Don’t even want to think weight, lockers, etc.
/sch teaches kids that schs are screwed up.
/due to bias, you don’t hear much about what biz needs from schs, ag
/should learn how to op and fix appliances !!!
http://howtotutor.com/guffy.htm
/sent to grant Hamilton
/once trawick said working with bd of c was one of the few good parts. Once henry? Grogan said trawick was the only one worth a toot.
./my mother was a teacher, my sis in law and phil’s wife and you had to think they were saints, and that teaching was the highest calling
having a loud drum corps outside,
on college level: pass/fail, ccny, open admissions, diversity, pluralism, p.c. multiculturalism, peace studies, tracking?,
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Only in the world of public education could they come up with the absurdity of having no lockers in many schools for the past 30 years. Add that to their list of farces: open classroom, new math, no dress codes, no real discipline, feel good courses, social promotion, graduating functional illiterates,
/bobby medley rooker said in s.a. sch dist, some city allowed tons of yuppie apts to be built, mex overcrowded em and now 56k stu with no place to build schs.
/in pub pri sch debate I rarely heard of mater dei. I can only guess where it is.
/schools reflect the attitudes, beliefs, and health of the communities they serve
/useful info, useless info, wrong? info, missing info.
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/judy j at montesori then lst grade at taft in org. for ll yrs. feels pub offers more, but
/should teach the fallacies of rel… c too should.
//8 years before the case which desegregated the schools for blacks in ’54, there was a case in the town next to mine which desegregated the schools for Mexicans. Earl warren and thurgood marshall were in both cases. I went clear thru school and college here and never heard of it. What does that say about our schools? Make an lte. Recently learned this on tv
/free ed: probably started off as 3 r’s, mcguffy …, later health, trans, sports, lunch, bkfst, after sch, counseling,
& can’t disc, dress code, music, art, clubs, drama, nature study,
vs scouts, shop
/people learn eng their own way – mingo imitates, hates lessons. Rp gets by with charm.
/all the ims that come here and sacrifice so their kids can get an ed. could be getting a far better one.
/trying to write term papers in hi sch – miserable: ft notes, ip sic,
/didn’t I read that only half of hi sch grads want to go to c and of those only half finish?
/Orlando perez taught in l.a. said hopeless. I think he was talking bout blks.
/wc more eager to leave sch at l4 when it’s boring or irrelevant.
/silliness re diversity. Should start with pre sch. Then preserving the integrity of the neigh sch [which reflects the fams], bussing was biggest joke ever. some tutor and sum sch for disadvantaged, trade schs, ll+? And by merit and scholarship to prep schs, c, grad, etc. prep em for real world by telling em bout diversity. It’s only a foolish c concept.
/ed of jardin taught in la. Kids bussed in, no int in physics, just in putting their hands on girls rears.
/It’s sad to see young people trudging to school with heavy backpacks because incompetent educators removed the lockers. safety matter too. It’s infuriating to see students being able to go to school dressed sloppily and being taught by teachers who don’t dress up.
/must have bored Marvalee, mark Shapiro + to death.
/psych l0l. what were the previous l00 like?
/diversity vs pol correct. no reality like crouching below parked cars, sleeping below window sills, cop driving fast thru neighs, danger for undercover cops
/mrs. Scot used to take us around collecting papers.
/disgraceful that folks have to move to get their kids in the better schools.
/notes from home show low level of ed of folks. [albeque] sig?
/athletes are born and made.
/not a word about consumer reports.
/tj’s dad probably was wise to have him take an extra yr of typing.
/since not graduated with a marketable skill, the burst of the bubble is even bigger, and more need for some to go into the mil. Disgrace.
/think of teachers who’ve sacrificed to get thru sch and taken abuse. They threw rocks at me.
/writing with a dull pencil just reminded me of all the hard times in school, trying to darn hard to do all the assignments, get ahead, mistakes,
/who was tired of sch by l4 cept for football, girls, fun – steve brooks?, mounce?
/looks like you could daily teach right from the nyt site! – they have lesson plans
/course in logic
/had to be raining on kids’ back packs at sch
students for security safeties? Some selected group of able guys who go to certain location when bell rings, with c-phones? To assist sec guard. Later part of stu crt.
False Data on Student Performance
Many states are cooking the books on high school graduation rates to provide overly optimistic appraisals of their schools. 6/05
/always trying to get kids to read crap. Why not give em harry potter. Why not agustus, homer price, wiz of oz, comic books.
/each dept is sure the country needs their subject: hist, sci, math, p.e., eng, art, lit,
/search textbook lobby
Many Going to College Aren’t Ready, Report Finds
By TAMAR LEWIN 8/05
Only about half of this year’s high school graduates have the reading skills they need to succeed in college, a study has concluded.
Left Behind, Way Behind
By BOB HERBERT
Millions of American kids are not even making it through high school in an era in which a college degree is becoming a prerequisite for achieving a middle-class lifestyle.
/teaching must offer many security – spec moms
/something wrong bout taking singing in hi sch?
Eating for Credit
By ALICE WATERS
Schools should not just serve food; they should teach it in an interactive, hands-on way, as an academic subject. 2/06
Schools Avoid Class Ranking, Vexing Colleges
By ALAN FINDER 3/06
Many high schools have stopped providing class ranking information to colleges, fearing it could harm students’ admission chances.
/jane fonda went to http://www.emmawillard.org/index.php in troy, ny
Reining in Charter Schools
With thousands of charter schools up and running in about 40 states, the problem has turned out to be too little state oversight, not too much. 5/9/06 nyt
/remember how in jr hi etc, it was whether or not we liked the teacher.
War of the Worlds
By CHARLES PASSY
The National Geography Bee is more relevant than the National Spelling Bee.
Definition, D-E-F-I-N-I-T-I-O-N, Definition
By EMILY STAGG 5/06
Can we change the spelling bee to make it more useful for teaching real-world skills to some of the nation’s brightest students?
Wrong Answer for Dropouts
There is no virtue attached to encouraging unprepared young people to tackle education programs that they have little chance of finishing. 6/06 nyt
Sniffing Out Fake ‘Prep Schools’
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has been slow to deal with the problem of bogus “prep schools” that have been used for years to launder athletes’ transcripts.
/ The Deficit Reduction Act? What Deficit Reduction Act?
By DOROTHY SAMUELS
Could it really be that everything I learned back in junior high school about the basic workings of American government was wrong?
/termpapers in hi sch were impossible.
/Exploding the Charter School Myth
Congress needs to grasp the obvious: the quality of the teacher corps is more crucial to school reform than anything else.
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/sep but equal doesn’t prep em for the real world. but lst neigh sch, then a marketable skill, then their primary interests? Charter, magnet, classes, talent,
/do any schs have lockers for kids? Wow
/whatever happened to sch bussing?
Home Schoolers Content to Take Children’s Lead
By SUSAN SAULNY
Some parents are opting to “unschool” their children, perhaps the most extreme application of home-schooling.
/ag: the way the kids dress?? How bout the teachers?
/can’t keep em after sch when they hve to catch the bus.
/inner city latinos bussed out to woodland hills where ed wanner taught. Some of the worst bused out. Some didn’t care – no bk, pencil, etc.
In south some blacks bussed by white pub schs to blk schs.
Sputnik got all going. So good for a while. Bussing started in la in early 70s. at some pt decline started.
The Real Value of Preschool Judith Warner argues that preschool provides what families need most: good child care.
/ed reminded me of the TERRIBLE ed courses in c
/ The second Sidney goes to Matthew Crawford, who left his job at a think tank and went to work repairing motorcycles. In “Shop Class as Soulcraft” in The New Atlantis, he notices that “There was more thinking going on in the bike shop than in the think tank.”
His essay is not one of those prose poems about the virtue of working with your hands. It’s about the kind of thinking craftsmen do. He points out that computers are terrible at origami because there are certain mental maneuvers that cannot be calculated but can only be absorbed through experience and passed along as lore. Why, Crawford asks, is this sort of thinking, which is imparted in shop class, being chased out of schools? Why are so many students steered toward lives in a cubicle?
One subtle pleasure of Crawford’s essay is the way he describes the invisible struggle for agency — the way managers take decision-making authority away from workers, the way parents take decision-making authority away from kids, the way educators close off options without any debate.
/ag: online ed for k-l2 is too exciting, but here comes: burs, teachers’ union, religion, socialists, racials? on the neg side. On the pos: farmers, biz, cons-pri sector …
Having it on net should bring better books and teachers thru comp….
/little 2nd graders in class with baseball caps on
/hi sch is too egalitarian? After : dave gibbs. tim butler joined mil as had no place to live. Susan musfelt and the tear express. Jeff rolled out of ucla. Jc?
/we got 0 on animal rights
/ P.E. Classes Turn to Video Game That Works Legs
By SETH SCHIESEL
Schools are deploying Dance Dance Revolution as the latest weapon in the battle against childhood obesity.
| “I was in a mall walking by the arcade and I saw these kids playing D.D.R., and I was just stunned. There were all these kids dancing and sweating and actually standing in line and paying money to be physically active.” LINDA M. CARSON, a physical education professor, on the video game Dance Dance Revolution. |
/hi sch is a bubble
/had to do a term paper in hi sch with footnotes etc. impossible. Hardly did em in c.
/ www.tutorvista.com – on line tutors from India. Cutest ever. $l00/mo. in some cases free. $24 – unlimited help in all subject the lst mo. supposedly they have ma’s and phd’s. did I read of a glut of them?
/ag: not charter schs or pri schs but which eth grp and which class. Ah ha. Where would you start one – in Irvine or Compton?
Patrons’ Sway Leads to Friction in Charter School By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN A clash at a charter school in New York has exposed fault lines of wealth and class that are perhaps inevitable as philanthropists increasingly invest in public education. [ag: too much j, theory, pol, ego?, self-right…]
/ag: trying to save the schs since I was born: 2 elements: kids, ed. = huge morality play of ‘ed pol’: pros, j, egos, theories, savior complexes at all levels, [bur]
Marva Collins is sure a bright spot
/can almost guarantee schs don’t use harry potter search it.
/harry potter. Apparently some schools use it – http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=SNYI,SNYI:2005-17,SNYI:en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=harry+potter+classroom&spell=1 but a ton fot it – http://www.google.com/search?q=harry+potter+school+district&hl=en&rls=SNYI%2CSNYI%3A2005-17%2CSNYI%3Aen
/if ed were ever defined then one could avoid dumb classes, books, teachers
| The purpose of Released Time Christian Education classes is to share God’s Word with the 4th and 5th grade boys and girls in the public school system. |
What a waste that was. We were bussed.
Abstinence Education Faces an Uncertain Future By LAURA BEIL
Opponents of abstinence education cite a study that found no sign that it delayed a teenager’s sexual debut.
/Homer Price – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Augustus drives a jeep. The jungle book
/sall said sea scouts gave us a chance to DO things
Revisiting the Canon Wars By RACHEL DONADIO Two decades after Allan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind,” it’s generally agreed that his multiculturalist opponents won the canon wars.
The Waning of I.Q. By DAVID BROOKS I.Q. is like a black box. It measures something, but it’s not clear what it is or whether it’s good at predicting how people will do in life.
/wendel said sch bussing started in the 50s, wrecked some schools. It brot? Blacks in to Pomona which went to hell. He grad from chaffey in 39
/what was the pt of termpapers footnotes, ip sic,
/0 on fire
/0 on how to mng $
/School reform lacks student voice
/we went thru 4 shop classes in Willard and never thanked em
/in sch we never were made to practice even basic $ mng.
/So Is That Like an A? By MAURA J. CASEY If report cards are weighed down with educational jargon, it is fair to ask who the school administrators are really reporting to.
Give parents a choice By David Holcberg Public schools should be accountable to parents, not to the government. Discuss
/ Free Lunch Isn’t Cool, So Some Students Go Hungry By CAROL POGASH
At many schools, separate lines and menus for those who pay and those who get subsidized meals create a stigma.
/sent to dana parsons
Ed consists of
/1 useful, vital info
/2 useless info
/3 misinformation
/4 missing info
or say they don’t tell you lots. What they do tell you is 1,2,3
http://www.schoolsafetynews.com/home.php
/never taught the ravages of smoking, alc
/ Girls’ Gains Have Not Cost Boys, Report Says By TAMAR LEWIN
A new report says the largest disparities in educational achievement are not between boys and girls but between those of different races, ethnicities and income levels.
/what was the story bout the bolivian teacher – stand and deliver? With that latin actor. Also belongs under eth?
/6/08 la times jonah Goldberg: District of Columbia’s public school system, which spends roughly $14,000 a pupil in exchange for one of the worst educations in the country. Every year, one of the greatest mysteries in the nation’s capital is whether textbooks have been delivered to the right kids, or even to the right schools. It can take until Christmas to get it all worked out. FedEx Corp., meanwhile, can tell you where any of its millions of packages are in more than 100 countries, right now. (Why not just FedEx the textbooks to the kids?)
/no hi sch dip nec for am career college. They line up jobs. Fits into marketable skill. Lot of minorities
/drop out as no marketable skill
/that animated map shows what kind of aids there could be at all levels. War games. Etc. should hve been cause I don’t know how battle is fot. War games too.
/30% of our kids fail to grad. 08. said by carla hills
/A Taste of Failure Fuels an Appetite for Success at South Korea’s Cram Schools By CHOE SANG-HUN South Koreans say their obsession to get their children into top-notch universities is nothing short of “a war” and are turning to intense, regimented campuses.
/they never ask biz or labor or ….
/could make games of hist like the animated maps. And prizes to kids that learns the most
/look at the number of people who say they learned everything on the job
/ Charter schools are publicly financed but independently run. Best of 2 Worlds for Immigrants in Charter Schools By SARA RIMER For immigrant families, some charter schools have become havens from American youth culture. FROM. But it got @@@@@
/talk to May and I think she can’t write down words she doesn’t know
/croton is a good prep sch here.
/trad vals UNDER mh? Sig
/drop out due to: wc, pub not pri, never talk to biz, no apprenticeships, no trades
/after hi sch the bubble bursts. Wc, hang out there at noon
/willard: jammed into that locker rm. also with after sch sports, we could have used p.e. for study hall
/ An Unreasonable Search A Supreme Court decision will rightly discourage schools from conducting unconstitutional strip searches of their students. Nyt 6/09
/ The Best Kids’ Books Ever By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Pry your kids away from the keyboard and the television, and give them a book. For ideas, here’s a summer reading list. Nyt 09
As Charter Schools Unionize, Many Debate Effect
By SAM DILLON
Questions linger about whether unions will strengthen the schools by stabilizing their teaching forces, or weaken them by blocking changes thought to raise achievement.
/never learned compound int, depreciation on cars, deflation, r.e.,
/ As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks Are History By TAMAR LEWIN
In Arizona, teachers are being encouraged to create lessons that incorporate materials they find online.
/Room for Debate: Do Teachers Need Education Degrees? Should they be rewarded for getting education degrees or for student performance?
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Students Get New Assignment: Pick Books You Like By MOTOKO RICH
The experimental approach is part of a movement to revolutionize the way literature is taught in U.S. schools.
/stop building palaces for our kids. Schs. Rd long ago. Newport hi far better than s.a. hi
/more dig in pumping gas
/psych of columbine, helter skelter …
/ After a ban on bake sales at New York City schools,
/if some better off in the trades, why ged?
/need course on macho, smoking, dangerous fights.
/texts should be rated
/ all thru sch no one ever defined ‘education.’
/search bad textbooks
/if more comp, parents would have to move to get into good sch dist.
/outsourcing ed
/cops should be part of ed
/I can’t imagine being young or a stu without the net
/same as my idea? – A Serious Proposal By BOB HERBERT The American Federation of Teachers should follow its president’s recommendation to accept a form of teacher evaluation that takes student achievement into account.
/why study latin?
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/Sunny Hills hi sch in fullerton has an excellent reputation. people in asia know about it. it offers five levels of korean. no discipline problems so teachers can teach more. teachers work to stay ahead of students who read books in advance, do more work than required on projects, and turn in homework on time. students rarely skip class. extremely high motivation. students are confident and they think ahead. no dropouts. 75% accepted at 4 yr colleges. 48% are asian; 39% are white. immaculate campus with flowers. one teacher said students would have trampled the flowers at her previous sch. 94 la.
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/never told us what smoking does to one, alc, drugs,
/they never ask the trades if trainees need a hi sch dip
/latin in hi sch
/comp test more sig now as kids know more – for schs at all levels.
/In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt By PETER S. GOODMAN Commercial trade schools are under fire because they are attracting more students and Pell grants.
A Confederacy of Dunces By GAIL COLLINS It’s been a tough time lately for those of us who take social studies seriously. Just look at what’s going on in Virginia and Texas and elsewhere.
/tv teaches so much visually. Then outlines of bks would mean more. Should be able to take test on what you learn from it. [watch ed miss this]
/ A Very Bright Idea By BOB HERBERT Two New York City high schools are offering college degrees, addressing both the importance of academic achievement and the spiraling cost of higher education.
/in one town in canada, kids are going to use smart phones in class. 6/l0
/no wk or wk habits, drunk driving
/International Program Catches On in U.S. Schools By TAMAR LEWIN
The International Baccalaureate, an alternative to the Advanced Placement program, is offered in 700 schools.
/if you don’t have order [disc] at a sch, how can the kids feel safe.
/ged vs trade sch
/credit for merit badges
/should have taught: never buy new car, budgeting, sales, diy,
/wikiuniversity
/ed is the big savior. Where is the break off point at which you get a better job?
/h.s. ed vs 2 yr c vs 4 yr c
/thru sch and 0 bout smoking, alc, drugs, sex, mil,
/they have simulated babies in laguna middle sch, in stead of 5 lb sack of flour:
/sch should teach what smoking does, drugs –before and after meth, pregnancy, tatoos,
/some r.d. article long ago had title like why build palaces for our kids
/going out for football, spend most of each game on the bench
/why didn’t they teach us to buy used cars
/if pub ed is so equal, why are irvine’s schools far better than s.a.’s
/after hi sch, the bubble bursts: guys big in football in hi sch and 0 in same in jr c. – mikey flynn
/ The Manhattan Family Guide to Private Schools and Selective Public Schools
/ How Harry Potter Saved Reading What J.K. Rowling achieved—long before her work was adapted into films—was a children-led read-in that crossed all age barriers, uniting families in a fireside act of sharing an unfolding story.
/robin from back east. Said the ed is better there. Been years that I’ve heard that. Went to rutgers, then occ – which she said was hi sch.
/could computer games be helpful.
/at willard the girls had hm ec
/do schs today give any credit for computer skills?
/1/4th of calif teachers quit after 4 yrs. Tv 9/ll – pub or pri?
/never told us about fights
/dumb ed holds back smart kids
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/ Fairmont Private Schools was founded in 1953 by public school educator Kenneth Holt who began offering summer school instruction to a handful of students
sgreen@fairmontschools.com and she will forward it to ken holt. Don’t forget his ad when I was out here on vac. 5 schs now. Pri sector. My blog. so I drove for him in 6l?
http://www.fairmontschools.com/
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Dear Mr. Holt,
As I’ve gotten older, 7l, I’ve turned around and thanked some of the people who helped me along the way. You probably won’t remember me, nor recognize my picture below. I drove a school bus for you for couple of months around 61? when I think you had just one school with the large tree in front. You were so upbeat I used you as a reference.
Years later I thot to start a school while in NY. When on vacation out here I got a lot of advice from you on the phone. Very generous. I tried with a few students, but went back to social work.
The media doesn’t give the private sector enough coverage. I cover this in my blog – www.timelessissues.com /.
I learned how to discipline school buses. That’s on another blog of mine – www.generaladvice.com /. Thanks, Al garner
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Girls Just Want to Go to School By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF One 14-year-old Vietnamese girl, who wakes each day at 3 a.m. before setting off on a 90-minute bicycle ride to school, could teach Americans a lot.
/ How About Better Parents? By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Let’s stop putting the burden of education improvements just on teachers. Parents play a huge role in classroom success.
/Had a whole course on the civil war and never heard blacks fot in it, Columbus slaves, pilgrims too, my fam, Mendez vs wm, Sherman sch, diocese of org, skip mary kay,
/tons of hist in c and can’t tell you how a battle is fot
/ed never defined
/search those that can’t do, teach
/teaching latin – a joke
/ icivics and starts off @@@@@@@ later looks feel good and for kids.
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Troubled Online Charter Schools Full-time online schools may be inappropriate for a majority of students and need to be monitored closely. l/l2
/lgbt – to be taught in la, article les, gay, bi, tran, California schools scrambling to add lessons on LGBT Americans … articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/16/local/la-me-gay–schools-20111016Cached You +1’d this publicly. Undo
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/should teach trades you can use in the mil
/ Rekindling the Love for Comic Books
/ Why East Asian Students Are Superior American parents looking to send their children to the world’s best schools might want to start looking East.
/asia’s schools outperform u.s.
/all I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten?
/glad they had us read david copperfield. R & juliet didn’t make such an impression
/john stossel’s stupid in am. Charter schs better
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| www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7401696nMar 11, 2012 – 13 min 60 Minutes on CBS News: Khan Academy: The future of education? – With the backing of Gates and Google … I saw it. very good. and measures results. |
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/why credit for choir
/why indians are best at spelling bees – http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/06/02/why-indian-americans-are-best-at-bees/?mod=WSJBlog&mod=irt
/quit after 8th or l0th grade, get job, get ged at nite.
/ education connection for online learning for this or for c
/you hate to think of the people who were misled or never tested who didn’t belong in teaching and other fields
/ $ mng, budgeting should be taught. How did I miss that
/animal right should be part of one’s ed
/sowell was at top of his class in s.c. then bottom when moved to central harlem
/world at war
/search study guides
Suspensions Are Higher for Disabled Students, Federal Data Indicate By MOTOKO RICH The highest rates are among black children with disabilities, which can include learning difficulties.
/search best textbooks
/why not teach with free to choose, or banfield, or hayeck, art of war. THOSE are the classics
Thus c is a study in how to miss the pt.
/grading on the curve = 000
/the ged could probably be picked apart
/improvement of sahs – http://www.parade.com/news/2012/08/12-rebuilding-americas-schools.html
/all teachers and profs should know their subject. Some can teach; others can’t. ag: social skills help some but are not sig, if one can teach.
/put em thru c without ever testing their teaching skills. But didn’t they do it late in c , like student teaching?
/so far khan academy = 0
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History – Marriage and family – Career – Henry Ford
/just what I’ve been saying: The Psych Approach By DAVID BROOKS There are strong links between our childhood experiences and adult lives. The emotional basis of success should have a bigger role in education.
/table manners?
/someone should make a list of what you should learn from tv
/ No Appetite for Good-for-You School Lunches By VIVIAN YEE Students get more fruits and vegetables under new nutritional requirements for public school lunches, but many children just toss them away.
/ The Exclusive Eight A complaint from civil rights groups over a single test used to screen applicants to New York City’s elite public schools was overdue.
/ economist. Oct l3, 0l2. … no wall st financier has done as much damage to am soc mobility as the teachers’ unions have. wow
/ged vs learning a trade
/termpapers
/a semester in a capella
/ The Parent Trigger – parents of failing schools may force a school district to undertake specific reforms, including sending their children to a different public school, converting the school into a charter school, or receiving opportunity scholarships to send their children to the private school of their choice
/how much good did the pta do
/how to take care of pets, geneology
/st paul’s school? in concord n.h. is one of the most prestigious prep schs
/search online ed in other countries
/hi sch’s bubble. You’re big time there and 0 in college. Less so in eur?
/to g skelton: I read the subtitle of career tech and almost fell out of my chair. Did it mean that school could actually take a look at the PRACTICAL world? Impossible. It would be a first. I read and saw that it seemed a rehash of common sense but buried in feel-good rhetoric. Always these pros having to come up with something ‘new.’ Those concerned with this should look at trade schools, like devry?, use plain language, and look at other countries where having a ‘trade’ is something to take pride in. ————— –
/hyde murray
/random notes sent to sandy banks: the money spent on bussing could have been used to improve the schools. Vouchers could probably solve the problems you describe. Carpenter must be good BECAUSE it is a charter school in a better neighborhood where families are more motivated. You don’t point out that some families are woefully unmotivated. Some are only somewhat motivated and see their kids going into the trades. Many working class kids want to leave school at 14, enter a trade, and later start a family. Middle and upper class kids want to stay in school longer and start a family later. Families want to send their kids to the best schools first and neighborhood schools 2nd. They would invest in neighborhood schools if they were worth it. Charter schools grew out of this. Vouchers too. more private schools too. Neighborhoods, families, students are all different. They should have choice like they do in the real world. ——————————————————- – – –
/diagraming a sentence. Did we ever use that?
/all the inefficiency is harder on slower students
/should have a trade as a back up
/we never raised eatables
/released time Christian ed. By bus. What a waste.
In Poland, a crop of games and books aims to teach kids about drearier times. The best Soviet-era shopping strategy wins ‘Queue.’ Or play ‘You Cut the Line, Sir.’
/l0 yr old girl in china in and ir sch for a yr. less hm work, more individ exploration, more question and answer, more choice [!]. he pa has seen her blossom. Wow. Biggest diff is kid can question the teacher when no clear or accurate. Was afraid to before.
Innovation in china not protected. All steal your product. Sig.
/search silly courses, experiments: new math, open classrm
/which teachers etc stood out: coleman, wooley, engman, lund, trawick?. later: beck, burdick,
Which books, maps etc stood out –
which books were bad – bio, csc,
/credit for taking choir
/term papers in hi sch = farce. Similar in c?
/any games that are ed…. Like where in the world is carmen san diego
/ www.devry.edu correspondence courses
/search ed fads – new math, open classrm, pass-fail
/never credit for hm schooling
/textbooks ever rated?
/they ed teachers without seeing if they can teach
/ty ty should have made kid earn it to begin with – Who pays if LAUSD students break or lose iPads? By Howard Blume L.A. Unified officials are unsure whether to force parents to pay for damaged or lost iPads, and it’s unclear whether responsibility was made clear to all parents.
/khan academy, skill session?, schoolology. Remind101 tracks hmwk, etc. texting increases hmwk turn-in by 42%
/we didn’t get a good ed in our highly touted suburban schs when compared to eur
/chem. Physics. Auto shop. Other shops
/credit for soc skills – officer in a club. Merit badges?
/no one said st fights are not fair, no ref, chance for bent nose etc
/can’t believe how much you can ed yourself with the net.
/scared straight should be part of ed from 6th grade on or from earliest offense or at risk…
/credit for skills in cars, ibm, cooking, farm wk,
/search classes required for ged
/you wonder if sch isn’t a scheme to keep kids off the streets.
/dropout rate for trade schs must be far lower. Ag
/never learned about eunuchs, ladyboys, he-she’s, hermaphrodites
/could my blog be made into a course
/vol work at a thrift shop, or a shelter, hosp, jail?,
/vol wk at hm dep
/a lower min wage would do this.
/sahs at the bottom of a sampling of hi schs that college recruiters go to as: poor ims, [latinos], sa stuck with more than it’s share of poor latino ims, can’t scn em so $ spread too thin, robin hood law?, good teachers move away as do others, social promotion, wc – trades, wel? Entitlements all this vs irv hi sch or sunny hills.
/affects of alc, smk, drugs
/never learned compounding. Wow
/raven simone knew when she was 3? She wanted to be on the cosby show
/ged but no skill
/ A Walmart Fortune, Spreading Charter Schools By MOTOKO RICH The foundation led by the family that built Walmart has spent more than $1 billion on some of the fastest-growing, and most divisive, trends in education. Nyt 4/4
/search for list of educational farces: new math, open classrm
/if I’d worked at hm dep all those years.
/tv : still a lot of big diffs in schs. Blk schs, white schs. Never latino. Kids pick up the diffs. Look now at sahs vs Newport, Irvine…. . sa has ils which has to affect the morale of the staff.
/robin hood law vs what rich can afford. Vs ils
/studies show when teens work more than 20 hrs/wk, their grades drop. tv
/ l/2 of denmark’s hi sch grad go on to apprenticeships compared to 3% of ours.
/terms: stem ed, core curriculum, magnet sch for spec int. , alt ed,
/I wonder if moks and pi’s etc are glad their ed sys taught them eng.
/grading on the curve
/should have hist of the civil rights movement or do they.
/ag: elements: robin hood law. Equal opp for ed. Bussing, sa vs irv. Better stu and teachers gravitate to irv. Eth groups, sum sch, trades, ged, what employers want, bi-linual? Basic ed for all, but then fams should be able to privately boost their kids. They do it with lang classes on sats. Classes that don’t care, entitlements, mgm, soc promotion, self-esteem classes, feel good, trophies, bi-lingual ed
/ag: courses in computer sci vs owning one, working in an electronics store. Jake said he learned all on the job
/search why some schs eliminated lockers
/jr rotc at sahs. The choir in blk suits on a hot day.
/so what are the skills you need to get into c: vocab, tofel, writing, reading?, some hist, some geo? And climate, ethnic studies
/the aged + need workshops instead of classes
/young of today know more as exposed to more
/lockers – http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2011-11-14/schools-lockers-safety/51205848/1 More sig back east
/search jr rotc
/in sch your locker is sig: coats, food, hobbies, bks, ipad?, lunch
/which classes drop out? less in eur?
/robin hood law: irv vs sa. no il, 0 that relieves parents of their role, vs grp hms, vouchers – but you have to qualify. No bussing. Some tutoring. Parents move so kid can be in a better sch dist.
/aboad they start in presch, flashlights in parking lot,
/at Jefferson sch we had some garlands on sticks and some procession. At Wilson we had some knighting deal. In scouts we had some badges. At summer camp we had ‘rags’. Sea scouts – 0. Cg ….
/tests: sat, c entrence exam, grad records exam, fsee, foreign serv..
/scouting
/j’s pi friend is a mil recruiter. Says calif guys rate the lowest on tests.
/are charter schs similar to vouchers? Do folks have a choice
/ https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=those+who+can+do+those+who+can%27t+teach
/search njrotc or jrotc at sa more than irv? – I looked – univ hi sch at irv doesn’t have it. the n is for naval. https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=junior+rotc
/they prep students to become teachers without lst testing their ability to teach
/robin hood law: ag: equal up to what grade, vouchers, charter schs, if a neigh can’t attract and keep good stus and teachers, then what?
/should have had the economist
/so much about ed, but what is it?
/we never had cr
/do unions oppose charters? They must. Wasn’t there something else I was curious about their opposing or not?
/ The rise of charter schools has also fostered the movement towards school choice.
/the money going into jrotc could be training them for a trade
/why study latin in willard
/why mex stu in spanish if they spoke it. take a test
/ed should try to make you sophisticated
/ The Time of Our Lives – Page 30 – Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=081297512X
Tom Brokaw – 2012 – History Tom Brokaw … the school courtyard crowded with uniformed students, hunched over their textbooks, studying by flashlight, waiting for the doors to open at 6:30.
/all that effort into sports, bus to play other schs and no marketable skills
/0 about poker for bluffing. Bargaining, terms used by shark tank, the real world of shark tank,
/every biz class on entrepreneurship should require shark tank and text
/ https://www.altschool.com/ 6/l5 they’d like to draw as many as khan academy
/ https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=reason+school+lockers+removed
/ https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=school+lockers+pros+and+cons
/why take me out. use em for other things
/what about grammar sch
/ search schools ban backpacks
/do on line schs use wiki?
/sensible sex ed
/what hist… forgot. Belong under c also
/add the idea of schs that give credit for what you know. It’s there.
/need robin hood law PLUS vouchers
/how did it work with am Indians.
From Doreen:
Yes a good trade schools is not easy to find around here that’s for sure.
another way trade works with out education per say,
is having mentors who learned the hard
way with enough sense to make it successful and then teach
to family members, or any one willing to work, listen and accept without
thinking they know better than the journeyman.
Tom was fortunate enough to have had true trades men who mentored
a hard working big burley guy who understood hard work pays off, for Tom
it did.
The public school was and important part of finding out about other fields of work
then judge for yourself how education, or trade can work for ones self
The best thing is finding a sweetheart, marrying, having children and realizing
your “trade” will carry them through life if you are willing to sacrifice.
There is no better education than the example of a truly successful person.
Best to you Alan. ——————- – – –
/why did some schools eliminate lockers. Sig
/only ll charter schs in oc
/do other countries use vouchers?
/why so many pri schs in pi?
/ net: charters are twix pub and pri? – https://www.google.com/search?q=are+charter+schools+public+or+private&hl=en&biw=1200&bih=571&site=imghp&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0CAUQ_AUoAGoVChMIj9eFm_WPyAIVTyaICh1LJwYM&dpr=1.6
/charters + have lockers?
/Willard have em?
/readwrite is some great program in Irvine for students. Looked it up. Gave up
/charter schs may be giving a better ed than we got.
/m rubio can’t understand why voc ed was stopped. I couldn’t find it on net. Said we need more welders and fewer philosophers
/ https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=education+fads+
/discarded ed fads since 60s: new math, career ed, open classrm, whole language, outcome based ed, [common core?] an ipad for ever kid?, mentoring, restorative justice, sleep teaching, initial teaching alphabet, kahn academy?,
/search why dropped shop, voce d, trade
/yrs ago I went to a museum in l.a. they had an exhibit of how a differential on a car works. I was fascinated. Spent a lot of time studying it
/they should teach and test empathy in sch
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Protecting vulnerable students: In hi sch I had geometry, algebra, trigonometry. Never used a single thing from them in college or life. We graduate students from hi school with no marketable skills.
`/ School in poorest district wasted money changed to sch waste
/advanced placement u.s. hist – are these names thot up by sw burs…
/search useless courses
/when recruiting outsiders, they want to know how good are the schs or you have to pay em more so they can send their kids to pri schs. Baton rouge, la. L5 yrs of forced bussing. 47 yrs of desegregation litigation.
/ag are some pub schs tops and if so why – irv, steve Jacobs
/making that cedar box in middle sch
/why didn’t schs partner with trade schs like devry. SIG
/eyes on the prize should be part of jr hi same with all the minorities
/choice: vouchers and charters
/did pri schs miss new math, open classroom, etc. sig
/solar panels on top of sch bus so kids can do hmwk on way hm to rural areas.
/kids look up things on net – don’t have to go to library !!!! us too.
/common core – just eng and math so far on net. Odd?
/these should be required in sch. a judge ordered a driver of terrible crash to hosp and morg programs and to classes about reckless driving. Later a hearing on restitution.
/big growth of charters in ny; unions [plural !] don’t like it. On tv 4/l6
/thru sch and never heard of mendez. Remember lbj taught in a poor mex sch.
/ag: vouchers for all, admitted on basis of grades, etc.if grades same, the eth gets pref for how long. Maybe vouchers for tutoring, trans… Then stus would go to interest – sports, music, TRADES, etc. fundamental, location, eth? Wouldn’t schs would adjust to attract and keep certain types.
/search how much ed is useful, practical,
/should learn how and where hist is distorted. Sig
/mainstreaming the retarded results
/$63 mil for a hi sch football stadium in texas on tv 5/l6
/latin at Willard
-Vocational education helps … (False, students in it change jobs, are out of work as much as anyone, and don’t earn more than those not in it.)
vs the terms occupational ed, tech ed, trade sch …………..vs on the job training
/ https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=vocational+ed+myths
/social promotion
/article in rd long ago why palaces as schs for our kids
/what’s ged worth?
/Stuyvesant high sch in nyc is tops. Apparently Lowell is too in s.f.
/I never had diversity in hi sch or c. later worked in ny under blk and other supervisors.
/search ed………..fads
/do charters grad stus with marketable skills
/what about special needs students
/dyslectia – affects learning re reading, writing, spelling
/what are the courses required for ged
/common core psychobabble on math sec – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core_State_Standards_Initiative total barf – disgraceful. The older you get the more you see the stupidity – partly because you never heard of or used any. Probably the rest is too.
What do pri schs have to say about this
/eng lang…..arts,
/make courses out of: why I ran, drug wars, bounty hunter, jacked – auto …., csi?, am greed, am justice, springer, wrestling, locked up abroad,
/why chemistry in hi sch. Why physics [tho I liked it]
/what a break that our hi sch is still standing? Would have been nice if Willard was too
/search what percent of courses are not needed, irrelevant, silly, a waste
/0 bout bargaining
/by avoiding reality, schs taught us non-reality. Fix
/barefoot c in india isn’t a c; it’s for kids. Geared only to practical, useable. At nite as kids busy with fams in am. 3 lanterns. What kind. mostly girls go. https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=barefoot+college – http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/barefoot-matriarchs-take-on-indias-electricity-gap students sit on fl. One gal said she went to nite sch and can now write her name. lot of smiles – many during class.
/lausd holds mediocre hearings. No Asians
/can’t say I got a lot out of a capella
/what is the ged about?
/do grammar schs have lockers
/how many eng learners join gangs. Same with rest of ed
/0 bout animal cruelty
/other people’s $ and labor
/grad without skills. That’s why some go into mil
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/ https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=those+that+can+do
/search ed………disasters
/worst text books
/search what courses nec for hi sch dip, ged
/geo – enjoyable but not useful
/why reading and math scores so sig
/think of the effort that went into the 4 shops at Willard. For what? sad
/sch should cover riots, crime, all
/do they allow calculators in sch for advanced math
/the criteria for a ged must be a good list of barf. – https://www.bing.com/search?q=ged%20requirements&qs=bs&form=QBRE
/Willard: art – didn’t need it.
/never needed Shakespeare
/we had sci in Willard. Why. And phy… and chem in hi sch. Why
/how many good teachers did any of us have. How many were memorable? for what reasons. J coleman, wooley,
/in hi sch did we have pe?
/reforms should be tied to biz +. Academics don’t get it
/why is everything superlative – kids, teachers, admin, pols, methods
/article long ago in rd? why build palaces for our school children – not on net
/does praxis cover the trades?
/course in art – Willard. Music lessons? – clarinet – where
/should have beh mod in sch . tied with $? Tuition like sed’s? more like the real world – not coddling and all scot free
/94% hi sch grads in jap… can get jobs. Labor shortage
/just think of all the fr
/ www.schools,inc ? sabits sabis
/the Spanish lessons or something made me fall in love with spain: malaga, Granada, sevilla, cordoba, Toledo, avila, burgos, Roncevaux – song of roland
/farm kids and trade kids must find sch irrel… their folks too. their teachers probably find them better
/ charters are still pub ed
/should include: junkyards, jails, coroners, hosp, nursing hms, handicapped, goodwill, halfway houses, scared str…., skid row, juvy, unwed ma’s, tattoos, mil, steroids, meth,
With emphasis on tradvals
/fewer would drop out of hi sch if it were PRACTICAL. Thus fewer in eur? same in c?
/hi sch debate intelligence poi on tv. Cute – https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C2PQHB_enUS688US688&source=hp&q=high+school+debate+korean&oq=high+school+debate+korean&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i22i30k1.6469.14624.0.15064.26.25.0.0.0.0.102.2050.22j3.25.0….0…1.1.64.psy-ab..1.25.2047.0..0j46j0i131k1j0i46k1j0i10k1j33i22i29i30k1.Sbdm1LmB4dw
/we didn’t have debating
/have to take bonehd eng.
/choir
/pe and after sch sports
/alumni day at sahs 9/9/l7 – the worst. Loose teens with growing pains, not well-behaved, inconsiderate of alumni, loud, in a hurry past. Tons of work by some people for 0. A pity. Diff teen sports, 7, during the day, jazz band. Free lunch, super loud entry, I skipped the music in the aud. Rah rah. Poorly run. Cute teens, nice courtyard, fences. Irvine would never had something as bad. The program shows how bad. One grp passed out envelope for donations? Some plastic momento. Did peggy pierson run this? Didn’t they have something else in daytime – tj went. And it was as bad?
/going thru an old yrbk brings all kinds of opinions
/term papers, footnotes, ebid,
Arial at betty’s:
Lot of good mems. little about academics, 0 bout after grad mil, wk, marry. Too much on sports, fun, rah-rah, belonging to something outside our fams – clubs. Too much a celebration of teens. No sex ed? Non-certified personnel. Too much bur, mono of pub schs,
/ /psych students should have to take the mmpt and work on their heads. SIG
Minnesota multiphasic personality test – [or inventory] https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=nqgEWsPGMo2cjwPd3Kj4Aw&q=minnesota+multiphasic+personality+test+online&oq=Minnisota+multiphasic+personality+test&gs_l=psy-ab.1.2.0i13k1l2j0i22i30k1l8.3098.3098.0.14844.1.1.0.0.0.0.112.112.0j1.1.0….0…1..64.psy-ab..0.1.110….0.3U0QKUj5c_k
/world at war should be required
/search sch vs real world
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/that alumni day at sahs: skin tight shorts, bands too loud, your wonder bout jr rotc, for us or for the kids and they hurried past us. Free and good food. I skipped the tours and the program in the aud…. All this vs irvine, sunny hills, and oxford academy in cypress
To: ‘howard.blume@latimes.com’
I went to santa ana hi school in the late 50s.
I went to an alumni day there 3 yrs ago. lot of the students in nrotc uniforms. You wonder if they aren’t being suckered into joining the military. I’ve read that this happens in minority communities. Someone should do a story on this.
Other:
Skin tight shorts on some girls’ team. Teen girls need more modesty.
the bands were too loud. Too much rah rah. Was the day for alumni or the kids as they hurried past us. Free and good food. I skipped the tours and the program in the aud…. I’d guess the hi schools in irvine, sunny hills, and [oxford academy in] cypress are more sensible.
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/everyone’s missing the robin hood law . ag
/why are some local schs in oc good and others bad
/career-specific education
/outcome-based education
/ Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
/that green bay teacher vid gills sent. Horrific. Wash……middle sch. on net – https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20170627/8292494/Former-Green-Bay-teacher-quot-fear.htm = short version
/mgm – mentally gifted minor
/Irvine incorporated in ‘7l
`/ search alternatives to a hi sch dip – sig https://www.bing.com/search?q=alternatives+to+a+high+school+diploma&form=EDGSPH&mkt=en-us&httpsmsn=1&refig=ac46c4c49b4f48bab60d4275b903d521&sp=1&qs=AS&pq=alternatives+to+a+high+schoo&sc=2-28&cvid=ac46c4c49b4f48bab60d4275b903d521&cc=US&setlang=en-US
/ – credit for job experience – credit for what you know – equivalency exams – micro degrees, voc ed, trade sch, apprenticeships, praxis
Career choices, types of careers, mil, specialty schools, mgm. Better now with online
I think I’ll skip all this for the time being.
/the sahs staff seemed like they tried to have a club for everyone, something to belong to.
/you wonder what it was like for the teachers pub and pri
/why shops at Willard – in case some dropped out? Like home ec?
Some at sahs?
/no mention of smoking.
If elected I hope you can change educationalese into plain unpretentious language. Examples of bafflegab:
- International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program
- Virtual Academy is an independent study high school providing a common core, standards-based education, utilizing a blending of independent study/tutorial, online and on-site instruction, which provides students an alternative pathway to high school graduation and prepares them for post-secondary academic and career opportunities.
- Magnet HQPBL (High Quality Project Based Learning) Units
- Common Sense Media. Second Step Social-Emotional Learning Program
Saddleback Valley Unified School District should be saddleback schools
/charters better for Asians?
/ We took science and language, but didn’t use them
/ ag: robin hood law, vouchers, charters, the NEIGH….sch, on line should solve much,
/bussing bit – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing said something about Asians excelling no matter what.
/ magnet schs
/sig: build carriculum around reality shows: runaway squad, trafficking, drugs, intervention – moreso in c
/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_abandoned_education_methods
/search list of useless college courses
/ https://www.bing.com/search?q=failed+educational+fads&FORM=QSRE2
/it’s the job of ed to prep stu for real world.
/ I think smart phones are really educating the youth in many ways better, faster than class. Schools should use em. do any?
/some took latin at Willard
/to svusd: mark.perez@svusd.org the sep? 0l9 flyer in the mail: planning for the future: too much jargon, ‘educationaleze’, buzzwords, catch phrases. Too wordy. Probably patronizing. Too much ‘feel good’. All that makes it harder for immigrants, minorities, and the less educated. It all sounds like the giant education industry of calif which wastes tons of money. It reminded me of https://www.timelessissues.com/school-in-poorest-district-wasted-money/ more on that blog. I assume charter schools don’t waste as much, get to the point quicker and are more efficient. Your flyer needed a map to show what the district covers. A.g.
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/ag: on bussing: robin hood law, use the bussing $ for vouchers, sum sch, after sch, yr round?, tutoring, pp, abort?, online Tons of time and $ saved. Keep in mind fam background, mot,
/ralph allen didn’t crack a bk in hi sch
/ag: equal $, like in Canada, choice, bussing moneyu + used for make up classes, be aware some families don’t care, apprenticships
/education for all but spec jd’s + should include: hosp, hmless, jail, sober living, etc
/khan academy looking sensible finally. Has ties to praxis. Wow
/ag: bussing – ag: robin hood law, choice, use the bussing $ and time to ensure robin hood law
[specialty schs?]
/trump: $ should follow the students not the schs
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Jeff bishop, princ of sahs: kay said:
Jeff explained how difficult these times are with students– their attendance at school, their studies, the teachers and students morale and even more. For scholarships they are recommending people not spend a lot of money on high dollar schools but to use the community college system. Students need encouragement and reinforcement. SAHS had a small fund to give to students small rewards for attendance and staying involved. But this is not funded by the school system- needs to be done from donations. This is where our money would be used – to help keep students at school and involved. A different type of scholarship. It is unbelievably difficult to keep students motivated and communicating at this time. So in a way, our two most popular suggestions – scholarships to help students in Covid and a plaque that is permanent, are met. Thank you to all who have sent ideas. Our money that has sat for three years will be helping others- $1395.00. Kay Spielman Housley
/yrs ago parents lined up to get their kids into FUNDAMENTAL schools !!!!
/ freedom rides, john lewis, james meridith – should have been in our ed
/ralph allen never cracked a book in hi sch
/teachers with bad hair
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Online Schools Are Here to Stay, Even After the Pandemic
Why Students Are Logging In fro 7000 miles away
/ stuyvesant high school new york – Bing
/Chinese kids have to climb cliff to go to sch – Chinese kids have to climb cliff to go to sch – Bing I couldn’t watch the vid. Any accidents? Chinese kids climb cliff to go to sch – Bing video gofundme
/ Pandemic-forced school closures revealed how grade-point systems hurt disadvantaged children, prompting educators to look for ways to bring equity to grading.
/ps 102? In nyc
reality programs: cajun justice, intervention, runaway squad, lst 48, csi?, dog …., cops, live pd, cour tv? Patenaty court, hot bench?,
Vs the LOW: jerry springer, judge judy, 60 days in, steve wilkos, I almost got away, ea stu to play a role, luv after lock up, auto theft task force, the big house
/am reality tv series
/David toma
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California School Choice Initiative 14k/yr/kid.
/takes $ from pub schs, cherry picks, praxis? Or praxus
/ groped at oc school – Search (bing.com)
/ Three Southern California Schools Make List of Best High Schools (msn.com)
/ Gaming the haj, from the comfort of home | The Economist great, but can’t find it. ty
+the haj trail a game – Bing images patterned after the Oregon trail game – the oregon trail game – Search (bing.com) and of course, you can’t find it. ty
/we used to cover our textbooks
/art kirk and roy ellis were our scoutmasters, said stan
/what crap: Willard Intermediate School / Willard Intermediate (sausd.us)
/ Gaslighting Americans about public schools: The truth about ‘A Nation at Risk’ (msn.com)
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/kids must be more ed now with ibm’s so why not grad them earlier into real world. fox
/am kids missing sch. ag: I get the Asians aren’t
/ l0/23 – CALIFORNIA
LAUSD moves to bar charter schools from scores of campuses, citing tensions
/Newsom banned suspending them for willful defiance. Wow. See it on libn
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Incredible bias: ty
SAT Data Shows the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education
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/ more than a fifth of South Koreans’ household expenditure went on private tuition in 2022.
/ Homeschooling: the highly unregulated parallel education system in the US (msn.com)
/ Opinion: Red states are fueling a public school exodus (msn.com)
/ phil’s old place. Sw rh – INSIDE THE OUTDOORS – Updated November 2024 – 17 Photos – Silverado, California – Community Service/Non-Profit – Phone Number – Yelp 0 0 0 0 Phil charlton’s old ranch. Taken over by the o.c. dept of ed. And made into a big nothing. Maybe the dept uses it as a tax write-off or to pad their budget. Typical social work feel-good bafflegab.
/ California’s most neglected special needs students are the gifted ones – Los Angeles Times
/ Is your master’s degree useless?
/stu… should have to tour junk yards, morgs, jails, hosp, scared straight etc
/ do some schools let the poor use their showers – Search search auto shut off shower valves or showerheads —-end of ed2?, ed4, and edn
