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Comment on Farmers Call it “Sucking Hind Teat” by More deception by fake “reformers” in latest Parent Trigger move « Parents Across America

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:42:44 +0000

[...] so-called-reformers advocate larger class sizes for low-income kids’ public schools (though not for their own kids’ elite private schools, needless to [...]

Comment on Coming soon to a school near you….. by Dr. Bob Valiant

Dr. Bob Valiant — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:47:37 +0000

@Stephen: While NEA may be leading the fight to oppose punitive laws and funding models, they have disappeared in the struggle against NCLB and RttT. VAM used to evaluate teachers, charter schools, excessive use of high stakes testing.

Comment on Coming soon to a school near you….. by Stephen Miller

Stephen Miller — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:17:31 +0000

Pat, if you are wondering what NEA is doing for this NY city school, you should know NY cities school fall under AFT (American Federation of Teachers). As an NEA Board member, I assure you NEA is leading the fight in Congress and on the national front regarding opposition to punitive laws and funding models. The bigger concern is when did the Democratic party leaders and our Democratic President decide to sell out public schools to a corporate reform agenda? NEA can certainly do more to insure non-corporate Democrats get elected, but that is job every Democrat needs to focus on even if their top issue is job creation, the environment, health care, or transportation. While we might be able to get a few progressive moderate Republicans elected, I see no hope for the Republican party or their party leaders in the next 10 years.

Comment on Coming soon to a school near you….. by Pat Fleming

Pat Fleming — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:28:46 +0000

I have posted this so many times I forget how many. Where is the NEA? Do they not care about learners and teachers? As a past member of 5 unions, 4 with AFL/CIO and the 5th NEA I must say the NEA is the most cowardly, useless organization I have ever belonged to. I rue the dues I paid for 31 years.

Comment on Opinion: 7 reasons why teacher evaluations won’t work by jana brubaker

jana brubaker — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:10:32 +0000

Nice. I like the coin-tossing and dice-rolling metaphor. Brings to mind images of pie-tossing, an atmosphere of carnivale, which is what we’ve got going on here, yes?

Perhaps rather than measure teachers by students’ outcomes, we need to measure our culture by how we treat our children. Not doing so well there, are we?

More productive alternatives outside the false dichotomy? Yes, let’s do discuss! Suggestions?

Comment on Kristine and Me by Dwight (Now, Russel) Micnhimer

Dwight (Now, Russel) Micnhimer — Wed, 25 May 2011 18:33:36 +0000

Wow! Until I saw the photo I didn’t really realize how big the stones are. I have seen similar arrangements in a yard on the Olympic Peninsula, but there, much smaller stones have been used. And some of them seem to have been in place for a long time; even those with more than two stones. I haven’t seen the builder at work or examined them closely, so I can’t preclude the use of glue etc.

Re the Mexican stone piles. It would appear from the picture that many of the stones’surfaces are covered with vugs. Perhaps those small holes accumulate moisture and as that moisture evaporates it changes the weight distribution of the stone, disturbing the delicate balance.

Russel

Comment on Creating a New School of Thought-Updated by Dr. Bob Valiant

Dr. Bob Valiant — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:42:54 +0000

We were doing much of this in Kennewick 20+ years ago and many teachers were trained. I added the Personal Intelligence component maybe 10 years ago and taught a pilot group of Paco High students (with Debbie Duggan). It worked beautifully, but as you know, schools are not receptive to this kind of thinking currently. Learning to fill in bubble tests is more important than learning to think and to manage your own learning.

Comment on Creating a New School of Thought-Updated by Dr. Bob Valiant

Dr. Bob Valiant — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:35:56 +0000

The original article has hot links. I wanted to get this up quickly, so I will have to go back and edit it to make the links clickable.

Comment on Creating a New School of Thought-Updated by Tom Staly

Tom Staly — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:40:48 +0000

Bob, I found this article from a posting on my Facebook page. I had not known you have a personal web site. This article is very informative so I will be reading others listed on your sitemap.
I wonder, under the topic implementation, managing the development of thinking skills by teaching students to manage their own thinking, is this being taught in schools of education or do teachers learn this on the job through professional development?
The links appear to require cutting and pasting into a web browser to activate them. Is it possible to use a method like on KSD Citizens to make them active in the body of your article?

Comment on Kristine and Me by Kristine Ellingson

Kristine Ellingson — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:53:50 +0000

Roberto, you also mention the percentages of the surface angles having to be complimentary: 30 to 60% was the example you used. Where is the other 10%? Wouldn’t it have to be 40 to 60, 70 to 30%, etc?

I suppose what intrigued me to begin with was why the rock sculptures stayed up for more than a few minutes at all, given as you said that almost anything can affect them, so delicate was the balance. But it certainly makes one think, doesn’t it? Kristine