tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137798112011-04-21T22:28:30.606-05:00The lone voice in the wilderness of education reform, daring to say and do those things that need doing and saying.gnuteacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01422330751933693166noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779811.post-1135560912101890272005-12-25T20:26:00.000-05:002005-12-25T20:43:04.063-05:00

Instead of reinventing the wheel every September, those of us involved in actually educating children should give some of our attention to the concept of Lesson Study.What is lesson study?Lesson study* is a professional development process that Japanese teachers engage in to systematically examine their practice, with the goal of becoming more effective. This examination centers on teachers

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Whenever educators or fans of education want to get their undies in a bunch about something that has absolutely nothing to do with educating children, they start arguing about the Pledge of Allegiance.They will, at different times claim that it is too militaristic, too religious, too mindless or too nonsensical. They will claim that it unhinges godless students and causes Muslims to break out in

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Are teachers underpaid? I bet your first reaction to that question is "Why yes, they are most assuredly underpaid and they work so hard and they get no respect etc."Well, I've done some figuring in my own school district and using a simple formula I've discovered that teachers are paid way too freakin' much.Take Portland, Maine for example. The average teacher is paid $50,281 per year. They are

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Reforming our schools is easy. Here's how you do it....1. STOP PUNISHING STUDENTS The fact is that no records are kept pertaining to the unconstitutional practices of detention, confiscation of personal property or the suppression of free speech in our schools. Children are held against their will every day based only on the whims of impatient and intolerant teachers and administrators who don't

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A long time ago, the federal government decided that our schools were not doing a very good job of turning out German rocket scientists. They knew this for a fact because the commies had managed to accelerate a 183lb. lump of metal named Sputnik up to 17,900mph with THEIR German rocket scientists. The U.S. meanwhile, had spent over 4 billion dollars and had been unable to even make a rice krispie

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