EWA's blog about education issues and topics from a journalist's perspective. The Educated Reporter is anchored by Emily Richmond with contributions from EWA staff and guests.
EWA’s blog about education issues and topics from a journalist’s
perspective. The Educated Reporter is anchored by Emily Richmond with contributions
from EWA staff and guests.
If there’s an Imagine charter school in your district, you should
read
David Hunn’s piece in Sunday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the
Imagine CEO suggesting to its school leaders how they might
manipulate the boards that control them. The
unedited e-mail is pretty brazen.
In responses to our survey of people who have used the public
editor resource, several mentioned they would like a clearer
explanation of what I can help with.
Secretary Duncan came
down on teachers colleges yesterday. This isn’t a new
concern. Yet I don’t think I have EVER read a piece in the media
about what exactly people learn, and don’t learn, at schools of
education. Can we fix that?
Okay, so I admit I’m always a little taken aback when I am
visiting a school and see Latina kindergartners wearing frilly
dresses and high heels. I’ve heard more than one teacher snicker
at this; it makes it hard to sit criss-cross applesauce and
participate in P.E. But after EWA’s meeting on
Latino youth issues with the Pew Hispanic Center earlier this
month, I get it.
Hours after starting my blog, I heard from Jerry Bracey.
If you are an education reporter at any sizable media outlet and
never heard from Jerry Bracey, I am surprised. He dedicated
himself to correcting, not always politely, what he saw as
misinformation in education research and journalism. As a
frequent recipient of his long analyses, let me tell you, he
found misinformation everywhere.
In
his education speech to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in
March, President Obama said, “From the moment students enter a
school, the most important factor in their success is not the
color of their skin or the income of their parents. It’s the
person standing at the front of the classroom.”
When my brother Rick and I were in third grade, we had a teacher
named Mrs. Frankiewicz. Mrs. Frankiewicz used to say that she
never made mistakes—just once in a blue moon. One day, when she
wrote something incorrectly on the board, my brother pronounced,
“The blue moon has come!” (Genius then, genius now.) So “the blue
moon has come” is the Perlsteinian term for hell freezing over.
Imagine controlling the hand that feeds you!
If there’s an Imagine charter school in your district, you should read David Hunn’s piece in Sunday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the Imagine CEO suggesting to its school leaders how they might manipulate the boards that control them. The unedited e-mail is pretty brazen.
Did I mention I do windows?
In responses to our survey of people who have used the public editor resource, several mentioned they would like a clearer explanation of what I can help with.
Why don’t reporters visit teaching colleges?
Secretary Duncan came down on teachers colleges yesterday. This isn’t a new concern. Yet I don’t think I have EVER read a piece in the media about what exactly people learn, and don’t learn, at schools of education. Can we fix that?
High heels in kindergarten: a story idea.
Okay, so I admit I’m always a little taken aback when I am visiting a school and see Latina kindergartners wearing frilly dresses and high heels. I’ve heard more than one teacher snicker at this; it makes it hard to sit criss-cross applesauce and participate in P.E. But after EWA’s meeting on Latino youth issues with the Pew Hispanic Center earlier this month, I get it.
Sad news about Jerry Bracey.
Hours after starting my blog, I heard from Jerry Bracey. If you are an education reporter at any sizable media outlet and never heard from Jerry Bracey, I am surprised. He dedicated himself to correcting, not always politely, what he saw as misinformation in education research and journalism. As a frequent recipient of his long analyses, let me tell you, he found misinformation everywhere.
What the teacher research DOESN’T say.
In his education speech to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in March, President Obama said, “From the moment students enter a school, the most important factor in their success is not the color of their skin or the income of their parents. It’s the person standing at the front of the classroom.”
To put it bluntly: “He’s wrong.”
The blue moon has come.
When my brother Rick and I were in third grade, we had a teacher named Mrs. Frankiewicz. Mrs. Frankiewicz used to say that she never made mistakes—just once in a blue moon. One day, when she wrote something incorrectly on the board, my brother pronounced, “The blue moon has come!” (Genius then, genius now.) So “the blue moon has come” is the Perlsteinian term for hell freezing over.