by David Safier Stop the presses, and stop bad mouthing public schools. Our graduates are so well trained, productivity just jumped almost 10%! What's that? You say there's no direct connection between schooling and productivity? Then why was everyone trashing me and my fellow teachers in the 80s when productivity was down? If it was … Read more
by David SafierI've been out of town, so I haven't written about the second and third installments of the Fort Wayne, Indiana, Journal Gazette's series on Imagine Schools: Education Inc. This is about Part II, It's 'Our school, not theirs,' which is a doozy. The glue in this installment is the email Imagine CEO Dennis … Read more
by David Safier Man, Tom Horne has spent a lot of Ed Supe time and Dept of Ed money trying to knock down Tucson's Ethnic Studies programs. Who knows how much time he's wasted and how many miles he's logged traveling to Tucson just to hold press conferences trashing the program. And now he's wasted … Read more
by David Safier The NY Times has an interesting op ed about creating a better crop of teachers. It's a suggestion for a new model of teacher preparation. First, have our top colleges and universities "take education seriously" and offer top flight education programs. (Teach for America has demonstrated that the top universities are potential … Read more
by David Safier Today's Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, Indiana, began a 3 part series about the corporation, Imagine Schools, and the charters it runs in Indiana. Compared to these stories, the posts I've written have handled these folks with kid's gloves. The first day's articles are serious stuff. The Sunday paper actually has two … Read more