by David SafierWhy do Arizona Senate Republicans want to tax the rich? Well, that's not exactly what they want. This is what was actually voted on. The Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted to slash the salary of every state and university employee earning at least $100,000 a year by that much for one year. … Read more
by David SafierRhonda Bodfield has an article in the Star on the Stanford Charter School study I posted about a few days ago. It's basically a good, thorough article, which I've come to expect from Bodfield's reporting, with commentary from people on both sides of the issue. But Bodfield made one strange choice. She mentioned … Read more
by David SafierTom Horne's statement should be required reading in ethnic studies classes — in TUSD schools and at universities. It's a classic. "We should be teaching these students that this is the land of opportunity," Horne told the committee. "We should not be teaching them that they are oppressed." And we should be teaching … Read more
by David SafierStanford University just put out a nationwide study of charter schools. The overall conclusion is that students in charter schools do slightly worse than the same students would do in traditional public schools. But the results are so mixed that the conclusion doesn't mean much. Individual findings in the study are far more … Read more
by David SafierI like the idea of trying to boost the level of conceptual math understanding in K-12 schools. I would love to see the program they're creating here, linking UA grad students with working math teachers, help students become better at math. But math whiz grad students who have never taught helping teachers be … Read more