by David Safier (TASL) For the first time in awhile, I once again don my tax-and-spend mantle tassel to praise TUSD for planning a $27 million tax override for the November ballot. Half the money is to be spent on lowering class sizes. The Star estimated it would cost an owner of a $150,000 home … Read more
by David Safier Part 3 of the Star series on social promotion offers up some possible remedies, but as always when it comes to education, they are thin gruel. Not that they’re not good ideas and they won’t work. Not that they shouldn’t be done. But all of them have been done before. Sometimes they … Read more
by David Safier There’s so much to be written about the Star’s series that began with Social Promotion in Tucson area schools Sunday and continued with Grade Inflation today. I’m going to limit myself to one small aspect of the social promotion question. Maybe I’ll write more later. When I was taking education classes in … Read more
by David Safier I spend a lot of pixels criticizing School Boards and Superintendents and the Arizona Legislature. (Have you ever thought how many pixels had to die, how many ones and zeros were cut down in their prime, to create this post? It’s horrifying!) But I can’t remember bad mouthing any students in my … Read more
by David Safier I’m no expert on ELL education, and I won’t play “Expert” here. I honestly don’t know the best way to teach students who aren’t proficient in English. But I do know the controversy that raged in Arizona over bilingual vs. English Immersion instruction. EI won. According to Tom Horne, his decision to … Read more