by David Safier While I was googling my way through education topics, I pulled up a 2007 cover story from Time Magazine, Dropout Nation. The article bemoans the high dropout rate, which it puts at somewhere between 20% and 33%. Lowering the dropout rate is a wonderful idea. Everyone’s for it. We want an educated … Read more
by David Safier Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik says, Keep guns off campuses. The Arizona Board of Regents passed a unanimous resolution saying, No guns on campus. The campus police chiefs are against it. The editorial boards of the newspapers are against it. And on top of that, it’s a bad idea. Can we vote … Read more
by David Safier Want to make $125,000 a year as a teacher? Apply to work at a New York charter school opening its doors in 2009. Here’s how it will work. Teachers in Grades 5-8 will see 30 students per class, most of them from low income, Hispanic families, teach longer school days and school … Read more
by David Safier (TASL) It’s time to update the progress of the recent court ruling on ELL. Here’s what it boils down to: Court: Fund ELL by March 4. Horne: Screw you. There’s a bit more to it than that, but not much. When Horne was confronted with the March 4 deadline, he said he … Read more
by David Safier (TASL)“We Deserve Math.” “It’s Our Right.” You gotta love those middle schoolers who walked out of school and waved those hand made signs over their heads to protest the fact that they don’t have a permanent math teacher. And you gotta be angry at an education system that leaves 93 TUSD classrooms … Read more