tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post2465091483689860068..comments2024-03-29T04:34:05.185-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Let's Play TeacherPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-5819421149212503282015-11-24T10:58:15.880-05:002015-11-24T10:58:15.880-05:00How is that licensed teachers are themselves taugh...How is that licensed teachers are themselves taught by unlicensed professors?Michael S. Kochinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15404906249582930111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-44108606971278146862015-11-15T20:30:51.366-05:002015-11-15T20:30:51.366-05:00"No other profession sees anything quite like..."No other profession sees anything quite like it."<br /><br />Apparently, given the current crop of candidates, one doesn't need any training or expertise to be President of the US either.<br /><br />/endsnarkStuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15854925612517206979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-3261924583582507982015-11-10T10:43:28.880-05:002015-11-10T10:43:28.880-05:00That's happening here in Howard Co MD (DC subu...That's happening here in Howard Co MD (DC suburb). Last year a tremendous and spectacular, retirement package was offered to the most seasoned and talented teachers. Of course they took it because they have been dealing with this system long enough to read the writing on the wall and I honestly can't blame them for wanting to leave the TOXIC environment. The Supe. makes it sound like it's a win-win for the budget over the next couple of years so everyone is happy, happy, happy about pension funds and saving money. But in allowing so many to retire, so many had to be hired and I don't quite know the pool from which they are hiring? Lots of new grads (but from what University). The citizens can't see that this is happening and it's right in front of their faces. This astounds me from a community that claims to b so well educated.edblisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792046029260177146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-84321513691926262802015-11-09T21:22:24.557-05:002015-11-09T21:22:24.557-05:00Sadly, these bogus "schools of education"...Sadly, these bogus "schools of education" will proliferate in the next few years as real professionals are being driven from the classrooms in droves and fewer young people enter traditional college programs. Policy makers will fix on these diploma mills as a quick, cheap and easy way to get warm bodies into classrooms.Liberal Democrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16792530615004672473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-49588281333889332652015-11-09T20:24:31.128-05:002015-11-09T20:24:31.128-05:00I just saw the exclusive world premiere screening ...I just saw the exclusive world premiere screening of the upcoming Michael Moore movie, WHERE DO WE INVADE NEXT? --- the first and only screening to date at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles. Moore was supposed to have screened it at a festival in September, but withdrew as he needed to tinker with it some more.<br /><br />It's not a movie about the military. He "invades" countries for good ideas that other countries use, things that can then be "stolen" and taken back to use in the United States.<br /><br />For ideas about education, he "invades" Finland for about 20 minutes of the film. It's like a 20-minuted encapsulation of Ravitch's book REIGN OF ERROR. While interviewing some high school kids, one of them reveals that he lived for a couple years in the United States, attending schools there. When asked what he disliked about education, he shot back, "Multiple choice tests!" Moore then asked if they had such tests in Finland, and the kids burst out laughing, with one of them saying, "I can't believe (in the United States) you give tests like that." <br /><br />Moore baits some education officials, "You mean you don't use tests to identify failing schools, then turn those schools into charter schools with private management?" The education break into wide smiles, and like the high school kids, shake their heads, and are incredulous that such a thing goes on in the U.S.A.<br /><br />They then go into detail about what they actually do with education.<br /><br />It's good. Look forward to it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911854468188214107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-32640468324637766952015-11-09T20:12:05.829-05:002015-11-09T20:12:05.829-05:00"[W]hen there is no simple answer to a proble..."[W]hen there is no simple answer to a problem, that always creates the opportunity for someone to sell a fake simple answer."<br /><br />"'We have to do something' does not mean 'We have to let clueless amateurs have their way.'"<br /><br />Indeed.Rebecca deCocahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13168718846105012814noreply@blogger.com