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Posted by Mike LaChance on September 17, 2015 70 Comments
Yesterday a Texas teenager, who happens to be a Muslim, brought a homemade clock to school and was arrested because the clock was mistaken for a bomb. Some people are blaming racism but zero tolerance policies are the real problem. NBC News reports that he won't be charged:
No Charges For Ahmed Mohamed, Teen Arrested After Bringing Homemade Clock to School Police in Texas said Wednesday that charges will not be filed against a 14-year-old Muslim high school student who was arrested after he brought in a homemade clock that a teacher said looked like a bomb. The arrest drew an outcry on social media. Hundreds of thousands of people used the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed — and President Barack Obama invited the teen to the White House. Ahmed Mohamed, who is Sudanese-American, was arrested on Monday in the Dallas suburb of Irving after he took the clock to his high school. He told The Dallas Morning News that he had been in robotics club in middle school, and he wanted to show his new teacher what he could do.

Posted by Jay Caruso on April 14, 2015 25 Comments
The Atlanta educators who were convicted on April 1 of racketeering and other charges related to purposely inflating test scores in poorly performing schools were sentenced in the Fulton County Court today:
One by one, they stood, alongside their attorneys, before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter. In this system, a jury decides guilt or innocence, the judge metes out punishment. Throughout the five-month trial, Baxter has been pointed. Until Monday, he said he planned to sentence the educators to prison. When verdicts were reached, he ordered them directly to jail. But on Monday he changed his mind and decided to allow prosecutors to offer them deals that would have allowed them to avoid the possible 20-year sentence that racketeering carries.

Posted by Amy Miller on January 08, 2015 42 Comments
Today, President Obama unveiled a new plan to make two years of Community College free "to responsible students across America"---and it's just as flawed as that knee-jerk gut reaction you just had told you it is.
Post by The White House.
So, the first two years of community college would be free "for anybody who's willing to work for it." He says it will help train a stronger workforce---but at what cost? Under the proposed program, the federal government would cover three-quarters of the average cost of community college. The states would then have to cover the remaining tuition, meaning the bill would be paid in full for "eligible students." For the program to fit with Obama's vision, community colleges would have to change their programs to fit educational standards that haven't even been written yet (emphasis mine):

Posted by Anne Segal on September 17, 2012 21 Comments

The Chicago Teachers Union strike continues Monday after a failure to resolve the strike, now into its second week with 350,000 children affected by the standoff. There had been some optimism that the union officials, who met Sunday afternoon, would vote in favor of the...

Posted by Anne Segal on August 31, 2012 17 Comments

The Chicago Teachers Union, after a summer of threats and miscellaneous protest actions, announced a date for their strike of September 10 this Thursday. CTU released a copy of their resolution on the website: The strike is necessary to achieve a labor contract with acceptable wages, benefits...

Posted by Anne Segal on April 24, 2012 21 Comments

*UPDATE 4/25: EAG released a second video on "Gender-Bender" day at the school. Chicago public school Jones College Prep apparently believes school is the appropriate venue to train students in nonviolent protesting: Philip Jackson was brought in to lead the training and provide students with specific ideas...

Posted by Michael Alan on March 09, 2012 45 Comments

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of sitting in on a lecture given by Dr. Richard Baer, professor emeritus of environmental ethics and education, at an event hosted by the Cornell Republicans. Baer spoke at length about how, in their rush to ensure that they're not promoting religious...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2011 45 Comments

considering that I finished high skool before the creashion of the U.S. Deparment of Edjukation in 1980. If there were federal mandates, bureaucracies, and of course, No Child Left Behind, when I was in skool ...

Posted by Michael Alan on July 24, 2011 7 Comments

Dear Rahm, Governor Christie has a right to get testy when questioned on his family's decision to send their children to parochial school because he's working to give all children the opportunity to get a great education, be it in a public school or elsewhere. You,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2011 8 Comments

at legalinsurrection.blogspot.com? It's possible, but the day is not over.The most amazing thing to me is not that Christie tells the voter that it's none of her business where he sends his kids to school, but that he pays $38,000 per year in property taxes.  Ouch.http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1--------------------------------------------Follow...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2011 1 Comment

From The Cornell Sun:Although Cornell’s female faculty report higher levels of satisfaction than they did in 2005, male faculty still say they are happier with their jobs than their female colleagues are, according to the results of the 2010 Faculty Work Life Survey.Looking at the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2010 8 Comments

You can't make this stuff up.I posted earlier about a school which banned the singing of Happy Birthday out of fear of, well, it's a little hard to articulate the irrational.But that's not the real story, according to Peter Daou, who uses the following diagram...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2010 9 Comments

One elementary school instituted a Taliban-like ban on singing "Happy Birthday" for fear of upsetting students who were not participating in the celebration (or something like that):A ban on singing “Happy Birthday” lasted all of four days at Chesterfield Elementary School in Missouri after angry parents bombarded...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2010 21 Comments

Ethan Haines is a law school graduate who blogs at unemployedJD.com, a website devoted to the plight of law students who graduate with loads of student loan debt and few job prospects.Glenn Reynolds has written of the higher education bubble in general, and law student...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2010 7 Comments

Another "emergency" and pending "catastrophe" is being used to justify more federal government spending to support unsustainable teachers' union contracts:Education Secretary Arne Duncan says President Obama "absolutely supports" a congressional proposal for $23 billion in emergency education spending in order to stave off teacher layoffs...

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