Teacher Blogs - A collection of blogs dealing with Issues in Public Education & Reform
Teacher Blogs - a collection of blogs dealing with Issues in Public Education & Reform
| Some say...it's not the busy parents, lack of health care, poverty, violence, social influence, or the overcrowded classrooms ... it's the teacher's fault students don't learn. |
| The Scapegoating of teachers By Duane Campbell Stop Scapegoating Teachers By Randi Weingarten PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE / Blaming the teacher By Louis Freedberg Where do people learn to scapegoat? Scapegoating— An Insidious Family Pattern of Blame and Shame on One Family Member By Lynne Namka, Ed. D © 2003 |
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| Does Class size matter? (from Deborah Meier's blog) This is where some of our leaders send their children to school: President Obama: Sidwell Friends (average class size: 15). Arne Duncan (US Secretary of Ed), University of Chicago Laboratory School (average class size 19) Michael Bloomberg (Mayor, NYC): Spence (average class size: 16-18) Joel Klein (Chancellor, NYC Dept. of Ed,): Miss Porter's (average class size: 11) Photo Anagnostopoulos (COO of NYC Education Department): Dalton (average class size: 15) |
| Public School Class Size: Debbi J. Needham, WA, 2010: "Sitting in my classroom in November were 26 students in 4th & 5th grades. Now I teach 25 students daily. The teacher next door to me teaches 27 students in 5th & 6th grades daily." |
| Reading & Math scores Rise When class size is reduced to 15 to 20 students! Our own USA Government suggests less than 20 students per teacher! REDUCING CLASS SIZE - US Department of Education Class Size - National Educator's Association |