Education
Responding to a post from earlier this week, National Education Association Rhode Island Chapter Executive Director Robert Walsh comments that Jennifer D. Jordan’s recent Projo story on charter schools, where it was reported in the voice of the omniscient journalistic narrator that the NEA “disagrees” that charters have certain benefits, failed to capture the full…
The online headline of Linda Borg’s article in today’s Projo announces one community’s goal for education…In Central Falls, the goal is getting pupils to read better.…which, despite its seeming obviousness, is a bit different from the goal being emphasized by the National Education Association, according to a companion article written by Jennifer D. Jordan…Charter schools…
In a comment to my liveblog post, Thomas Schmeling asked me to “provide some information on the ‘merit system’ of compensation that [I] support.” The short answer is that I don’t have a tremendous amount of detail to put forward. For one thing, I volunteered for the Tiverton School Committee Subcommittee on Evaluations in part…
So when I arrived at last Tuesday’s Tiverton School Committee workshop on merit pay for teachers, I set up such that I could capture the faces of speakers in the audience. But the committee out-thought me and positioned a microphone at the table typically set aside for the stenographer, and by the time I realized…
A little bit of clarity about what charters and mayoral academies are all about could help our state in ways beyond education. This paragraph from an article about Cranston Mayor Allan Fung’s interest in starting one of the latter puts it succinctly: Like other charter schools, [Democracy Prep Blackstone Academy, in Cumberland] operates outside traditional…