Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content
Michael Goldstein, the founder of Match Charter Public School in Boston weighs in with the last word on the Louisiana rerouting scandal:
In other news, the Red Sox reported today that they were re-routing 3 victories from the Dodgers back to Boston. “Those Dodger wins were generated by Manny Ramirez,” said team president Larry Lucchino. “If Mannywood hadn’t demanded a trade from Boston, those wins would have been ours.” This development belatedly makes Boston the AL East Division Winner.
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Its National Punctuation Day! Please remember: friends don’t let friends; misuse semicolons.
“I was bored in school. It’s true. I spent my school years daydreaming and writing stories.” So begins a fundraising email from George Lucas for his education foundation, Edutopia, which pushes project learning and technology in the classroom. He made his billions writing and directing the Star Wars, and Indiana Jones movies.
A shame how that daydreaming and writing stories thing worked out for him.
If you understand why this is funny—ok, it’s not not funny. It’s absurd and inexcusable—count yourself fortunate that you went to a school that understood that content knowledge matters. (Hat tip: Joanne Jacobs)
Courtesy of the wags at The Onion, a plea in verse from the late Theodor Geisel, beloved by millions (but not by Hollywood) as Dr. Seuss:
Did you learn all but squat from The Cat In The Hat?
Please tell me you fired the p—- who made that.
I would have stopped writing, maybe sold Goodyear tires.
If I knew one dark day I’d costar with Mike Myers.And Oh!
Oh, dear! Oh!
My poor Grinch, what they’ve done!
They crammed in live-action and snuffed out all the fun!It’s icky, it’s tacky, it’s awkward, it’s wrong.
The Whos look like ferrets, it’s an hour too long.
What a rotten idea to spend millions destroying
This masterful tale kids spent decades enjoying!
There’s more, but this is a family blog.
A fabulous example of kids working in self-directed groups and using cooperative learning strategies to solve an authentic, real-world problem right in their classroom.
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