Lost our first first-year this week. "Kewper" decided she had enough and quit.
This is the first time in three years, and of any class that I've recruited, that someone has quit during the year. Furthermore, she was teaching English II, which is a state-tested subject. There is no way the school district will find another English teacher, which means the kids will most likely have a permanent sub for the rest of the year.
It's all very frustrating.
Waterboarding, courtesy of the Khymer Rouge.
Paul Reickhoff, a year behind me at Amherst, has an op-ed in today's NYT about the Geneva Conventions. Paul's book, about his time as an Infantry Officer in Baghdad, is Chasing Ghosts.
Great article and book about a current Ole Miss football player, Michael Oher, and the economics of high school, college, and pro football.
NAEP profile of Mississippi. NAEP is the national assessment of schools, much more stingent than the state assessment, MCT. As you can see Mississippi has gone backwards in reading.
The Delta Task Force is looking at ways to revitalize the Delta. In my opinion, unless industry comes back, the Delta will continue to die its slow death.
Do drug dealers make a lot of money?
The question came up a few weeks ago at one the Teacher Corps Saturday classes.
The answer is here.
The presenter, Steven Levitt, is an econmoics prof at the University of Chicago. His outstanding book (and blog) is Freakonomics.
From dawn to dusk, the daily struggle of African women here.
Arthur Levine's latest work: Educating School Teachers.
His contention: Schools of Education have low admission criteria and low performance criteria. He's right.
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