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K&the3ds: April 2012
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Monday, April 23, 2012. But pineapples don't have sleeves! This started out as a comment on Ed Hughes' fabulous school board blog. And if you live in Madison, you absolutely need to be reading that blog - He does a wonderful job of keeping the rest of us up to date on local education issues.). It doesn't really matter! I very much want to defend standardized tests. Left to my own world experiences, I would argue passionately that standardized tests were quite obviously the one and only measurement of...
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K&the3ds: But pineapples don't have sleeves!
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Monday, April 23, 2012. But pineapples don't have sleeves! This started out as a comment on Ed Hughes' fabulous school board blog. And if you live in Madison, you absolutely need to be reading that blog - He does a wonderful job of keeping the rest of us up to date on local education issues.). It doesn't really matter! I very much want to defend standardized tests. Left to my own world experiences, I would argue passionately that standardized tests were quite obviously the one and only measurement of...
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K&the3ds: October 2012
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Friday, October 5, 2012. The scary, silent P word. It sure was fun following the first debate on TV and Twitter. Romney's inaccuracies; Obama's less-than-stellar performance. The Big Bird jokes alone, made it worth the time. But, two days later, I still can't shake my morning-after feeling of disappointment. How in the world were these two powerful men able to debate for a full 90 minutes about the US domestic economy without even uttering a word about poverty. Refers to America's Invisible Poor Children.
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K&the3ds: June 2011
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Friday, June 10, 2011. Northside Family Restaurant Values. To celebrate the last days of elementary school, my mother (visiting from MD) offered to take daughter D to any restaurant in Madison - cost was no object. Anywhere she wanted to go! I started salivating. We have some pretty awesome restaurants in Madison. L'Etoile! But my daughter had something else in mind. She named a strip-mall restaurant, down the street from us. Oh sweetie," I said, "We can go there any time. This is a special dinner! And t...
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K&the3ds: November 2011
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Monday, November 7, 2011. My daughter and I were peeling potatoes for dinner the other night when we happened upon This American Life's Middle School. Podcast. If you, or someone you love, is currently in Middle School, please stop reading this drivel and go listen to Ira Glass instead. It was that brilliant. It takes a lot to rattle you. (Yes, we still. Compare every single developmental stage to colic. "Terrible Twos? Nah, not as bad as the colic."). They'd like to shop at Banana Republic. They'd w...
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K&the3ds: August 2012
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012. Low performing schools - or not? Http:/ www.motherjones.com/media/2012/08/mission-high-false-low-performing-school. I read the story in Mother Jones today (yes, we actually subscribe in print) and cried. Really: tears, streaming down my face. THIS is my kid's school. Except substitute "Wisconsin" for "California" and "middle school" or "elementary" for "high school.". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Shop at Amazon to support Sherman Middle School!
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K&the3ds: Girl Rising
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013. I'd received a few emails from various friends about going to see Girl Rising. They all had the same tone: "Let's take our daughters to this movie.so they can see how lucky we are, etc. etc". It was a week already too-full-of-activities, so I politely declined all invitations. And then friend R gave D a handmade book for her birthday. It was called "All the great things about D" - and each page was dedicated to a different nice thing about D. some big. some small....And now R has...
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K&the3ds: May 2011
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Monday, May 23, 2011. Best School Board Meeting. Ever. I go to a lot of school board meetings. That either makes me certifiably insane, or a concerned citizen who is very interested in education policy. (please let it be the later. please.). There are only a handful of us average-joe-citizen-parents who are regulars at the local BOE meetings. Sometimes I get really annoyed that no one else seems to care about this critical business of educating our children. But then I spoke with some teachers. And I...
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K&the3ds: The Bully Project
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Saturday, March 30, 2013. I had this really detailed post written. Yesterday, over on Twitter - Sara Goldrick-Rab. Suggested that maybe school choice was a good option in light of failing Madison schools. Rebecca Kemble. Countered that schools aren't uniformly "failing" - there *are* successful programs out there - we just need to provide sufficient resources to fund them. But I just deleted it. You see, tonight - my 13 year old daughter asked me to watch the. Sometimes I get a bit sad because so many pe...