Archive for June, 2006
Peer pressure and socialization
WOAI: San Antonio News – Child Beaten Unconscious On School Bus: The Northside Independent School District says a fourth grade boy was beaten and kicked in the back of a crowded school bus Friday morning. The students were being taken to McDermott Elementary School off Huebner. Apparently a 4th and 5th grader beat up the [...]
Why numbers alone don’t tell the story
If TAKS scores go up unexpectedly, you can be flagged for cheating when all you really did was, well, what you were supposed to do: MySA.com: KENS 5: Education: For example, Northside’s Pease Middle School was flagged for gains in eighth-grade math. But districts don’t know which individual student scores stood out. “If they gave [...]
So who’s accountable?
Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Texas/Southwest: In other words, a student who moved to Dallas in June and attended a local school the entire school year would still not be counted in that school’s scores the following spring. Does this mean that the students who move away from Dallas will be [...]
Which child to leave behind?
PDK International |: “Take out your classes’ latest benchmark scores,” the consultant told them, “and divide your students into three groups. Color the ‘safe cases,’ or kids who will definitely pass, green. Now, here’s the most important part: identify the kids who are ‘suitable cases for treatment.’ Those are the ones who can pass with [...]
Socialization?
Grand Avenue Comic, June 7, 2006 http://www.comics.com/comics/grandave/ The setup for the strip, a girl in a lunch room, “The bad news: Grandma still humiliates me in front of all the kids by packing notes in my lunch!” So this is funny because it society in general accepts that this happens in the lunchroom. Why do [...]
Another case of Zero Tolerance run amuck?
Warren HS Senior’s ‘Wave’ Gets Her Kicked Out Of Graduation Ceremony: A Warren High School senior was not allowed to walk across the stage to receive her high school diploma recently because she violated Northside Independent School District policy when she waved and pumped her fists in the air at the crowd. What I want [...]