Resources

Sgt. Phil Esterhaus always concluded his beginning-of-shift message to the Hill Street patrol squad with a heartfelt “Hey–Let’s Be Careful Out There.”*
That’s a warning that many educators and administrators would be wise to heed as they conduct more of their business online.
Case in point: Catskill (N.Y.) Superintendent Kathleen P. Farrell. According to The New York […]

An article from The Baltimore Sun provides some insight into what can happen to a facility victimized by deferred maintenance and an apathetic school community.
Miko Baldwin took a recent day off from work to help out in the office at Woodlawn High School in Gwynn Oak, Md., and discovered something that stunned her: the […]

With whiteboards and smartboards and Power Point displays, is there a place in education for the lowly piece of chalk?
Yes, says Robin Kaler, associate chancellor for public affairs at the University of Illinois. That was her, dressed in a suit and heels, crouched down on the campus Quad in Urbana clutching a piece […]

New York City announces that it is opening a bank branch in a Bronx high school. Education officials hope students who open accounts there or work as tellers will gain some financial literacy as they become familiar with how a bank operates.
From a city news release:
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein today announced the opening […]

Kids on 53 buses in the Seminole County (Fla.) district won’t be riding in silence anymore. The Orlando Sentinel reports that as a trial, the Seminole County district will allow a private company to broadcast a daily program of rock music, lessons and advertisements through special radios on 53 of its 400 or so buses.
According […]

Last month, David Warwak, a middle school teacher from Fox River Grove (Ill.) Middle School, lost his job after he began using class time to express his vegan beliefs to students. Warwak wanted the school to stop serving meat and other animal products in student lunches and said he wouldn’t return to the classroom […]

A college student has failed in his effort to have a federal judge award him a “A” that the University of Massachusetts at Amherst denied him in a political philosophy course.
From The Boston Globe:
Brian Marquis, a 51-year-old paralegal seeking bachelor’s degrees in legal studies and sociology, got a C instead of an A-minus in […]

The New York Times no longer is charging to read its opinion columns online, so here’s some of what columnist Bob Herbert says today about education:
What’s needed is a wholesale transformation of the public school system from the broken-down postwar model of the past 50 or 60 years. The U.S. has not yet faced […]

Apparently, too many of the students at Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park, Ill., have embraced the advice of Ari on HBO’s Entourage and have been “hugging it out.” So many of the 800 students at the school
have been hugging each other as they work their way through the hallways that they are creating […]