Education
My opinions as an educator.
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The belief that centralization leads to greater efficiency is organizational fallacy. While it streamlines decision making and reporting, it does nothing to stimulate either processes. A centralized structure limits the organization’s vision to its executives, negating the meaningful firsthand experiences and voices of lower level directors and managers. I am curious to know the data…
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There was a rally in front of my children’s school. Many children (despite having gone through a lottery and been placed in a Pre-K class at a school) are being told they can no longer attend that same school for kindergarten. It would be easy enough to tell my son that the DOE was run…
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I came across these videos in a completely unrelated search. I have fond memories of watching Abbott & Costello movies on Sunday afternoons on WPIX in New York. Having taught math these routines are funnier than ever. Enjoy!
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language education, single thought
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Listen to this: http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/128940 He has a point. Why don’t we call each other “people, people, and people” or address each other by our names? The question above closes Beth Fertig’s report featuring students attending the International High School in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. She had asked the students to consider Amsterdam’s classification of all non-European…
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Whenever I see an article about “pay for grades”( like the piece in the ASCD’s March 2009 newsletter) or “merit pay” like in the (Commentary in the March 11, 2009 issue of Education Week) I am reminded of a story I heard many years ago in a documentary about the communism in China. I want…
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When our eldest was our only, our parents told us it was time to leave the city. One of the reasons they used was that all of the “good schools” were in the suburbs. Our parents are not alone in this belief. We also have friends who moved away because of the same belief. Last…
Vincent Young 