The Race to the Top initiative won’t solve this country’s education problems by itself, but it is focusing attention on the right issues and moving them up the national agenda. NY Times “Nations like Finland and Japan seek out the best college graduates for teaching positions, prepare them well, pay them well and treat them with respect,” she said. “They make sure that all their students study the arts, history, literature, geography, civics, foreign languages, the sciences and other subjects. They do this because this is the way to ensure good education. We’re on the wrong track.” Diane Ravitch
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View Article  Multi Approach to School Reform
No matter whether they agree or not with the reform measures, most citizens praise St Petersburg's efforts.   more »
View Article  Putting Yourself Where Your Award Is!
To some, moving up as a teacher means working at an affluent school with few academic struggles.
Not to Betsy Rogers. After being named National Teacher of the Year in 2003, she switched to Brighton School - Jefferson County's poorest school, which held the longest run on the county's school-improvement list.   more »
View Article  It’s going to be a long, hard road to teacher pay alternatives.
Is this the beginning of the end of alternative pay plans?   more »
View Article  Conservatives and Unions
I have indicated in earlier postings that we know things are askew when conservative educators become union proponents. Dianne Ravitich ...   more »
View Article  Atlas Principals Institute Austin Texas
The Atlas Principals Institute is a unique and valuable experience for school leaders concerned about the issues sxhools face. Don't miss it.   more »
View Article  The Principal’s Flyer Volume 2 Week of December 18 – December 22, 2006 Number 16
Mike takes the time to explain to the faculty why he may ask them to cover a class during a free period. This is respectful of the teachers.
Also the oral history project he describes is a favorite of mine and can be effective at the middle and high school level. "How did we/our family get here?"   more »
View Article  Sandbagging a pilot school
It is with a sense of smugness that I publish Scott Lehigh's column from today's Globe   more »
View Article  BILL #: H1837 OF YEAR: 2003 Insuring Quality Teaching and School Leadership
Another thrust at changing the conditions of teaching.   more »
View Article  The Principal’s Flyer Volume 2 Week of December 11 – December 15, 2006 Number 15
Today's Flyer is not as meaty as most. It is interesting to see what post-Columbine security looks like.
Even Mike is hawking holiday gift sources.   more »
View Article  The Times is Still on The Case-Why the Achievement Gap Persists
The law was supposed to remake schools that serve poor and minority students by breaking with the age-old practice of staffing those schools with poorly trained and poorly educated teachers.   more »
View Article  The Have's and Have Not's!
This is a snapshot of the national problem of teacher distribution.   more »
View Article  The Principal’s Flyer Volume 2 Week of December 4 – December 8, 2006 Number 14
Mike must be pressed. We heard about Washington Irving's bruises last week. The range from evacuation plans to Supreme Court decisions on racial balance indicates what a thoughtful principal deals with.   more »
View Article  I Was Wrong!
It's Gotta Be More Than This!   more »
Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Harold, far from being a ------- , was not ------- to take a person holding opposing political views into his household.

  • (A) convert . . accustomed
  • (B) bigot . . loath
  • (C) fanatic . . susceptible
  • (D) recluse . . sympathetic
  • (E) persecutor . . inclined
Answer Below.

But every school is redeemable so long as it enjoys strong leadership, talented teachers, adequate funding, and enough hours in the day to make up for deficiencies in the home. And federal stimulus funds for education are available to those states willing to prove it. Boston Globe Editorial

B IS CORECT!Right-o! Explanation Only “bigot . . . loath” logically completes the sentence. Someone who is not bigoted, or prejudiced, would not be “loath,” or unwilling, to accept someone with different opinions.