What a difference a day makes!
Today’s New York Times online included a story on Michelle Rhee, the controversial year-long superintendent for the troubled D.C. school system. She’s one of the many Ivy Leaguers who used a few years of teaching in urban schools via Teach For America to springboard into the forefront of educational policy [...]
Posts under ‘Middle School’
Oh I Wish I Were in Washington D.C.!
And Now for Something Less Fun
A Safe Classroom
Today’s LA Times featured a heartbreaking story about a 14 year-old, learning diabled boy named Jeremiah Lasater who shot himself in the boys’ bathroom of his Acton high school on Monday. He was 6′ 5, awkward, and nerdy, according to kids quoted in the article. He’d been bullied for quite some time, though [...]
Aniboom & Scratch
IF YOU CAN’T BEAT THEM…
There’s no avoiding it. Chances are, if you have a kid older than 5, they’re going to want to be on the computer. And they’re going to want to play games. Often, rather violent games. Boys, especially.
I tried keeping guns out of the house for years, but [...]
Let’s Start With Some Fun
Glogster
My 6th grader came home the first week of school desperate not to bend a 24” x 12” sheet of green construction paper. He guarded it like a secret service agent on a presidential candidate.
“What’s that for?” I asked.
“My ‘All About Me’ project,” he replied glumly. “I’ve got to cut and paste all about me.”
The [...]
