Initial ideas on measuring performance under the school-wide bonus pilot program.
Are teachers at the Graphics Communications Arts HS being unfairly sent to the rubber room?
A Brooklyn middle school student’s death last week was caused by a staph infection. More here, here and here.
How do you think a program to keep high school students from dropping out by putting them in college classes will turn out?
The New York Times looks at who pays when special ed students go to private school, with the recent Supreme Court case serving as a backdrop.
The AFT looks at student achievement in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Read about Automotive HS in Brooklyn.
Does your school recycle?
Global Kids is accepting applications for its Education Fellowship.
3 Comments:
1 rainyvines
· Oct 30, 2007 at 6:09 pm
With regards to the NY Sun article on performance pay, I find this quote hardly comforting:
“…Instead, the store adds other variables to tabulate its employees’ paychecks, such as the rate at which an associate sends his customers birthday cards, the relative loyalty of the crowd at his trunk shows, and the sales figures of his larger team.”
The RATE at which an associate sends his customers birthday cards?
In such situations, promptness may be inversely proportionate to sincerity. I doubt clients would be touched, honored, or impressed by such cards. I sure wouldn’t.
2 Steve Perez
· Oct 30, 2007 at 6:57 pm
The equivalent I took from it would be something like calls home to parents. Thoughts on that?
3 rainyvines
· Oct 30, 2007 at 7:29 pm
It is possible to make many phone calls to parents, quite promptly, without communicating effectively with them. One thoughtful, unrushed phone conversation can be more valuable than 5 perfunctory ones.
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