Opinions of Three

So I just completed another interview. This is for a night school job. It is so humbling to have to go back and explain why you are good at your job. This one had an interesting start; a question that was functionally incoherent. “How do you want to enhance your teaching?” What? Is this a [...]

After three days of “professional development” school is finally going to start. The three days of meetings that proceed the first days of school are usually a mind numbing expedition into the oxymoronic. This year was, however, a marked improvement. 3 out of our 4 administrators did simple things to make their sessions relevant and [...]

This is not really a media opinion. It is more of a rant about the way that the term research gets used in the formation of public education policy.
The term research has ceased to have meaning and has taken up an almost magic quality. It is used to trump ideas and quash discussion as well [...]