Look Who’s Teaching
snowflakesinhell.com 4/29/2009 — We have the video from the interview with Cam last night. I am still speechless. A high school teacher who doesn't realize that federal law applies to the whole country, including New York. A high school teacher who took what New Yorkers Against ...

Teaching Reading Right
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/16/2009 — John McWhorter makes a somewhat overblown but essentially correct point about the screwed-up way we teach reading in this country. Basically, there are two main ways of doing this. One, “direct instruction,” involves an emphasis on ...

Teaching: No 'Fallback' Career
roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com 4/20/2009 — Teacher "shortages" may not mean that jobs exist.

Part 28
state.tn.us 2/4/2009 — Part 28

Teaching U.S. History in Texas
alterdestiny.blogspot.com 7/16/2009 — The Wall Street Journal has an excellent article on the battle over teaching U.S history in Texas public schools . Mirroring the evolution/creationism debate, this pits right-wing ideologues over those who have sense. One of the conservatives says ...

I am far too important to be part of Blogroll Amnesty Day
williamkwolfrum.com 2/1/2009 — Not long ago, I became one of the most important bloggers in the known universe. I was featured in the New York Times, The Huffington Post, Witchy Woman, and numerous other national and international publications. It was a great time for me, as well ...

Hitchens: Why Texas Is Right on Teaching Evolution | Newsweek Culture
newsweek.com 3/30/2009 — Mention the name " Texas " and the word "schoolbook" to many people of a certain age (such as my own) and the resulting free association will come up with the word "depository" and the image of Lee Harvey Oswald crouching on its sixth floor. In Dallas ...

Teaching your Children to Hate
snappedshot.com 12/17/2008 — The cynical side of me recognizes that these children are being used as mere shields by a charity that (allegedly!) has deep ties to the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, so this post clearly belongs in Human Shields . But alas, it's not like ...

Teaching values in an ex-Catholic school
joannejacobs.com 3/11/2009 — D.C. Catholic schools that converted to public, secular charter schools still teach values, reports the New York Times. Holy Name, the Trinidad Campus of Center City Public Charter Schools, serves predominantly low-income black students. Where ...

Is Teaching Kids to Quit a Better Idea?
confederateyankee.mu.nu 9/3/2009 — I see a lot of my peers are getting angry at the thought of President Obama addressing schoolchildren in a nationwide address at 12:00 PM (Eastern) on September 8. Some people are worried that the address is attempt at indoctrination,...