Photo by Reed Saxon / AP - An English class at Edwin Markham Middle School in Watts.
“According to Newsweek, the local teachers union is infuriated over the disclosure of teacher performance metrics. Quoting: ‘Do parents have the right to know which of their kids’ teachers are the most and least effective? That’s the controversy roaring in California this week with the publication of an investigative series by the Los Angeles Times’s Jason Song and Jason Felch, who used seven years of math and English test data to publicly identify the best and the worst third- to fifth-grade teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
The newspaper’s announcement of its plans to release data later this month on all 6,000 of the city’s elementary-school teachers has prompted the local teachers’ union to rally members to organize a boycott of the newspaper.’ According to the linked Times article, United Teachers Los Angeles president A.J. Duffy said the database was ‘an irresponsible, offensive intrusion into your professional life that will do nothing to improve student learning.’”
I don’t understand the part where the mom says: “I realized that I really wanted to spend time knowing my children and raising them and not cleaning the bathroom”.
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“Porsche’s Spyder will allow drivers to use several fueling modes including E-Drive, Hybrid, Sport Hybrid and Race Hybrid. E-Drive mode switches on the vehicle’s electric engine which can run for about 16 miles. Amazingly, the car’s top speed is 198 miles per hour. Of course all this eco-friendliness will come at a very wallet-unfriendly price–a whopping $630,000 a pop.” > Source: http://dvice.com/
“Amazon has acquired popular deal-a-day website Woot. The announcement was made on the Woot Blog. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Woot will remain an independent, autonomous entity, much like Zappos when it was acquired last year by the online shopping giant.” – Source: http://mashable.com/
Christina was telling me about this yesterday and living in America something like this didn’t sound true but evidently it is. He chose this method to die, possibly for the headlines but not sure I agree with the death penalty. Thoughts?
“Convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad early Friday, the Utah Department of Corrections said. Gardner, 49, is only the third person to die by firing squad in the United States in 33 years.” – CNN
