Monday, October 31, 2005

Pop quiz

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Nashville's police department pulled a pop quiz on local high school football attendees. The quiz had just one question and 4 young men...
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It's past time for cyber schools

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"Imagine if Tennessee's state legislators of yesteryear had banned overhead projectors in schools; prohibited educational filmstrip...

Policies that work

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The National Governor's Association for Best Practices. "Providing Quality Choice Options in Education" says that the followi...

Squandered

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Today's Tennessean contains a " Nashville Eye " column that needs to be read and responded to. Not responded to by printing an...
Sunday, October 30, 2005

Sunday 10/30/05

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It's Halloween, so bats in the attic seems appropriate-- Channel 9 is reporting bats and mold at Jasper Middle school in Chattanooga. I...

Repurposing

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The Nashville City Paper outlines some of what the school board is doing to get citizen input into the budget cuts that must be made. One o...
Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Buh bye

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The morning media is making it pretty clear that Metro Nashville Public School Director Pedro Garcia is on his way out. This may be the firs...
Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Fix this!

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If I see the Tennessean publish this same map showing Evergreen as south of Joyce Lane again I guess you'll hear me all the way to Broad...
Saturday, October 22, 2005

Government needs

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And yes, I've seen the Tennessean editorial against the latest efforts of Tennessee Tax Revolt to require Nashville government to chec...

A real boost for development and safety

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Advocates say afterschool programs can boost academic, physical, and social development of children while keeping them safe. From WATE ...

I feel your pain

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From Anderson County: The county schools contract with bus companies to provide bus service to county schoolchildren. The agreed-upon contra...

Let's be honest

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Governor Bredesen was recently in Japan. Thankfully someone was honest. “In almost every meeting I go too, I ask what are the impediments to...
Friday, October 21, 2005

Nashville politics from the inside

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Those of you interested in what's going on in Nashville politics will want to bookmark (add to your RSS feed) Word on the Street . Birth...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Volunteer in school

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Brittany at NashvilleIsTalking wondered about volunteering in schools. It's an awesome thing to do and I applaude her in this effort. AN...

Another historic loss?

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This article about preserving the old Murphy school reminds me that we still have the gymnasium portion of Litton High that needs to be pre...
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On the road SB meetings

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The Nashville Metro School Board will be taking their meetings 'on the road' according to the Nashville City Paper . What seemed rea...
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Retirees more and less

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GM retirees get less and retired teachers get more-- We're learning about the givebacks that are being required from GM employees ...

National report card questioned

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The Nashville City Paper reports that Standard & Poor's thinks NAEP needs context. “Our whole business is transparency,” [Directo...
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Getting a real job--

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From today's Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle comes the news that their Director of Schools Sandra Husk has been given a three year contract ...

High priority takes a slow boat

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Ten weeks after being notified by the state Department of Education that it fell short of the federal benchmarks for two consecutive years, ...