Saturday, December 06, 2008

Metro teacher arrested in animal abuse case

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From WSMV where you can view the video . Elizabeth Sadler is a teacher at Hattie Cotton Elementary School, where she was arrested. She was a...
Friday, December 05, 2008

Cheating on the tests

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Red Hat Rob reveals that the Tennessee Department of Education hasn't been honest about reporting the ACT scores for its students. ...
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Thursday 12/05/08

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MNPS Budget: MNPS BOE member Gracie Porter ( District 5-East Nashville ) “I certainly am not a proponent of having classroom teachers cut f...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Not smart at all

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We don't have cable TV in the Brooks home. We spend our money on DSL service instead which is far more useful to our family. So with the...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Works for me

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Red Hat Rob points out that the new Republican controlled Tennessee legislature doesn't have to wait until 2011 and another election cy...
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Monday, December 01, 2008

Bedfellows

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Ken Marrero has a great post about working together where you can. Ken notes, regarding the variety of issues and support on the right: We ...
Sunday, November 30, 2008

145 chances

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Almost un--be--liev--able. After 146 criminal charges and just 5 days after his latest conviction he obtains a gun, attempts to rob a conve...

Idiots!

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File this with the statements from folks who think outlawing guns will actually work. This from the chairman of the corporation that owns th...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Spreading the wealth

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I love contrasting the Jamestown and Plymouth Plantation settlements while teaching. There were important differences. The Heritage Foundati...
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Show us the paper

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It's a great question Joe The Farmer asks : The question not being asked by the holders of power, who dismiss this as a rightwing conspi...
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If that wasn't bad

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My state representative opines on the new Republican controlled Tennessee legislature: "I think our friends across the aisle have some...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

How smart are they?

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Great take on the Obama's hypocritical choice of Sidwell Friends for their daughters at Jay Greene's site. Turns out, according to ...
Friday, November 21, 2008

Equity of rights

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Great quote in the December 2008 edition of the School Reform News : "Americans insist on equality of opportunity in housing, employmen...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

RIP: Marshall Fritz

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A strong voice for children and their parents is gone. Marshall Fritz has passed according to his Separation of Church and State site. He ...

On the same day

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On the same day that homeschooling blogs are abuzz about the latest offensive and ignorant comments from Joy Behar of "The View" i...
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No room for failure

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From CitizenNetMom : The big problem for us is not the advanced students, though. It’s those who struggle to pass Algebra 1, and who will h...
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Friday, November 14, 2008

Mapping Middle School

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Based on the EffectiveSchooling.org chart MNPS Middle schools are looking pretty good. Green with a dot = Exceptional Green = Exceeds Standa...
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The Democrat Bus

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AC Kleinheider at the Nashville Post asks : Has (Republican Lt. Gov. Ron) Ramsey just thrown Rosalind Kurita under the bus? Rosalind Kurita...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Judging the Judges

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One of the most frustrating parts of being an informed voter is the lack of information regarding judges. Never having appeared in a courtro...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Fully expected

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The City Paper headline tells us: MNPS denies all three charter school applications. That was fully expected. Coulda written that headline ...
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