http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/the-school-merger-muddle/Content?oid=3155441 Comments On: The School-Merger Muddle by Jackson Baker en-us Copyright 2013 Memphis Flyer. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Memphis Flyer readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Memphis Flyer. wil@desert.net (Memphis Flyer Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by a perspective teacher]]> Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:17:54 -0500 Memphis Flyer
You are out of your dickless mind, OldTime RockNRoll.
Posted by Phlo]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:52:16 -0500 Memphis Flyer
It's almost as if some people either refuse to learn or just choose to completely ignore history. You are correct that I haven't spent time in inner-city schools, though I did interact with many of their students through programs such as the Bridge Builders and/or athletics teams I was on in my high school days.
Posted by GroveReb84]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:57:03 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by oldtimeplayer]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:56:41 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by merlin]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:14:19 -0500 Memphis Flyer
his competition: One white home grown female.
Posted by homersimpson]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:37:29 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by Phlo]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:28:24 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by GroveReb84]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:10:53 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by M_Awesomeberg]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:06:46 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by Phlo]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:16:13 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by oldtimeplayer]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:25:21 -0500 Memphis Flyer
In this city, that often does divide on racial lines, but it's not a prerequisite, unless the children are being raised in a prejudiced manner where they are unwilling to accept someone of another race working with them.
Posted by GroveReb84]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:55:35 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by mad_merc]]> Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:13:04 -0500 Memphis Flyer
Nice, OTP. Nice.
Posted by Phlo]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:35:50 -0500 Memphis Flyer
If you follow his description carefully, he is describing the AP/Honors model of SCS as the solution.
Posted by ESAU]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:30:09 -0500 Memphis Flyer
Actually these very ideas was used in the old Negro Board of Education. They did not stop until desegregation.

The first days of elementary school and beyond, students were tested extensively to see where each student was at.
Posted by oldtimeplayer]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:24:42 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by homersimpson]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:39:09 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by mad_merc]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:34:04 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by merlin]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:54:56 -0500 Memphis Flyer
It's easier to have standardized curriculum, use a pass/fail system, and grade teachers on pass/fail percentage.

I honestly think that if some of these radical type ideas were to be tried, they would need to be tried in a smaller school system, where the theories can easily be tracked and proven.

Trying to overhaul a major, large system would be difficult, and it would be difficult to get buy-in to make it happen, unless there were proven results and a proven system already out there.
Posted by GroveReb84]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:48:14 -0500 Memphis Flyer
Let this blackman say what black school board members fear to say or can not say or don't believe to say.

This comment has nothing to do with views on the merger.

This is about reform in all-black high schools and elementary and middle schools as well.

OTP has said these things before.

For real reform in MCS schools:

1) "First of all, we need to group students within each school according to their present ability."

2) "Drill, baby drill."

3) "Instead of using the fail/pass system the way it is used now, use the proceed method. Do not let a child proceed, especially in elementary school, until he/she masters their respective grade.
Posted by TruthBeTold]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:39:21 -0500 Memphis Flyer
A lot of you think that learning is better when you have all kinds of expensive educational aids. I don't believe this is really true.
Posted by oldtimeplayer]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:06:43 -0500 Memphis Flyer
We are making a simple problem harder than it should be. We are looking at policies, that on paper, seem wonderful.
Posted by oldtimeplayer]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:06:17 -0500 Memphis Flyer
The CA had an article not long ago about the principal at Manassas and the strides he has made by more or less pushing his own story of coming from poverty and making something of himself. He's made it his priority to force parental involvement and take an interest in the lives of all of his students.

That's what it takes.
Posted by GroveReb84]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:20:27 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by homersimpson]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:50:22 -0500 Memphis Flyer