Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** I expect the future of Learning Centers to be a loud, ugly debate. Prediction: Ron Price will swear and since I'm a betting man, I'm setting the over at three profanities. **...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Jack Floyd takes on the new grading rules that are "spreading like kudzu." ** The district names a "Service Center" after a long-time principal who helped break barriers in Dallas. ** Mr....
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Two locals are finalists for the Superintendent' job in Reno: Kim Olson and Hector Montenegro. Looks like reporters there have been using the Google machine. [ducking] ** Now the Lege is getting...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** I stopped by the Advocate Magazine offices yesterday to participate in a podcast on DISD with Rick Wamre and Norm Alston. You can listen to it here. ** Looks like DISD administrator...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** A study of Texas fitness levels in students finds that out-of-shape kids are more likely to flunk than their more-fit peers. One more reason, kids, to step away from the cheese burgers....
A teacher sent along to me a few days ago this form that teachers at a district middle school are required to fill out for each of their "failing" students -- if they flunked more than 15% of their kids....
Superintendent Hinojosa at yesterday's press briefing talked about the new grading rules, acknowledging for the first time that he "feared" the new rules would encourage grade inflation. He said end-of-semester exams taken last month have put that fear to rest....
UPDATED 2/12: Commentor Louis beat me to it in his comments on another thread, but a College Readiness report to be given to trustees Thursday contains some early data on the new grading policies (which have seemingly been named the...
UPDATED 1/12/09 1:16 p.m.: By now, I'm sure the district's new grading rules need no introduction, after being roundly lampooned by this blog's commentors and by national media and pundits. Nevertheless, the district firmly believes that the vast majority of...
Everything but the figgy pudding ... ** Seems the district is ending up on some folks' Christmas lists. A suburbanite prays for a DISD "miracle" while a taxpayer wants Santa to eradicate dropouts. Worth reading: The post's first two comments....
It's time to get some feedback on DISD's new grading rules -- you know the ones that make it harder to flunk a student. We're three months into the school year and would like to hear your opinion on the...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Any minute now, Frankie Wong will have the book thrown at him, if yesterday's sentencing of his partner-in-crime is any indication. ** Steve Blow says schools are succeeding despite district-level...
I just got from the district the attendance records of the folks who the district says were behind those new grading rules that caused such a fervor a few weeks ago. The district defended the new rules, in part, by...
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