Carnivalicious!

The 169th edition of The Carnival of Education (hosted this week by What It's Like on the Inside.) has opened the midway!And don't forget to round out your educational experience by seeing what the homies are up to over at The Carnival of Homeschooling.

Get Your Carnival On!

Entries for the 169th edition of The Carnival Of Education (Hosted this week by The Science Goddess over at What It's Like on the Inside.) are due. Please email them to: the_science_goddess [at] yahoo [dot] com . (Or, easier yet, use this handy submission form.) Submissions should be received no later than 9:00 PM (Eastern) 6:00 PM (Pacific) Today. Contributions should include your site's name,

The Carnival Of Education: Week 168

Welcome to the midway of the 168th edition of The Carnival of Education!Here's the very latest roundup of entries from around the EduSphere. Unless clearly labeled otherwise, all entries this week were submitted by the writers themselves.Folks interested in hosting a future edition of the C.O.E. should please let us know via this email address: owlshome [at] earthlink [dot] net.Thanks to everyone

Life Expectancy Down For Some American Women

Saw this article in the Washington Post. It troubles me: For the first time since the Spanish influenza of 1918, life expectancy is falling for a significant number of American women.In nearly 1,000 counties that together are home to about 12 percent of the nation's women, life expectancy is now shorter than it was in the early 1980s, according to a study published today.The downward trend is

Carnival Entries Are Due!

Entries for the 168th edition of The Carnival Of Education (Hosted this week by us here at 'The Wonks.) are due. Please email them to: owlshome [at] earthlink [dot] net . (Or, easier yet, use this handy submission form.) Submissions should be received no later than 9:00 PM (Eastern) 6:00 PM (Pacific) Today. Contributions should include your site's name, the title of the post, and the post's URL

The Watcher's Council Has Spoken!

Each and every week, Watcher of Weasels sponsors a contest among posts from the Conservative side of the 'Sphere. The winning entries are determined by a jury of 12 writers (and The Watcher) known as "The Watchers Council."The Council has met and cast their ballots for last week's submitted posts. Council Member Entries: For the second week in a row, Wolf Howling received the most Council votes

Merit Pay Chronicles: A Teacher Speaks!

Maria Neira is a former classroom teacher who runs a teachers union in New York State. Consider reading what she has to say on the subject of teacher pay based on test scores:Fully understanding last week's battle in Albany over whether student test scores should be used to determine which teachers earn tenure requires a broader appreciation of what it means to be a classroom teacher.Too often,

Friday EduGaggle

'Tis the season for EduDecision '08. As such, see what candidate Barack Obama has to say about education in his own words.Check out what this New York classroom teacher has to say about linking test scores to job security.Writing to his great-grand daughter and her seventh grade history teacher, Michigan sports writer Suds Sumney gives an engrossing eye-witness testimony concerning his tenth (and

Thursday EduGaggle

Should a Texas student who takes a cell-phone call from his dad (who is serving in Iraq) while said student is in class be suspended because taking that call broke the rules? A lot of issues to chew-over on this one. Enjoy your meal. More tidbits here and there.Our Department of Religious Affairs has been monitoring the interesting case of the public school teacher who is in heaps of trouble for

Teacher Arrested Not Once, But Twice!

This Florida middle school teacher has been arrested not once but twice for inappropriate behavior with two different students:TAMPA - When teacher Stephanie Ragusa was having sex with a Davidsen Middle School student last year, she became intimate with a second student, investigators said Tuesday.Ragusa, 28, was arrested again Tuesday, accused of having a sexual relationship with another

Wednesday EduGaggle

Special for all you classroom teachers out there: even though our paychecks may not be going up, the prices of just about everything is skyrocketing. (Oh yes, what is being expected of us is going up too...)Ewww! A Pennsylvania elementary school has had a close encounter of the Mold Kind.Did you know that this is Teach For America Week? We didn't either... See some related pics of First Lady

Let's Carnival

The 167th edition of The Carnival of Education (hosted this week by The C.E.A. Blog.) has opened the midway!And don't forget to round out your educational experience by seeing what the homies are up to over at The Carnival of Homeschooling. (Please keep in mind that The Nerds are in control of this week's C.O.H. roundup...)

Texas Teacher Shortage?

They're crying out for teachers in the Lone Star State:Each day, students of different races, genders, ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds enter the nation's classrooms. Unfortunately, for some, these factors may work against them - especially in urban areas.According to TCU's [Texas Christian University] Center for Urban Education, urban schools - those schools with low socioeconomic and/

Get Your Carnival Entries Submitted!

Entries for the 167th edition of The Carnival Of Education (Hosted this week over at The C.E.A. Blog.) are due. Please email them to: misterhayes [at] hotmail [dot] com . (Or, easier yet, use this handy submission form.) Submissions should be received no later than 7:00 PM (Eastern) 4 PM (Pacific) Today. Contributions should include your site's name, the title of the post, and the post's URL if

The Watcher's Council Has Spoken!

Each and every week, Watcher of Weasels sponsors a contest among posts from the Conservative side of the 'Sphere. The winning entries are determined by a jury of 12 writers (and The Watcher) known as "The Watchers Council."The Council has met and cast their ballots for last week's submitted posts. Council Member Entries: For the second week in a row, Joshuapundit received the most Council votes,

Friday EduGaggle

And now from San Antonio, Texas we have this sorry tale of a high school fight club.Hearthrob Angelina Jolie has issued a call for more and better educational opportunities... for Iraqi kids. (Disc. There's something about that dress she's wearing in the photo that we find uplifting.)In another entry from our International Desk, we have this story that disproves the notion that high school

The Union President Who Swings

If this South Florida (Why does it always seem to involve Florida?) teachers union president ever gets tired of doing whatever a full-time county-level union person does to fill up his time, I guess he could go back to running a profitable swingers club in his home.Interestingly, a careful read of this related article might lead one to suspect that this man's past was possibly exposed at the

When Girls Go Stupid

What more can be said about this crime? And what can be done to stop the stupidity of this type of made-for-video violence?

Our Fine-Feathered Teachers

Teachers and students come in different shapes, sizes, and (apparently) species: NUNEATON, England, April 8 (UPI) -- The owner of a wildlife sanctuary in Nuneaton, England, says a young parrot has been teaching foul language to its avian brethren.Geoff Grewcock, owner of the Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, said 7-year-old macaw Barney apparently learned his profane vocabulary from a previous

The Carnival Of Education Is Up And Running!

The 166th edition of The Carnival of Education (hosted this week by The Elementary Educator.) has opened the midway!And don't forget to round out your educational experience by seeing what the homies are up to over at The Carnival of Homeschooling.

Gender Bender Elementary

What were they thinking in Wisconsin? REEDSBURG, Wis. (AP) - An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the district office.Students at Pineview Elementary in Reedsburg had been dressing in costume all last week as part of an annual school tradition

Carnival Entries Are Due!

Entries for the 166th edition of The Carnival Of Education (Hosted this week over at The Elementary Educator.) are due. Please email them to: mpullen [at] sbcglobal [dot] net . (Or, easier yet, use this handy submission form.) Submissions should be received no later than 7:00 PM (Eastern) 4 PM (Pacific) Today. Contributions should include your site's name, the title of the post, and the post's

Monday Morning

Have you ever gotten to your workplace and said "good morning!" to someone without really thinking about it?The person so addressed nearly automatically responds with the same greeting and tack-on "how are you?"To that, nearly everyone responds (without thinking, and usually without listening) with "fine."We've all done it countless times.It's a classic (and time-worn) greeting ritual.Today is

When They're Too Cool For School

Sad But True.Heh. It's just a matter of time before those all-knowing Washington lawmakers and their associates accomplices over at The Kingdom Of Spellings will attempt to legislate an attitude-change for America's youth.

The Watcher's Council Has Spoken!

Each and every week, Watcher of Weasels sponsors a contest among posts from the Conservative side of the 'Sphere. The winning entries are determined by a jury of 12 writers (and The Watcher) known as "The Watchers Council."The Council has met and cast their ballots for last week's submitted posts. Council Member Entries: Joshuapundit received the most Council votes with Black Liberation Theology.

Censorchimps: The Mandarin Subspecies

In Communist China, if the powers-that-be don't like what you write, you'll do hard time:A Chinese court Thursday sentenced an outspoken human rights advocate to three and a half years in prison after ruling that his critical essays and comments about Communist Party rule amounted to inciting subversion, his lawyer said.The conviction of Hu Jia, 34, quickly brought outside criticism of China at a

The Wankers Of The Day: Brandon and Amber Herbert

It's so satisfying to see a couple of Wankers get their just deserts: A week after dozens of people ransacked an Oregon home in response to a Craigslist ad offering its contents for free, police have arrested a couple for orchestrating the online hoax as part of a bid to cover up an earlier burglary at the property. Brandon and Amber Herbert were nabbed last night for allegedly posting the March

Censorchimps: The East Texas Subspecies

Who would've thought that wearing a "John Edwards for President" T-shirt would get a kid suspended from high school? The lawsuit was inevitable: A Waxahachie High School sophomore is suing the school district for the right to wear a T-shirt supporting John Edwards as a 2008 presidential candidate.The Liberty Legal Institute on Tuesday announced that it was suing the Waxahachie Independent School

Get Your Carnival On!

The 165th edition of The Carnival of Education (hosted this week by I Want To Teach Forever.) has opened the midway!And don't forget to round out your educational experience by seeing what the homies are up to over at the April Fools' Edition of The Carnival of Homeschooling.

Let's Be Careful Out There!

All points bulletin: Today is April Fools' Day.Beware of prank-playing students and ordinarily-hurmorless school administrators and other co-workers.Get more about All Fools' Day here and the "top 100 April Fools' hoaxes" over there.And remember, if you pull a prank, "the law of unintended consequences" can and will apply.You've been warned.

Carnival Entries Are Due!

Entries for the 165th edition of The Carnival Of Education (Hosted this week over at I Want To Teach Forever.) are due. Please email them to: teachforever [at] gmail [dot] com . (Or, easier yet, use this handy submission form.) Submissions should be received no later than 7:00 PM (Eastern) 4 PM (Pacific) Today. Contributions should include your site's name, the title of the post, and the post's