tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post2678876493480156850..comments2024-03-29T02:41:52.718-07:00Comments on Seattle Schools Community Forum: Oh Those Kidders at the Stranger!Melissa Westbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-34882293770310815712010-10-25T17:15:08.164-07:002010-10-25T17:15:08.164-07:00So here's a piece of today's blurb over at...So here's a piece of today's blurb over at LEV advertising (literally) tonight's event:<br /><br />"...featuring three education innovators: Richard Barth, CEO of KIPP Foundation, Timothy Daly, President of The New Teacher Project, and Steve Barr, Founder of Green Dot Public Schools...the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will moderate a panel discussion about strategies that are working to provide an outstanding education for every child."<br /><br />Ha! Really?! "Innovators" (corporate profiteers) are going to talk about strategies that "provide an outstanding education for EVERY child"? Whose strategies are they going to discuss? Certainly not their own "innovative" strategies, which only serve a few percent of students, and those, apparently, badly...Do they mean the mechanization and standardization of classrooms? Does this strategy help "every" student? Do they mean the multiple-choice, computerized tests that seem rife with room for error? THESE help every student?<br /><br />What about at/above level students in the current system? Are THEY being helped by these strategies? Oh, yeah, differentiation - the strategy where a teacher can teach ALL the different levels, abilities, and understandings in one classroom, all 35 of them, while the teacher is subjected to the same test metrics as part of her/his evaluation<br /><br />Ought to be a hoot, wish I could go, can't wait to read the report (thanks in advance, reporters!)seattle citizenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16724175257161649500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-10849494911400437362010-10-25T16:44:08.998-07:002010-10-25T16:44:08.998-07:00The only reason those Texas "Cowboys" ev...The only reason those Texas "Cowboys" even have any shot at all is because they raided Cliff Lee from the Mariners back in June. Go Giants. <br /><br />bb fanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-15114108637566100282010-10-25T16:30:30.182-07:002010-10-25T16:30:30.182-07:00Not from Texas and not the NY Yankees.Not from Texas and not the NY Yankees.Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16260807460417787614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-59186943727253506782010-10-25T16:20:19.581-07:002010-10-25T16:20:19.581-07:00Not keeping up with baseball, I made that "er...Not keeping up with baseball, I made that "error." Sorry for the confusion. But the real thing is, any team NOT from Texas.Melissa Westbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12588239576000641336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-60599051825330073602010-10-25T16:18:39.364-07:002010-10-25T16:18:39.364-07:00Ok - that's funny SC. I'm no football fana...Ok - that's funny SC. I'm no football fanatic - but growing up in Oklahoma - I believe that the Cowboys to which the post refers is the Dallas Cowboys who are playing the New York Giants tonight in the Monday Night Football game.<br /><br />I believe that the first World Series game is Wednesday night San Fran Giants vs. the Rangers at 4:30pm. Go Giants?CCMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07038994914929300444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-10772261984696639862010-10-25T16:06:40.167-07:002010-10-25T16:06:40.167-07:00Ha! My sister in Chico, CA, posted that yay, the G...Ha! My sister in Chico, CA, posted that yay, the Giants were going to the series.<br /><br />I wrote back, "who?"<br /><br />She replied, very seriously, "That's not funny. If you were here in the room you wouldn't say that."<br /><br />NEVER joke around about not knowing the Giants! I think she hates me now.<br /><br />I sent her a signed picture of Dave Heaverlo I had lying around.(late seventies Giant pitcher, ex-Mariner, was from Ellensburg and now has a radio show in...Spokane, I think). Maybe she'll see me at the holidays.<br /><br />At any rate...Go Giants! They're the only team around here (in the West's sense of distance) that has a chance at a series title, so Go Giants!seattle citizenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16724175257161649500noreply@blogger.com