Comments on: Back to the one-room schoolhouse http://www.joannejacobs.com/2008/06/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/ Free-linking and thinking on education by Joanne Jacobs Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:11:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: allen http://www.joannejacobs.com/2008/06/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/comment-page-1/#comment-77944 allen Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:18:07 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2008/06/02/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/#comment-77944 > That teaching the kids is more important that managing the teachers? Give that man a cigar. And by extension, in the balance of the public education system, especially so in school districts, the implication of teachers being the lowest paid professionals would be...? > That teaching the kids is more important that managing the teachers?

Give that man a cigar.

And by extension, in the balance of the public education system, especially so in school districts, the implication of teachers being the lowest paid professionals would be…?

]]> By: The Cradle of Differentiated Instruction at The Core Knowledge Blog http://www.joannejacobs.com/2008/06/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/comment-page-1/#comment-77804 The Cradle of Differentiated Instruction at The Core Knowledge Blog Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:10:37 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2008/06/02/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/#comment-77804 [...] school house.  Is it an idea whose time has come around again?  At Pajamas Media (hat tip: Joanne Jacobs), Charlie Martin costs out what it would take to bring back the one-room school house…in [...] [...] school house.  Is it an idea whose time has come around again?  At Pajamas Media (hat tip: Joanne Jacobs), Charlie Martin costs out what it would take to bring back the one-room school house…in [...]

]]> By: Rob http://www.joannejacobs.com/2008/06/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/comment-page-1/#comment-77729 Rob Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:54:37 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2008/06/02/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/#comment-77729 So, I have a question: are the administrators members of the teachers union? I'm guessing the answer is no, but it's just a guess. So, I have a question: are the administrators members of the teachers union? I’m guessing the answer is no, but it’s just a guess.

]]> By: Charlie (Colorado) http://www.joannejacobs.com/2008/06/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/comment-page-1/#comment-77702 Charlie (Colorado) Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:45:12 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2008/06/02/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/#comment-77702 <i>Oh, and the principal of the school’s supposed to make significantly less then the teachers. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to the message that sends?</i> That teaching the kids is more important that managing the teachers? Oh, and the principal of the school’s supposed to make significantly less then the teachers. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to the message that sends?

That teaching the kids is more important that managing the teachers?

]]> By: Bart http://www.joannejacobs.com/2008/06/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/comment-page-1/#comment-77686 Bart Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:26:10 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2008/06/02/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/#comment-77686 I would have thought the term "one-room schoolhouse" was meant to evoke an old-fashioned rural school. Otherwise, I guess I could say that I attended a single-grade one-room schoolhouse in seventh and eighth grades. But back then we called them "portable classrooms." I would have thought the term “one-room schoolhouse” was meant to evoke an old-fashioned rural school.

Otherwise, I guess I could say that I attended a single-grade one-room schoolhouse in seventh and eighth grades. But back then we called them “portable classrooms.”

]]> By: david foster http://www.joannejacobs.com/2008/06/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/comment-page-1/#comment-77658 david foster Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:42:04 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2008/06/02/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/#comment-77658 "A one-room schoolhouse model would force re-adoption of teaching methods that would be effective for students of different ages and abilities"...only if it's in a rural area. If it's in a fairly dense area, then you could have one-room schoolhouses for each grade... “A one-room schoolhouse model would force re-adoption of teaching methods that would be effective for students of different ages and abilities”…only if it’s in a rural area. If it’s in a fairly dense area, then you could have one-room schoolhouses for each grade…

]]> By: allen http://www.joannejacobs.com/2008/06/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/comment-page-1/#comment-77653 allen Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:27:55 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2008/06/02/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/#comment-77653 And leave us not forget the "$125,000 per teacher" charter school that's started up in New York. Makes a bit more concrete the cost, leaving aside the value, of the central administration. Oh, and the principal of the school's supposed to make significantly less then the teachers. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to the message that sends? And leave us not forget the “$125,000 per teacher” charter school that’s started up in New York. Makes a bit more concrete the cost, leaving aside the value, of the central administration.

Oh, and the principal of the school’s supposed to make significantly less then the teachers. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to the message that sends?

]]> By: EM http://www.joannejacobs.com/2008/06/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/comment-page-1/#comment-77645 EM Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:33:07 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2008/06/02/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/#comment-77645 Oh how I would love to have 24 kids per classroom, have the money to work with them AND not have state legislators or administrators blocking me from doing what we (teachers) know needs to be done. Just think what today's teachers could do with 6-8 teachers in a class!!! Oh how I would love to have 24 kids per classroom, have the money to work with them AND not have state legislators or administrators blocking me from doing what we (teachers) know needs to be done. Just think what today’s teachers could do with 6-8 teachers in a class!!!

]]> By: Ron K http://www.joannejacobs.com/2008/06/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/comment-page-1/#comment-77634 Ron K Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:43:05 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2008/06/02/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/#comment-77634 shows how much administrators and the like cost the school districts shows how much administrators and the like cost the school districts

]]> By: Don Pettengill http://www.joannejacobs.com/2008/06/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/comment-page-1/#comment-77625 Don Pettengill Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:47:09 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2008/06/02/back-to-the-one-room-schoolhouse/#comment-77625 Tom McClintock's "A Modest Proposal for Saving Our Schools" (2005) is hilarious, and is along the same line: http://republican.sen.ca.gov/web/mcclintock/article_print.asp?PID=292 Tom McClintock’s “A Modest Proposal for Saving Our Schools”
(2005) is hilarious, and is along the same line:

http://republican.sen.ca.gov/web/mcclintock/article_print.asp?PID=292

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