Comments on: Teach Precious math

By: Morgan

Morgan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:53:13 +0000

I have not heard of the book or the movie. It sounds like something an educator should read. Yes, she may not write at a job but if you are not able to write and spell can she read? I will have to read the book to find out because it seems to me that teaching her to read and do math is very important.

By: fred.lapides

fred.lapides — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:23:00 +0000

the sad part about your post on the dope’s accusation about the teacher union is that (1) he likens it to a real street gang that does great harm and violence–unions do not do that (cut the sneers and the anecdotes), (2)you post as a possible question to think about but The Chicago Boyz, very right of everything posts it as a grand truth.

In fact at your blog one time it is the teachers and their unions, another post it is the Schools of Education and on and on.

How about the home, broken or otherwise? does this not contribute to how students perceive school? And then there are the seriously underpaid and overloaded classrooms and teachers.

For openers, if you want tho change things, study what takes place in Finland, where education, teachers, etc are widely respected and rewarded. Instead, in so many blogs and posts it is place the blame on this or on that…dump it and all will be ok. Not so at all.

As a friend who was a top executive at a major corporation once told me, a place has a union only because he deserves to have one. Make things decent and there will not be a union.

By: john thompson

john thompson — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:48:11 +0000

I’m looking forward to the movie and to rereading the book. When Push came out, I kept a copy in my storeroom away from the prying eyes of administrators.

One student after another devored that book.

By: Nels

Nels — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:22:29 +0000

I’ve neither seen the movie nor read the book, but I did just read through some plot summaries, including Williams’ own. I don’t at all follow how he lumps in the story of a sexually-abused, HIV-positive girl who lives in a halfway house but finds hope through education with a romance genre that glamorizes drug kingpins, gangsta rappers, drive-by shootings, and casual sex.

By: Mike Curtis

Mike Curtis — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:41:27 +0000

Hollywood, You are the smog beneath my wings.

By: barry garelick

barry garelick — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:41:56 +0000

Sounds accurate in some ways. Writing a journal in math classes is becoming a tool of the trade in the rapidly devolving field of K-8 math education.

By: Curmudgeon

Curmudgeon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:49:48 +0000

Well, there’s always rap.

Grammar and writing skills are not in great demand but the pay is good (at least it’s a positive correlation with attitude).

By: Brendan

Brendan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:37:38 +0000

Perhaps the lesson from Hollywood is that these poor children are forgotten and too often swept under the rug. That if they are to survive now or in the future they must do two things.

First, learn how to educate yourself because nobody else is going to do it.
Second, learn to shout your story from the rooftops so that you cannot be swept under the rug with the daily trash.

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