You read it right: an education can be stolen. Tanya McDowell, a homeless woman from Bridgeport, recently pleaded guilty to first degree larceny for fraudulently using her babysitter’s address to enroll her 6-year-old son in the neighboring town of Norwalk. As a result, she was sentenced to 12 years in prison. She only wanted a…
read more »It’s been almost 2 months since my last post. This is the longest I’ve been away. Law school is keeping me as busy as I was in the classroom. Anyways, I thought I’d share an interesting article I came across today–one that connects to both education reform and what I’ll be doing this summer: “Forum…
read more »One month from today, Brandon (the hubby), will put down his (our) preferences for medical school residency! Whoa! We have been between Kansas City (KU program) and here (OKC/OU program), but… there’s been a recent ‘wrinkle’ in our decision-making… Salt Lake City! Brandon went up last weekend for an interview with Univ. of Utah, going…
read more »ETA: Can’t figure out how to get comments working. There are 23,909 people following Diane Ravitch on Twitter. I am no longer one of them, and not by choice. Has anyone ever heard of a public figure doing this? The background: Ravitch went on a Twitter rampage yesterday railing against a study showing a highly…
read more »It’s the second semester of my second year, and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have begun to seriously consider different options for employment/school next year. As I think about what I will be doing next year, there is one thing that scares me: will I be bored? The…
read more »The first year teaching is brutal. For almost everyone. But I can’t shake the feeling that it shouldn’t be this hard. What do you wish someone would have told you or taught you how to do before your first year teaching? For me, 1) I wish someone would have demonstrated how to effectively use betterlesson.com…
read more »Believe it or not, I’m still here and I still intend to keep this blog alive. I blame my first semester of law school for my lack of writing. Now that I’m on break, I finally have time to put away the massive casebooks and return to pleasure reading. Boy, did I miss that. Given…
read more »This may not be a new thought, but it needs to be said. Institute is a pile of garbage. It serves one primary purpose, and there’s no close second–getting you used to be completely and utterly miserable. It certainly wasn’t for the students. I was supposed to cram a year of algebra into about fifteen…
read more »Oh, I wanted to. September sucked. October sucked. November sucked. And when I say sucked, what I mean is every day was truly awful. Not just kind of bad. Truly awful. The depression was overwhelming. Just getting up in the morning was a struggle. Has it really gotten that much better? I’m not sure….I think…
read more »I am one and a half weeks away from the end of first quarter, in my FOURTH year teaching- craziness! It has literally been a whirlwind of transition in my life these last four years, INSIDE the classroom, and OUTSIDE the classroom. My last blog post stated a lot of the most recent changes… I’ll…
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