Education

What Should High Schools Do?—Open Thread

January 12, 2012

We’ve hashed around some debates about educational achievement before, but I wonder what people believe K-12 education should accomplish for students? What would define successfully having educated our kids mean? In the New York Times, Gary Gutting offers this ideal vision: Concretely, students graduating from high school should, to cite one plausible model, be able [...]

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Taking Women Students Seriously

January 10, 2012

While I was teaching an exercise about paraphrasing in research papers today, I came across this quote from Adrienne Rich in her essay Taking Women Students Seriously: "The undermining of self, of a woman’s sense of her right to occupy space and walk freely in the world, is deeply relevant to education. The capacity to [...]

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Do You Want Neil Livingstone or Ken Miller Running Your School?

December 11, 2011

It became clear during the last legislative session that conservative talk about local control of schools was nothing more than talk, as they tried to impose their narrow view about curriculum on the entire state. Not content to leave the experience of conservative hypocrisy to the likes of Representative Kris Hansen, gubernatorial candidates Ken Miller [...]

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Some Entirely Unsolicited Advice for the Helena School Board

November 29, 2011

The Helena Independent Record is reporting that the Helena School Board plans to address compensation for the next District Superintendent at Tuesday night’s meeting and I have a bit of advice: don’t increase the Superintendent’s compensation any more than you plan to increase compensation for every other employee group in the District. By all accounts, [...]

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Health Education Revisited

November 22, 2011

While some of the fires have probably died in Helena following last year’s heated discussion about health curriculum in the public schools, the importance of providing students helpful, frank information about health, including sexuality, has not diminished at all. Laurie Abraham, in the New York Times Magazine, recently wrote an excellent, timely piece about a [...]

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More Class from Representative Rehberg, Attacking Teachers

November 4, 2011

Today seems to be another one of those days in which Representative Rehberg and his campaign staff are doing their best to define just what an ass the Congressman is. Confronted by a reporter in Esquire magazine about Rehberg’s repeated alcohol-related injuries, this was the best response the Rehberg team could muster: He [Erik Iverson] [...]

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Representative Hansen To Lobby Against Quality Education for Montana Students

October 25, 2011

It seems Representative Kris Hansen of Havre isn’t content to attempt to impose her discriminatory values on Montana communities—now she wants to bring her unique perspective to education reform. The Havre Daily News is reporting that the representative is leaving her government job as deputy county attorney to take an undefined job with unnamed education [...]

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Today in the Independent Record: Badly Misleading Information About Graduation Rates

August 18, 2011

I actually feel like kind of a jerk for writing this post, but today’s story in the Independent Record about graduation rates in Montana is such an effective example of why a local newspaper needs an on-site editor to ensure accurate, quality information gets to the public that I felt compelled to call attention to [...]

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