Depressing infographic of the day.
Happy Equal Pay Day"We’ve spent too much time over the past two decades caught up in a blame game. Just as we now know how wrong it was to blame kids and their families for the achievement gap, we should be careful not to get swept up in the trend of blaming teachers. Rather, we need to give all those who are engaged in this hard work the respect and support they deserve."
Wendy Kopp: The Trouble With Humiliating Teachers - WSJ.com
That’s my lady! And I would say she hits the perfect note and bridges the divide between traditional-entry teachers and TFA teachers (who stay teachers, like me). On tumblr, it seems like there is a fair amount of anti-TFA sentiment, and it bothers me, because as I have posted before “I teach kids too!”
(via leightd)
You right, you right.
Another amazing idea by a female legislator to highlight the absurdity of the personhood bills making their way around the country.
“The hero in question is Virginia senator Janet Howell. The Democrat wasn’t happy with a proposed bill that requires women to have an ultrasound before they can have an abortion, so she attached a very special amendment to the bill…that requires men to undergo a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before they can be prescribed medication for erectile dysfunction.”—
Brilliant State Senator Attaches Rectal Exam to Anti-Abortion Bill (via alexleo)
Simply brilliant. If only it had passed…
Best part of my day/week/month. Let’s hope I can remember how to write something other than a lesson plan.
