At our last meeting, Evelyn Klein asked our panel of recently retired teachers about the teaching of cursive writing in schools. For those of you interested in the topic, a recent blog post can be found at Edutopia on Cursive writing that you might find interesting.
A good deal of controversy has also erupted over the cover story of the 3 Nov. 2014 issue of Time magazine, once again blaming teachers and teacher tenure for all the problems with public education. Randi Weingarten has called for teachers to let the magazine know of their disappointment in such simplistic analyses of this complex problem.
Remember that we are meeting at 10:30 at West Wind on Nov. 5 to discuss Amanda Ripley's The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way. You can read the New York Time's review of the book. Or you can listen to interviews with the author at NPR or at The Leonard Lopate Show, and on the Diane Rehm show.
An interesting article about protests regarding too much testing in the Milwaukee Journal. Another article reports that most students receiving taxpayer money to attend charter schools had not been enrolled in public schools the previous year.
Some of you might be interested in Wisconsin School News, published ten times a year, which examines issues important to schools in Wisconsin. This month's issue includes answers to questions posed by the publication to the guberatorial candidates. However, Scott Walker declined to answer the questions, so only Mary Burke's responses are included. Madison's Cap Times provides coverage of the governor's lack of response.
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