By Henry Neufeld
Jonathan Smith, Vice President of Florida Citizens for Science (of which I am a board member) presents a column on science education in Florida today in the The Ledger (Lakeland, FL):
A key quote:
Parents are the ones who must endeavor to help shape their children’s future by guiding them down the paths of interests and provide [...]
By Henry Neufeld
One of the things I think has not been discussed enough in the current job situation, though I think President Obama has done extremely well on this one point compared to his predecessors, is the simple fact that jobs for minimally educated people are disappearing, and thus many of the new jobs that are being [...]
By Henry Neufeld
While I know that some forms of determining merit pay for teachers can be unfair, in general I think tying pay to performance is an excellent, indeed necessary idea.
Now the Florida Education Association is trying to block $700 million in grants from the federal government because it’s tied to incentive pay.
Bad idea, I’d say!
By Henry Neufeld
The idea of equally dividing incentive bonuses between all teachers, good, average, or bad apparently makes sense to the Boston Teachers’ Union. They want to block incentive bonuses given to teachers based on performance and instead divide the money between all teachers equally.
Note also that the money is coming from private foundations. That’s [...]
By Henry Neufeld
I recently wrote with appreciation about my Seventh-day Adventist education in Biblical studies over on my Participatory Bible Study blog. Today a friend sent me an e-mail directing me to a post on Inside Higher Ed, discussing a problem with the teaching of evolution at La Sierra University, a Seventh-day Adventist school. I [...]
By Henry Neufeld
Because of many of my political positions, not to mention my theological ones, many people suppose that I would think public education was the be-all and end-all of education. And I do believe that making education available to everyone is an essential of civilized society.
The problem is that writing a health care bill titled [...]
By Henry Neufeld
I’d like to get some more information on this story about a charter school that would target high school dropouts.
I know we’re all fighting over money right now, but it seems like this is a good place for innovation. It’s always possible that there really is a problem with the way the money will [...]
By Henry Neufeld
By “it” I refer to the the case of Vanessa Mills v. Thomas Mills in Wake County, North Carolina. Timothy Sandefur has written on this, and we also have a short response from Doug on Stones Cry Out. Under a large number of conditions I might agree with Doug, but on reading this [...]
By Henry Neufeld
The U. S. News Blog reports that schools in some states, including my home state of Florida, are making it possible for Middle School students to take advanced courses that might normally only be available in High School.
My reaction to this is positive. Anything that improves education is a good thing. As I [...]
By Henry Neufeld
Well, actually you should have the freedom to be dumb, but not on the public school budget. For all those who wonder why I strongly oppose so-called academic freedom bills applying to the High School science curriculum, see this site.
Cool, no?
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