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POPS Oregon Measures

by rgrcabbage 11-5-2008

I'm extraordinarily happy the two education initiatives did not pass. Measure 60 was poorly worded and even more poorly thought out. Sure, in the corporate world it makes sense to pay employees based on performance. In the world of education, those same standards would sell students short and punish teachers who are doing a wonderful job of reaching hard-to-teach students that don't meet some "undefinable" definition of succeeding. As for the latter, limiting ESL education to two years would have been devastating for the more than 40% of public school kiddos who don't speak English as their first language. Yes, they should learn in English, speak English and so on, but to learn, there has to be a trade off. Finally Oregon made some solid choices.

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POPS Technology in Classrooms?

by rgrcabbage 3-28-2008

Actually, this doesn't surprise me one bit. There are no computers in classrooms in my building. My lab it outdated by a solid ten years. I have two mobile carts totaling less than 30 computers for student use . And my teachers are illiterate and unwilling to learn technology standards for use in their classrooms. Face it, K-12 technology still has a long way to go.

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