What if colleges had to meet NCLB standards

September 11th, 2009

Its a good thing that many public universities don’t have to worry about graduation rates like high schools do. A recent study of 68 colleges show many have graduation rates below 50%. The best schools have the highest rates and poor student don’t do as well. Freshmen are less expensive to educate than seniors due […]

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Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division – Anthony Muhammed

September 3rd, 2009

This book by Anthony Muhammad gives administrators advice on how to deal with four types of teachers who he broadly defines as believers, fundamentalists, survivors, and tweeners. This book came to my attention as it was assigned as summer reading for all of the teachers and administrators in the Binghamton City School District (New York) […]

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Hello world!

August 31st, 2009

Welcome to my blog. The purpose of the blog is to provide free content that will serve as bite-sized staff development material for practicing school administrators, people who wish to be administrators some day, teachers, and parents. I also hope that it will generate some discussion that we can all share to help with your […]

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