Dewey21C

I always thought he was underestimated as an actor. It wasn't just  as measured by the number of Academy Awards, but rather by the opinions of all my friends that he wasn't on par with Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro, Gregory Peck, Lawrence Olivier, etc. I argued then and will argue now.I know it sounds terribly corny, but when I heard of the death of Paul Newman I felt that I had … [Read more...] about Goodbye Paul Newman

Looking at the ashes being scattered across Wall Street, the extent to which we do not yet understand or can reasonably predict, made me think a bit about what it was like going into the public schools as a "teaching artist" during the early to late 1980's. Okay, I am not completely sure that the term teaching artist had quite taken hold as early as 1982. I was then a student … [Read more...] about A Teaching Artist Circa 1982

I hope that everyone will read about Don Rosenberg, the long-term, deeply respected music critic of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, being reassigned so that he will no longer be reviewing The Cleveland Orchestra.The music journalism perspective has been covered very well, very quickly and if you haven't taken a look, you can find it on the pages of artsjournal.com.  However, … [Read more...] about Feel The Chill: Don Rosenberg’s Reassignment

Eduwonkette. She's Babe Ruth, Wayne Gretzky, Diane Ravitch, and Edward Murrow all rolled into one. She's absolutely brilliant as she manages to remain cheeky and friendly, while taking on many of the specious claims connected to testing, accountability, and the powerful propaganda machines claiming great success as a result of test score obsessed reforms.The more I read her … [Read more...] about The Babe Ruth of Education Blogs

You hear it all the time, that schools should be accountable same as the workplace. Merit pay, determined by performance evaluations, rewards high performing employees and creates a highly competitive, successful workplace. Conversely, workers that do poorly as measured by their employee evaluations will be weeded out. It all works for the good of the company and its profit … [Read more...] about Does your workplace performance evaluation really translate to schools?