Over the past year, while officially out of work, I’ve taken several part time jobs. One of my jobs is working a couple hours a day a couple days a week with an after school program. The program is made… Read More ›
Month: April 2017
A POSITIVELY POSITIVE POLL 4/28/17
The loud noise you hear is the sound of teachers and students rejoicing because standardized testing has come to an end in Nashville for this year. I proctored a couple of days, so I’ll share that experience in the near… Read More ›
ANALYZING THE RESULTS 4/24/17
It’s time to look at the data from this week’s poll. I appreciate everyone who responded. Per usual, some of the results surprised me a bit. There were slightly more responses than usual this week which is always a good… Read More ›
FRIDAY POLL 04/21
Since this is a blog devoted to educational issues I won’t point out that yesterday was 4/20, but since it’s testing season maybe I will. Here in Nashville it’s the midpoint of the testing window and I hope everyone has… Read More ›
REFLECTIONS ON GOOD FRIDAY POLL
Hope y’all had a wonderful Easter holiday. I appreciate those of you who took the time to respond to the weekend’s questions. As always some of the answers surprised me. That’s a good thing. Let’s start by looking at the… Read More ›
A GOOD FRIDAY POLL.
It is hard to believe that it is already Easter weekend. The year just seems to fly by. I do have another set of questions to ask, so if you could take a couple minutes to help a brother out,… Read More ›
PODCAST EPISODE 6 4/11/17
Finally here it is, episode 6 of the Dad Gone Wild podcast. In this episode we cover Betsy Devos, Texas and Tennessee voucher plans, Metro State of the schools and budget season. Hope you enjoy.
MY KIND OF EDUCATION REFORM
A couple weeks a go, it was Spring Break in Middle Tennessee. Scrolling through my social media feed, I was suddenly inundated with pictures of friends taking their children to Chicago to see Hamilton, to New York to visit the… Read More ›
WEEKEND POLL SUMMATION 4/10/2017
My apologies for taking so long to write this summation up. I went to the MNPS State of Schools this morning and it’s taken this long to glue my head back together from its repeated explosions. I’m not going to… Read More ›
WEEKEND POLL 4/7/2017
Hope everyone has had an enjoyable week. Things have been good here. Still trying to work on a new pod cast. It look’s like vouchers plans may get shelved for another year. Texas just killed their state voucher plan. So… Read More ›
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