What 2011 Teachers of the Year told the Ed Dept.

[proud2BlibKansan]

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Angie Miller, a language arts teacher at Holderness Central School, was the last teacher to address the panel. Her topic was parent involvement (she started by saying that it was appropriate that she spoke last because parent involvement is always given short shrift), and she brought up issues often ignored in school reform discussions:

*That the No. 1 correlation regarding student academic achievement is with the education level of the parent (which itself correlates to family income).

*That she was “annoyed” by Duncan’s remarks entitled “Looking in the Mirror” that he presented to the Mom Congress earlier this week. Though the speech was about parent involvement, she said in an email that she felt he didn’t address the real issues of why many parents are not active in their child’s education.

(Her comment about Duncan’s comments elicited a joke from the panel’s moderator, Massie Ritsch, deputy assistant secretary for outreach, about how the department could rescind her Teacher of the Year honor. Teachers laughed, and a panel member noted that he didn’t have the power to rescind it. Funny stuff.)

more . . . http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/what-2011-teachers-of-the-year-told-the-ed-dept/2011/05/05/AFwsXF3F_blog.html

[Fridays Child]

1. k/r

[bbinacan]

2. IMO

parents are a huge part of a child's successful education.

[msongs]

3. there's one useless paper pusher that should be dumped from the bloated bureaucracy nt

[bbinacan]

4. Who should be dumped? n/t

[dkf]

5. Maybe you need to base child tax credits on student achievement.

I honestly don't know how else to get parents involved. Obama has already done several speeches including this and I doubt it did much good

[craigmatic]

6. It's abut time the teachers spoke out.

They let the bankers run the banks yet they want to take away teachers' authority in the classroom.

[Starry Messenger]

7. k&r