It's a Newspaper...Carnival of Education 84 (Many Links)

Greetings:

Welcome to the Current Events in Education. I'm thrilled to be your host for the 84th Carnival of Education. Since I point to a current event every morning, typically providing a link to a newspaper, I thought it appropriate to divide this carnival into newspaper sections. Well I hope you enjoy it.

Onto the Midway...

Headline News
In this week of 9/11 Jill Davidson’s article reminding parents and teachers how to speak about tragedies and respond to them is certainly worthy of headline news. She explains that the children will watch us and learn on the The Essential Blog.

Just A Substitute Teacher Blog puts life into perspective by discussing the issues of second graders. How nice it must be to not remember 9/11?

If Texas is investigating widespread cheating on state tests, what are the chances cheating also is widespread in Ohio? Last week's Carnival host, Scott Elliott asked the head of the state's testing program what they have done about cheating. The answer? Not much. Like most of Scott's work, its definitely worth a read. Like so many of our newspapers this Carnival paper needs a story about crime in the front section.

Going to the Matt reports that Maryland charter schools will get the same funding as public schools.

Sports
Michelle presents Baseball is for high school posted at Texas Ed: Comments on Education from Texas.

Culture
Don Surber wonders Will the Band be Banned. I sure hope not.

Spunky examines the often wrong assumptions and judgements homeschoolers and public schoolers make about each other, in this post entitled "Home School Snobbery." There are clearly different cultures between homeschooling and traditional schooling.

Three Standard Deviations to the Left examines the culture of his class in "Honeymoon Period Extended Three Days."

Editorials:
ms_teacher offers us Why Class Size Does Matter! posted at California LiveWire: Teaching in the Golden State.

John Rozewicki ponders whether lower SAT scores are really a problem at Supreme Narcissism.

Phil B. at Phil for Humanity presents Obsoleting the Electoral College

The Education Wonks, the prime mover of this carnival, write,"Wonkitorial: Dept. of Ed Retreats on Teacher Quality." What can educats do to promote the best and the brightest into teaching?

New York City Educator opines on new policies banning cell phones form New York City schools.

A Shrewdness of Apes offers some really good advice to both educational policymakers and school administrators. I highly recommend the read.


Science
David, at the Good Human, provides environmentally friendly school projects for teachers and parents.

Dennis Fermoyle, From the Trenches of Public Ed. theorizes on the best prospects for improving education Direct Instruction: Is It the Key to Improving Education?

Truth definitely comes under the domain of science. Elliot H., The Edwahoo, presents five truths he’s learned from five weeks of teaching.

Jon Schnaars writes about balancing expectations to cut stess and anxiety at Anxiety, Addiction and Depression Treatments.

Rightwingprof, at Right Wing Nation, describes the process of Fixing Flawed Ideas: III.

Steve Hargadon presents an Interview with Larry Cuban, Author of “Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom” A professor emeritus of Stanford University counts as science, even if it's social science, right?

The Median Sib presents a fantastic post entitled "Questioning, How Uncomfortable Does it Have to Be?" Let's remember that teaching is not just a craft. It's also a science.

Technology
Green Rising tells us how Bill Gates' ideas will promote sustainable education. It's a post worthy of the future.

Business
Barry Leiba offers us the post More on resources for education at Staring At Empty Pages in which he explains why teachers should be paid more than entertainers.

Dr. Homeslice writes about Union Bouquet #3 at Dr. Homeslice.

John at AFT presents Detroit Teachers Have Parents' Support at NCLB: Let's Get it Right!.

Muse at me-ander knows that she's Back from the Trenches! This teacher's back to business.

Bill at Ask Uncle Bill presents I'm Going To Get An MBA--What Does that Mean? Read to find out.

Businesses just love dollar bills. Some schools use them in awkward ways. Anonymous Educator presents Dollar Bills at Anonymous Educator.

Cassie del Pilar discusses signing Bonuses, Superstars, & Mike Klonsky at District 299 Chicago Schools Blog.

Ryan Boots, over at Edspresso, gave me two options for entries. The first one is about the Detroit teacher strike. But, he also offered this second entry - which out of the interest of full disclosure I must say that I wrote.

Higher Education
Barry Leiba considers the potential of the next generation in Prepared for college? posted at Staring At Empty Pages.

Personals
Darren argues pounces on educational fads in his postForging Relationships With Students posted at Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher.

Colleen King asksDo Your Students Model Their Math Problems? posted at Math Playground She points us towards a useful website that provides modeling tools.

In Review
Margaret asks what quality of education was available to Jane Austen on her blog, Poor Starving College Student.

Close Up
What It's Like on the Inside offers an analysis of "The Inertia of Secondary Education"

TV Guide
This Week in Education considers the images of urban schools as portrayed on television, this season.

Foreign Editions
Madame writes LE FABULEUX DESTIN DE MADAME posted at LE FABULEUX DESTIN DE MADAME. Don't worry the text includes English.

Check out this post from Kelly. Any teachers who have taught overseas can sympathise with Kelly. For those of us who haven't taught overseas we can learn a lot form her.

Coming Isuses
TheMedianSib is hosting next weeks Carnival of Education, Number 85. Submissions are due by 7:00pm Central Time. You can send your submissions to carol@themediansib.com/ or use the form available here!! Let's wish Carol Good Luck!!

Past Issues
The Microfice room with past issues of this paper dating back to 1793 (ok, so maybe not quite that early) are available here.