What would you tell the state board today about the performance of the DeKalb...
Today, the DeKalb Board of Education appears before the state Board of Education to answer this summons: It is hereby ordered that the Members of the DeKalb County BOE should appear on Thursday,...
View ArticleDeKalb board chair: ‘You can’t prohibit a student from plagiarizing and then...
If DeKalb County Schools paid a consultant $10,000 for a report that seems overly broad and overly academic, the district was irresponsible with taxpayer funds. But if DeKalb keeps an employee on staff...
View ArticleCan the DeKalb school board reinvent itself in 30 days?
This is the digest form of the four-hour state Board of Education hearing today on whether or not to suspend the DeKalb Board of Education. If want all the details, scan my live blog from the hearing....
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Privacy laws shield bullies. Would public shame be a greater deterrent?
Tammy Simpson is an anti-bullying advocate and the founder of the Brandon Bitner Memorial Scholarship Fund. Glen Retief’s memoir about bullying, “The Jack Bank,” won a 2011 Lambda Literary Award....
View ArticleComplaint will be filed today about the Georgia private school tax credit...
The AJC is reporting that the Southern Education Foundation will file a complaint today with the state Department of Revenue alleging widespread abuses in the controversial private school scholarship...
View ArticleDeKalb school official resigns in wake of plagiarism report by AJC. Symptom...
I ran into AJC education reporter Ty Tagami at the elevator this morning and told him how surprised I was that DeKalb school administrator Ralph Taylor had yet to resign after it was revealed that...
View ArticleGuest column: DeKalb Schools ought to clean house and start fresh
I was planning to post this essay on DeKalb by local writer Janusz Maciuba later today, but events got ahead of it. A DeKalb resident, Maciuba teaches English as a Second Language at an area technical...
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If testing and measuring makes for better schools, why are the Obama girls in...
The Obamas opted for a pricey private school for their daughters. (AP Photo) In a powerful essay in Education Week, retired educator Alan Jones of Illinois shares his experience accompanying his...
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Grad student says C-plus cost her $1.3 million in lost wages. Takes her case...
I have known students to complain bitterly about grades and to disparage their professors on Internet rating sites. But a grad student in Pennsylvania is taking her outrage to the courtroom. Before you...
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Suspended DeKalb school board member Eugene Walker: ‘I will not quit or step...
Suspended DeKalb school board member Eugene Walker says his removal by Gov. Deal violates the constitution. In a pro/con today, suspended DeKalb Board of Education member Eugene Walker explains why the...
View ArticleHere’s why students need cellphones in school. To call their lawyers.
Sometimes, a news story can be short and still tell you all you need to know. That is the case with this story from the Athens Banner-Herald: (Some good comments on the newspaper’s website from...
View ArticleDeKalb school board drama distilled down to two questions for state Supreme...
The controversy surrounding Gov. Nathan Deal’s removal of six DeKalb Board of Education members has been distilled down to two constitutional questions and presented to the state Supreme Court. I hate...
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Cheating or collaboration? Do students really not know the difference?
A reader sent me this note about cheating and asked that I put the issue before the Get Schooled blog readership: I am wondering if you have done much on student cheating? I have read about teacher...
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From Canada to Georgia, teachers complain of pressure to change grades to...
Interesting AJC story on an Atlanta high school principal who resigned after accusations he bullied and intimidated teachers into raising failing grades. Grade inflation has been in the national news...
View ArticleDeKalb’s Eugene Walker intends to pass hat to pay for continued legal fight...
With the unanimous vote of the newly reconstituted DeKalb school board this week, any suspended board members who want to fight their ouster were set adrift. They now have to front their own legal...
View ArticleHere is the list of people indicted today in APS cheating scandal
The indictments handed down in the last hour by a Fulton County Grand Jury cite RICO conspiracy and individual acts including false swearings, theft by taking and influencing witnesses. In the...
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Alfie Kohn on APS cheating scandal: ‘What if we gave a test and nobody came?’
I interviewed education advocate and writer Alfie Kohn a while back. You can read the 2011 interview here. The APS cheating scandal was in the news at the time, and Kohn told me: The real cheating...
View ArticleA ‘kissing cousin’ of segregated proms: segregated high school reunions. Are...
A reader of the segregated prom blog sent me a note about something that DeKalb school chief Michael Thurmond referenced in a recent speech, racially segregated class reunions. Thurmond said that his...
View ArticleTurning Premier DeKalb into a reality: What the school board needs to consider
Jennifer Hatfield is a longtime DeKalb resident, a graduate of DeKalb schools, a former DeKalb teacher and the parent of two DeKalb students. She is a vocal community advocate in the area of education....
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Emory faculty vote on Jim Wagner starting today. Can he still lead Emory or...
Emory President Jim Wagner (Emory) Faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University begin voting today on whether they still trust in the ability of embattled President James...
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