I thank the readers of this blog for your patience, your support, your engagement, and your diligence.
I know that you must sometimes (often?) feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of posts that I send your way.
Sometimes I wonder if I am wasting your time and mine, and then I get a comment or email from a parent or a teacher telling me that they rely on this blog to give them the information they need to understand what is happening or the encouragement they need to keep going or the perspective they need to know they aren’t crazy.
So, bear with me, as I am going to give you a link to lots more good stuff. By good stuff, I mean that Larry Ferlazzo has gathered the best of the best blogs and articles about education for the past year and posted them here. I am happy to share his good work with you.
Lots of sustenance and much to ponder in that list.
Please keep these posts coming! I discovered your blog this summer and it has rekindled my passion for fighting for what is best for America’s children. Too long we teachers have been the doormats of the “reformers”, believing maybe just a little that they were right and that we were the problem to be solved. I have been doing my part by sharing many of these posts on Face Book, much to the annoyance of my friends. Let’s keep fanning the flame!
Don’t stop! I need my daily hits of your blog and I’m relieved to know I’m not alone in this fight against “ed reform”!
I am overwhelmed! BUT! I welcome the information. I didn’t know much about privatization efforts, and forewarned is forearmed! Thank you, thank you! I put you on my Facebook and forward you to other retired teachers…..don’t stop!
I’m reading “The Rich and the Rest of Us” A Poverty ManiFesto by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West. I wish that we could have a real forum on this topic. It is directly linked to “Education.”
Diane Brown diamel@aol.com
Interdisciplinary cautionary factoid: There is also a strong link between poverty and the spread of “Neglected Tropical Diseases” here in America. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=159784693
Diane, there can never be too much. Keep it coming. As usual, Larry’s information is timely and great.
Not only do I enjoy and benefit from your blogs, but the comments can be useful as well. Those are the reasons that I choose to share so many of them not only on my own facebook page but on various others
I read every comment. My readers are brilliant. Not all of them, but most of them!