So beautiful! Thank goodness we have students and teachers who care this much.

Nick Nolte starred in a movie called Teachers. It was wonderful. In the last moments of the movie, his fed up principal laments that half the school won't come back after the fire drill. He responds,"but half will". When she says he's crazy, he says, "I'm a teacher!"
Love it.

Richard Allington, past president of International Reading Association warned against this years ago. He predicted that teachers would focus on sounds, phonics, and fluency and never get to comprehension. He was right. He warned that if the next five pillars of reading, which were focused on instruction and making meaning, were not implemented, we would never see true gains. Some districts believed that and refused to be limited by Reading First and moved forward in all areas. Those are the lucky students.

I'm interested in people who say "not all kids can go to college". Are they referring to their own children, or someone else's?

If you want to know more about Rhee, there is a full story in Newsweek, September 1st edition.