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She earns $148,000 a year, but with her pension and 401(k), she would make more by retiring. “I don’t care,” she said. “If you like what you are doing, you can do it for a lifetime.” Eco-quartier - STREET PAINT- (by Karim Zariffa) 
“Scantron forms, number two pencils, tense teachers, and my third-grader somberly asking, “Will you still love me if I don’t do well?” Yup, it’s standardized testing time—the sun of the educational universe. Even President Obama’s much-hyped Race to the Top reform initiative is rooted in standardized tests. Well, I’m not buying the hype anymore. I’m sick of standardized testing.” (via Scantron Nation - Equalize This) “Urban Prep would be a charter high school. It would bring together some 150 boys from some of the poorest, gang-ravaged neighborhoods and try to set them on a new track. They’d have strict rules: A longer school day - by two hours. Two classes of English daily. A uniform with jackets and ties. And Urban Prep had a goal - one that seemed audacious, given that just 4 percent of the Class of 2010 was reading at or above grade level when they arrived at the school in 2006… ‘I’m very attached to Marlon,’ she says. ‘I had him when I was 15. … They told me my boy was going to be a statistic. They told me he was going to be another gangbanger. Well, we’re here to prove them wrong.’” |
