A Rant about Education

I love the idea of merit pay. In my own job as well as education. I mean, who wouldn’t want more pay because their projects or work is better than their peers. What’s funny about the idea of merit pay in general is it never really works as people envision it. I remember having that…

Not For The Weak of Heart….or Liver

You will never hear me ever utter the phrase “I could do that” when it pertains to teaching. Spending a few hours last Friday with Garbanzo at school, further reinforced this assertion! I went up to school about 2 hours before the talent show and had lunch with Garbanzo.  I was there all of about…

Kids and Calculators

Yesterday as Garbanzo was watching the video of Clifford Stoll giving a speech on education and technology (it’s up on his blog – take a watch if you have 18 minutes), a part of his speech made me laugh.  I didn’t laugh because it was funny, but because here was this brilliant man mentioning how…