I Thought a Think hosts the 120th Carnival of Education this week. This edition of the variety show runs the gamut from teaching to policy with a few surprises.
This week’s All-Star team:
- The Science Goddess feels sadness for the members of the local teachers union.
- Educator on the Edge has a gripe of her own - her union seems not to understand that doing what is best for the kids is the most important thing in education.
- CaliforniaTeacherGuy has the right attitude.
- It took a while, but now we can see Right Wing Nation’s analysis of the New Math.
- Who?!?
- AimlessMiss dissects John Edwards’ “College for Everyone” plan. Really, it isn’t a very good plan - I’m glad someone has taken the time to go through it, because the “college for everyone” soundbyte is so misleading and politickingly-sweet that it just might give you a cavity.
- Online Degrees Today offends with an extremely simplistic analysis of how to choose a grad school, though writing anything else might hurt their business [This is the Carnival of Education All-Star selection equivalent of David Eckstein, 2006].
You can read the entire Carnival at I Thought a Think, including my submission about Valley Central’s bribe campaign in last week’s budget/board votes.
A note about next week’s Carnival, which heads back to the Wonks:
Next week the Midway returns home to The Education Wonks; Submissions to Carnival #121 should be sent no later than 9:00 PM (Eastern) on Tuesday, May 15th to owlshome [at] earthlink [dot] net. You can also use the ever-handy submission form here.
If you’re interested in some other good stuff [not just education], you can see the best of what I’ve read this week by checking out my del.icio.us.
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