Monday Morning Education News

UPDATE:   Weeding out bad teachers
First and foremost are the changes aimed at identifying and encouraging good teachers and weeding out the bad ones. More rigorous and meaningful teacher evaluations for too long have been missing from the tenure track. The new contract establishes, for the first time, a process for observing and evaluating both probationary and tenured teachers.

Pols can't play games with CTA any longer Sun Times (Mary Mitchell)
Just as Downstate legislators routinely insisted on reforms before agreeing to fund Chicago Public Schools, the CTA is being treated with the same humiliating disregard.

Former teacher charged with sexual assault of student Tribune
A former 3rd-grade teacher charged with criminal sexual assault against a 14-year-old pupil at the South Side school where he worked was ordered held in lieu of $400,000 bail Friday.

2 teens shot, wounded near elementary school Tribune
Two teenagers, 17 and 16, were shot and wounded Friday afternoon near a South Side elementary school, authorities said.

No 'juking': Schools fight 'sex' dance Sun Times
As the homecoming dance season approaches, Chicago-area schools are wrestling with how to stomp out sexually suggestive dancing, or juking, especially one version in which a girl grinds into a boy, her back to his front.

Comments

[cermak_rd]

"Put to the Test" a radio documentary by American RadioWorks is airing tonight (17 Sept) on WNIJ 89.5 FM. It's about how the high stakes testing affects one North Carolina High School.

[juker]

I'm glad to see that age old tradition of old people not understanding youth culture prevails. Juke music and the related juke dancing is something that has come from the streets of Chicago's southside and become and international phenomena, much like house music did in the 80's. While it may shock some people, it is still a part of Chicago culture.

[cermak_rd]

My goodness, you can tell I'm not in public relations. Anyway, "Put to the Test" is airing on WNIJ (89.5) tonight (17 Sept) at 6:00pm.

It does no good to tell people the what and where and leave off the when!

[Stop the radio stations first on juking.]

Adults do juking at night clubs. This will never stop until you stop B-96, Kiss FM, and GCI and Power 92 from playing all that music that relates to juking.

You know what, you cannot. So just try to raise your daughter from not doing it. If you can.

Stop the radio stations first on junking,
you are right on the money.
What are parents teaching their girls?