http://blog.newsok.com/educationstation Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:52:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Oklahoma City schools Superintendent Karl Springer left me a voicemail last night referring to yesterday's post about the Dallas district layoffs. Here's part of his message: "Hi Wendy, it's Karl Springer. Hey, I've been reading your blog on the Dallas Independent School District. We have openings in Oklahoma City for some teachers ... http://blog.newsok.com/educationstation/2008/10/17/job-openings-at-okcps/ Expected layoffs came today for teachers across the Dallas Independent School District. This is a simple post to send you over to the Dallas Morning News' education blog, where you can read posts from those teachers and their colleagues about the impact today is having. Some comments are rather poignant. http://dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/10/an-open-post-for-those-who-wer.html Wendy ... http://blog.newsok.com/educationstation/2008/10/16/moving-comments-from-teachers-let-go-from-dallas-schools/ I covered a student summit yesterday at the Cox Convention Center where 200 high school freshmen from Oklahoma City talked about school dropouts. You can read the story and watch related videos at www.newsok.com/news/education. Then share your feedback here. Wendy Kleinman Education Reporter http://blog.newsok.com/educationstation/2008/10/16/school-dropouts-your-feedback/ CutoutDissection.com. It’s more than a Web site. It’s also the legal name of a North Carolina 19-year-old formerly known as Jennifer Thornburg. Thornburg changed her name and started a Web site by the same name to protest animal dissections in schools, according to this article. Separately, Oklahoma City science teacher Sherry Groeger-Godwin ... http://blog.newsok.com/educationstation/2008/10/14/dissecting-the-teaching-of-science/ Educators should be paid like babysitters, says EducationNews.org columnist Robert Archer, who’s going on his 13th year as an English teacher in Washington state. They should be paid baby-sitting wages not to insult them over the work they do, but because he figures they would make more money. Archer admits ... http://blog.newsok.com/educationstation/2008/10/13/educators%e2%80%99-piggy-banks/ First, a follow-up to a story earlier this week that bullying affects one-third of Oklahoma children. Newsweek magazine published this timely article about just how those who are bullied come to be targeted. The link is counterintuitive according to the article: children who are bullied start out as children who ... http://blog.newsok.com/educationstation/2008/10/10/interesting-ed-news/ A competition won by Oklahoma students last year is commencing for another year. The 2009 C-SPAN Student Cam competition is open to students in grades sixth through 12 who produce a five- to eight-minute documentary that includes C-SPAN video. This year’s topic asks what the most urgent issue is for the new ... http://blog.newsok.com/educationstation/2008/10/10/lights-camera-5000-can-oklahomans-win-contest-again/ I was up earlier than usual this morning to cover International Walk to School Day. I went to Western Village Academy, a charter school in northwest Oklahoma City that accepts all students in the neighborhood. The morning weather was brisk – cool enough that I could see my breath when I ... http://blog.newsok.com/educationstation/2008/10/08/children-join-walk-to-school-effort-for-a-day/ Last night’s Oklahoma City School Board meeting was held at John Marshall High School instead of at the administration building. The meeting started out with a rather significant turnout, and Chairman Kirk Humphreys told the crowd they made up “the greatest number of happy people I’ve seen in some time.” The school’s ... http://blog.newsok.com/educationstation/2008/10/07/driving-miss-daisy-and-other-highlights-from-last-nights-board-meeting/ After leading workshops last week at a regional math convention, state Teacher of the Year Heather Sparks is back in the news again. All Kinds of Minds, a nonprofit organization that tries to help struggling students, issued a congratulations today to Sparks. Sparks graduated from an All Kinds of Minds program called Schools ... http://blog.newsok.com/educationstation/2008/10/06/all-kinds-of-minds/