Comments on: A View From Both Ends of the Educational Spectrum http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/a-view-from-both-ends-of-the-educational-spectrum/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-view-from-both-ends-of-the-educational-spectrum Reporting and Analysis About What Matters in Chicago Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:44:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: M. Elena Guerrero http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/a-view-from-both-ends-of-the-educational-spectrum/#comment-391 M. Elena Guerrero Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:46:37 +0000 http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/?p=3425#comment-391 Mr. Warren, I am grateful that you wrote this article in praise of some excellent teachers in the CPS system. However, I question your "7 weeks " comment about NYC - where does that information come from ? I checked their website , and their school year is 181 days, only 11 days longer than CPS students attend. They start right after Labor Day and end on June 28 , with 3 weeks off during the year and about the same 10 holidays as CPS. If that website is wrong, I apologize, but I can't find any information of NYC having a 205-day school year, which would indeed be 7 weeks longer that CPS ( 35 school days more ) . Again, thanks for the positive comments on CPS teachers. But could you check your facts on the NYC calendar ? I'd really like to know. Mr. Warren,
I am grateful that you wrote this article in praise of some excellent teachers in the CPS system.

However, I question your “7 weeks ” comment about NYC – where does that information come from ? I checked their website , and their school year is 181 days, only 11 days longer than CPS students attend. They start right after Labor Day and end on June 28 , with 3 weeks off during the year and about the same 10 holidays as CPS. If that website is wrong, I apologize, but I can’t find any information of NYC having a 205-day school year, which would indeed be 7 weeks longer that CPS ( 35 school days more ) .

Again, thanks for the positive comments on CPS teachers. But could you check your facts on the NYC calendar ? I’d really like to know.

]]> By: Petrine Ashley http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/a-view-from-both-ends-of-the-educational-spectrum/#comment-390 Petrine Ashley Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:06:02 +0000 http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/?p=3425#comment-390 As a retired CPS teacher who taught many years and worked with CPS teachers many years I applaud this article. The business model that for almost 20 years has influencd education as if we made products, little boxes, instead of molded the lives of human beings. It ignores layered perspectives, research, and theories on how children learn, how they learn to read, how social venues influence learning, the role of talk, the role of environment, brain studies, etc. which leads to each teacher addressing each child's learning as an individual while addressing a whole class. Demands for higher test scores that act as if all children can perform above level, attendance can be 100 percent for children and teachers, and corporations know education is based in plain bad thinking. The beauty of Ravenswood School and many schools across Chicago, where the children of writers don't go, is that teachers approach all their students with respect and caring to help move then level by level. Thank you for a great article. Let's hope the powers listen. As a retired CPS teacher who taught many years and worked with CPS teachers many years I applaud this article. The business model that for almost 20 years has influencd education as if we made products, little boxes, instead of molded the lives of human beings. It ignores layered perspectives, research, and theories on how children learn, how they learn to read, how social venues influence learning, the role of talk, the role of environment, brain studies, etc. which leads to each teacher addressing each child’s learning as an individual while addressing a whole class. Demands for higher test scores that act as if all children can perform above level, attendance can be 100 percent for children and teachers, and corporations know education is based in plain bad thinking. The beauty of Ravenswood School and many schools across Chicago, where the children of writers don’t go, is that teachers approach all their students with respect and caring to help move then level by level. Thank you for a great article. Let’s hope the powers listen.

]]> By: Maureen http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/a-view-from-both-ends-of-the-educational-spectrum/#comment-389 Maureen Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:30:33 +0000 http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/?p=3425#comment-389 So much bad information out there. Before your piece, I hadn't read that the layoffs will make up for only about 1/3rd of the shortfall. As it all plays out, do you expect CTU will give back the 4% raise and concede on veteran teacher pension payouts? Do you think RYH has it right -- $275 million annually -- in CPS funds diverted to TIFs? Do you know why the amount of the budget shortfall goes from $900 mln to $600 mln to at least $457 mln? Fear tactics? The state owes CPS $400 mln for this year and next, I've heard, but can't pay. Is this a real number and true fact? I am very glad to have found this site and your writing again. So much bad information out there.

Before your piece, I hadn’t read that the layoffs will make up for only about 1/3rd of the shortfall.

As it all plays out, do you expect CTU will give back the 4% raise and concede on veteran teacher pension payouts?

Do you think RYH has it right — $275 million annually — in CPS funds diverted to TIFs?

Do you know why the amount of the budget shortfall goes from $900 mln to $600 mln to at least $457 mln? Fear tactics?

The state owes CPS $400 mln for this year and next, I’ve heard, but can’t pay. Is this a real number and true fact?

I am very glad to have found this site and your writing again.

]]> By: rick soll http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/a-view-from-both-ends-of-the-educational-spectrum/#comment-388 rick soll Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:46:55 +0000 http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/?p=3425#comment-388 Jimmy--call. 773-575-2630 Jimmy–call. 773-575-2630

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