The Network for Public Education published a report today entitled “Teachers Talk Back: Educators on the Impact of Teacher Evaluation.” Tupelo??teacher and MSEdBlog editor Amanda Koonlaba was one of the eight educators who??wrote the report. The “Teachers Talk Back” report chronicles a study from??the fall of 2015, in which NPE investigated teacher turnover and frustration […]
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Filed under Satire, for some reason. By Jackson Loudermouth, Reporter for MSEdBlog Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, fresh off signing into law the controversial ???religious freedom??? bill HB 1523, turned his cross hairs from the LGBT community to the public school system. ???We???ve got to do something about the teachers, ok???? Bryant said to the media […]
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By Representative Jay Hughes, special to the blog MS Education Campaign Promises: Fiction vs. Reality: (Disclaimer: Independent thoughts and opinions follow) FICTION: During the battle over Initiative 42 vs. 42A, the incumbent politicians and majority leadership claimed: ???We are for public education ??? We just don???t want ???a single judge in Hinds County??? telling us […]
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By James Comans,??Editor at MSEdBlog I want to tell you about a Mississippi teacher. I???ll call her Hannah. Hannah is a middle school language arts teacher from central Mississippi. She???s flat out brilliant. I remember when I first met her, we were in this little conference room building in Starkville- basically a shed next to […]
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