Archive for January 2010
School district reacts to “George Carlin’s famous “seven dirty words” and yanks dictionaries from classrooms
Posted by: Samantha on: January 25, 2010
- In: Books | District Policy | Media | Parents
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According to the District Dossier, an Education Week blog, the Menifee Union School District in California recently removed all Merriam-Webster dictionaries from its classrooms. Why? Let’s see what the news media has to report. Menifee school officials remove dictionary over term “oral sex.” Read the article, here. Dictionaries removed from Menifee classroom: books are being [...]
Dear EducationCEO
Posted by: Samantha on: January 5, 2010
- In: Charters | KIPP | Personal | Reform | Urban Education
- 2 Comments
Dear EducationCEO, Like you, I am up at 2 in the morning! I checked my phone and saw that I had an e-mail notification alerting me to a new post on your blog. The title intrigued me, “Let me set the record straight …” I couldn’t resisit! However, please forgive my middle-of-the-night, my laptop-battery-is-low-and-I-don’t-feel-like-fetching-my-powercord-in-the-next-room brief response to one thing [...]
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