Shot In The Dark: What's In A Grade?

May 04, 2006

What's In A Grade?

The Headline in the Strib:

State's Education Tech Grade dips to a D

When it comes to technology, it seems that seven years is enough time to go from trend-setting to obsolete.

Minnesota finds itself in unusual territory -- second-to-last place -- in a new ranking of technology in schools. The report by Education Week, a national education publication, gave Minnesota a D for the access teachers and students have to educational technology.

It's an almost total reversal from 1999, when an earlier Education Week report on technology showed Minnesota outpacing much of the country in wiring its schools.

And that comes from whom?

Education Week - a magazine that is, if not a full organ of the National Education Association, at least a full-blown parasite on the public education lobby.

What next - "State Doesn't Provide Enough Free Booze", sourced from Modern Drunkard?

Posted by Mitch at May 4, 2006 06:57 AM | TrackBack

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STORY: "Minnesota lags behind much of the country when it comes to student access to computers and high-speed Internet..."
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In other words, when you're a teacher, online at school, making that last-second Ebay bid on a garden statue that'll look perfect in your backyard, you need broadband speed. It might keep the kids more entertained too; eat up some class time.

Posted by: RBMN at May 4, 2006 08:37 AM

Heh heh. Mitch said ``full organ.''

Posted by: angryclown at May 4, 2006 08:46 AM

Well we can be certain he wasn't refering to Kermit.

Posted by: Doug at May 4, 2006 08:56 AM

My wife said it best: "Teach Johnny to spell first, THEN show him how to use spellchecker."

Posted by: Bill C at May 4, 2006 10:24 AM

Great piece.

Posted by: HumanityCritic at May 4, 2006 12:07 PM

"Well we can be certain he wasn't refering to Kermit."

Correct, Doug. You're the only dick that posts here.

Posted by: Kermit at May 4, 2006 12:15 PM

What is being done with the communications tax that Clinton/Gore stuck on phone bills? I know the public libraries have all got plenty of computers with net access. If the schools are lagging behind the other states in "wiring the schools" whose fault is that? Education gets 51% of the state budget, and they get federal grants. WTF are they doing with the money?

Posted by: Kermit at May 4, 2006 12:20 PM

Buying $55,000 Cadillac Escalades for ineffective, yet politically correct school superintendents, and then having to pay $275,000 to end the contract early because of scandal.

Posted by: Bill C at May 4, 2006 12:29 PM

Spending hundreds of thousands on a search in a limited pool for a new ineffective, yet politically correct super?

Posted by: Kermit at May 4, 2006 01:13 PM