need to be considered by our government when it pushes corporate sponsored measures that tie teacher salaries and retention to the test scores of their charges. There are so many variables, when it comes to student populations, that standardized test scores, administered to all students at prescribed ages, reveal next to nothing about a teachers skill or commitment to her/his job.

Thank you.

I write this as I pack up and head off to class.

labor union fathers and mothers. They fought and died for rights that we have given up or lost.
It makes me sick. Especially since those, whose election I worked for, are every bit as willing to destroy the gains the labor movement made, as those, who openly admit to being my enemy.

the effects of head trauma and poverty affect students.

there is a growing mountain of evidence that the environment of students is just extraordinarily important to outcome.

It is just currently being ignored so that corporations can argue for the privatization of public institutions.

rather than telling Mom to relax. My son just kept his birth weight until age 4 months and 2 days a week after I put him on formula WITHOUT IRON against doctors orders.

He vomited from feeding to feeding. Slept only 10 minutes at a time. Freaked out all the people who came to help me. At least now it is easier to make videos for doctors cause they probably still don't believe mothers. I am told they teach them that in medical school and reenforce it in internship and residency.

He fought hard to overcome some behavior that could have led to these problems and finally outgrew them.

and heartbreaking to go through.

Discounting any maternal intuition seems to be a foundation for industrial culture.

take care of pregnant women and babies and the rest will take care of itself.