Saturday, October 16, 2010

Iran-West Dialogue

I have heard of the social network, Ipernity, only through Esperanto. It has its strengths. Momentum is building for Iran-west dialogue there.

http://www.ipernity.com/home/reza.torabi

Reza Torabi's film and photos are note-worthy.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Teacher's Union Advertisement-I agree.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6923344n&tag=mncol;lst;1

Randi Weingarten explains that tenure is not a significant cause for bad schools.

Fifty percent turn-over (within 5 first years of teaching by mostly good teachers) in the teacher profession, she says, and I agree, is a much bigger cause for poor teaching. How can we retain good teachers?