California Court Rules That Charter Schools Are Entitled to More Public Space in L.A.

A court decision handed down in California found that charters in Los Angeles are entitled to more space. The California Supreme Court unanimously decided Thursday that the Los Angeles school district’s method for allocating space to charter schools may shortchange them classrooms. In a decisionhttp://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S208611.PDF written by Justice Goodwin Liu, the state’s highest court said […]

Pasi Sahlberg: Finnish Teachers Are Not “the Best and the Brightest”

Pasi Sahlberg, the great Finnish educator who is teaching this year at Harvard Graduate School of Education, wrote recently to explain how Finnish universities select future teachers. Finnish universities are famously selective,accepting only 10% of the high school graduates who want to become teachers. But how do they select? Sahlberg’s very bright niece was turned […]

Review and Giveaway: Purex Crystals ScentSplash

Purex is my favorite laundry detergent to use. It is affordable and keeps my clothes clean!

A while back, Purex came out with Purex Crystals-an in-wash fragrance booster. I loved using these but sometimes I would accidentally knock over the bottle and beads would be everywhere.

Now Purex has come out with a liquid form! All you have to do is simply add a little or a lot directly into your washer!

Purex Crystals Scentsplash comes in 3 fragrances:
Fresh Spring Waters:
Wade into cool, enchanting waters and give your laundry an incredible just-washed freshness that lasts for months

Fresh Lavender Blossom:
Wander through colorful, sun-lit fields of lavender and give your laundry an incredible just-washed freshness that lasts for months

Fresh Mountain Breeze:
Capture the exhilarating moment of a crisp, fresh breeze and give your laundry an incredible just-washed freshness that lasts for months.

Purex provided me a bottle of the Fresh Lavender Blossom Crystals Scentsplash to try out. I decided to try it out on a load of my dark colored clothes. Working at the jail, my clothes always end up smelling like jail food and jail funk!

I used a capful of the Purex Crystals ScentSplash to my load. I loved the lavender scent! With spring here, it was a nice and refreshing scent!

Three lucky winners will each win a coupon to try Purex Crystals ScentSplash for FREE! All you have to do is enter below. This giveaway will end on April 20th at 11:59 p.m

*The Purex brand provided me with a sample of Purex Crystals ScentSplash in exchange for a product review. However, all the opinions expressed here are my own.

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Teacher Turnover at Success Academy: Who Is Right?

The Néw York Times said that teacher turnover at the Success Academy charter schools is more than 50%. Eva Moskowitz says it is 17%. Matt de Carlo of the Albert Shanker Institute has the raw data, and he says they are both wrong.

19 Million Hits on This Blog!

Thank you to the many readers who have turned this blog into a go-to place for all interested in the battle to save and improve public education! Many reporters have told me that they check the blog to find out what is happening in education, since most of the mainstream media either doesn’t report on […]

Keeping On

By Kyndra Steinmann It’s been a rough couple of weeks around here. I had a cold, which the children unhappily shared, leading to no school for a week and few chores. The next week was not only full of appointments...

The Joys of Teaching Drama

By Jason Sandahl Education Associate One of the biggest joys of working with children is that moment when they fully grasp a concept you are trying to teach them.  On the flip side, one of the struggles is when they are having difficulty grasping a concept. This year Virginia Rep’s Education Department was thrilled to …