Carnival of Education

This week’s Carnival of Education features a recent TEN blog post on the perils of ACT preparation, as well as two interesting posts for/about new teachers:

Lead from the Start offers advice to his student teacher, considering taking a full-time teaching job at his high need school. He warns her,

Most of all you have to realize that if you do come to here, you have to buy-in completely to the school and its culture. Don’t do it if you think you need to come because you have to change the way things are done. You will only be disappointed.

Tween Teacher talks about the lessons she learned as a new teacher and defends the role of young, new teachers in difficult classrooms:

It’s not that I don’t agree that more experienced teachers are better for the harder-to-teach class, it’s just that I think that we can’t dismiss the passion and newness and energy that new teachers bring to the table.

Also interesting:

A Voice in the Wilderness offers up even more disturbing examples of product placement in the NY State standardized tests this year. I haven’t heard any complaints about this on Illinois tests. Has anyone seen anything like this here?

Jose Vilson explains why you can’t go on the field trip, even though he thinks you’re an awesome kid.

Dangerously Irrelevent asks a question nobody’s asking:

So what if schools don’t adjust to the demands of the digital, global economy? So what if the schools don’t prepare kids for the 21st century?

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