Cerf, Other Videos from NJSBA Conference

by: newschoolboardmember

Thu Nov 03, 2011 at 12:40:01 PM EDT

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The New Jersey School Board Association has placed several videos from last week's conference on their web page.

Only a small portion of the speech by Jamie Vollmer was posted. That's too bad--it was really good. He reminded us that there have always been critics of public education, and that people have always thought their schools and their youth were the best, despite the fact that graduation rates are much higher now and that the "olden days" are just a hazy memory.

On the NJSBA site, you can see Chris Cerf's entire speech, including the part where he unfolds his 7-region panel plan. You can also watch the panel discussion on tenure reform. Alas, Vincent Giordano, the Executive Director of the NJEA, was woefully unsupported against the reps the NJ Dept. of Ed.

For Chris Cerf and the tenure panel, go to NJSBA. Here's Jamie Vollmer:

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Good stuff, but... (0.00 / 0)

... I worry. His language has been co-opted by folks who seem to have as their primary goal the breaking of unions, not the building of public education.

I worry...

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by: Jersey Jazzman @ Fri Nov 04, 2011 at 02:13:34 AM UTC

I don't know everything (0.00 / 0)

that Vollmer is working on, but he stressed over and over again that teachers are working with less and less and are expected to do more and more without a single day added to the school year since the century before last.

One other thing that cracks me up is that 60 years ago, universities were complaining that incoming freshman weren't prepared to handle the work. I taught at a college for years--and worked with incoming, woefully underprepared freshmen. That was over 10 years ago. I don't suppose it's gotten better. But I'll bet that soon, someone will wax poetic about how "my generation" (the 90s) were prepared, unlike "kids today."

by: newschoolboardmember @ Fri Nov 04, 2011 at 03:14:40 AM UTC