http://georgescottreports.com Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:26:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Members of the Pt. Arthur Independent School District Board of Trustees convened during the evening of August 24, 2009 believing they were there to fire junior high math teacher Jerome Melonson in a hearing that would last just a few hours. Based upon the recommendation of its superintendent Johnny Brown’s administration, ... http://georgescottreports.com/2010/05/11/pt-arthur-isd-folded-like-a-cheap-suit-when-confronted-with-the-prospects-of-public-awareness/ Jean Pickering has profound respect for the vast majority of classroom teachers, assistant principals, and counselors who labor daily in public education working on behalf of the children of Texas. Why? It’s because she is a veteran public educator who until recently was fully engaged with her professional peers doing her ... http://georgescottreports.com/2009/10/27/veteran-public-educator-jean-pickering-enters-private-sector/     Pickering Academic Assessments is offering for a limited time the opportunity for parents to obtain one of its “Classroom Instructional Audits” at absolutely no charge. The limited, special offer will be available to the first 25 families who register their children for the academic assessment. Students must be currently enrolled ... http://georgescottreports.com/2009/10/27/pickering-develops-academic-audit-for-your-child/ The 5 Essential Elements Of Reform - 1 There are five elements, which I will spell out in detail, that would create a perfect storm of educational reform in a community if they could be mustered in unison.  However, empirical history and harsh reality dictate that two of the five are either systemically ... http://georgescottreports.com/2009/08/08/the-5-elements-of-education-reform-series-compiled/ I am prone to attacks of righteous indignation especially when it comes to administrators in public education whose decisions can dramatically affect students and classroom teachers. This character trait or flaw depending upon one’s perspective became evident to me in my first official ‘run-in’ with the bureaucracy of public education near ... http://georgescottreports.com/2009/04/05/inner-city-wesley-elementary-school-toughened-my-resolve/