In reference to an altercation between students, a teacher posted the following comments to her Facebook wall:

"How bout I blasted both of them. The girl in my class hair is nappy almost every day and the boy wears dirty clothes, face nasty and can't even read. They didn't bother nobody else when I got through with them."

The posting came from Memphis Kindergarten Teacher Tameka Gatewood, and according to the Huffington Post, she has been put on unpaid suspension until a…

 This blog was originally published on Finding Common Ground at Education Week by Peter DeWitt on October 28, 2012 4:35PM.

They wanted Jade to move. It didn't matter if they were an aide, teacher or principal, when she walked in they didn't want to engage with her. When Jade didn't want to do work in the classroom she fell to the floor and began having a temper tantrum. It seemed …

It was once common practice for students to be graded in the area of “penmanship,” as children labored over lined paper to replicate their teachers’ cursive Qs and Zs. This was before computers became regular learning tools in the classroom, and since then, some schools have been making the decision to stop teaching cursive writing.Education News reports that this change is …

This blog was originally published on Finding Common Ground at Education Week by Peter DeWitt on October 21, 2012 6:27PM

Peter DeWitt (@PeterMDeWitt) is an elementary principal in upstate, New York. He blogs at Finding Common Ground for Education Week and is the author of 

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