How hard is teaching?

How hard is teaching? Here is one response I received by e-mail from a veteran seventh-grade language arts teacher in Frederick, Maryland, who asked not to be identified because she fears retaliation at her school. In this piece she describes students who don’t want to work, parents who want their children to have high grades no matter what, mindless curriculum and school reformers who insist on trying to quantify things that can’t be measured.

Here is her e-mail.

Common Core Math Resources

Please send links I can add to jspracher@hopeschooldistrict.org

• Georgia Framework Units for K-5 
• Georgia Framework Units for 6-8
• Georgia K-5 Wiki
• Georgia 6-8 Wiki
• Vista K-2 Live Binder
• Vista 3-5 Live Binder
• Vista 6-8 Live Binder
• Illustrative Mathematics
• Inside Mathematics
• MARS: Mathematics Assessment Project
• Robert Kaplinsky
• Math Teaching Resources K-5 (Thanks, Melissa!)

The following require a membership for full access, but have free samples:

• Mathalicious
• Yummy Math

Brown projects big increase in school spending in next state budget

With state revenues surging, Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing to raise K-12 spending in next year’s state budget a healthy $725 per student – 8.5 percent on average – and to use additional new dollars to wipe the last $6 billion of late payment to schools, known as deferrals, off the books.

Full article here.