There's no room in your bag for regret.

teachingliteracy:

“Right now, much of higher ed believes that it’s not their job to have a teacher be ready for the classroom on Day 1,” says Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality.

Her organization’s study of more than 1,100 colleges of education found that 7 out of 10 programs did not adequately teach candidates how to teach reading. Nine out of 10 did a poor job preparing them to teach basic subjects like English, math, science or history. Training in classroom management and the use of student data was lacking. The damage to K-12 education, says Walsh, is enormous, and she is on a mission to expose what she calls “widespread malpractice”in the field of teacher education.

“School districts are spending billions of dollars to make up for what teacher training programs are not doing,” Walsh says.

Thank you, Mount Holyoke.

come-out-of-things-unsaid:

The National Football League has tightened its rules on bags that can—and cannot—be carried into stadiums and purses have been given the axe.

Please be a littttle more sexist next time, NFL. Really? A purse no bigger than your hand?? I’m sorry, but women have certain things that they need to bring with them because of oh, I don’t know, biology, so how do we fit tampons, pads, plus a phone, money etc in a wallet? Please explain that. I understand “safety” but sheesh, you can’t just look through a bag? Next time I go to a game, I’m filling one of their gallon plastic bags with tampons and throwing it at them.