Parents for Educating Texastag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-955763854027384432012-02-13T20:50:41-06:00A nonpartisan group dedicated to informing parents of the issues and challenges facing Texas public education. TypePadParents + Knowledge = Changetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e55225025f8833016760c483e6970b2012-02-13T20:50:41-06:002012-02-13T20:14:45-06:00"Most of all I am trying to get the children to really enjoy being in school - to enjoy learing and thinking and investigating on their own and growing to become really decent people. However, the school system probably disagrees and thinks that I should be imparting ten thousand little...Holly KorbeyPFET Goes on Talk Radiotag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e55225025f8833015436b56287970c2011-11-07T21:45:51-06:002011-11-08T21:14:12-06:00Late last night, I was honored to be a guest on Florida pharmacist Larry Golbom's talk radio show, Prescription Addiction Radio, and we got to chat for almost an hour about a parent's role in education, the standardization of young kids, why recess has gone away, why young boys are...Holly KorbeyCalling All Parents - Write for Us!tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e55225025f8833015436634ab2970c2011-10-27T20:08:20-05:002011-10-27T21:06:07-05:00Want to write for us? We want you to write for us. Share your education story here! When my son entered kindergarten four years ago, I was studying writing and hoping to pen a funny memoir about my family. But the issues and problems that came up during my son's...Holly KorbeyHow Did We Get Here? Texas School Funding Crisis, Part 2tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e55225025f88330162fbe4b4a6970d2011-10-24T20:28:51-05:002011-10-24T20:31:15-05:00Dr. Burkett is on a roll - here is part two of the great Texas school finance mystery. In tonight's post, Burkett takes us from the Robin Hood financing he wrote about last week to the present day. Fascinating look at where all the money has gone. School finance in...Holly KorbeyJoin the FearLess Revolutiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e55225025f8833015392717872970b2011-10-19T21:07:35-05:002011-10-19T21:08:18-05:00A piece I wrote for FearLess Revolution appears today. Awesome photo illustration by Meat + Bones. I am so excited to show you "Hip-Hop High Cracks the School-to-Prison Pipeline," my contribution to the blog FearLess Revolution appearing today. The piece, based on the inspiring book Hip Hop Genius by Sam...Holly KorbeyTexas School Funding Crisis - How Did We Get Here?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e55225025f88330154360a4c24970c2011-10-10T21:22:57-05:002011-10-10T21:24:12-05:00Welcome back DFW principal Dr. Jerry Burkett, who is going to explain how Texas school funding works in a series of posts beginning with tonight's - how "Robin Hood" and its fallout shaped our present school funding system. He'll also address the question that is on all of our minds:...Holly KorbeySchool Reform and the Slow Food Movementtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e55225025f8833014e8c13d332970d2011-10-06T20:49:24-05:002011-10-06T20:49:55-05:00Looking back tonight at a post I wrote in April. I was reading Diane Ravitch's The Death and Life of the Great American School System at the time and thinking about how, once an advocate and even designer of our current system, she had changed her mind about top-down school...Holly KorbeyWhat Do Texas Accountability Ratings Actually Mean?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e55225025f8833015435ce2396970c2011-10-03T21:42:47-05:002011-10-03T21:58:39-05:00So excited to introduce my first guest blogger, Dr. Jerry Burkett, an elementary school principal, writer, and speaker on education issues based here in the DFW area. Tonight's topic is about what those blue ribbons hanging outside your school - or not - really mean. Hope you will join us...Holly KorbeyStonewall Gardens Goes Beyond (the) Green, Part IItag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e55225025f8833015391eaa42e970b2011-09-27T21:58:31-05:002011-09-29T08:57:00-05:00Part I focused on Stonewall Jackson Elementary's fantastic student garden and science lab, its leader Mark Painter, and president of the Stonewall Gardens nonprofit, Kate Cromwell. Read it here. Stonewall Gardens produces lessons for all children in the school year round - not just as a resource, but as a...Holly KorbeyStonewall Gardens Goes Beyond (the) Greentag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e55225025f8833015391a6f9d6970b2011-09-26T21:03:21-05:002011-09-27T13:32:09-05:00What Works: A couple of Saturdays ago, I had a chance to tour the Stonewall Gardens at Stonewall Jackson Elementary in Dallas, where they are using systems theory and empirical observation to teach elementary students about gardening, themselves, and the natural world. Each student in the school follows their own...Holly Korbey