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The Top 15 Tweets of 2015 from @coolcatteacher

The CoolCatTeacher

Education news and trends From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. HAPPY NEW YEAR! So many new faces joined in and even more Twitter chats started up. Excited to be leading a panel with her and other star edusketchers at ISTE 2016). 15 – A personal rant about grading.

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

Rinata Williams was an “extraordinary” student, who always wanted to go to college. Lake Pontchartrain glistened as Rinata Williams rode north from New Orleans. Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university.

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Why a Texas school district is helping immigrants facing deportation

The Hechinger Report

This story is part of a series about how schools, teachers and students are coping with the immigration crisis. Did y’all hear about what happened at Load Trail?” Hermenegildo Rubio stands with his children (from left) Abby, 16, Adam, 10, Danny, 20, and Noemi, 13, in the living room of his Honey Grove home.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed.

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