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Huckleberries: A cage match to decide schools’ direction?
Huckleberries knows how to settle the fight over the radical online education plan forced on Idaho’s schoolchildren by Superintendent of Schools Tom Luna and legislative accomplices last year – and subject to a November referendum. Stage a winner-take-all cage match between Luna and Post Falls instructor Ann Rosenbaum. In one corner, we’d have Luna, a former school board member who got his college degree online. In the other corner, Rosenbaum, a former Marine military police officer who escaped a car bomb in Iraq. New York Times reporter Matt Richtel featured Rosenbaum and two other teachers in an article about the controversy Tuesday.
Task force tweaks education reform
BOISE – After six months of study, a statewide task force Tuesday called for buying all Idaho high school students laptops rather than tablets, phasing them in school-by-school rather than grade-by-grade, and sharply upping the state’s investment in on-the-job teacher training to accompany the new technology push. “The work that has been done here is historic,” said state schools Superintendent Tom Luna, who chaired the task force charged with figuring out how to implement the technology boosts in his Students Come First school reform program, which lawmakers approved last year. “We all had the same goal, and that is to assure that we’re preparing our students for the 21st century world that they’ll live in.”
