Comments on: Welcome to Intercepts!

By: EdWonk

EdWonk — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 05:23:00 +0000

Welcome to the EduSphere! I’m looking forward to making your site one of our daily reads.

By: Mike Antonucci

Mike Antonucci — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:01:00 +0000

Thanks, Daryl. No RSS yet, but expect more stuff to be added as I expand my comfort zone.

By: Daryl Cobranchi

Daryl Cobranchi — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:45:00 +0000

Welcome to the small world of edu-blogs.

Is there an RSS feed somewhere?

By: Dave Kirkpatrick

Dave Kirkpatrick — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:14:00 +0000

Mike: with your store of knowledge you may already know this but even the late Al Shanker, as AFT president, noted that New York City schools had as many administrators as France, and New York State had as many as all of the nations of western Europe combined.

By: Richard Meinhard

Richard Meinhard — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 02:26:00 +0000

Ted Kolderie once reported that Linda Darling-Hammond says that in Japan 80 % of the staff are classroom teachers. In the US only 43% are.

Steve Buckstein of the Cascade Policy Institute once computed the centreal office administrator to teacher ratio of both the Archdiocese in Portland and the Portland Public Schools. The PPS ratio was 25 times higher than the Archdiocese ratio.

Congrats to you, Mike, for being an erstwhile blogger long before you adopted the trappings.

By: Mike Antonucci

Mike Antonucci — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:13:00 +0000

Thanks for stopping by, everyone. As for anonymous — well, if you would read the table it distinctly says DISTRICT-LEVEL administrators and not SCHOOL-SITE administrators. So your check of Charleston’s principals has no relation to the data in the table, which was compiled by the U.S. Department of Education from reports of each state office of education. Keep posting, though. I’m sure you’ll catch me in a mistake if you keep trying.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:57:00 +0000

Welcome indeed! This ought to prove refresing… I am adding you to my links list! Keep up the good work Mike.