the new website

Please change your bookmarks and rss feeds. The Deputy Head has moved: http://www.thedeputyhead.com
This will be the last post at this url. I've linked back from the new site via an archives button.

public school in Pakistan

As I drove to Harrisonburg this morning to recruit teachers, I heard a Morning Edition story by Bilal Qureshi on Pakistani schools. When schools don't work and 60% of Pakistanis are under 18, we've got to wonder what the immediate future looks like for Pakistan. Who's teaching them to lead? The story made me think of one of my close friends who serves as head legal counsel to Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance. Asiyah, if you're reading give us your take on the story.

migrating blog

I'm currently working on the redesign and migration of this blog. I'm going through the natural frustrations/excitement of learning something new, but the new site will be more aesthetically pleasing, elegant, and--most important--accessible to you. Until I move, continue to follow me here.

choosing between getting to school and breakfast

I told some colleagues the other day that kids in my former district either walked or rode the metro to school--and that metro was free for kids. It turns out I was wrong. An article in the February 22-28 Washington City Paper discusses how rising metro costs affect whether or not kids get to school. From there you can link to an assortment of new metro-area ed-related articles, including one on the (in)famous H.D. Woodson SHS (RIP soon).

the other diplo

Edulicious and the principal were in my office today poking a little fun at the diplodocus post, so this is for them. I've blogged about MIA before. Here's an NPR story about how her colleague's work was inspired by 12 year old school kids in Philadelphia and the favelas of Rio.

diplodocus of pittsburgh

Last night on Newshour I heard about this crazy dinosaur exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh (if you're looking for the other diplodocus, you're in the wrong place).

closed

Go back to bed: FCCPS (and just about everyone else around here, excepting my former employer) is closed today (February 22, 2008) due to inclement weather.