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  • 3 weeks ago | marylandmatters.org | Kalman R. Hettleman |Steve Crane

    Here’s an oddity. For all that has been said about the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, there has been hardly a word about class size. The subject has not even been debated. That’s a shocker. Common sense supports lower class sizes: The fewer the students in class, the more attention teachers can pay to individual student needs. Teachers almost unanimously think “smaller classes would strongly boost student learning.”So why the omission in the Blueprint?

  • 1 month ago | marylandmatters.org | Kalman R. Hettleman |Steve Crane

    WARNING: This column may be hazardous to the comfort level of many readers. It’s easy to get lost in the bureaucratic weeds of the many agencies at the center of the world of Career and Technical Education (CTE), as I have in my research. Still, please give the column a try. We must struggle to understand the serious growing pains that threaten CTE’s success.

  • 1 month ago | yahoo.com | Kalman R. Hettleman

    Career and technical education may be the most important part of the Blueprint for Maryland's Future, writes Kalman Hettleman, but also the most-overlooked. (Photo by Senior Airman Nichelle Anderson/U.S. Air Force)WARNING: This column may be hazardous to the comfort level of many readers. It’s easy to get lost in the bureaucratic weeds of the many agencies at the center of the world of Career and Technical Education (CTE), as I have in my research. Still, please give the column a try.

  • 1 month ago | newsfromthestates.com | Kalman R. Hettleman

    WARNING: This column may be hazardous to the comfort level of many readers. It’s easy to get lost in the bureaucratic weeds of the many agencies at the center of the world of Career and Technical Education (CTE), as I have in my research. Still, please give the column a try. We must struggle to understand the serious growing pains that threaten CTE’s success.

  • 2 months ago | marylandmatters.org | Kalman R. Hettleman |Steve Crane

    Few, if any, school problems have been more in the national and Maryland spotlight than teacher shortages. When, most recently, Gov. Wes Moore (D) proposed slashing literally billions of dollars in school funding to bail out the state’s looming fiscal deficits, he claimed that the biggest cuts were harmless; the money couldn’t be spent, he said, because of teacher shortages. He’s right, shortages are severe, particularly for highly qualified teachers.

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