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So do administrators! Guess who wins? by bradley13 · 2011-01-28 06:05 · Score: 2 · on Teachers Back Away From Evolution In Class

I knew a teacher in Austin who was paying for school supplies out of her own (underpaid) pockets. And I remember seeing statistics that there were more non-teaching staff than teachers in the district. Time to google...

The school district employs 12,183 people. Of these, 6079 are teachers (that is less than half). Now look at the reductions:

Total reduction: 484.7 total positions (FTE)
Teacher positions: 381.2
Teacher "scheduling efficiencies": 40
Non-teaching staff: 63.5

In other words, teachers are 49.8% of the staff, but 86.9% of the reductions.

What they ought to do is fire 450 administrators.

why not just ask 'Karen' :) by rs232 · 2008-12-12 07:27 · Score: 1 · on Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux"

"Where is any verification of any of this?"

Well, personally I emailed the AISD and asked them, before posting, simple isn't it !!!

Their own site runs Linux by Anonymous Coward · 2008-12-10 06:32 · Score: 2, Informative · on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education

So I suppose they are breaking the law too:

The site of the Austin Independent School District:

http://www.austin.isd.tenet.edu/

What they are running:

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.austin.isd.tenet.edu

OS: Linux
Server: Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.6 PHP/5.2.5
Last changed: 10-Dec-2008
IP address: 206.77.0.250
Netblock Owner: Austin Independent School District

Re:Let's cut the conspiracy theory by Prysorra · 2008-12-10 01:50 · Score: 2, Informative · on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education

karenware.com:

"Welcome to Karen Kenworthy's web site."

http://www.austin.isd.tenet.edu/schools/staff.phtml?teacher=1600:

"Karen Ciesla"

Re:The Teacher by Anonymous Coward · 2008-12-10 00:52 · Score: 0 · on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education

Unless of course it was http://www.austin.isd.tenet.edu/schools/staff.phtml?teacher=1600

Google tells us of two alternatives... by CptPicard · 2008-12-10 00:14 · Score: 0, Flamebait · on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education

So which Karen is it? Greathouse or Ciesla?

Re:Teacher sounds like a dumb cow by scrye · 2008-12-09 23:18 · Score: 1 · on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education

http://www.austin.isd.tenet.edu/schools/staff.phtml?teacher=1600

http://www.karenware.com/bio.asp

I think COW fits..

Re:Let's cut the conspiracy theory by scrye · 2008-12-09 23:16 · Score: 1, Offtopic · on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education

http://www.karenware.com/

http://www.austin.isd.tenet.edu/schools/staff.phtml?teacher=1600

Gotta be her, right?

Re:Looks Like a Ruby On Rails Design by temojen · 2005-06-13 11:16 · Score: 1 · on Homebrew Air Conditioning for Under $25

take your pick

Ogg better than mp3? by h4l0 · 2002-04-04 12:31 · Score: 1 · on DivX and MP3 Developers Work Together on Watermarks

according to this very informative article,(An introduction to compressed audio with Vorbis) it would seem that ogg offers better sound than mp3 files, anyone care to comment on any diffrences if they have tried ogg? if in fact it does offer better sound quality, i would be willing to go home tonight, and start encoding new cd's i have in the ogg format.

I'm a teacher by Teach · 2002-03-15 03:58 · Score: 3, Insightful · on Any Teachers on Slashdot?

Almost didn't see this question because it's not on the main page.

I teach three years of high school Computer Science and will add a webmastering course next year. Currently CS is taught in C++, though we'll be moving to Scheme and Java in the future. Webmastering will cover HTML, CSS, SQL, Perl and maybe PHP.

I use Linux as my primary OS at home, but the kids use Windows 95 and Borland C++ because that's what we bought licenses for 5 years ago. I keep hoping to move to Linux in the lab, but the biggest holdup has been a NetWare client for Linux so the kids can access their home directories.

I do have a degree in CS from a top-ten CS university and was among the top few in many of my classes. I can say that money is definitely an issue for many. I started at $24K five years ago and am now up to $32K in Austin, TX. I have friends with comparable skill levels that graduated with me who are making double to three times that amount in industry.

Teachers should be the best and brightest but often aren't because the pay is so much less than they could get in industry. If teacher salary were only 10% less than industry (rather than 50% or more), you'd see a lot more qualified people looking into teaching.

Oh, and to those who say that teachers only work 8:00-3:30... keep in mind that is only the lecture times. In addition, teachers must deal with parents, grade student work (and we don't have grunt TAs like college professors) and generate new assignments/lecture material. And any teacher who can get all that done during a single "planning period" probably isn't doing a very good job.

I know one industry person that left a job at places like IBM because she wanted to work "shorter hours". She lasted one year as a teacher.

Obligatory self-promotion: you can see what my classes are doing right now, and also find out more than you ever wanted to know about me.

Re: good CS teacher by Teach · 2000-12-18 12:01 · Score: 1 · on College Board AP CompSci Exam Will Be In Java

I have yet to meet a good CS teacher in highschool.

I must admit we're few and far between. But once in a while someone like me comes along with a quirky combination of programming ability, teaching skill, and disdain for consumerism.

Blame it on our values as a nation that we don't pay good teachers what they're worth. I make less than your quoted $35,000 a year, and our head football coach makes maybe $80,000. Gotta love the free market.... But paying teachers differently based on skill (rather than purely years of experience) or on market value isn't going to happen in Texas anytime soon.

I find it ironic that 100% of students completing my third-year course last year are now working at some tech company while attending college, and making $11 an hour or more. Oh, well. I reject offers from Dell and Tivoli from time to time. I just really, really love my job.

For the record, a good percentage of my third-year kids also use vi by the time they leave....

Check out my mad HTML skills on my class webpage. The semester final is firewalled out, so don't bother.

Just had to say that we are out here, if hard to find.

battle-tested programs from a real life classroom by Teach · 2000-08-02 01:16 · Score: 1 · on Ideas for High School Computer Projects?

I'm a high school computer science teacher. All my daily assignments as well as larger projects (and solutions, in many cases) are available online. Note that these materials will be archived to my personal home page real soon, as the new school year starts one week from today (that is, on Wednesday, August 9).

Many of these assignments I've done for several years, so I know they're suitable for first-year computer science students.

The Daily Handout - high school computer science assignments