NCLB AND TIN CUPS
The Washington Post has a good editorial on NCLB written by Senator Kennedy ("How to Fix 'No Child'"). Senator Kennedy, one of the original architects of the NCLB Act, says the "stakes are high" in the renewal of the Act this year. I agree with Senator Kennedy that we must look for the good that this Act has made and fix the things that are not going well and have many educators in an uproar (e.g. penalizing schools for low performance, tin cup funding).
Senator Kennedy is keen in observing that we must encourage innovation in the classroom and not just do "teaching to the test." He advocates putting politics aside (good luck on that one) and putting emphasis on making progress in school reform, working together to fix what needs to be fixed. I laud Senator Kennedy (and I'm not really one of his ardent fans) for this effort.
How I made the scene:
I used a cylinder for the cup with a smaller cylinder embedded/colored black to simulate the inside. Handle is two spheres, one smaller with a green texture to make it look like you can see through it. Coins are spheres stretched into disks and colored. Try it yourself! Go to Gollygee.com for a demo download.