Cam Newton plans to fully participate in the NFL combine that begins later this week, saying he wants “to be transparent” through the whole draft process.
Newton intends to work out for NFL teams in Indianapolis, and said he is ready to answer any questions they may have for the quarterback who won the BCS national championship and Heisman Trophy in his only season at Auburn, where he played in a spread offense instead of taking snaps under center.
“I don’t have nothing to hide, and I’m a competitor,” Newton said Monday night before accepting the Davey O’Brien Award that recognizes the nation’s top quarterback. “I’m going to go out here and do what I’ve been working on this whole time and preparing for this moment right now.”
Newton has been working with a quarterback coach in San Diego and getting mentoring from Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon.
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Meant to post this yesterday, but didn’t get time. I think the headlines tell the tale around education right now.
MICHIGAN
NEW JERSEY
WISCONSIN
CONNECTICUT
I didn’t even get to look at Texas…
These are some crazy days, and I fear we haven’t even seen the half of it. And I wonder a couple of things. What will it take for people to figure out that the disruption here is far greater than budgets and unions which are right now the easy scapegoats in the reform message? And, if
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First-year Pittsburgh coach Todd Graham wants people to know he’s as much old-school as he is innovative.
While at Tulsa the past four years, Graham’s offenses were regularly some of the most potent in the nation. But he stresses physicality as much as he does the spread-the-field approach that is his reputation.
He’s worked to modernize the program, too. Televisions at the team’s practice facility have been upgraded – flatscreens only – and he’s made sure coaches are seen with Ipads when they go into homes on recruiting visits.
And once those kids get to Pitt, ear rings, bandanas and “filthy” language? Not allowed.
Laid-back enough to allow former players into the postgame locker room, but enough of a disciplinarian to insist on tucked-in shirts and 6 a.m.
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I feel like I should do some fun tool blogging or great classroom blogging or something before heading down the depressing road of writing more about change in schools, but I guess I can’t help myself. Especially after taking pictures like the one at right at a school I visited a couple of weeks ago and after reading quotes like this one:
“Unless we change direction, the combined impact of these proposals will do for public schooling what market reform has done for housing, health care and the economy: produce fabulous profits for a few and unequal access and outcomes for the many.”
That’s Stan Karp of the New Jersey Education Law Center lamenting the cuts and “reforms” here in my great state and elsewhere in a blog post in the Washington Post. (If you wan
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So first I just want to thank all of you who stuck around during the last session at Educon last week to extend this conversation, and to those of you who have signed on to see if we can make this happen. I thought for the most part, the conversation was valuable, and it’s left me thinking a lot this week about what we can and, perhaps, cannot do.
But I wanted to start this post with some context from a Jon Becker blog post that Chris alluded to in his session as well. It’s a quote by former NYC education head Joel Klein commenting on the “Political Education of Michelle Rhee.” He says:
This is a game about power, and I think you have a vacuum on one side…She’s concluded — and I think with some wisdom — that there’s really no countervailing force that is well-funded, is well-organized. What I think she wants to build is an organization that can really step up and amass political support and play hardball.
As Jon notes, Klein is right. There is no alter
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