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Thompson: A Turnaround Strategy for Secretary Duncan

Six recommendations for a kinder, smarter, better turnaround strategy:

1. Repudiate collective punishment of educators, with written guarantees that also meet the legitmate needs of turnaround specialists and others to improve teacher quality.

2. Stop the scapegoating. Reducing the percentage of stigmatized schools from 1/3rd to 5% gives no relief to urban systems where failing schools are disproportionately located.

3. Remember that you can’t just shoot urban teachers and principals, as suburban schools get relief. Otherwise, how can "reformers" stop rhe outmigration of educators to less challenging systems that would inevitable under his ESEA?

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Sattler: Now Show Me a REAL Blueprint

My father is an engineer, and I know from blueprints. Blueprints have details, specifics.

The document published to launch the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization is not a blueprint.

So, in the absence of any real details, here's my analysis of what's in and what's out in the new proposal.

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