Big Education Ape: Remainders: Social promotion definitely not dead says teacher

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

by Anna Phillips

Gov. Paterson introduced Rochester’s mayoral control bill, which could have trouble in the Senate.
Klein may have declared an end to social promotion, but in practice it’s alive and well, writes a teacher.
The economy could bounce back, but the education of children going through the recession may not.
Whether you live in South Dakota or Alaska determines at what age you’ll learn to tell time.
A policy brief on Teach for America finds the teachers improve with time, but most don’t stay long enough.
TFA isn’t the answer, but it still has a role to play argues an education blogger.
The city’s practice of overbooking gifted programs has led to a frantic search for seats at P.S. 163.
Kim Gittleson adds retention data to a UFT report on charter attrition and finds it changes the story.
Leonie Haimson analyzes the number of charter school opeds in recent months from the city’s papers.
CO Sen. Michael Bennet backs a bill to create training programs for principals of turnaround schools.
Bennet had been working on a teacher quality bill but may have shelved it to avoid union ire.
Sherman Dorn explains his skepticism of performance pay and the studies done on merit pay systems.
Mike Petrilli says Fordham is working to see that control of national standards isn’t given to unions.
And Deven Black asks: can you name five famous teachers?