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A Success For Both Of Us, If We Can Have One | The Jose Vilson

A Success For Both Of Us, If We Can Have One | The Jose Vilson

A Success For Both Of Us, If We Can Have One

When you said a 7th grade class, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I thought you had made it to the next grade along with some of the other knuckleheads I had seen the year before. No matter. You’d be in my class and I was going to make you love math, even if you were given a score of a 1. You were told to repeat the grade earlier on because they place your value on a math test instead of your academic potential. They saw a red mark and a “promotion-in-doubt” next to your ID and thought it would be best if you repeated the material, even if that test didn’t really indicate your capacity for the material, but your capacity to pass that test.

Again, no matter.

A few days after I figured out how I would approach you, one of the first things I said to you after class was that we were going to prove everyone wrong about your math capacity. If only I used that same line with everyone else in my class, or else they might have done better. There you were, quietly kicking ass while nothing on your report changed. You were still labeled a 1 in math even as you were slowly creeping up in your grades. Your

Schools Matter: Why Diane Ravitch Is Marching on July 30

Schools Matter: Why Diane Ravitch Is Marching on July 30

Why Diane Ravitch Is Marching on July 30

From Ed Week:
I will be marching with the Save Our Schools coalition of teachers and parents on July 30 in Washington, D.C. I know you will be, too. I hope we are joined by many thousands of concerned citizens who want to save our schools from the bad ideas and bad policies now harming them.

I am marching to protest the status quo of high-stakes testing, attacks on the education profession, and creeping privatization.

I want to protest the federal government's punitive ideas about school reform, specifically, No Child Left Behind and the Race to the Top. Neither of these programs has any validation in research or practice or evidence. The nation's teachers and parents know that NCLB has been a policy disaster. Race to the Top incorporates the same failed ideas. Why doesn't Congress

I want to protest the wave of school closings caused by these cruel federal policies. Public schools are a public trust, not shoe stores. If they are struggling, they should be improved, not killed.

Save Our Schools

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School Tech Connect: We're Just So Thrilled!

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chicagotribune.com - By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Tribune reporter 3:16 p.m. CDT, June 20, 2011 Salary negotiations between Chicago Public Schools officials and its teachers union could veer to the subject of longer schoo...
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nytimes.com - In a move that will undoubtedly please labor unions, the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday morning proposed new rules to speed up unionization elections, largely by streamlining various pro...
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CityTime Project Awash in 'Fraud'

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