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This Week In Education: Reform: The Problem With "Parents Across America"
This Week In Education: Reform: The Problem With "Parents Across America": Reform: The Problem With "Parents Across America" by Alexander Russo There's a small but very active group called Parents Across America that's been around the last year and change, usually criticizing reform measures like turnarounds, value-added, and the parent trigger. [image: ScreenHunter_22 Jun. 14 12.54] Their criticisms are all fine and good -- I have my own issues with many reform priorities. But I do have at least one big issues with them. (Or really two, but they're closely related.) No, it's not t... more »
Last Stand for Children First: Beware of Parents Across America
Last Stand for Children First: Beware of Parents Across America: Beware of Parents Across America by Last Stand for Children Popout Parents Across America was at it again today. They have taken the time to warn people of the dangers of seeing the new Parent Trigger movie *Won't Back Down*. Apparently, their big objection to the movie stems from a viewpoint that a movie based on a true story needs to be 100% truthful, but if that was the case would we ever have learned how Jon Bon Jovi cracked the Nazi codes in World War II if it wasn't for U-571 or would we have learned how Civ... more »
Schools Matter: Once more Alex Russo afflicts the afflicted and comforts the comfortable
Schools Matter: Once more Alex Russo afflicts the afflicted and comforts the comfortable: Once more Alex Russo afflicts the afflicted and comforts the comfortable by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene *"I want to work with people who have relevant experience in our neighborhoods, whose kids go to the same schools mine do, and who believe in the self-determination of all communities. I do not appreciate the dominant-culture control of the 'reformers' who parachute in, a la Peace Corps style, to show us Brown and Black folks how to be like them." — Andrea Merida* [image: Photo courtesy of... more »