Removing the Mask From Reform in Bridgeport, CT
Thanks to Linda from CT for this article:
Removing the mask from Bridgeport education reformers
Published 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 18, 2012
There is always more than meets the eye, particularly when a mask camouflages a hidden agenda.
Excel Bridgeport, a new education reform group, describes itself in flattering terms on its website. It announces:
“1. We want every child in Bridgeport to have the opportunity fo
“1. We want every child in Bridgeport to have the opportunity fo
The Big Business of Charter Schools
You may have been naive enough to think that charter schools are multiplying because some people want better education for American children.
You may have thought they were expanding to give more choices to children trapped in bad public schools.
You may have wondered why they continue to proliferate when so many studies agree that they don’t get better results than the public schools.
But if you thought those things, you were on the wrong track.
Who Will Pay for the Economic Meltdown?
You may have thought they were expanding to give more choices to children trapped in bad public schools.
You may have wondered why they continue to proliferate when so many studies agree that they don’t get better results than the public schools.
But if you thought those things, you were on the wrong track.
Who Will Pay for the Economic Meltdown?
I read two items within the same hour that presented a stark contrast.
First was this blog post about the Michigan Legislature’s change in teachers’ pensions. Apparently there are many people who think that teachers’ benefits are way too generous and must be scaled back. Can’t afford them anymore. Tough times.
Then I read in the New York Times that investigators checking into the collapse of the MF Global fund decided
Why Incentives Fail in Education
First was this blog post about the Michigan Legislature’s change in teachers’ pensions. Apparently there are many people who think that teachers’ benefits are way too generous and must be scaled back. Can’t afford them anymore. Tough times.
Then I read in the New York Times that investigators checking into the collapse of the MF Global fund decided
Why Incentives Fail in Education
This reader notes that people attracted to work in education are different from those who choose to work in risk-taking occupations. I would disagree only to this extent: Read Deming, Pink, Ariely, and Deci, who say that extrinsic rewards don’t work in the corporation either; that people, regardless of occupation, are motivated by idealism, a sense of mastery and autonomy, and other factors intrinsic to the work, not by bonuses. We are today seeing a resurgence of early twentieth century Taylorism, scientific efficiency, low-level behaviorism, which
An Astonishing Article about TFA
We are accustomed to reading puff pieces about TFA, to hearing again and again how the “best and the brightest” are sacrificing two years of their lives to save the needy children of America from their wretched teachers, etc.
And we see fund-raising drives for TFA everywhere, on our ATM machine in the bank, as the beneficiary of the recent “Teachers Rock” concert in Los Angeles, as though TFA were a hard-pressed charity, sort of like the Girl
And we see fund-raising drives for TFA everywhere, on our ATM machine in the bank, as the beneficiary of the recent “Teachers Rock” concert in Los Angeles, as though TFA were a hard-pressed charity, sort of like the Girl