How Finns View What Matters in Education
This is a very interesting read about how Finns think about education.
They think about education, not just schooling. They think about how different institutions interact to shape young people. As Lawrence Cremin (my mentor and the author’s) taught, education is a network of institutions.
Finns care about equality, not as an abstraction but a reality. They make sure that everyone has health care and education. Teachers are highly respected. And they don’t understand our obsession with choice.
This is a good read.
They think about education, not just schooling. They think about how different institutions interact to shape young people. As Lawrence Cremin (my mentor and the author’s) taught, education is a network of institutions.
Finns care about equality, not as an abstraction but a reality. They make sure that everyone has health care and education. Teachers are highly respected. And they don’t understand our obsession with choice.
This is a good read.
Broad Foundation Molding the Syracuse School Board
This article shows how the Broad Foundation has shifted gears. It used to train school boards to its way of thinking (it trained the Atlanta school board, for example, to believe that metrics and data matter more than anything les).
Now it send school boards on tours to selected sites.
The Syracuse superintendent, a product of the unaccredited Broad Superintendents Academy, leads her school board to meetings around the nation to learn about the Broad style. In this case, they are in New Orleans, the Mecca of privatization. You can be sure that no one will tell them that at least two-thirds of the New Orleans charters are academically unacceptable, even in the reports of their supporters at the Cowen Institute at Tulane.
Now it send school boards on tours to selected sites.
The Syracuse superintendent, a product of the unaccredited Broad Superintendents Academy, leads her school board to meetings around the nation to learn about the Broad style. In this case, they are in New Orleans, the Mecca of privatization. You can be sure that no one will tell them that at least two-thirds of the New Orleans charters are academically unacceptable, even in the reports of their supporters at the Cowen Institute at Tulane.
Where Does a School Chef Make More Than Teachers?
Rhee To Face Federal Lawsuit Over Wrongful Termination
This just in:
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Federal Judge Orders Michelle Rhee Suit to Go Forward, will Broaden to Concealment and Fraud Claims
A US federal judge has denied a Motion to Dismiss by former DC Public School Chancellor Michelle Rhee in a wrongful termination lawsuit over the mass firings of DC Public School teachers back in 2009. Case to be amended to add concealment and fraud claims against Rhee and her CFO Noah Wepman.
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Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) April 01, 2013
For nearly three years, efforts by hundreds of DC Public School teachers who were victims of the much publicized mass firings by former Chancellor Michelle Rhee- herself hailed as a reformer and darling of major media- have failed to gain any traction in the courts.
However, in what may be a turning of that tide, US District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras has denied Rhee’s
“http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10586920.htm
Federal Judge Orders Michelle Rhee Suit to Go Forward, will Broaden to Concealment and Fraud Claims
A US federal judge has denied a Motion to Dismiss by former DC Public School Chancellor Michelle Rhee in a wrongful termination lawsuit over the mass firings of DC Public School teachers back in 2009. Case to be amended to add concealment and fraud claims against Rhee and her CFO Noah Wepman.
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Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) April 01, 2013
For nearly three years, efforts by hundreds of DC Public School teachers who were victims of the much publicized mass firings by former Chancellor Michelle Rhee- herself hailed as a reformer and darling of major media- have failed to gain any traction in the courts.
However, in what may be a turning of that tide, US District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras has denied Rhee’s
Who Is Funding the Attack on Public Schools?
Jersey Jazzman has done some amazing research to uncover the source of the money that is flooding local school board races.
He has found a pattern. The same people are dropping thousands of dollars into key school board races around the country, into districts where they do not live. In Perth Amboy, NJ, school board candidates typically spend about $5,000-8,000, but in the last election one candidate had about ten times that much, almost all from big names in California.
Then he found the same people picking races in other states.
Who is coordinating this campaign?
He has found a pattern. The same people are dropping thousands of dollars into key school board races around the country, into districts where they do not live. In Perth Amboy, NJ, school board candidates typically spend about $5,000-8,000, but in the last election one candidate had about ten times that much, almost all from big names in California.
Then he found the same people picking races in other states.
Who is coordinating this campaign?
Another Celebrity Charter School
Kudos to Nancy Flanagan, for reporting on the mess at the Jalen Rose Academy charter school.
Why do sports celebrities think they are qualified to run a school?
At the Jalen Rose school, 100% of the teachers quit at the end of the first year.
Nancy asks an obvious question:
“Here’s my question: What would parents think if all the teachers in a traditional public school quit? If their children had no sinks in the science rooms, but flew to Las Vegas to meet a basketball team? Or if students couldn’t access necessary instructional materials because their laptops didn’t work?
“When the Academy (which gets the same per-pupil state funding as all public schools in Detroit) ran out o
Why do sports celebrities think they are qualified to run a school?
At the Jalen Rose school, 100% of the teachers quit at the end of the first year.
Nancy asks an obvious question:
“Here’s my question: What would parents think if all the teachers in a traditional public school quit? If their children had no sinks in the science rooms, but flew to Las Vegas to meet a basketball team? Or if students couldn’t access necessary instructional materials because their laptops didn’t work?
“When the Academy (which gets the same per-pupil state funding as all public schools in Detroit) ran out o
Using Satire to Expose False Claims
Bruce Baker has a great post about Matt Di Carlo’s April 1 post on the Maryland NAEP scores. Baker knows that Di Carlo was using his post to mock the misuse of NAEP data, but Baker shows how people like Chris Cerf frequently use misleading graphs to make a point.
When Di Carlo put up his April Fool’s Day post about a “miracle in Maryland,” he forgot to label it as a satire. He updated it.
I posted it in the original version, and noted that neither Matt nor I believe in miracles. When Matt updated his post, I updated my post.
But the interesting point is that the graphs in Matt’s post about the gains posted by Maryland were not made-up.
When Di Carlo put up his April Fool’s Day post about a “miracle in Maryland,” he forgot to label it as a satire. He updated it.
I posted it in the original version, and noted that neither Matt nor I believe in miracles. When Matt updated his post, I updated my post.
But the interesting point is that the graphs in Matt’s post about the gains posted by Maryland were not made-up.
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