Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: BBA study shows market-driven reform is a bust

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: BBA study shows market-driven reform is a bust:

Funniest quote of the year

by Mike Klonsky

Hamilton

This from Rahm's communications director Sarah Hamilton in response to CTU prez Karen Lewis' call to register 100,000 new voters in time for the 2015 mayoral elections.

“Barbara Byrd-Bennett has proposed a plan for Chicago Public Schools, with Mayor Emanuel’s support, that finally puts our children first. This is simply not the time for politics.” -- Sun-Times

Hilarious! Oh please stop, Sarah. You're killing me.

BBA study shows market-driven reform is a bust

by Mike Klonsky

"Most of the students who would have attended the closed (NYC) high schools were not admitted to the smaller schools but went to other large comprehensive high schools, "which consequently became academically overwhelmed, making them additional targets for closure.'" -- Broader, Bolder Study

I got my copy of the BBA study yesterday, hot off the press. It won't be available on-line until April 18.

"You need to read this," NYU prof, Pedro Noguera, a speaker at the Reframing Reform Conference, said, as he handed me a copy of, "Market-oriented education reforms' rhetoric trumps reality."  So I did. Anything about trumping reality, especially early on a Monday morning, will catch my attention. Pedro was right. It was worth the read.

For those of you who aren't avid readers of ed research, here's the gist of it. The corporate-style reforms which