KIPP's Open Bar Night at Houston's Hard Rock Cafe, and Other Tales from Las Vegas
The stories of twenty former KIPP teachers will be compiled in a book available later this year, but here is another tiny clip that relates to news reported this morning in the Times-Picayune (below). This bombshell was dropped near the end of one of those twenty interviews when this participant offered one final concern about KIPP:. . . . I think there is a lot of danger, too, in the fact that t
Abusive Cornerstone Prep Attempts PR Comeback
The Achievement School District (ASD), which was formed in Tennessee to charterize the state’s poorest schools in the same fashion that the Recovery School District has done to New Orleans, had their point person for the Memphis Corporate Appeal, Jane Roberts, to do a PR piece to help in the recovery of the abusive and scandal-ridden Cornerstone Prep in Memphis. Marching to Cornerstone DrumIn 201
Misreading Florida
The headline appears simple enough:Fla. Pushes Longer Day, More Reading in Some SchoolsGewertz explains:Two years ago, Florida took a step no other state has taken to improve students' reading skills: It required its 100 lowest-performing elementary schools to add an extra hour to their school day and to use that time for reading instruction. Early results suggest the new initiative may be paying
1-26-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Indiana HB1320: The ALEC, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch Plan for Student DataBy Doug MartinYou would think with many more Hoosiers finding out each and every day about the complete scam known as Indiana school reform, the legislators in Indianapolis would be smart enough to give it a rest. But no, instead of doing damage control on the eve of the release of my book Hoosier School Hei