New York State's Meaningless Concessions Throw Out the Only Tests Worth Keeping
In New York, the teacher evaluation formula is based on 20 percent state mandated tests, 60 percent observation, and 20 percent local assessments. While canceling nary a state test or any of the planned implementation of the Corporate Core, the New York Board of Regents and their new panel of CorpEd advocates have have come up with a plan to shove local systems into dumping their own local assess
Embezzlement and Criminal Investigation at KIPP New Orleans
Story below from Times Picayune:Danielle Dreilinger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By Danielle Dreilinger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Email the author | Follow on Twitter on February 10, 2014 at 5:00 PMAn employee of New Orleans' second-largest charter schoolnetwork embezzled $69,840 in the 2012-13 academic year, according to an auditreleased Monday. The money has been recovered, the employee w
Standards as Political Footballs
In a piece published in a 2001 issue of English Journal, "Standards, Standards Everywhere, and Not a Spot to Think," I opened with a story about my daughter, then in middle school:[M]y eleven-year-old daughter, Jessica, made an observation: “All they care about is the PACT test; they don’t care if we learn anything.” She was speaking of the most recent statewide testing (in South Carolin
2-10-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: For Schools or Anything Else to Matter, We Must Do What Life Requires Now2 by Jim Horn / 11min hide // saveTaking Down Dixie's Last Political Stand in North CarolinaNorth Carolina is so everything that the current covey of Koch Brothers stooges in charge of the state are not: temperate, reasonable, accommodating, caring, committed to fairness. And just as Wake County reclaimed it