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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Who to Vote For?
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Who to Vote For?:Who to Vote For?In discussions with friends and neighbors, I find two kinds of voters. The "I got my ballot, filled it out and mailed it already" and the "I'm waiting until the last minute" voter. I'm somewhere in-between.I'm going to give you my picks for School Board but also throw out some picks for City Council as I think
Get Up Offa That Thing (Summer-Shaming) | The Jose Vilson
Get Up Offa That Thing (Summer-Shaming) | The Jose Vilson: Get Up Offa That Thing (Summer-Shaming) July is the month that teachers get to be teachers without students.I’ve now been to five cities over the course of the last month, and saw nothing but teachers working on developing themselves as professionals and people. What’s missing in the debate over extended time in schools and summers in Amer
BAT Congress in Washington DC | The Rick Smith Show
BAT Congress in Washington DC | The Rick Smith Show: Submitted by Rick Smith on July 25, 2015 - 9:33pm.BAT Congress in Washington DC | The Rick Smith Show:
Pearson selling some investments to be ‘100 percent’ focused on education - The Washington Post
Pearson selling some investments to be ‘100 percent’ focused on education - The Washington Post: Pearson selling some investments to be ‘100 percent’ focused on educationPearson, the world’s largest education company, the one that testing critics love to hate, wants to get much, much bigger. It is selling other investments so that it can focus entirely on its education business.The sales come at a
CURMUDGUCATION: Teacher "Shortage" Coast to Coast
CURMUDGUCATION: Teacher "Shortage" Coast to Coast: Teacher "Shortage" Coast to CoastTalk of teacher shortages has been popping up on a state-to-state basis, so I thought I'd engage in a rare act of actual data collection. I'm working from two basic sources here: 1) a report from USEDthat actually goes back to 1991, but we'll just focus on the present and 2) my research assistan
A letter from a teacher to parents: ‘I can’t do it alone.” | Get Schooled
A letter from a teacher to parents: ‘I can’t do it alone.” | Get Schooled: A letter from a teacher to parents: ‘I can’t do it alone.” A veteran teacher from a suburban Atlanta district sent me this note:There are many futile attempts to remedy the ills of our educational system when a core issue to be rectified is parents. Each year, I see the positive effects of strong parental involvement on th
Perdido Street School: How Education Reformers Fund Their Reform Lobbying Efforts Without Revealing Their Donors
Perdido Street School: How Education Reformers Fund Their Reform Lobbying Efforts Without Revealing Their Donors: How Education Reformers Fund Their Reform Lobbying Efforts Without Revealing Their DonorsChris Bragg of the Times-Union with an illuminating piece about how education reform groups push their political agenda without revealing who's funding it:Three groups pushing education reforms tha
Geaux Teacher!: Helping Profits - Hurting Children
Geaux Teacher!: Helping Profits - Hurting Children: Helping Profits - Hurting ChildrenMedia gets an "A" for finding false negatives in U.S. Students winning math Olympiad. Just 10 minutes of my research gives media an "F" for facts. I suppose if I were a PAID journalist I could have saved 10 minutes. Here is the good news with the media touch - headline: They're No. 1: U.S. W
State of Michigan Failing Charter Schools: One Year Later Nothing Has Changed
State of charter schools: How Michigan spends $1 billion but fails to hold schools accountable | Detroit Free Press | freep.com: Big Education Ape: Incomplete: Michgan’s grade on charter school reform http://bit.ly/1eqT7Tf Jul. 16, 2014What the Free Press foundA year long Free Press investigation of Michigan's charter schools found wasteful spending, conflicts of interest, poor performing schools
The Multiple Teacher Evaluation System(s) in New Mexico, from a Concerned New Mexico Parent | VAMboozled!
The Multiple Teacher Evaluation System(s) in New Mexico, from a Concerned New Mexico Parent | VAMboozled!: The Multiple Teacher Evaluation System(s) in New Mexico, from a Concerned New Mexico ParentA “concerned New Mexico parent” who wrote a prior post for this blog here, wrote another for you all below, about the sheer numbers of different teacher evaluation systems, or variations, now in place i
Judging Success and Failure of Schools and Districts: Whose Criteria Count? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Judging Success and Failure of Schools and Districts: Whose Criteria Count? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Judging Success and Failure of Schools and Districts: Whose Criteria Count?The dominant standard used by most policymakers, media editors, and administrators to judge success is effectiveness: Have you done what you said you were going to do and can you prove it? In a
OPT OUT: Colorado State Board of Education at crossroads after contentious run - The Denver Post
Colorado State Board of Education at crossroads after contentious run - The Denver Post: Colorado State Board of Education at crossroads after contentious runThe item was not even on the agenda. The Colorado State Board of Education was supposed to spend the morning recognizing award-winning teachers and digesting a routine school-finance update.But sitting to the right of the board chairwoman, an
Incomplete: Michgan’s grade on charter school reform
Incomplete: Michgan’s grade on charter school reform: Incomplete: Michgan’s grade on charter school reform One of my favorite stories about the lunacy that Michigan indulges with regard to charter schools comes, of course, from Detroit. It’s where the spectacular lack of oversight and standards over the past 20 years has created a sprawling, scattered system of privately operated public schools th
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Special Nite Cap: Catch Up on Today's Post 7/25/15
SPECIAL NITE CAP CORPORATE ED REFORMMore Education “Reform” From Those Who Created “No Child Left Behind.” Corporations Win, Teachers LoseMore Education “Reform” From Those Who Created “No Child Left Behind.” Corporations Win, Teachers Lose: More Education “Reform” From Those Who Created “No Child Left Behind.” Corporations Win, Teachers LoseHere’s something to ponder: who is in a better position
