Seattle Schools Community Forum: Gates Foundation Flounders

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Gates Foundation Flounders

Gates Foundation Flounders

An interesting article from Geek Wire which itself comes from one in Non-Profit Quarterly in August of this year.  I loved the NPQ title:

Why Smart People (at the Gates Foundation) Can’t Learn

An article in the latest World Development Journal finds that staff at the Gates Foundation have trouble making effective grants because they are all trying so hard to be the smartest guy in the room.

The article examines the organizational culture of the foundation’s Agriculture Developmental program and finds that its heavy emphasis on strategic planning distracts from the practices on the ground from which they might learn and build. Specifically, it “abstracts away from smallholder farmers’ sociocultural worlds and relies on a generalizable set of development solutions.” The “bright, high achievers” on staff end up learning to manage up to Bill, presumably the alpha smartest-guy-in-the-room, instead of Continue reading: 
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DeVos accuses senator of sending 'completely false' tweet - POLITICO

DeVos accuses senator of sending 'completely false' tweet - POLITICO

DeVos accuses senator of sending 'completely false' tweet

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday lashed out at Sen. Patty Murray on Twitter, accusing her of sending a "completely false" tweet and acting "unbecoming and irresponsible."

Sec. @BetsyDeVosED's wants to weaken student protections so—
an unmarried mother may be denied admission,
a woman could be thrown out for using birth control
& an LGBTQ student could be subjected to cruel punishment at school.

This is unacceptable. https://t.co/GhMBXoctF5

— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) October 15, 2018

DeVos' tweet came in the form of a reply to a tweet Monday night by Murray (D-Wash.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate HELP Committee.


Murray said in her tweet that DeVos wants to "weaken student protections so— an unmarried mother may be denied admission, a woman could be thrown out for using birth control & an LGBTQ student could be subjected to cruel punishment at school. This is unacceptable." Murray linked to a press release from her office criticizing draft Department of Education proposals for overhauling Title IX rules for schools handling sexual harassment allegations.


DeVos, in turn, tweeted today: "This is completely false and you know it, @PattyMurray. It’s also unbecoming and irresponsible of a U.S. Senator to sow fear and falsehood. Our efforts will restore #DueProcess and support all students, including survivors."


DeVos has said the Obama-era rules the department is replacing “failed too many students” and lacked due process for the accused.


DeVos and Murray have frequently sparred since DeVos was nominated to the position last year. DeVos' handling of civil rights issue has been a particularly contentious issue. DeVos has said the department has taken steps to streamline and more fairly handle claims, while Democrats have accused her of stripping away students' civil rights.

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"Policing Our Students" Report Points to New Directions for School Discipline - LA Progressive

"Policing Our Students" Report Points to New Directions for School Discipline - LA Progressive

“Policing Our Students” Report Points to New Directions for School Discipline

s a follow-on research project to its celebrated Million Dollar Hoods project, a research team led by UCLA Professor Kelly-Lytle Hernandez has released its “Policing-Our-Students” report, which documents the disparate impact Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) policing has on students of color.

Also led by Terry Allen, Isaac Bryan, and Andrew Teng, the Million Dollar Hoods team demonstrates that between 2014 and 2017, LASPD issued 24% of its arrests, citations, and diversions to black students in the Los Angeles Unified School District, even though those students represented less than 9% of the district’s total student population.

By contrast, Latinx students represented 74% of the student body and had 71% LASPD involvement, white students represented 10% of the student body and had 3% LASPD involvement, and “other” students represented 8% of the student body and had 2% of LASPD involvement.

Positive conditions for learning and safety do not exist when Black students are disproportionately subject to contact with law enforcement

“This racial disproportionately in contact with L.A. School Police disrupts opportunities to learn for black students,” says Terry Allen, a division lead and also a Ph.D. candidate at UCLA. “Contact with law enforcement can also impair mental health and well-being, induce trauma, erode trust in the criminal justice system, and negatively impact educational achievement, advancement, and subsequent attainment.”

“Positive conditions for learning and safety do not exist when Black students are disproportionately subject to contact with law enforcement,” Allen continues. “Schools must be wary that learning and safety are not comprised as they pursue approaches to reducing contact with law Continue reading: "Policing Our Students" Report Points to New Directions for School Discipline - LA Progressive

Miseducation | ProPublica

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Miseducation

Is There Racial Inequality at Your School?

By Lena V. Groeger, Annie Waldman and David Eads, October 16, 2018

Based on civil rights data released by the U.S. Department of Education, ProPublica has built an interactive database to examine racial disparities in educational opportunities and school discipline. Look up more than 96,000 individual public and charter schools and 17,000 districts to see how they compare with their counterparts. About Our Data | Related Story | Local Stories

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ALL STATES

Compare student access to opportunities and discipline on average, across states. Click on each state for full details.

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Black

Hispanic

Alabama	45%	51%	87%	1.8x	3.7x
Alaska	52%	43%	76%	1.5x	3.3x
Arizona	60%	44%	80%	1.8x	3.4x
Arkansas	38%	63%	87%	1.5x	3.6x
California	76%	59%	83%	1.8x	3.4x
Colorado	46%	42%	79%	1.4x	3.3x
Connecticut	44%	38%	87%	2.3x	6x
Delaware	54%	38%	86%	2.1x	3.5x
District Of Columbia	90%	77%	69%	1.5x	11.7x
Florida	61%	59%	81%	2.2x	2.4x
Georgia	59%	62%	79%	1.8x	3.6x
Hawaii	87%	50%	83%	Not Available	Not Available
Idaho	24%	47%	80%	Not Available	Not Available
Illinois	51%	50%	86%	1.9x	4.6x
Indiana	31%	48%	87%	1.9x	4.5x
Iowa	23%	41%	91%	1.2x	5.4x
Kansas	35%	49%	86%	2.1x	5x
Kentucky	22%	59%	89%	1.7x	3.5x
Louisiana	54%	58%	79%	1.8x	2.5x
Maine	10%	46%	87%	1.6x	2.4x
Maryland	62%	45%	88%	2.3x	3x
Massachusetts	38%	40%	88%	1.6x	4x
Michigan	33%	46%	80%	2.6x	4.1x
Minnesota	32%	38%	82%	1.9x	6.2x
Mississippi	56%	75%	82%	2.1x	3.1x
Missouri	28%	50%	89%	1.5x	4.4x
Montana	21%	45%	86%	Not Available	Not Available
Nebraska	33%	44%	89%	1.5x	5.3x
Nevada	66%	57%	74%	2.1x	3.9x
New Hampshire	14%	28%	88%	Not Available	Not Available
New Jersey	53%	38%	90%	2.5x	5.4x
New Mexico	76%	72%	71%	Not Available	Not Available
New York	55%	49%	80%	2.1x	2.6x
North Carolina	51%	57%	86%	2.6x	3.3x
North Dakota	22%	31%	88%	Less Likely	3.2x
Ohio	28%	45%	84%	2.3x	4.8x
Oklahoma	50%	61%	82%	1.2x	3.6x
Oregon	37%	50%	75%	Not Available	Not Available
Pennsylvania	33%	47%	86%	2.3x	5.6x
Rhode Island	41%	47%	83%	1.3x	3x
South Carolina	49%	60%	83%	3.2x	2.9x
South Dakota	25%	42%	84%	1.3x	4x
Tennessee	36%	58%	89%	2.1x	4.9x
Texas	72%	59%	89%	1.6x	4.6x
Utah	24%	36%	85%	Not Available	Not Available
Vermont	10%	38%	88%	1.6x	3.1x
Virginia	50%	41%	87%	2.1x	3.7x
Washington	44%	45%	80%	1.2x	3x
West Virginia	10%	49%	90%	1.1x	2.5x
Wisconsin	29%	39%	88%	2.3x	7.5x
Wyoming	22%	37%	80%	Not Available	Not Available

LOCAL STORIES

In Newark, reporting lapses hide thousands of student suspensions from public view: Chalkbeat, New Jersey

In Colorado’s high-poverty schools, many teachers are just starting their careers: Chalkbeat, Colorado

Tennessee has a lot of early-career teachers, especially at schools with more students of color. Here’s why it matters.: Chalkbeat, Tennessee

In one Chicago neighborhood, three high schools offer dramatically different opportunities: Chalkbeat,Illinois

‘Some kids are getting in, when others get left out’: Examining racial gaps in Indiana gifted programs: Chalkbeat, Indiana

‘You try to triage’: NYC is spending big on counseling, but staff on the front lines say needs are going unmet: Chalkbeat, New York

Promising students in Detroit lack access to high-level AP classes that are common in suburban schools: Chalkbeat, Michigan

SOURCES & NOTES

Sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, Stanford University's Center for Education Policy Analysis, EDFacts, U.S. Department of Education’s Common Core of Data. Maps courtesy of Mapbox Community. Read our methodology →

Notes: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights occasionally updates the underlying dataset. ProPublica may update the interactive’s data in response.

Disparity scores are not available if there are too few students in a specific racial group to make a statistically significant calculation. They are also not available if data about a particular racial group was not reported. Some schools or districts reported an overcount of students in a disparity category (such as suspensions or AP courses) when compared with the total enrollment of that particular student group. In such cases, we also omit the disparity score.

Additional development by Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei. Additional data analysis by Jeff Ernsthausen and Ryann Grochowski Jones.

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