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Adrian Fenty and Michelle Rhee: What the Taiwanese cartoon on education reform gets wrong - The Facts Machine | TBD.com

Adrian Fenty and Michelle Rhee: What the Taiwanese cartoon on education reform gets wrong - The Facts Machine | TBD.com

Adrian Fenty and Michelle Rhee: What the Taiwanese cartoon on education reform gets wrong

November 1, 2010 - 10:07 AM
By Kevin Robillard (Twitter @TBDFactsMachine)
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Ousted D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and departing D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee recently made a cameo appearance in one of those animated Taiwanese news recaps. The entire video is comical — Rhee chases teachers out of a classroom with a broom, poor teachers are depicted wearing a clown outfit and makeup, and the daughters of U.S. President Barack Obama are depicted attending "Ye Olde Tony Private School."

Of course a cartoon is going to take visual liberties. And it’s not like NMA, the

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Braun: Newark Mayor Cory Booker's $1M school reform 'outreach' initiative is a waste | NJ.com

Braun: Newark Mayor Cory Booker's $1M school reform 'outreach' initiative is a waste | NJ.com

Braun: Newark Mayor Cory Booker's $1M school reform 'outreach' initiative is a waste

Published: Thursday, November 04, 2010, 6:35 AM Updated: Thursday, November 04, 2010, 6:58 AM
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cory-booker-100m.jpgMitsu Yasukawa/The Star-LedgerNewark Mayor Cory Booker speaks to reporters to announce the Partnership for Education in Newark called "PENewark" during a press conference at a former furniture store, located on Market Street in Newark on Monday.
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NEWARK — If you had a million dollars to spend on Newark’s public schools, how would you use it?

More teachers? Tutors? New books? Advanced classroom technology?

No, the correct answer — to the city’s mayor, at least — is "relentless outreach."

Relentless outreach means spending a million asking everyone in town—yes, everyone, including "neighborhood nannies" and those in homeless shelters — what their "values and principles" are so a report can be written that someday might — might — include those values and principles in drafting a reform plan for public schools.

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News: Veterans, Less Engaged but Satisfied - Inside Higher Ed

News: Veterans, Less Engaged but Satisfied - Inside Higher Ed
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Veterans, Less Engaged but Satisfied

Influential student survey now details impressions and habits of returning servicemembers, as well as more information about individual majors.

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Grudge Match

Daytona State board and president spar over development issue, attracting negative attention from regional accreditor.

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Globalization 101

At Sloan-C conference, a Connecticut professor explains how he's using wikis to teach less cosmopolitan students the basics of 21st-century technology and cultural exchange.

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The New British Tuition

New system would let universities charge almost three times current levels.

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NJ Spotlight | Are Charter Schools Really Better?

NJ Spotlight | Are Charter Schools Really Better?

Are Charter Schools Really Better?
The state Department of Education admits charter school data is too fragmented to support overall conclusions

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By John Mooney, November 4 in Education |1 Comment

The presentation to the state Board of Education yesterday was clearly meant to be a positive portrait of charter schools in New Jersey, with charts of the growing interest statewide and glowing examples from some superstar schools.

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It didn’t go quite as planned.

Once the PowerPoint presentation by the state Department of Education was done, several members of the board were openly critical of the report and skeptical about claims that charters do any better than traditional public schools.

As to the fundamental question of how New Jersey’s 73 charters are doing in terms of student achievement, neither the department nor the board had any answers.

“It is important that we do that kind of analysis and study,” said Rochelle Hendricks, the acting

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Colorado's new accountability system rates schools' academics - The Denver Post

Colorado's new accountability system rates schools' academics - The Denver Post
Colorado's new accountability system rates schools' academics 211/04/2010The first look at Colorado's newly developed school accountability system shows two-thirds of the state's schools are getting top grades, but 5 percent are in academic trouble.
Republicans maintain majority on State Board of Education11/03/2010 - Two Republicans and a Democrat were winning their races for seats on Colorado's State Board of Education, which would keep the long-standing Republican majority on the board.

Bennet campaign hurls ethics claims at Buck10/30/2010 - Democrats fending off ethical allegations against Sen. Michael Bennet on Friday fired back with questions about Republican Ken Buck, raising an old Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint and contributions from donors with whom he had ethical entanglements.

District violated Aurora teachers' contract with extra class time10/30/2010 - The Aurora school board met behind closed doors Thursday night after an arbitrator ruled that the district violated teachers' contract by adding another period of classroom instruction for high school educators this year.

Boasberg happy with DPS progress but distressed by students' lack of reading skills10/29/2010 - Things are getting better, but Denver Public Schools has a long way to go before declaring reform efforts a success, Superintendent Tom Boasberg said Thursday in his annual "State of the Schools" address.
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