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Susan Sawyers: Education rockstar picks Florida?

Susan Sawyers: Education rockstar picks Florida?
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Florida page 1046 to 1047The "what will she do next" guessing game came to an end this week when Florida's Republican Governor-elect Rick Scott namedMichelle Rhee," the former chancellor of the District of Columbia school system, to an 18-member transition team on education.

Scott said the transition team would help him "find innovative ways to create a new education system for a new economy."

What Michelle brings to [public education in] Florida, according to Julie Young, President and Chief Executive Officer of Orlando-basedFlorida Virtual School (FLVS), "is a new

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Big Education Ape Weekly

Big Education Ape Weekly
Big Education Ape Weekly

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Handschuh/NewsParents and school officials at the Harlem Village Academies School say they've had little contact with schools chancellor nominee Cathie Black.City schools chancellor nominee Cathie ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - source: Carl Herman, Examiner.comThe following is what I wrote and delivered to meeting participants concerning our school’s 8th grade US History text; a leading national textbook. Surprisingly, th...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Published: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 9:00 AM Updated: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 9:08 AMEDISON — The gymnasium at Herbert Hoover Middle School in Edison was bouncing with energy one recent morning...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - This was written byLarry Cuban, a former high school social studies teacher (14 years, including seven at Cardozo and Roosevelt high schools in the District), district superintendent (seven years i...

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parents4democraticschools.wordpress.com - Daily Kos: Musings on a holiday weekend.Share9 3Sun Nov 28, 2010 at 04:10:47 AM PSTwhich I found myself writing late morning yesterday, sitting in my local Starbucks, when perhaps I should have bee...

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The Answer Sheet - Meier: Partisan mindsets and teacher collegiality

The Answer Sheet - Meier: Partisan mindsets and teacher collegiality

Meier: Partisan mindsets and teacher collegiality

This was written by prominent educator Deborah Meier on her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with historian Diane Ravitch on the Education Week website. Meier and Ravitch exchange letters about what matters most in education. Meier is the founding principal of Mission Hill School in Boston and a renowned education reformer. Her latest book, written with Brenda Engel & Beth Taylor) is "Playing for keeps: Life and learning on a public school playground." Dear Diane: ...It's a relief these days to shift from contemplating the ugly takeover of our public institutions by private wealth—at a time when these very same people have undermined the economy of the nation itself—to talk about what fascinated me for 45 years. It was not the politics of schooling. A new book by Ryan Teves that just arrived in my mailbox is worth reading. Teves is a math and science secondary school teacher who
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Yong Zhao » Blog Archive » The Value of a College Degree: High Test Scores, Low Ability

Yong Zhao » Blog Archive » The Value of a College Degree: High Test Scores, Low Ability

The Value of a College Degree: High Test Scores, Low Ability

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The value of Chinese college degree: $44 per month according recent statistics. “China’s college graduates on average make only 300 yuan, or roughly $44, more per month than the average Chinese migrant worker,” writes a Wall Street Journal blog article citing data released by the director of Institute of Population and Labor Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Coincidentally, another story (in Chinese) that is spreading in Chinese media and online space is that a post-graduate degree (masters) is worth less than what a nanny makes. It is no ...
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Joel Klein: What I Learned at the Education Barricades - WSJ.com

Joel Klein: What I Learned at the Education Barricades - WSJ.com

What I Learned at the Education Barricades

Our embrace of charter schools was especially controversial. But why should any student have to settle for a neighborhood school if it's awful?


By JOEL KLEIN

Over the past eight years, I've been privileged to serve as chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the nation's largest school district. Working with a mayor who courageously took responsibility for our schools, our department has made significant changes and progress. Along the way, I've learned some important lessons about what works in public education, what doesn't, and what (and who) are the biggest obstacles to the transformative changes we still need.

First, it is wrong to assert that students' poverty and family circumstances severely limit their educational potential. It's now proven that a child who does poorly with one teacher could have done very well with another. Take Harlem Success Academy, a charter school with all minority, mostly high-poverty students admitted by lottery. It performs as well as our gifted and talented schools that admit kids based solely on demanding tests. We also have many new small high schools that replaced large failing ones, and are now getting outsized results for poor children.

Second, traditional proposals for improving education—more money, better curriculum, smaller classes, etc.—aren't going to get the job done. Public education is a service-delivery challenge, and it must be operated as such. Albert Shanker, the legendary teachers union head, was right when he said that education has to be, first and foremost, about accountability for "student outcomes." This means there must be "consequences if children or adults don't perform."

When Mayor Bloomberg and I started, there was zero accountability. Instead, bureaucrats,

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Teacher Ratings And The Gates Foundation

Teacher Ratings And The Gates Foundation

Teacher Ratings And The Gates Foundation

Teacher ratings and the Gates Foundation - this combination get me worried. The New York Times has an article on the issue of teacher ratings. and of course the Gates Foundation is involved. It appears as though Gates is investing $335 million into several big city school system’s personnel departments to help them figure out how to evaluate teachers more effectively.

One plus to come out of this is the Gates Foundation’s admission that more than value-added measurements are needed to effectively evaluate teachers.

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Daily Kos: One week of teaching -  the good, the bad and the ugly

Daily Kos: One week of teaching - the good, the bad and the ugly

One week of teaching - the good, the bad and the ugly

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In reverse order. And then a little reflection on what if anything it might mean.

The Ugly - I have a problem class. 12 failed 1st quarter, and more had Ds (they are guranteed a C if they simply do all the work). This week two were put up for expulsion. While they are out of school I have to give them assignments, in case they are not expelled. The reasons for the expulsion are not for things in my class.

The Bad - . In my non-AP classes I am giving them all the terms and definitions for which they are responsible at the start of a chapter so that we can try to explore things in more depth. While doing a check of knowledge

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