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Duncan: Colo. a leader in education reform

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Supreme Court voids takeover of schools

ctpost.com - HARTFORD -- The state Supreme Court Tuesday overturned the state takeover of the Bridgeport school system, ruling the state violated law when it failed to properly retrain the city's Board of Educa...

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How to Demoralize Teachers - Bridging Differences

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RheeFirst! » Former Mayor of San Francisco rejects Rhee’s ideas

RheeFirst! » Former Mayor of San Francisco rejects Rhee’s ideas:

Former Mayor of San Francisco rejects Rhee’s ideas

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By Gene Mullin is a former member of the California Assembly, the former mayor of South San Francisco and a former teacher. Read the entire article here.

“[H]er credentials as an agent of change are somewhat slender, and her tactics subject to scrutiny. Some of her worthy ideas are submerged by her tendency to use an anecdotal evidence approach rather than verifiable results.

… She bemoans the “last hired, first fired” status in most school districts throughout the country. The assumption is, apparently, that newer teachers are better (and cheaper) and that it’s preferred to retain them. My experience has been that veteran teachers, while more expensive to retain, are not automatically inferior to younger and newer teachers. In fact, on the whole, experience is an asset not a liability to the teaching

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NYC Public School Parents: My interview on WPIX about who is really to blame about the failure of NYC schools

NYC Public School Parents: My interview on WPIX about who is really to blame about the failure of NYC schools:

My interview on WPIX about who is really to blame about the failure of NYC schools

Here is my interview about the release of the Teacher Data Reports on WPIX news on February 23. (Sorry for the delay -- I finally got the embed code from the producers today.)

In the segment, I make the point that the mayor is trying to use these invalid and unreliable ratings as a way to scapegoat teachers and divert attention from his failure to improve NYC schools.





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ASCD Inservice: Latest House Edits on ESEA

ASCD Inservice: Latest House Edits on ESEA:

Latest House Edits on ESEA

The House Education Committee passed two bills last evening that would make significant changes to the accountability system required by the No Child Left Behind Act. The vote was on a straight party line vote of 23-16. The bills now head to the House floor for consideration sometime in the near future.

The two bills, HR 3989, the Student Success Act, and HR 3990, the Encouraging Innovation and Teacher Effectiveness Act, are the House's ESEA reauthorization package. We're encouraged that the bills

  • eliminate the impractical components of NCLB's adequate yearly progress system
  • strengthen teacher and school leader effectiveness
  • continue to require schools and districts to track disaggregated data on student subgroups
  • include student growth as a factor in state-developed accountability systems

Overall, the committee's approval of the bill – even on a strictly partisan basis – is a necessary step in the ESEA reauthorization process. Of course, continued refinements to the bills are necessary. In particular, ASCD recommends

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