Big Education Ape: Remainders: Vallas to help rebuild Haitian school system

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Diane Ravitch writes that the expansion of charter schools will be the origin of future scandals.
Rick Hess has a new blog over where he’ll be delivering some bitter medicine to the education world.
Smart Boards have arrived at Pissed Off Teacher’s school, but there may be no time to learn to use them.
Black students were 23 percent of the applicants to top city high schools, but 7 percent of the accepted.
Mimi wonders why schools put the most difficult students in classes with the least experienced teachers.
Peter Murphy takes issue with the DN’s disapproving tone on city-funded grants for charter school facilities.
A bank has hired New Orleans supe Paul Vallas to build a model for a new school system for Haiti.
The way physics teachers are trained is “largely inefficient [and] mostly incoherent,” a task force said.
InsideSchools has the rundown of the DOE’s options for students at schools slated for closure.
Should we make high school senior year optional? A Utah politician is suggesting it as a way to cut costs.
And Arne Duncan had a cameo on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. (via Alexander Russo)