Florida “Parental Report Card Bill Dead” — For This Year I’ve written several posts about the very bad idea of teachers grading parents on their level of school engagement, which was being pushed in a Florida bill in their legislature. Happily, as a Florida newspaper reported today, the Parental Report ...
Parent Trigger Update Mother Jones has just published an update on the parent trigger fiasco in Compton headlined “The Millionaires Behind Charter Schools.” The two most scary pieces of information are that the head of Parent Revolution says he doesn’t have any regrets ...
L.A. District Receives Parent Engagement Recommendations A Parent Engagement Task Force make a number of good recommendations to the Los Angeles Unified School District last week. They sound pretty good. Now let’s see what, if anything, happens to them….
My New Book Is Coming-Out Next Week I’m assuming that most subscribers to this blog are also readers of my other blog but, if not, I wanted to let you know about my new book being published next week. It’s titled “Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers To Classroom ...
Annenberg Starts “Center For Education Organizing” Earlier this month, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform announced the formation of the Center for Education Organizing. This is how they describe their purpose: *…the center will focus on providing policy and strategic support to community ...
L.A. District Receives Parent Engagement Recommendations A Parent Engagement Task Force make a number of good recommendations to the Los Angeles Unified School District last week. They sound pretty good. Now let’s see what, if anything, happens to them….
Ohio Governor Continues Attacks On Schools With Parent Trigger Plan Education Week reports that Ohio Governor John Kasich is continuing is on-going attack on public schools with a push for a parent trigger in his state. To learn more about the fiasco known as the
