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In case you missed it: 7 for '11
Note: This piece originally appeared in the December 22nd Education Gadfly. Love what you see? Sign up to receive the Gadfly in your inbox.
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Unions on the run?
The New Jersey teacher whose public confrontation with the Garden State's Governor in September has become ?a YouTube classic?
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Dear Cathy:
?Monday is Cathleen P. Black's first day of school??so begins a provocative story by Elissa Gootman in the NY Times.?The Times asked some of New York City's ?most respected principals? to give the new Gotham schools Chancellor ?some advice.?
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The best and worst of the ?best and worst of? lists
The end (of 2010) is upon us, and edu-pundits everywhere are compiling their ?best and worst? lists for the Year of the Tiger. Here's my run-down of the lists themselves:
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Peoples' Choice (via Google): Top 20 2010 education stories as of RIGHT NOW!*
Mike missed this for his best and worst?of the best and worst because it's late, as usual.?
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News from New York: Black is good to go
A New York judge dismissed three lawsuits seeking to keep publishing exec Cathleen Black from taking over the reins of the nation's largest public school system.
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Shanghai's secret sauce: Hint?it's not in the Lo Mein
As if we didn't know, the NY Times reveals the secrets to China's recent success in the PISA tests:
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Education News Nuggets
We all know that money isn't everything, but with the faltering economy and shrinking budgets, it's probably a good idea to
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Quotable & Notable
?The answer to the inherent difficulty of judging performance is not to simply throw up one's hands and pay anyone who manages to show up for work more often than not.'' * ? Megan McArdle, Business and Economics editor for The Atlantic
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Education News Nuggets
Heads up to AT&T and Verizon: adjust your 2011 revenue projections accordingly, as advancements in technology and State Board of Education guidelines may reduce student cell ph
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Over the falls: Nepotism in Niagara
There's a big fight at the Niagara Falls Board of Education, where it seems that a preferred perk of membership is getting a wife, daughter, son, or other relative a job with the schools.
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Quotable & Notable
?Public schools are always given the gift of time. But we can't continue to be given the gift of time if that time greatly impacts the success of students in schools today.? * -Lynn Black, Head of Schools for Hoosier Academies
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Speaking of cities?-Did someone say CHICAGO?
I could begin this entry in much the same way as my last one, about superintendent types in large cities, because
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Bobbing and weaving in DC?-by way of Detroit
In the education-reform movement there have always been two schools of thought?when there aren't a dozen?about what makes a good reform superintendent.
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Remove ?education? from the name
That's the headline in a Winston-Salem Journal editorial today advising North Carolina legislators to get ?education? out of the lottery, as in North Carolina Education Lottery.
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Quotable & Notable
?As the current economic crisis dries up Nevada's budget, leaders should be looking for some streams in the desert. School choice not only would quench their thirst for savings, it also would lead families to an oasis of quality educational opportunities.? *
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Grading teachers?If you can find them
The northeast may be paralyzed by a snow storm today, but teacher evaluation news goes on. ?
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Education News Nuggets
Boys may be having trouble learning how to read, but at least we've come up with ?flash mob?
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The fierce urgency of eventually
Here's the Gadfly piece Peter mentioned in his ?Coin of the Realm? post, in full:
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The coin of the realm: A plea for curriculum
The new Gadfly has an essay by Robert Pondiscio that must be read.
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7 for '11
Want to know what 2011 will bring to the field of education reform? I'm no fortune teller, but I'm happy to offer these educated guesses.
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Liberals want to stretch the school dollar, too
In an editorial this morning on Andrew Cuomo's tax-cap proposal (see background from Peter Meyer here and
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Education News Nuggets
Think your classroom is safe? Perhaps not, according to the EPA. And if you're not a fan of NCLB, here are the parts that should be ?left behind?.
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Quotable & Notable
?It's not a lack of new initiatives, it's too many initiatives, and no sense of what's working.'' -Robert Manwaring, Senior Policy Analyst, Education Sector, on school reform efforts
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Fantastic findings. So what's the downside?
Review: The 2010 Broad Prize: Thirty Large Urban School Districts Show Better Relative Academic Performance Than Their States for African-American, Hispanic, or Low-Income Students
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What Recession?
This is the kind of story that makes you appreciate the serendipity of the morning newspaper: The education sector, and especially the School Construction Authority, has become big business in the world of New York City real estate.
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Ignoring our own advice
Fordham's new report, Are Bad Schools Immortal?, shows the folly of school turnaround efforts ??? only 1.4 percent of district schools and less than 1 percent of charters that have undergone turnaround efforts have done so successfully.
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Education News Nuggets
While some schools struggle with teacher absences, other schools focus on student absences?financial i