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Between Public and Private: Politics, Governance, and the New Portfolio Models for Urban School Reform
A behind-the-scenes of the portfolio management model
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Bumping Human Resources: Giving Principals More Say Over Staffing
Principals lack hiring-power they need
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Cutting to the Bone: How the Economic Crisis Affects Schools
Wrong conclusions from the right information
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Rhee-ality check
It's no surprise the Michelle Rhee is stepping down as Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools. Advocates of ?mayoral control? in education have always argued that the arrangement provides a clear line of accountability, straight through the mayor's office. Adrian Fenty lost; his schools chief is out. Simple as that.
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Quotable & Notable
?The ?Bad Teacher' is an effective myth, a convenient scapegoat for ignoring these greater systemic problems that would require real substantial reform.'' Adam Bessie, Assistant Professor of English at Diablo Valley College
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D.C. residents on Rhee
The title of a new Washington Post video is ?Mixed reaction to Rhee resignation.? Mixed? It's the same reaction: thank goodness she's gone. And, frankly, very little that the interviewees say makes logical sense or is even factual.
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Ali's understanding
What do we talk about when we talk about civil rights? According to Russlynn Ali, director of the U.S.
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Classroom feng shui
This morning on Twitter I saw a link to the ?Top 50 US School Reform Blogs? which includes Flypaper and many of our favorites (go check it out!). After scanning the top education blog list, if you're feeling up for it ?
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Surprise, Surprise: Rhee Resigning
According to the Post, it's happening today. ?Peter Meyer, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
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Don't exploit tragedy to make your policy point
When I first heard the news about a Los Angeles elementary teacher killing himself, I cringed. First and foremost I was saddened.
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Opportunities abound with online learning
This week Fordham's newest board member Caprice Young is spending some time in Ohio and her visit could not be timed more perfectly.
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Teachers: "New contract higher priority than Race to the Top"
The teachers union in a suburban Columbus district has pulled out of Race to the Top, putting the district at risk of forfeiting almost a million dollars ($960,000) in RTTT grant funding and many of the reforms that would come with it.
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Talking charter schools and more on NPR
In case you missed it, Fordham's Ohio VP Terry Ryan appeared today on WOSU's All Sides with Ann Fisher.
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Re-Evaluating Evaluations and Other Miscellany
Students who complain their teacher doesn’t know what he’s talking about may have a point, according to a new study by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ).
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Next Generation Charter Schools: Meeting the Needs of Latinos and English Language Learners
Melissa Lazarín and Feliza Ortiz-LiconCenter for American ProgressSeptember 2010Charter schools that make it their mission to reach the most underserved students must not forget the needs of Latino students and English Language Learners (ELLs). This is topic of the Center for American Progress’s latest report.
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Voucher student performance: In search of the best analysis
For five years, the EdChoice Scholarship Program has enabled students to escape low-performing schools (those rated D or F for two out of the last three years) in Ohio for, presumably, greener pastures in private schools. Fourteen-thousand students, the maximum allowed by state law, in low-performing schools are using this publically funded voucher to attend private schools of their choic
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Education News Nuggets
The new rules governing student behavior on weekends and summer breaks may seem like overkill, but try not to
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Quotable & Notable
?Those promoting the privatization of American public education are blinded by free-market ideology.'' Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education, New York University
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The miracle that isn't
Recall David Brooks's New York Times column from May of last year, titled ?The Harlem Miracle,? in which he shouted the virtues of the Harlem Children's Zone. Brooks approvingly quoted the economist Roland Fryer,?who referenced?research he, Fryer, had conducted?about the HCZ:
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From ?Sailing the Ocean Blue? to ?I Pledge Allegiance?
This is a bit of shameless self-promotion, but what the heck ? it's a teachable moment.
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Must Read from Brooks: Paralysis of the State
David Brooks weighs in this morning with a succinct explanation for ?how liberalism immobilized itself.?
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