Como se dice ?delusional??
The Boston Globe reports that Beantown teachers are culturally insensitive, inclined to boorish behavior that, according to ?some students and advocates,?
The Boston Globe reports that Beantown teachers are culturally insensitive, inclined to boorish behavior that, according to ?some students and advocates,?
School started last week for one of the highest performing middle schools in Columbus, the Columbus Collegiate Academy (one of Fordham's sponsored schools). With the start of school comes the start of familiar problems with student transportation.
It's taken as an article of faith in the education reform community: we're screwing poor kids by giving them less effective teachers than their more affluent peers enjoy. The evidence seems pretty much open-and-shut. Poor schools are home to more rookie teachers, those with less subject-matter knowledge, lower certification exam scores, you name it.
?The success of a student can't just be one measurement. We need lots of different ways of looking at a kid.? ?Marcy Raymond, Metro School Principal
The Ohio Gadfly was ahead of the curve with its summer reading list.? And yesterday Liam told us what Diane Ravitch was reading.?
Don't miss Marci Kanstoroom's??Holding Students Accountable for Changing into their Gym Clothes? on the Ed Next blog this morning:
Paul Tough, a former staff editor at The New York Times Magazine, has a lengthy op-ed piece in today's Times titled ?Don't Drop Out of School Innovation,?
It's Friday, and I am telling you to stop fearing fun. You may be asking, ?do I even have a (school) choice??
?Rather than stick with the same strategies and hope things somehow magically change, Congress should find more room in the budget to support the Obama administration's declared approach: to try new strategies and abandon failed ones; to expand and test programs with strong evidence of success, even if that evidence is inconclusive; and to learn from mista
The newest Washington Monthly just came?and it's the college rankings issue, with articles by Ben Miller (?College Dropout Factories?); Kevin Carey (?The Mayo Clinic of Higher Ed,? and ?America's Best Community Colleges?); and Erin Dillon (?America's Best Master's Universities and Baccalaureate Colleges?).
In this Sunday's Washington Post one?will find Diane Ravitch's selection of three books that ?have the power to change the national discussion of what now passes for ?school reform.'? And the winners are:
Paul Tough's op-ed in today's New York Times is called ?Don't Drop Out of School Innovation.? The innovation in question is the devotion of millions of dollars to construction, in cities across the land, of ?Promise Neighborhoods?
The columnist Dana Milbank's newspaper has allowed its pages to be used against him.
Yesterday, the ACT released its 2010 ?Condition of College and Career Readiness,? and the results are less-than-encouraging. According to the results, fewer than 1 in 4 students who took the exam is actually ready for college-level coursework.
I wasn't going to wade into the L A Times teacher brouhaha, but the responses to Liam Julian's Flypaper post yesterday have goaded me into the ring.
?You know who that chronically truant 6-year-old is going to be? The ?menace to society' that everyone will be knocking on our door about, asking me to prosecute.'' ? Kamala Harris, San Francisco district attorney and candidate for state attorney general
So entreats the New Republic's Jonathan Chait in his new TRB column. Chait compares Obama's current struggle to straighten a sclerotic school system to?the president's?earlier exertion to even out an entangled medical establishment.
Emerging from a two-and-a-half hour school board meeting the other night ? a short one! ? as I emerge from most of these sessions (drained), I was anxious to read Rick Hess's Ed Week post, ?School Boards as a Sympton, not the Cause,?
Albany Times Union education reporter Scott Waldman writes this morning
AFT's Randi Weingarten and Washington Teacher's Union's George Parker are close to a good old-fashioned school yard scuffle (it'll have to be after school though, because
?Even if I get brought back this year, what's going to happen next year? It's really discouraging.'' ? Latravis Bernard, teacher from Miramar, Florida who was laid off last spring
Herewith, my final words on the L.A. dustup. Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute writes that he ?wanted to endorse?
Mark Bauerlein has a wonderfully refreshing piece in the new Education Next, ?Advocating for Arts in the Classroom.? It is especially welcome to ?those beleaguered liberal arts and humanities folks among us who feel so un-21st century.
What's topping my list of ?Things Never to Do: anger New York City parents. Let's go to Long Island for a nicer picture of school reform.
The question arises: Should the Los Angeles Unified School District have voluntarily made its value-added test-score data public? Not necessarily.
It is not presumptuous to suppose that most people would react hostilely were their job-performance assessments spattered across the newsprint of a major metropolitan daily. But the teachers of Los Angeles have only their district and union to blame here.
Edujobs is the ed-policy topic du jour, and probably rightly so ? it'll send $10 billion to states to save an alleged 160,000 teachers' jobs; for Ohio, the US Department of Education places the estimate at $361 million to prevent 5,500 pink slips.
Another front-page story in the New York Times this morning is sure to stoke the Gotham education fires.? ?Triumph Fades on Racial Gap in New York City Schools?
Administrators in Kansas understand there's no place like home ? unless you're trying to balance a budget.