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Education News Nuggets
For those of you anxious to hear the decision on whether NYC's Department of Education will be required to release teacher performance data, kee
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Last call?
I recently finished reading Frederick M. Hess's new-ish book, The Same Thing Over and Over, and found myself envisioning education policy as a bar full of drunks.
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Already making waves in Florida
Florida's governor-elect, Rick Scott, was in my hometown on Thursday, speaking to a crowd at an evangelical church, when, according to St. Petersburg Times reporter Ron Matus, he said this:
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Quotable and notable
?Things we've intuitively known, or thought about, or wished for about teacher effectiveness?there's some empirical evidence that they are valid.? Vicki Phillips, Director of Education Programs, Gates Foundation
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Quotable and notable
???Things we've intuitively known, or thought about, or wished for about teacher effectiveness???there's some empirical evidence that they are valid.??? Vicki Phillips, Director of Education Programs, Gates Foundation
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Stop the presses! Bloomberg wanted Canada?
Do we care? The New York Times is reporting that Mayor Mike asked Harlem education guru Geoffrey Canada to be his Chancellor?before he picked publishing executive Cathie Black.
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Grading Gotham Teachers ? Two More
It wouldn't be New York if it weren't a bit of a media slugfest.?
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Grading Gotham's Teachers ? No Ruling Yet
In a case the NY Times said would ?propel New York City to the center of a national debate about how student test scores should be used to evaluate teachers,?
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Education News Nuggets
The Modern Language Association has a new report out?and it looks like interest in
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In which I debate Diane Ravitch in 140 characters or less
Perhaps you've noticed, but I haven't been blogging as much as usual lately. That's because I've started tweeting, by which I mean I've started wasting untold hours following thousands of mini-messages on Twitter every day, along with sending dozens of my own.
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Quotable & Notable
?Rather than becoming more productive, the opposite has happened in education: over the last 30 years, public schools have focused on strategies that decrease productivity.'' Andrew J. Rotherham, Co-Founder and Partner at Bellwether Education
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On Purpose: How Great School Cultures Form Strong Character
Front line lessons on character and education
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A First Look at the Common Core and College and Career Readiness
Barely one third of students are prepared for what's next
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A Rubber Room by any other name ? is still a rubber room?
According to today's NY Times, the city's infamous ?rubber rooms? ? made more infamous by last year's Steven Brill New Yorker article ?
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Education News Nuggets
Think your privacy is secure in public schools? You may want to think again. And it looks like money isn't always going to the right places in New York.
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Education facing demands at a time of leaner rations
Checker's WSJ piece on the recent ???Sputnik moment??? for American education sent my mind reeling and my heart racing.
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Relax
Reading Checker's piece in today's Wall Street Journal sent Terry into a brief fit of arrhythmia and anxiety.
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Quotable & Notable
?The most successful charters [are] protective of the keys to their success because they [are] competing with other charter networks for new contracts.'' * ?Luis Huerta, Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy at Teachers College at Columbia University
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Finn on BBC
As a footnote to the earlier NBC post,?Checker also was?interviewed by the BBC about the PISA results and Shanghai's dominance.
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Finn on NBC
Yesterday, NBC Nightly News featured a segment about the newly-released PISA results, which, as you probably know by
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50/50 Race to the Top split isn't unusual
Despite the fact that the Race to the Top program disappeared from the news several months ago (winnings for the last round were announced in late August), there have been lingering questions and issues with the program.