Getting Real About Turnarounds
The turnaround approach assumes that it is bad principals and bad teachers who stand in the way of school improvement. Read Full Post >
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February 07, 2012
January 31, 2012
Does President Obama Know What Race to the Top Is?
Do you think that President Obama just doesn't understand that Race to the Top has encouraged states to double down on high-stakes testing? Maybe he doesn't realize that the strategies of his administration rely totally on test scores. Read Full Post >
January 10, 2012
NCLB: The Death Star of American Education
After 10 years of NCLB, we should have seen dramatic progress on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, but we have not. Read Full Post >
December 13, 2011
Scrooge and School Reform
Ladd suggests that what is needed are positive policy interventions, such as early-childhood and pre-school programs; school-based health clinics and social services; after school programs and summer programs; and paying more attention to inputs such as school quality and school processes. Read Full Post >
November 08, 2011
Hooray for the Long Island Principals!
Their letter is historic. It's the first time that a large number of administrators have spoken out in opposition to bad ideas. It represents hundreds of educators who are willing to stick their necks out, hundreds of educators wiling to speak truth to power, hundreds of educators who put their name on a statement to the state's highest education officials, with this simple message: "Stop! What you are doing is wrong. What you are imposing on us is untested. We believe it will be harmful to our students." Read Full Post >
November 01, 2011
Will San Diego's Public Schools Survive?
It rejected the U.S. Department of Education's demands for competition and accountability, preferring to implement its own community-based, collaborative vision of school reform. Read Full Post >
October 26, 2011
NCLB: End It, Don't Mend It
Despite the manifest failure of NCLB, the Obama administration proposes not to scrap it, but to offer waivers if states agree to accept the mandates selected by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Read Full Post >
September 06, 2011
Reflections on the March on Washington, July 30, 2011
I know of no other time in our history when thousands of teachers and parents massed on the Mall in Washington to protest misguided federal policies and to demand changes that will truly improve education and help children learn. Read Full Post >
June 28, 2011
Reasons for Hope
Now is a time to speak and act. Now is a time to think about how we will one day be judged. Not by test scores, not by data, but by the consequences of our actions. Read Full Post >
June 21, 2011
Why I Am Marching on July 30
I will be marching with the Save Our Schools coalition of teachers and parents on July 30 in Washington, D.C. I know you will be, too. I hope we are joined by many thousands of concerned citizens who want to save our schools from the bad ideas and bad policies now harming them. Read Full Post >
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