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Charter Schools: The Stanford CREDO Study and Charter Progress
Summary: The Stanford CREDO study provides some ambiguity and fodder for different points of view, but also direction for the charter school movement. In descending a variety of pathways into the question of charter schools, it is not long before … Continue reading
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Schools and Politics: The Waiver Game Dilutes No Child Left Behind?
Summary: Waivers to No Child Left Behind by the Obama Administration in the face of the failure by many schools to fully meet Annual Yearly Progress, and Congressional failure to update the law, nonetheless run the risk of derailing impetus … Continue reading
Schools and Politics: Charters Schools and Teachers’ Unions
Summary: Last week, as part of a discussion of charter schools, I cited the Harlem’s Children Zone as an umbrella project that has changed the “context” of associated schools, and thereby the expectations of students and the realities from which … Continue reading
Charter Schools: The Emerging Lessons
Summary: A review of lessons from charter schools so far unfortunately boils down to more money for staffing to reach at risk kids, and creative changes in the context through which kids approach school, also likely to require more funding. … Continue reading
Schools and Culture: The Wearing Down of Teacher, Part B
Summary: Last post I reacted to news that 46% of teachers leave the profession in their first five years, and suggested some of the reason has to do with ills in the culture, ills that create students too little connected … Continue reading
Schools and Culture: The Wearing Down of Teacher
Summary: 46% of American teachers quit the profession within their first five years; what role does contemporary culture and the characteristics of the kids it turns out play in this appalling statistic? Recently I read with astonishment a reference in … Continue reading
At Risk Students: Technology and Improving Student Performance
Summary: Can a new generation of online instruction free teachers to work more closely with at risk students? Some tech types paradoxically champion technology as one key to unlock more resources for education in troubled economic times. Highly qualified individuals … Continue reading
Schools, Culture, and Politics: David Brooks’ “The Widening Opportunity Gap”, and Washington State’s College Bound Scholar Program.
Summary: Can incentive scholarship programs such as Washington State’s College Bound Scholar impact the growing economic gap between low and upper income groups, and reestablish mobility into the middle class? How refreshing it is to find a conservative who laments … Continue reading
Schools and Bureaucracy: Reflections on Survival and Other Personal Idiosyncrasies: Part C
Summary: Being the last installment of a series of reflections on long term survival in the belly of the educational beast.….. Despite the relentless bureaucratic monolith, pockets of encouragement and support for individual vision occur, which have helped my longevity. … Continue reading
Schools and Bureaucracy: Reflections on Survival and Other Personal Indiosyncrasies — Part B
Summary: Continuing reflections on survival during a career in schools. Another benefit of working in schools snuck up on me, and was particularly accentuated by a growing love of mountaineering and the birth of my children. School vacations are rather … Continue reading
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