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School Reform: Listen Deeply to What Teachers Know
Summary: Recent research identifies truths about kids and pedagogy that have long been embedded in the practice of American educators. Time is long past to act more consistently on teacher insights. The American teacher is targeted from some sectors as … Continue reading
Posted in At Risk Students, School Reform, Schools and Politics
Tagged Adverse Childhood Experiences, at risk students, education and politics, educational research, empowering teachers, phonetic reading, school reform, teacher knowledge, teacher professionalism, teaching, trauma in students
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At Risk Students and School Reform: Will High Expectations Be Enough?
Summary: An impressive turnaround in enrollment, academic atmosphere, and graduation rate at Seattle’s Rainier Beach High School apparently stems from a decision a few years ago to establish an International Baccalaureate program at the school. While high expectations of student … Continue reading
Schools and Politics: The Feds, the Locals, and School Reform
Summary: As with institutional racism, as with health care, in educational quality the federal government often is the court of necessary remedy where local leadership fails to guarantee equal protection to the disenfranchised. In the recent Conservative Political Action Conference … Continue reading
Schools and Politics: Could It Be the Obama GI Bill?
Summary: Though one might argue scarce funds should go first to low income students, President Obama’s offer to make community college free of tuition could also stem the slide out of the middle class for others. Costs of living beyond … Continue reading
Schools and Culture: The Death of Michael Brown
Summary: Prior to his encounter with Officer Wilson on the streets of Ferguson, Michael Brown in many respects was a relatively normal teenager on the cusp of adulthood. His death poses a challenge to the manner in which we empower … Continue reading
Charter Schools: The Search for the Golden Mean
Summary: After lagging behind other parts of the country in establishing charter schools, the state of Washington is poised to enter the arena after enabling legislation was passed via a recent initiative. An article in the Seattle Times which explores … Continue reading
Posted in Charter Schools, Schools and Politics
Tagged at risk students, charter schools, education and politics, fiscal impact charter schoools, Green Dot Public Schools, Initiative 1240 Washington State, low-income students, school bureaucracy, school reform, teaching culture, UCLA education research
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School Reform: Why One Success Does Not Beget Another
Summary: Looks as though the difficulty of replicating the success of one school in another may come down to clever access or lack thereof to extra resources. The first school has been innovative in program, but often by leveraging additional … Continue reading
At Risk Low Income Students: Sometime Victims of a Blame Game
Summary: Stereotypical assumptions about low income kids should not cloud the will to social investment, via schools, in their economic future. Yesterday I visited with an old friend and neighbor in a community in which I had lived for 35 … Continue reading
Schools and Politics: The Focus on Income Inequality Is Good News for School Reform
Summary: The rising political focus on income inequality brings renewed scrutiny to the role of school reform for low income students, and a cautious opening to political consensus. Many low income students I encountered as a high school counselor confounded … Continue reading
School Reform: Yes, There Is Some Good News!
Summary: School reform is a long and often discouraging slog. This is a pause to celebrate the many hopeful events and trends that together refresh for the next round. It is time to celebrate positives in the many headed effort … Continue reading
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