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03/25/2018
Love, love, love this observation!
Why Are the Parkland Teens So Good at This? Their Public School Prepared Them For It. The students of Stoneman Douglas have been the beneficiaries of the kind of 1950s-style public education that has all but vanished in America.
03/20/2018
The very notion that so-called disrespect to some third party outside of a school is an offense worthy of a two-day schools suspension reminds us all that for so many schools, the goal of instruction is erasure of the individual, suppression of the instinct to use knowledge for advocacy against systems of power. Ridiculous school decision. Embarrassing to any true educator.
A student called his congressman to ask for gun control — and was suspended for cursing “Welcome to the world where words have impact,” the congressman said after his aide reported the cuss to the teen's principal.
03/16/2018
Although "DeVos is wrong" is kind of a given, the article is interesting.
Perspective | Venture capitalist visits 200 schools in 50 states and says DeVos is wrong: ‘If choice and competition improve schools, I found no sign of it.’ “I covered every geography, demographic and school type. I had no ax to grind, no bias to uphold. I just wanted to listen and learn," said Ted Dintersmith.
03/11/2018
And yet, there's never a recognition of the way "reform" of the DC Public Schools was also, undeniably, a racial project. The Theory of Action, clearly, suggested that essential to the pursuit of success via data manipulation was the reduction, and in some cases, erasure, of black teachers and black administrators from the system.
Data did the talking. Education got lost in the noise. Data suggested that the District was a national model. Sometimes, data can mislead.
11/25/2017
This comes as no surprise....
Private school enrollment contributes to school segregation, study finds The analysis cites a strong demographic imbalance.
05/30/2017
With state budget in crisis, many Oklahoma schools hold classes four days a week Ninety-six districts have shortened the school week, nearly triple as many as in 2015.
05/02/2017
A little bit of humor as we approach Teacher Appreciation Week
04/27/2017
Nation’s only federally funded voucher program has negative effect on student achievement, study finds Review of D.C. program comes as Trump seeks to spend billions on expanding vouchers nationwide.
03/15/2017
"What a surprise!," said no one who is even remotely familiar with the charter movement. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/14/charter-schools-college-degrees/99125468/
Charter schools’ ‘thorny’ problem: Few students go on to earn college degrees
03/10/2017
What the editorial failed to notice is the manner in which The Gates Foundation, like no other variable in public education, has problematically and disastrously pushed for a capitalistic business paradigm in the management and supervision of schools. When schools superintendents became CEOs and chancellors, the thorough destruction of the nation's public schools shifted from concept to implementation. From this, we might never recover. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-gates-education-20160601-snap-story.html
Gates Foundation failures show philanthropists shouldn’t be setting America's public school agenda Today, the Gates Foundation is clearly rethinking its bust-the-walls-down strategy on education — as it should.
02/18/2017
This woman has zero qualifications that would render her opinion on anything happening in a school, positive or negative, useful or worthy of note. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2017/02/18/devos-criticized-teachers-at-d-c-school-she-visited-and-they-are-not-having-it/?hpid=hp_local-news_devos-school-950am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.92834fab154a
DeVos criticized teachers at D.C. school she visited — and they are not having it Jefferson Middle School Academy responded to DeVos's claim that its teachers are in 'receive mode.'
02/10/2017
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos physically blocked by protesters from entering D.C. school Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was physically blocked by protesters from entering Jefferson Academy in SW, D.C. Friday morning. This was her first visit to a public school. DeVos turned away and left, ABC7 reporter Sam Sweeney told us. She did eventually