Twitter Updates for 2010-02-24

• RT @lioncaller @Principal_EL: I have been in sit. where kids were not coming to school. Went to their homes! As teacher/principal! #BlackEd #
• RT @CharterInsights: What do 1,000 bad teachers have in common with mealy bugs, fleas, bed bugs? … http://bit.ly/ayYrWP #TeacherQuality #
• RT @tvanderark: Consumer learning will be big, free, massively multiplayer, and disruptive http://bit.ly/92rf1Y #edtech #edreform #
• RT @charteralliance: Fight for #charterSchools ends in AL: http://bit.ly/944AzG, however could change if #RttT isnt awarded to the state. #
• RT @Andrew_Coulson: The Paucity of Poor Kids in Many Public Schools. http://bit.ly/bhmYUm #edreform #edgap #edpolicy #education #
• At Dropout Nation: Watch: Everybody Wake Up Department: http://dropoutnation.net/x9v #edreform #communityrenewal #HaroldMelvin #edgap #
• RT @charteralliance: DenverPost editorial on support for bipartisan #edreform plans like HR 4330: http://bit.ly/b2zhVM #charterschools #
• RT @MBAENews: @educationgadfly says MA one of 6 states w/over 1/2 PRIVATE public schools – less than 5% poor students http://is.gd/8ID1B #
• Dropout Nation: Building School Data Systems: The California Way Not to Do It http://dropoutnation.net/lxd #edreform #dataquality #edpolicy #
• RT @NancyEH: #Maine #DoE briefing on new 10th-grade graduation initiative: http://tinyurl.com/yhab4h9 #meschools #mepolitics #edreform #
• RT @EdEquality @educationweek Groups Sign L.A. Schools #edreform compact. http://bit.ly/a4vgDR #edpolicy #LAUnified #edgap #
• Important for #edreform activists to consider. RT @urbanophile:A Critical Examination of City-County Consolidation – http://j.mp/c1Lqu3 #
• In Indianapolis, latest #charterschools report out. Charters outperform district schools, but a couple are lagging http://bit.ly/aWw4lS #
• @SaraMead wonders why more #SchoolChoice supporters won't support universal Pre-K: http://bit.ly/9pOZ5w #earlyed #edreform #
• Mead wonders if some school choicers cynically oppose pre-k because they want to lower taxes/smaller gov. I'd say it has more to do with… #
• the position of many conservative school choicers that government role in K-12 is a reality that won't be shifted (the goverment won't give #
• back $528 billion). So you work with the reality in the best possible way by offering more choices, especially for poor children who have… #
• none. But Pre-K isn't yet heavily subsidized by government outside of #Head Start. The cost of the government intervention beats the value #
• that could come from a more-expanded government role in terms of higher standards/more options for poor children. While Mead many not agree #
• with this point (and I'm more pro-government Pre-K than against), I can succinctly understand (and sympathise with) those arguments. Who #
• hasn't wished the government would have stayed out of some areas? Think drug war/gay marriage as two of them. So why not want gov out of ed. #
• Given low graduation rates, this is understandable. Short-sighted? Definitely. But understandable. #

Powered by Twitter Tools

Dropout Nation on Twitter for Feb. 12

You seen the bird. Do what he says.

Keep up with up-to-the-minute happenings by subscribing to Dropout Nation’s Twtter feed. Here are some of yesterday’s tweets:

• RT @Principal_EL: The second most important: loving children. There are far 2 many people wrkng with children who don’t love them! #BlackEd #
• To give perspective on the role of teachers in student achievement, a piece by Kevin Carey/EdTrust: http://bit.ly/9exBfX #blacked #edreform #
• Martin Haberman offers his thoughts on how ed schools poorly prepare teachers for urban classrooms/children: http://bit.ly/bU9ik4 #blacked #
• One solution: Hire older teachers who can work through urban bureaucracies. Here is Haberman’s example: http://bit.ly/ckOxUO #blacked #
• Another solution: Parent power. The reality is the old paradigm of public education — that you can drop a kid off at any school… #blacked #
• they will learn — was always a myth. We didn’t know this 150 years ago because of the lack of data. But we know now. #blacked #
• Parents, with help of grassroots, must take roles in education beyond field trips/homework. And must be willing to cut through… #blacked #
• Urban bureaucracies/uncaring teachers to make the change. Or take them out of one school and place them into another #blacked #
• @BmoreSchools That’s sad. If teachers are just doing time ’til they get to Maple Drive, then they should get out of the classroom #blacked in reply to BmoreSchools #
• @BmoreSchools They are not only doing a disservice to our children. They are doing a disservice to all kids, no matter their color #blacked in reply to BmoreSchools #
• By the way: There was no golden age of education, either for black children or anyone else. American public education was #blacked #
• Originally formed to foster in students a vision of what an American should be (and because of anti-Catholic hysteria). Learning… #blacked #
• was always an afterthought. Unfortunately in many classrooms, it remains that way. #blacked #
• In Houston, school district approves #teacherquality policies: http://bit.ly/947sP1 The next question: What will #AFT national do? #edreform #
• @srdill No solution will ever be perfect. But to start off, I’d address what public education should do. This is important because… in reply to srdill #
• @srdill the current system is based not so much on education, but on fostering good American citizens based on the model Horace Mann… in reply to srdill #
• @srdill and others believed. Good citizenship can be fostered in so many ways outside of schools and in ways that are much more concrete… in reply to srdill #
• @srdill for children to understand. The goal of public education should be to provide the tools children need in order to achieve that… in reply to srdill #
• @srdill Which they want, economically, socially or otherwise. This means a focus on reading from day one, math and sciences, with history… in reply to srdill #
• @srdill and culture a part. But for me, the public education system would be essentially a system of financing the education each child and in reply to srdill #
• @srdill their family wants. It could be a charter, a private, parochial or homeschool. This would allow for both choice and accountability in reply to srdill #
• @srdill by focusing the role of education agencies on funding education and holding schools accountable as the contractors hired by parents in reply to srdill #
• @srdill to handle the day-to-day academic education of their children. This would also force parents to play a much more active role in… in reply to srdill #
• @srdill how schools educate their children, because one-size-fits-all learning isn’t enough. Now, note, there are aspects of this I’m in reply to srdill #
• @srdill still thinking through. And there are more-learned people than I who have their own answers. But this is where I would start. in reply to srdill #

Powered by Twitter Tools