• RT @JoeGothard: From Eugene Kane, column about a sad reality for too many young black men/women: #BlackEd #edreform #
• @graingered Why can't all parents have choices to improve the quality of education for their children? Charters give that opportunity to.. in reply to graingered #
• @graingered poor parents who, before the existence of charters, didn't have any real choice at all,. Charters are one of the answers, not in reply to graingered #
• @graingered the only answer or not the answer at all. They are just one of many answers to providing every child opportunities for high- in reply to graingered #
• @graingered quality education. You are limiting yourself to an old paradigm of public educaiton that never really worked and doesn't work… in reply to graingered #
• @graingered now. As for collaboration in education: That's fine. But not everyone agrees on what is best for each child. What you seem to be in reply to graingered #
• @graingered asking for is a one-size-fits all system that goes back to an old paradigm, one that doesn't work. Besides, you can't just in reply to graingered #
• @graingered reform learning. Schools are where children learn, the environments in which they are taught. And the education system is how in reply to graingered #
• @graingered instruction is delivered. You have to reform schools and systems, not just learning, This must be acknowledged or else in reply to graingered #
• @graingered everything positive that you are saying is meaningless. Reforming learning without reforming schools, systems, teacher… in reply to graingered #
• @graingered training and the rest means that you aren't being serious about improving the educational destinies of the children you profess in reply to graingered #
• @graingered to care about. Sometimes, it's just that simple. Thanks for your thoughts. in reply to graingered #
• @ELWATERS Sad. The consequence of behavioral choices, decisions by states to not equip prisons w/condoms and an unwillingness among… in reply to ELWATERS #
• @ELWATERS black/Latino religious leaders to not acknowledge certain behaviors and their consequences on the communities to which they preach in reply to ELWATERS #
• #parentpower isn't always going to be right. Example one: The opposition to school turnarounds/#edreform in Chicago. http://nyti.ms/cwU553 #
• This is why #parentpower must be augmented w/strong education about what high-quality education should be. #edreform activists need to think #
• about this along w/#RttT and #NoChild #ESEA. Yet, where are the big names in this arena? Will they reach down? More than PIE Network (which #
• works primarily w/policy developers at state capitals) is needed to make #edreform sustainable. #
• RT @schoolteaching: In R.I., teacher unions challenged in unprecedented face-off http://tinyurl.com/ybcpwq2 #DeborahGist #edreform #
• @JerridKruse makes some good points about why nice may = doom for #education #TQ #
• This is also true for "collaboration": This can only happen if everyone agrees that status quo doesn't work. In the real world, some people #
• are happy with things as they are because it benefits them. #NEA #AFT oppose #TQ reforms because current system works in their interest… #
• If you are #edreform #TQ advocate, you seriously disagree. Why collaborate if you can't agree on same path? It merely means preserving… #
• a status quo with which only one side agrees and the rest oppose. We should all work together to improve educational opportunities for all #
• children. At the same time, let's not have illusions that this means the same thing to everyone and that there won't be losers along the way #

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• RT @rwenning @tvanderark: Great #RttT handicap from Tom Carroll; TN joins LA & FL in poll position #edreform #edpolicy #
• Of course, anything w/Bush is banned RT @SPGGOP @tvanderark: Hill R's could learn from Jeb Bush's principles. #edreform #
• Again, black leaders fail to lead: Many in Va. state leg. black caucus resist charter school plans: #RttT #edreform #
• Not surprising: Many black legs count on support from school boards, teachers unions. They vote w/their ambitions, not w/#edgap in mind. #
• I watch "WWII in HD" and I think about my grandfather. I tear up a little. #
• RT @schoolteaching: The Dropout Nation Podcast: Parent Trigger: More Than A Gimmick http://tinyurl.com/ygnosyo #

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• In Chicago, schools chief Huberman calls 4 pension reforms 2 bring dn billion-dollar deficit. @#publicpensions #TQ #
• RT @bigswifty: Nat. Journal Poll of Congress: D's giv #NCLB #ESEA 5.0, R's 3.7, likelihood of passage (on 10 pt scale) #
• RT @JoanneLeeJacobs: New blog post: Study: KIPP kids learn more #edreform #CharterSchools #
• RT @Edubeat: Robert Bobb reveals more plans for Detroit Public Schools #DPS #mayoralcontrol #edreform #
• RT @philipaklein: In Calif, US Sen cand. says he made "honest mistake" in denying donat. from terror-linked prof: #2010 #
• Looks good for incum. Boxer, GOP contend. Fiorina. Bad for Campbell, sponsor Arnold 4chwarzenegger. #Senate2010 #
• RT @John_Bailey @spinesEIA: Miller of ED Dept: level of R&D in education sector does not match levels in other sectors. #edreform #i3 #
• RT @DrStevePerry: Commitment has no color. #
• Diane RT @Eduflack: An about-face on school reform, chapter and verse on Fluent News #
• Diane Ravitch was hardly an #edreform activist in the first place. RT @Eduflack: About-face on school reform: #
• We forget that Ravitch's big score was helping to stop the advance of multiculturalism in American education. It wasn't as if she was… #
• Albert Shanker or John Walton or even Sol Stern. #
• Which leads to a question: Who has been the most-influential school reformer of last three decades? Any thoughts? #
• RT @bigswifty: MT @apsupdate: Kati Haycock responds to recent CRCT erasure report #edreform #NoChild/#ESEA #
• RT @DrStevePerry: People think you'll go broke if you're a teacher. In the RI school district that 93% of students failed, they avg $70k! #
• Exactly. RT @DrStevePerry: Don't you think they should be accountable if 93% of their students are failing?! 93%?!! That's preposterous! #
• Makes one wish for Spitzer. RT @nyedreform: Gov. Paterson to drop bid for re-election. @ebdailypolitics #RttT #
• For all of Spitzer's failings, he managed to enact tenure reform and was serious about #edreform #TQ. Paterson didn't make the grade… #
• and Andrew Cuomo will likely do even less. Amazing that Calif., La. are advancing on #edreform while NYS, TX fall behind. #
• @nyedreform The budget hasn't been on time since I attended elementary school three decades ago. Just example of #NYSdysfunction in reply to nyedreform #
• The GOP #edreform #NoChild/#ESEA formula. Back to the worst of past. No surprise: Rep. Kline is in suburban district… #
• the district's most-opposed to #NoChild #ESEA in its current form. Unlike Rotherham, I don't think reauth is happening this year and #
• given what Obama is offering, the need of the DNC to placate the #NEA #AFT and GOP opposition to #NoChild reauth should be done next year. #
• Politics is just like poker. Except that the players and the house in the latter are a lot more respectable. #

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• No. RT @John_Bailey: RT @ABC: Did a Rhode Island School Superintendent Step Out of Line By Firing All Her Teachers?: #
• RT @MBAENews: Check out the Commonwealth blog about MBAE's report on teacher policies in Boston http://is.gd/99490 #edreform #TeacherQuality #
• RT @dennert: I mean,I don't know what her deal is,but my belief is… public leaders need to have intellectual curiosity,Jeb Bush on Palin. #
• RT @LJCreate: NACSA, others, call for more oversight of charter schools. http://tinyurl.com/yfjg69b (NY Times) #NoChild #ESEA #edpolicy #
• AJC's Downey: Ed school prof claims his colleagues think subject mastery is "an onerous task to be circumvented" #TQ #
• He isn't too far from the truth when it comes to some of the better-known ed schools. Another reason why #TeacherQuality [or #TQ is low. #
• #TQ New hashmark for teacher quality. #
• Join @everybodywins and vote for the #Read2Kids campaign at Change.org. Help it advance to the next round. http://tinyurl.change.org/KlbcF #
• EdSector's Manwaring looks at #LAUnified #edreform. Notes conversion of trad. schools into charters used 0.2% of time. #
• RiShawn Biddle looks at NJ #publicpension reforms/#budget cutting by Christie/Democrats. Notes opposition of #NEA #NJEA #
• RT @ralexanderlaw: Garden State Weeds: By RiShawn Biddle #publicpensions #edreform #AmSpec #NEA #ChrisChristie #
• RT @jamalkin: I'll be live-tweeting U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan's seminar at Harvard on Friday from @hgse_live. Come say hi! #
• @vanderark notes his home state's lack of thoughtfulness on #Educaton #edreform #WAState #edpolicy #
• In Ala., Huntsville newspaper editorializes for charters, decries #NEA affiliate's success in quashing bill. #edreform #
• At Dropout Nation: Watch: Rod Paige on Black Leaders and The Achievement Gap: https://dropoutnation.net/b36 #edreform #edgap #NAACP #NUL #
• Gawker proves as "useful" in ed commentary as it is in media coverage. I'll stick to Peter Kafka (HT @michaelbirnbaum) #
• Off-ed: The term "stick to your knitting" exists because losing focus = trouble. Google, RIM could use those lessons #
• School districs and #edpolicy types could learn this lesson too. Schools can't teach three Rs and focus on addressing everything else too #
• School districts and #edpolicy types could learn this lesson too. Schools can't teach three Rs and focus on addressing everything else too #
• If they could, schools would be graduating more than 70 percent of their students. #
• RT @tvanderark: Tutors are creating the future of learning but feel like endangered species #edreform #edequality #
• RT @arotherham: Don't know/care if Gov. McDonnell is fake conservative, but"deal" in VA is a fake charter law. http://tinyurl.com/ygyarnv #
• Matthew Ladner takes another shot at Arizona's #NEA state affiliate. Compares union to Pinocchio #edpolicy #edfunding #
• RT @tvanderark: 3 better than 30; RT @eahouck: rumors that folks are hearing rumors about #RT3 finalists – just 3 states? #rttt #edpolicy #
• It would be nice if this was so. Few of the current #RttT apps would qualify for success if I made the call. I say 15 will be selected. #
• RT @Eduflack: @tvanderark Three Phase I finalists sounds about right to me! When do we start the Vegas line on which 3? #RttT #
• @Eduflack Calif. (major moves on #edreform w/parent trigger and teacher evals; plus big D state w/edcom chair Miller/ vulnerable Sen. incum) in reply to Eduflack #
• @Eduflack I'd also bet on La. and Delaware among the possible finalists as well. in reply to Eduflack #
• Off-ed: A rare instance of @dangillmor being right. Why news outlets shouldn't tie fortunes to Apple's iPad #
• RT @annlduffy: @dropoutnation I'll take LA, CO & DE in 1st round #RttT #
• @pierre But filibusters and all of the elements of the legislative process that happens in the Senate have existed since the Senate… in reply to pierre #
• @pierre began operations back in 1789 and has been used regularly since 1837. In any case, the point remains the same: The Founding Fathers in reply to pierre #
• @pierre wanted decisionmaking to happen at, to paraphrase Brown v. Bd of Ed, all deliberate speed or as slow as possible. They left much in reply to pierre #
• @pierre of the constitution deliberately vagu (including how the Senate conducts its business) that way, thanks in part to the lessons from in reply to pierre #
• @pierre the post-Articles of the Confederation period. And the kinds of delay tactics adopted in the Senate exist way before the in reply to pierre #
• @pierre U.S. Constitution (filibustering dates back to Cato the Younger in Rome) and much of those rules exist in order to protect the in reply to pierre #
• @pierre minority viewpoints from the tyranny of the majority (either Democratic, Republican, Whig or Federalist in leaning). If the choice in reply to pierre #
• @pierre is to move fast into bad decision-making or move slow, this being government (and thus able to use its powers to injure minorities in reply to pierre #
• @pierre of all kinds, as African Americans can so well attest), I'll take slow (and ultimately, compromise) every day of the week. in reply to pierre #
• Back to Ed: RT @Eduflack: NV lifts teacher firewalls, seems it wants #RttT after all — http://tinyurl.com/yjbsrtq #edreform #JimGibbons #
• @mathewi That low? From my experience, half don't read blogs (most hate them) and few use Twitter (until they are out of a job). in reply to mathewi #
• RT @MarcSean86: It's time to reassess the teacher layoff process #TQ #edreform #edpolicy #
• Often it is in practice. But not always. RT @avalonsensei: Unions protecting jobs… helping kids NOT mutually exclusive #lausd #edreform #
• RT @Eduflack: Upping the school voucher ante in FL — http://tinyurl.com/yl4oxj8 #edrefoorm #edpolicy #SchoolChoice #
• A thought: Although I appreciate that charter schools get less money than traditional districts, one has to be a little troubled that #
• charter school supporters are demanding the same levels of funding as traditional districts. Why? Because one of the very principles behind #
• charter schools is that they are supposed to operate more efficiently than their traditional district counterparts. This means in exchange #
• for fewer regulations, charter schools should be exploiting the opportunities for greater efficiencies, either by partnering together with #
• other charters, parochials and private schools, or by simply ditching the traditional degree- and seniority-based pay scales that have #
• made traditional districts unable to reward teachers based on performance. Charter school advocates should be working with the Bill Eggers #
• and other efficiency experts on ways to foster alternatives to the abysmal back-office and personnel management systems used by traditional #
• districts and embrace a different operational paradigm. Any thoughts? #
• @justinanderson1 This is true. No one can say that charter schools don't face heavy capital costs. Fundraising from private sources is also in reply to justinanderson1 #
• @justinanderson1 no panacea, contrary to what charter school opponents think. The facilities cost issue — especially in retrofittng… in reply to justinanderson1 #
• @justinanderson1 buildings into school use. I am interested in learning more about the new capital challenges charters may be facing… in reply to justinanderson1 #
• @justinanderson1 simply because there may be new needs not anticipated by the first generation of charter school founders. At the same in reply to justinanderson1 #
• @justinanderson1 time, my fear is that charter schools will adapt the worst aspects of traditional districts. in reply to justinanderson1 #

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