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- 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: #blacked #edreform #
- Martin Haberman offers his thoughts on how ed schools poorly prepare teachers for urban classrooms/children: #blacked #
- One solution: Hire older teachers who can work through urban bureaucracies. Here is Haberman’s example: #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: 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 #
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