• 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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