- Empire strikes back II RT @AttyAbdul: IN Supt Bennett says state ends #RttT bid because of a lack of teacher union support #edreform #
- #headshaker RT @JoanneLeeJacobs: New blog post: Will we ever learn? http://www.joannejacobs.com/2010/04/will-we-ever-learn/ #
- Apparently some Arnold Packer and Company still believe that a plumber cannot benefit from knowing Chaucer. Or fail to realize that an #
- aspiring welder needs advanced math (trigonometry, for example) in order to gain an apprenticeship. High-quality education doesn’t hurt kids #
- Low expectations from adults who argue some kids shouldn’t have to learn anything does hurt children. Look at the comprehensive high school #
- EducationNews.org’s Shaughnessy interviews C. Kearney of Cal. Teacher Corps about teacher layoffs #education #teachers #
- In Denver, #pension deal, #edreform politics create dysfunction on school board #TomBoasberg #WhyMayoralControl #
- Of course, we see #DCPS and the dysfunction just ends up on the city council. So long as it stays there, #edreform may be okay. #
- Okay, back to the education discussion. #
- #JayMathews points out that teacher layoffs may not mean degradation of education quality #edreform #TQ #
- Jay P. Greene has made that argument for years. No evidence that small class sizes = higher quality learning for middle class students #
- Poor students may gain, but the evidence isn’t solid on that front either. If anything, larger class sizes may mean higher quality learning #
- because students are more-likely to gain better teachers. But only if “last-hired, first-fired” policies were ditched. #
- And yes, eliminate substitute teaching, which also exposes kids to low-quality, out-of-field instruction #
- RT @justinanderson1: @dropoutnation The evidence from CA pretty compelling that poor kids get screwed by universal class size reductions. #
- @justinanderson1 That’s because when you spread a benefit to every group — even if they don’t need it — then no one benefits. Dilution. in reply to justinanderson1 #
- RT @EdEquality: #JoelKlein weighs in on FL tenure reform bill : “Gov let politics trump… kids” #edreform #
- @justinanderson1 But for the middle class, small class sizes is an entitlement they feel their children deserve above all else. No thought in reply to justinanderson1 #
- @justinanderson1 of what is needed depending on level of ed achievement. This also explains opposition to vouchers, charters in suburbs. in reply to justinanderson1 #
- RT @afterschool4all @AmyBakeswithMom: Afterschool program lets students take a bite out of healthy living #
- @khephir @avalonsensei Again, not saying that small class sizes doesn’t help w/poor students, if CSR is focused on just those students, but #
- @khephir @avalonsensei The overall evidence shows that it doesn’t help improve achievement or instruction for most students. Which isn’t #
- @khephir @avalonsensei surprising. Class size reduction doesn’t help if the students need something other than intensive remediation… #
- @khephir @avalonsensei nor does CSR deal with the problems of improving teacher quality. A laggard teacher leading a class of 12 isn’t any #
- @khephir @avalonsensei better than a laggard teacher w/class of 40. Then there are other factors such as academic environment that also come #
- @khephir @avalonsensei to play. This is why we need high-quality principals and must empower them by allowing them to make hiring decisions #
- @avalonsensei I agree that data doesn’t always tell you everything. But I also say two things: 1) ideally, most of us would have a workload in reply to avalonsensei #
- @avalonsensei that would allow us to use our skills to the maximum without hurting quality. This isn’t always reality. Nor is there a in reply to avalonsensei #
- @avalonsensei definition of an ideal workload — either in writing or in teaching or anywhere — that would apply across the board. It’s in reply to avalonsensei #
- @avalonsensei it’s like the concept of a living wage: What is “living wage” or “ideal workload” is individual and thus undefineable. in reply to avalonsensei #
- @avalonsensei The second: Data provides a global view of what is happening that personal anecdotes, experiences cannot. The data tends to in reply to avalonsensei #
- @avalonsensei show what is really happening with student learning. This said, there are things districts can and should be doing to improve in reply to avalonsensei #
- @avalonsensei academic learning environments. Start with reducing the number of head-office staff (which aren’t involved in student learning in reply to avalonsensei #
- @avalonsensei and often outnumber the teachers in LAUnified and elsewhere) would help. So would incentivizing high-quality instruction. in reply to avalonsensei #
- RT @dorieturner: AP: Perdue pushing for Ga. teacher evaluation system #edreform #teachers #education #TQ #
- RT @Eduflack: Mentor program offers support to black male students in Miss. district (from ASCD) #BlackEd #edreform #
- RT @TPCarney: Shouldn’t Citi be accountable for it’s own counterparty risk? Why is that Uncle Sam’s job? @rortybomb @carney @DukeStJournal #
- Worth reading. RT @edevolving: Some chartered schools innovate; some don’t. But charters are succeeding http://tinyurl.com/35mdhlf #edreform #
- More class act behavior from #NEA #039;s NJ affiliate. RT @matthewktabor: http://twurl.nl/wjtxul Stay classy, NJ teachaz! #edreform #NJEA #
- More #NJEA #NEA class RT @matthewktabor: “Remember Pol Pot … his target was teachers… King Kris Kristy is headed in this direction.” #
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