- RT @g_page: RT @EducationSector: Kevin Carey on the real value of college: #edreform #wpcollege #highered #
- RT @EdEquality: RT @tvanderark: AEE has great reporting on high school issues/ESEA reauth hearing #edreform #edpolicy #
- M. Shaughnessy asks TEDS-M's Schmidt "Where Are Our Good Math Teachers"? Hint: Not at #edschools #edu #TQ #teachers #
- My report: Broken Promises (Why problems in IN/SC may harken dark future for the #NEA https://dropoutnation.net/nea #edreform #teachers #TQ #
- At Dropout Nation: Watch: Layla Avila on Teacher Quality https://dropoutnation.net/5s5 #edreform #TQ #teachers #edgap @TNTP #
- Mulgrew was just joshing RT @MarcSean86 @tvanderark: Mulgrew, "We're not blocking more NY #CharterSchool " Really?? #
- @MarcSean86 Well, you know, Mad Mike is all about blocking the charters, as if high-quality education was a disease or something. in reply to MarcSean86 #
- Does she ever do anything else these days? RT @alangott: #edreform More ranting from @DianeRav: #
- @MarcSean86 Killing the seed after it grows: The #UFT #AFT strategy for success. For themselves. The kids and their parents? Who cares. in reply to MarcSean86 #
- RT @ToughLoveforX: Primary Voters Rebuke Parties [ WSJ http://ilnk.me/2a42 ] <- Why I think #ecosys is a whole new game in Sept. #
- RT @College_Success @dropoutnation @chadsansing: Dropout Nation's infographic on dropouts https://dropoutnation.net/om #edreform #edgap #
- RT @MarcSean86: @dropoutnation Kids can't vote and many parents don't know the issue. if its worked for them thus far why stop? morality HA! #
- RT @sgermeraad: RT @AJCGetSchooled Latest study: Reducing class size doesn’t benefit student achievement #edreform #
- @ToughLoveforX legislation and activities good (LBJ and Dirksen on civil rights, Kennedy and Bush on No Child) and otherwise. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- Coming Thur: Dropout Nation asks Schott Foundation research guru Michael Holzman three questions — and gets great answers. #edreform #edgap #
- Why Holzman: Along w/Robert Balfanz, Chris Swanson, and Jay Greene, Holzman is responsible for revealing how #gradrates didn't show reality. #
- One of Holzman's pioneering reports: #edreform #edgap #
- @ileducprof Why not open both churches & libraries. Literacy won't save your soul. And church will not improve your literacy. You need both. in reply to ileducprof #
- Improve education and you won't need many prisons. RT @ileducprof: Close a prison and build a library. #BlackEd #
- At Dropout Nation: Watch: Layla Avila on Teacher Quality https://dropoutnation.net/5s5 #edreform #TQ #teachers #edgap @TNTP #
- RT @financialtimes: US state pensions become fed issue: By 2030, as many as 31 states may not have the money to pay #
- @iwantwealth Again, nothing wrong with both. The physical building can serve as the place to do that work. Many do. Many don't in reply to iwantwealth #
- @iwantwealth But that is an issue that church memberships/clergy must take up — and should. in reply to iwantwealth #
- RT @MBAENews: RT @conncan Bold & buy-in to the East. Pressure is on CT (& MA) RT @bigswifty RI #AFT backs #RTTT #
- @ToughLoveforX Who knows? I think that when it comes to certain issues (education, for example), the party lines blur greatly. There are as in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @dropoutnation many left-learning types in favor of #schoolchoice (in at least in the form of charter schools) as conservatives/libertarians in reply to dropoutnation #
- @dropoutnation There are also many conservatives who share the poverty-is-destiny viewpoint embraced within trad. public ed. They are in reply to dropoutnation #
- @ToughLoveforX many left-learning types in favor of #schoolchoice (in at least in the form of charter schools) as conservatives/libertarians in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX There are also many conservatives who share the poverty-is-destiny viewpoint embraced within trad. public ed. They are in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX as opposed to school choice as some on the left. The reasons may differ for each side of the #edreform debate, but the sides in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX in each debate share more in common, at least on this issue, than they disagree. Same is true w/govt accountability, the in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX drug war and the expansion of military. It's just a matter of nuance in many cases. On the other side, there are still clear in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX political divides on such matters as government regulation, the expansion of the welfare state and environmental issues. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX Those stubborn differences won't change much because the positions each side takes speaks to their respective philosophies. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX Republican and Democrat have never really represented specific political positions, at least in the main. This is because in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX they are big tent parties, which serve to gather people of similar worldviews (if not the same overarching worldview). in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX Back in the late 1850s, the Republicans served as the anti-slavery, pro-industrialization party while Democrats were the in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX agrarian, pro-slavery, pro-states rights party. In the 1980s, the Democrats were the party of civil rights and Great Society in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX the Republicans the party of smaller government, pro-free trade, with a regulation reform and states rights orientation. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX Between those years, the two parties occupied different spheres, with the Republicans ranging from strongly pro-civil rights in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX to sort of mixed, while the Democrats were the party of Davis-Bacon (which promoted white-dominated union labor over blacks in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX who were often not part of unions and were barred from membership in many of them), and Jim Crow, then verging into pro Civil in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX Rights with some strains of support for Jim Crow. The two parties have always been more big tents in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX than actual representations of ideological viewpoints. And elements of both parties have often joined together to back in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ileducprof Education collects $528 billion a year; criminal justice just $214 billion. Ed dollars should be spent more effectively. in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof We spend $214 billion a year on criminal justice (badly) because we spend $528 billion on K-12 (atrociously). #BlackEd in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof The solution isn't more money for schools. There isn't going to be more money, given $1 trillion in unfunded pensions in reply to ileducprof #
- @dropoutnation The solution is to spend that money more wisely, efficiently. This can only done if you focus on the system itself #BlackEd in reply to dropoutnation #
- @ileducprof Not really. The spending per pupil gap between urban and suburban districts tends to be quite equal #BlackEd in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof The issue, however, is that we have created a system of hiring, training and paying teachers that discourages high quality in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof teaching, especially in urban classrooms. We have ed schools that do not adequately select and prepare teachers, especially in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof for urban classrooms. You also have a system of politics within school districts in which intra-school resources are in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof distributed unequally based on who has the clout. This is why parent engagement among poor parents is a problem #blacked in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof And this is where data always helps. Let's start with GAO's report: #BlackEd in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof If you are poor, you don't have clout within a trad. public school system because officials within them aren't afraid of losing in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof their jobs. If wealthier parents raise a ruckus, it becomes a different issue. Note, school districts often treat #BlackEd in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof both poor and wealthier parents with indifference. But wealthier parents have an edge over the poor when push comes to shove. in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof Pardon me, but as someone who's been reporting on education for a good while, I know plenty about school finance. in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof But you tend to not realize that, as GAO pointed out, it is dependent on locality. The nation's largest cities are often as big in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof spenders as suburban systems that surround them. DC, for example, spends about $25K, if you also include the building costs. in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof But the real factors behind the inequities goes back to the collective bargaining agreement/contracts/pay incentives. in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof When suburban districts spend more than urban districts, it's usually a reflection of the mobility of experienced teachers in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof from an urban district to a suburban one. Or within a district, from the schools that do serve poor kids to the ones that don't in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof The problem goes back to how we run districts (atrociously), how we train teachers (horribly, especially for urban districts), in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof and how we pay them (by degree and seniority instead of by their performance in improving student achievement). in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof What we have is a system of low expectations (for all students) that damns poor students with even lower expectations in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof The system then tosses our young black men and women, no matter their income, into a woodshed to rot #BlackEd in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof And, as the GAO report stated, there is no consensus. The spending differences are localized. Additionally, even the GAO in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof report doesn't include capital costs, which in urban districts, tends to sap away funding. Again, inefficient spending. in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof But then, as I've said, this is a problem throughout K-12. in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof But it's not just how teachers are prepared. When you have a system in which teachers are paid the same, regardless of quality in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof of work, level of care for children and level of results, you will have what we have now. in reply to ileducprof #
- @ileducprof Thank you. in reply to ileducprof #
- This is Dropout Nation: A Chart of Educational Failure https://dropoutnation.net/om #edreform #edgap #sped #gradrate #education #
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