- It is also why our teachers are stuck with a compensation system that rewards them for time served, not for achieving greatness in the class #
- RT @Andrew_Coulson: New Report: DC Voucher Program Still a Success: #edreform #SchoolChoice #ParentPower #
- It is why, to paraprhase one speaker, we have an education system that forces us to condemn one nephew to prison and another to middle class #
- What would you do if someone asked you to put your son in prison and send your daughter to Harvard? I know my answer… #
- But we do this every day in American public education, the black and Latino kids suffering more, the white kids suffering a little less… #
- Yet ultimately, every child suffering the same. #
- RT @AframNews: Did you know that 2,000 of the nation's 23,000 high schools produce more than half the dropout rate. All poor & minority. #
- @josephlawler Yup, unfortunately. As bad as most of our schools may be, 2,000 of them are especially horrendous… in reply to josephlawler #
- @josephlawler Here is the report that bore this out by Robert Balfanz (who coined the term dropout factories) in reply to josephlawler #
- @JoanJaeckel I'm guess you oppose charter schools, vouchers, intra- and inter-district choice, measuring how teachers actually perform… in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- @JoanJaeckel in improving how children achieve, engaging fathers in improving education, and turning around dropout factories? in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- @JoanJaeckel I just want to make sure I get your position correct. in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- @JoanJaeckel Note: No one should be in love with the DOE. in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- @avalonsensei It's only propaganda if you disagree. It goes for both sides of every issue. in reply to avalonsensei #
- @avalonsensei This isn't to say there aren't folks truly putting out propaganda. But I'd rather discuss why a position is wrong or right… in reply to avalonsensei #
- @avalonsensei rather than simply trash it outright. Even those with whom we disagree have a point. in reply to avalonsensei #
- @gtoppo Charter schools are an answer, not the answer. This is the problem that some supporters and many opponents make… in reply to gtoppo #
- @gtoppo Improving the quality of education doesn't just involve charters. Or just involve trad. public schools. Or vouchers… in reply to gtoppo #
- @gtoppo It involves improving the quality of curricula, quality of instruction, quality of data on school and teacher performance… in reply to gtoppo #
- @gtoppo And making parents consumers — and kings — in education decision-making. in reply to gtoppo #
- @gtoppo Again, folks need to stop looking for one answer because the crisis in American public education is a fully systemic problem… in reply to gtoppo #
- @gtoppo Therefore several solutions will be needed. Expanding the number of charters is one; but it also involves improving quality. in reply to gtoppo #
- @gtoppo And if we treated education as a marketplace (which it is, inefficient, gov't driven as it is), we'd accept that schools that fail in reply to gtoppo #
- @gtoppo be they charters, traditional or private — should either succeed or fail on their success in educating kids. in reply to gtoppo #
- @gtoppo You're welcome. Apologies for the long-winded response. in reply to gtoppo #
- @JoanJaeckel My apologies. Sometimes I jump the gun. Congrats on starting your second charter! in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- @JoanJaeckel Not all of us can start schools or run them. To you and your colleagues, thank you for doing the work the rest of us don't. in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- @JoanJaeckel And, by the way, USDOE can be as much the problem as the possible solution. in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- Meanwhile I'm hurriedly filling out my volunteering application to read to DCPS kids this summer. #
- @JoanJaeckel Thinking about it, especially after my attendance of a presentation on early childhood learning at New America Foundation. in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- @JoanJaeckel Ellen Gallinsky, who made the presentation, noted that the same four skills one needs for workforce success are those… in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- @JoanJaeckel kids develop (or fail to) early on. Yet, it doesn't take much for schools to help develop or remediate those skills. in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- @JoanJaeckel It may be that the focus of early childhood education has to happen earlier than age three — and may need to be more in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- @JoanJaeckel focused on such things as how kids learn to focus and maintain self-control. in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- @JoanJaeckel I won't go that far. Testing isn't the problem. Testing merely provides the diagnosis of the problem. The real problem is in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- @JoanJaeckel older than testing. It goes back to Eliot versus the advocates of comprehensive high schools in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- @JoanJaeckel It's high expectations versus low expectations of kids; high expectations of certain children vs low expectations of others. in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- @JoanJaeckel Thank you. And likewise. in reply to JoanJaeckel #
- Fmr. Mich. schools superintendent Watkins observes the latest #DPS scandal over fmr. board prexy's behavior. #edreform #
- In Ind., Gov. Daniels calls out Indianapolis Public Schools for keeping fmr. buildings out of hands of charter schools #
- Daniels highlights practice in many U.S. districts: Keep charter schools out by requiring potential buyers to not rent to them. #edreform #
- New York City, which offers old school space to charter schools, is the exception not the rule #edreform #
- RT @EdEquality @hechingerreport: NCTQ's Walsh (EEP sig) on improving teacher quality: #TQReform #edreform #
- RT @JoanneLeeJacobs: New blog post: D.C. vouchers raise graduation rate #Edreform #SchoolChoice #ParentPower #
- At EducationNews.org, J.Nathan dismisses @DianeRav, notes that charter schools inherits Civil Rights Movement's legacy #
- RT @TRECA_Ohio @dropoutnation: At Dropout Nation: Three Questions: Steve Barr (Green Dot) https://dropoutnation.net/tqb #edreform #UrbanEd #
- RT @POWERORGmath @dropoutnation: Dropout Nation Podcast: School Reform As the Cornerstone of Community Renewal https://dropoutnation.net/rs6 #
- RT @eduphilia: Ed issue #1 RT@dropoutnation: RiShawn Biddle: The Kids Can't Read https://dropoutnation.net/kcr #literacy #edreform #BlackEd #
- @jgmac1106 Actually, in TX and in many other states, states rights folks (including many libertarians/conservatives) opposed #RttT #edreform in reply to jgmac1106 #
- @jgmac1106 But states rights types usually don't run state governments. And the name of the game is to maximize fed. money. in reply to jgmac1106 #
- @jgmac1106 On one hand, there are plenty of issues with the feds playing a stronger role in education through #edreform efforts… in reply to jgmac1106 #
- @jgmac1106 But this role has grown in part because state legislators, govs have ignored #edgaps and other educational issues #edreform .. in reply to jgmac1106 #
- @jgmac1106 for far too long and also received fed. ed money for 4 decades without having to produce outcomes, meet standards #edrerform in reply to jgmac1106 #
- RT @sourcepov: #ECOSYS tonight 9pET is on P8: Equity & NCLB. Should be a great convo. Framing: #K12 #Edu #4change #
- RT @sourcepov: #ECOSYS tonight 9pET is on P8: Equity & NCLB. Should be a great convo. Framing: #K12 #Edu #edreform #
- @DianeRavitch @avalonsensei: Humility is for everyone. We are all prone to error–often great error–and we are all children of God… in reply to DianeRavitch #
- @DianeRavitch @avalonsensei: And, by the way, if you think you are powerless, then you are. If you think you are powerful, that is true too. #
- @DianeRavitch @avalonsensei: You, Ms. Ravitch, could stand a lot of humility. Especially when it comes to facts and interpretation. #
- Wow! He's back? RT @pkafka: 2nd most popular search on site today: "Lewis dvorkin meeting forbes staff" Good luck to those at 60 Fifth Ave. #
- Which, for all the ex-Forbes folks out there, may mean Bill Baldwin (Forbes editor and D'Vorkin's old boss) will be out. #
- Now, back to education reform: In Chicago, Huberman to base layoffs on performance (if he can get past #AFT , #edreform #
- Rotherham's take on Detroit episode: "oh wow" RT @arotherham: simply leaves you speechless: #edreform #DPS #wt #
- RT @betterlesson @dropoutnation Dropout Nation: Three Questions: Steve Barr (Green Dot) https://dropoutnation.net/tqb #edreform #
- RT @EdEquality: EEP's daily news round-up for 6/23…new reports on #charters small schools, & lots more. http://bit.ly/djVXpy #edreform #
- In the rest of the world. RT @daveweigel: Whoa, Kevin Rudd isn't prime minister of Australia anymore? #
- RT @spedconsultant: Guideposts to Special Education: So, what happens after we develop an IEP? http://bit.ly/cA8azK #parentpower #sped #edu #
Powered by Twitter Tools
