- @ChitownStu @rolandmartin: It isn't that more black men are choosing not to go to college. It's that 47 percent of them drop out of H.S. in reply to ChitownStu #
- @ChitownStu If you then figure that half of what's left aren't college-ready or will end up in remedial ed, then you got the rest. #edreform in reply to ChitownStu #
- @ChitownStu @rolandmartin: It isn't about choice. It's about 53 percent of blacks being functionally illiterate. #edreform in reply to ChitownStu #
- @ChitownStu @rolandmartin: You can't get into college if you can't read. in reply to ChitownStu #
- RT @tvanderark: Dear Arne, push innovation, blended learning, public-private partnerships, strong ESEA #RttT #edreform #
- @ChitownStu Motivation isn't enough. It's a systemic problem, both in American public ed and within our own communities #edreform in reply to ChitownStu #
- @ChitownStu We need to all become #edreform activists, demanding #parentpower working with reformers, grassroots to show parents #BlackEd in reply to ChitownStu #
- @ChitownStu what high-quality education looks like, what high-quality teaching, schools, look like, and how to get it #BlackEd in reply to ChitownStu #
- @ChitownStu In short, a nation of millions dedicated to reforming education on behalf of our children cannot be stopped #edreform in reply to ChitownStu #
- @dropoutnation The motivation among parents and children is there. But the knowledge isn't. Even Daytona needed Mary McLeod Bethune #BlackEd in reply to dropoutnation #
- @ChitownStu The motivation among parents and children is there. But the knowledge isn't. Even Daytona needed Mary McLeod Bethune #BlackEd in reply to ChitownStu #
- @ChitownStu We don't need leaders. We need iron men and women of steel standing athwart the status quo saying "Hell no." #BlackED in reply to ChitownStu #
- @ChitownStu You are one of our Iron Men. in reply to ChitownStu #
- @ChitownStu We all do. But we learn and improve. That's what makes us men of iron. in reply to ChitownStu #
- @vadum Seriously, conservatives and libertarians (I'm one of them) shouldn't turn into PC wussies. Be men, not boys. in reply to vadum #
- @vadum And that is all. #
- Today's Maxim. RT @POWERORGmath: Absolutely,Everyday! @jeffpulver: We all have the ability to affect someone in a positive way. #edreform #
- @Andrew_Coulson argues for fewer public sector #edjobs against $23 billion #ARRA 2. #edreform #TQReform #
- @edubrew Although it may turn out that the problem isn't with AT&T, but with the iPhone #WhenYouChooseCoolOverQuality in reply to edubrew #
- RT @POWERORGmath: Hi5! @readtoday: In Silicon Valley we need people who can do math #ptchat #edreform #TQReform #CCSSI #
- RT @edReformer: Here is a summary of education policy talk in Illinois yesterday #edreform #edpolicy #
- @chadsansing @arotherham: Good and great teachers don't need tenure. And K-12 isn't higher ed. Tenure unnecessary #TQreform #edreform in reply to chadsansing #
- @chadsansing @arotherham: As Andy knows, there is no evidence that tenure improves student achievement, teacher effectiveness #edreform #
- RT @chadsansing: re: small schools' real costs, start here & then start your own 🙂 #edreform #
- @chadsansing Because the dropout crisis cannot be solved w/o good and great teachers. #edreform in reply to chadsansing #
- @chadsansing I don't think it will be hard to keep them. Nor will it take much work to do so. Start with rewarding teachers for great work in reply to chadsansing #
- @chadsansing not just with performance pay, but with more-challenging and rewarding work, from training new teachers to in reply to chadsansing #
- @chadsansing providing them startup funds to launch their own schools, be they charter, traditional public or private. in reply to chadsansing #
- RT @DebbyoUre: This is Dropout Nation: Stemming the Dropout Crisis https://dropoutnation.net/4p9 #edreform #literacy #grassroots #
- RT @kmanzo @dropoutnation: Rewind: The Dropout Nation Podcast: Read to Your Boys https://dropoutnation.net/rtb #edreform #literacy #
- In LA, Mayor Villaraigosa blasts his fmr aide Cortines, #LAUnified for shortchanging charter school operators #edreform #
- RT @JoanneLeeJacobs: New blog post: From adult ed to ??? #education #highered #CollegeCareer #
- Moron RT @billblevins: Student "mooned" a group of Hell's Angels, hurled a puppy at them, escaped on a stolen bulldozer #
- RT @amyalkon: Rightwing guy Ted Olson fighting for gay marriage. Leftwing guy Barack Obama mumbling about gay rights #
- At Dropout Nation: Watch: Whitney Tilson on A Right Denied and School Reform https://dropoutnation.net/kw1 #edreform #DFER #
- RT @NHSCatAIR: MDRC: By fourth year of H.S., NYC's "small schools of choice" increase #gradrates by 6.8 percentage points #
- Evidence that GEDs are not "Good Enough Diplomas" http://bit.ly/cmcnZt . Commentary from 05: https://dropoutnation.net/crd #edreform #
- The other consequences of the GED: The Dropout Crisis http://bit.ly/do5Ofx More perspective: https://dropoutnation.net/k15 #edreform #
- These cheap, flimsy pieces of parchment must go. Essentially, it is time to get rid of GEDs. Period. End of story. #edreform #
- The Dropout Nation Podcast School Reform As the Cornerstone of Community Renewal https://dropoutnation.net/rs6 #edreform #BlackEd #grassroots #
- At Dropout Nation: Three Questions: Steve Barr (Green Dot) https://dropoutnation.net/tqb #edreform #grassroots #LatinoEd #
- At EducationNews.org, Shaughnessy interviews Paul Peterson #edreform #AntiDianeRavitch #edpolicy #SchoolChoice #
- In Carmel, Ind., you can be H.S. bball stars, gang-rape teammates and still only get charged with a misdemeanor. http://bit.ly/aNopx1 #
- For more on this supposed "hazing that gone too far", here's the entire report: http://bit.ly/9BCIx5 #OutrageousAndWrong #
- The kids ought to go to prison. The parents ought to be taken to the woodshed. And the school officials shouldn't have covered it up #
- And the prosecutor? Well, let's just say that God has a special place for her and the rest of the lot. #
- Dear WashPost: Thank you for proving why the newspaper business has lost its spirit, its inquisitiveness and its gumption #DavidWeigel #
- @Rodney_Trice And Rodney, that's all nice and good. But in the real world, it's not your intentions that matter. It's the results #BlackEd in reply to Rodney_Trice #
- @Rodney_Trice A teacher can't be effective at cultivating thinkers if he or she doesn't know if the students are learning #BlackEd in reply to Rodney_Trice #
- @Rodney_Trice And when it comes to getting students to learn, your goal of cultivating thinkers is meaningful… #BlackEd in reply to Rodney_Trice #
- @Rodney_Trice But it's meaningless if every tool available for getting kids to take the steps toward learning aren't used #BlackEd in reply to Rodney_Trice #
- @Rodney_Trice If it means spending hours with them, then do it. If it means giving them incentives to pick up the book, that too. #BlackEd in reply to Rodney_Trice #
- @Rodney_Trice After all, it isn't about us. It's about improving the lives of these children. For teachers, these kids are… #BlackEd in reply to Rodney_Trice #
- @Rodney_Trice to use a term so many hate using, customers. And if you serve these kids well, then they will become thinkers #BlackEd in reply to Rodney_Trice #
- No shock. RT @Dyrnwyn @eriksyring @gtoppo Duncan to skip #NEA annual mtg. Addresses charter school alliance. #edreform #
- @Rodney_Trice True. But without the test, you won't know that you're getting to the first step towards thinking: Learning the basics needed in reply to Rodney_Trice #
- @Rodney_Trice for thinking. As in reading and in math, if you don't know what the symbols mean, you can't then know how to read them. in reply to Rodney_Trice #
- @Rodney_Trice You then can't begin to grasp abstractions, the other aspect of thinking. The basics are key to being able to have a sense in reply to Rodney_Trice #
- @Rodney_Trice of the world around you. Kids need those basics. Teachers need to teach them that first before they can begin showing them in reply to Rodney_Trice #
- @Rodney_Trice how to understand the abstractions on which the world we live in is built in reply to Rodney_Trice #
- @ForBlackBoys The results aren't artificial. If you can't add, substract, multiply, divide, you can't do algebra, calculus, trig #BlackEdd #
- @ForBlackBoys The results aren't artificial. If you can't add, substract, multiply, divide, you can't do algebra, calculus, trig #BlackEd #
- @ForBlackBoys The correlation between test data and actual student learning of the basics is quite proven #BlackEd #
- @ForBlackBoys It doesn't mean that the students have become thinkers. No, not at all. It takes decades to develop the #BlackEd #
- @ForBlackBoys capacity to reason, to think. And it takes more than reason and thinking in order to gain wisdom. #BlackEd #
- @ForBlackBoys But if you can't read or write or add or subtract, you can't even reach the first ring of thinking #BlackEd #
- @ForBlackBoys We are failing to compete globally even among our most-gifted students, but it's not because of thinking #BlackEd in reply to ForBlackBoys #
- @ForBlackBoys It's because they don't understand the basics. And that's because of poor instruction, low teacher quality #BlackEd #
- @ForBlackBoys And this is certainly a problem at every level of American public education. Worse for blacks, less so for whites. #BlackEd #
- @ForBlackBoys But all the same. Unfortunately, our children don't have the opportunities to escape dropout factories #BlackEd #
- RT @Stand4Children: Dropout Nation features podcasts. This one is on the importance of reading to boys #edreform #
- @Rodney_Trice All this said, I appreciate your passion for improving education for our kids, especially young black men #BlackEd in reply to Rodney_Trice #
- At Dropout Nation: This is Dropout Nation: Stemming the Reading Crisis: https://dropoutnation.net/4p9 #edreform #literacy #grassroots #
- @FirstTeacher The problem for most dropouts isn't that they are bored. They may say this to pollsters. But as Leon Dash would say, people in reply to FirstTeacher #
- @FirstTeacher The problem for most dropouts isn't that they are bored. They may say this to pollsters. But as Leon Dash #BlackEd #edreform #
- @FirstTeacher say, people rarely tell you the facts until you know their entire personal history and have seen through #edreform #BlackEd #
- @FirstTeacher their facade. Especially when they don't want to admit to a deficiency, either of their own making #edreform #BlackEd in reply to FirstTeacher #
- @FirstTeacher or otherwise. Most kids drop out after having passed through grades despite failing academically #edreform #BlackEd in reply to FirstTeacher #
- @FirstTeacher They were socially promoted into failure in high school, where they must earn credits, but cannot because #edreform #BlackEd in reply to FirstTeacher #
- @FirstTeacher their teachers failed to do the job of instructing them in the basics. Certainly HS curricula isn't always #BlackEd #edreform in reply to FirstTeacher #
- @FirstTeacher exciting. But most of these kids are also unable to do the classwork. This isn't their fault. Their schools #edreform #BlackEd in reply to FirstTeacher #
- @FirstTeacher and teachers must take blame for that. This is proven by evidence. As Robert Balfanz notes, a child who #edreform #BlackEd in reply to FirstTeacher #
- @FirstTeacher fails 6th grade math and misses more than 10 days of school has just a one-in-six chance of graduating #edreform #BlackEd in reply to FirstTeacher #
- @FirstTeacher on time (if ever). If you are unable to read at basic proficiency, you are also unlikely to graduate. #BlackEd #edreform in reply to FirstTeacher #
- @FirstTeacher Boredom isn't the problem. Teacher quality, instructional quality, curriculum quality, quality of school #edreform #BlackEd in reply to FirstTeacher #
- @FirstTeacher leadership and parental engagement are the problems. #BlackEd #edreform in reply to FirstTeacher #
- @FirstTeacher As for GEDs? One replacement for GEDs is to actually have kids attend night school and earn a diploma #edreform #BlackEd in reply to FirstTeacher #
- @FirstTeacher the way it needs to be done, with 400 hours of study. Combine this with #edtech online learning models #BlackEd #edreform in reply to FirstTeacher #
- @FirstTeacher and there may be one formula. Either way, we can't continue handing out useless parchment and telling #edreform #BlackEd in reply to FirstTeacher #
- @FirstTeacher GED recipients that the sun is shining when it's actually raining #edreform #BlackEd in reply to FirstTeacher #
- @Trace_Urdan Enjoyed that particular response in the WaPo piece about nonprofit colleges being more rapacious than for-profit ones #highered in reply to Trace_Urdan #
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