• America spends $7 billion annually on training teachers. Doesn’t include billions more for graduate degrees, board certifications #edreform #
  • 1,060 different tests administered in United States to certify teachers. Yet few are of high quality according to CAP. #edreform #
  • Some 1,060 different tests administered in United States to certify teachers. Yet few are of high quality according to CAP. #edreform #
  • CAP’s Ed Crowe notes that 96% of teachers pass teaching certification tests. Says Crowe: “This isn’t consistent… coherent.” #edreform #
  • National PTA CEO Garrett at #NUL charter school panel “The reality is that all children deserve the same opportunities.” #edreform #edu #
  • NAPCS chairman: Notes that 14% of charters is a “positive sign” of quality improvements. #edreform #
  • PTA’s Garrett Notes parents need to understand what high-quality ed should look like. “What does that mean at the end of the day?” #edreform #
  • PTA’s Garrett: “We need to do a real better job of explaining what a high-quality education should look like.” #
  • Howard Fuller:”Maybe we need to require charter schools to show parents what a third grade growth pattern should like.” #edreform #
  • NAPCS’ Easton: Charter schools, for the most part, don’t differ on curricula from trad. schools. It’s governance that’s different #edreform #
  • The Dropout Nation Podcast: Five Steps Toward Fostering Great #Teachers https://dropoutnation.net/fgt #edreform #
  • Urban League’s Thomas: Charter schools exist to be “examples of innovation”, but until #NEA AFT stop fighting innovation, #edreform won’t… #
  • happen throughout the rest of American public education. #edreform #
  • PTA’s Garrett: “Parents and children are the only ones who do not have full-time advocates” at the local level. The benefit of PTA #edreform #
  • Is the ability to mobilize parent en masse for educational issues. #edreform #
  • RT @arotherham: Is Obama’s problem the t’chrs unions or Congress (or both?) http://tinyurl.com/35d5f27 #edreform #RttT #NEA #AFT #
  • Rewind: Dropout Nation Podcast: Why Civil Rights Activists Should Embrace #edreform https://dropoutnation.net/wmf #BlackEd #RttT #
  • RT @hechingerreport: In speech to Urban League, President Obama defends education agenda and RTTT: #edreform #
  • RT @EdEquality: RT @edReformer: Here is the list of applicants who applied to run Promise Neighborhoods: #edreform #HCZ #
  • RT @sgermeraad: Obama: “the charge that Race to the Top isn’t targeted at those young people most in need is absolutely false” #edreform #
  • RT @sgermeraad: Obama: “I want us to build a culture where we idolize people…shaping our children’s future” #edreform #RttT #
  • RT @mnpirc: Yes!! RT @getschooled Parents are crucial to narrowing achievement gap, even in middle class: #edreform #
  • Ron Kirk at #NUL “Made in America still means something… [But] We need to educate every child so that we (cont) http://tl.gd/2qi59g #
  • RT @sgermeraad: Obama: There are all kinds of reasons for our children to say, “No, I can’t.” But our job is to say to them, “Yes, you can.” #
  • RT @getschooled: #MichelleRhee of @dcpublicschools interviewed on MSNBC about DC teachers: http://ow.ly/2irmU #edreform #
  • Voices of the Dropout Nation: Steve Peha Offers An Alternate History on the #Reading Wars https://dropoutnation.net/8nc #literacy #
  • How nice! RT @OfficialDetroit: Detroit City Council votes 6-3 to NOT allow the question of mayoral control on the November ballot. #edreform #
  • Once again, Detroit’s city leaders choose to let their kids to land into poverty and prison than engage in #edreform #BlackEd #
  • Once again, Detroit’s city council behaves irresponsibly towards its citizens — especially its children — because site #edreform #
  • Once again, Detroit’s city council behaves irresponsibly towards its citizens — especially its children — because site #edreform #BlackEd #
  • Once again, Detroit’s city council behaves irresponsibly towards its citizens — especially its children — because #BlackEd #edreform #
  • its majority has lost site of what matters most #edreform #BlackEd #
  • If Detroit wants to know why it’s city continues to slide into the abyss, look at its school district and its city council. #edreform #
  • If Detroit wants to know why it continues to slide into the abyss, look at its school district and its city council. #edreform #BlackEd #
  • For the politicians, it’s just another game. But for the kids and their families, it’s a lot more than that. #BlackEd #edreform #
  • It’s time for a lot of #ParentPower Starting with signing a petition to put mayoral control on the ballot… #edreform #BlackEd #
  • Then vote the council majority out into the streets where they belong. #edreform #BlackEd #ParentPower #
  • Beltway #edreform activists: Your help is needed in Detroit. Get to work #BlackEd #
  • RT @drchuckwilliams @honeynoir @dropoutnation: For the politicians, it’s just another game. * caveat – 4 many, not all. #BlackEd #edreform #
  • By the way: Start writing 🙂 #
  • At Dropout Nation: Watch: Addressing the Boys Crisis in Reading https://dropoutnation.net/bgh #literacy #edgap #edreform #SaraMead #
  • I don’t RT @JoeNBC: I expect more from EJ Dionne than to accuse those with whom he disagrees on matters of macroeconomics of “stupidity.” #
  • Joanne Weiss at Education Pioneers: “one of the big problem in this industry is the whole human capital chain…can be improved.” #edreform #
  • “A great teacher in a dysfunctional school or a great school in a dysfunctional district isn’t going to affect the change we need” #edreform #
  • “We need to change the whole system.” Joanne Weiss of DOE on #edreform #
  • RT @DrStevePerry: Thought you’d be pleased to know many kids from the Black in America 2 piece with Malaak (cont) http://tl.gd/2ql4a8 #
  • Today’s Maxim RT @DrStevePerry: Stay outta trouble and keep making good choices @thedannyglover @strokinlogan #
  • @getschooled Thank you! in reply to getschooled #
  • Off-edu: RT @mpgroome: Before wtc July 28th http://tweetphoto.com/35641614 #
  • Weiss: “We did a lot of outreach…technical support [for #RttT …Another big part was what we call reform conditions…” #edreform #
  • Weiss on reg problems in fostering #edreform “It’s insane what is in state law. There are state laws that even determine salaries” #edreform #
  • Weiss: Notes that states often don’t have capacity to know what happens in districts. This complicates #RttT #edreform #
  • Matthew K. Tabor’s roundup of a few #edreform issues. http://twurl.nl/4ekobd #AEI #TQReform #
  • RT @iwantwealth: TITLE I TEACHERS: Your parents (and their kids) need your help! Send me videos…tips I will record! http://wp.me/PYisy-13 #
  • You heard her. Do it. #
  • For Friday: RT @JoeNBC: RT @CalNativeSD: @JoeNBC Let calm be your balm. #
  • RT @DrStevePerry: Like the President said today: the unemployment rate is almost double for ppl w/ out a college degree compared to ppl w/ 1 #
  • RT @linkstoliteracy: My new book, Teaching Comprehension with Nonfiction Read Alouds, out in September! Pre-order now: http://fb.me/un8r4sfK #
  • A Maxim for #edreform RT @CliftonR: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~ Dr. M.L. K., Jr. #

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