- Check out the RiShawn Biddle/Dropout Nation Newsletter at http://conta.cc/d8AFEx via @constantcontact #
- RT @EdEquality: RT @dropoutnation: Podcast: Five Questions Every Parent Should Ask https://dropoutnation.net/qpa #edreform #
- At Dropout Nation: Why Desegregation Must Be Secondary to Systemic Reform https://dropoutnation.net/r9t #edreform #BlackEd #
- RT @PIEnetwork: $10 billion Edujobs bill pulled from Senate after estimate shows it would add to deficit #edreform #
- RT @JoanneLeeJacobs: New blog post: [On charter schools in] New Orleans: From F to C #edreform #
- RT @gnaeyaert: Detroiters should have right to vote on schools, says City Council member. http://ow.ly/2kfyh #edreform #DPS #DaveBing #
- College Board's Gaston Caperton on the growing educational deficit btwn US, world http://huff.to/acITLN #edreform #
- Off-edu: RT @CliftonR: Time to panic? More preteens are on birth control http://shar.es/01cHg #
- Voices of the Dropout Nation: Steve Peha on Integration and Systemic Reform https://dropoutnation.net/qgx #edreform #BlackEd #CivilRights #
- RT @dskerritt: WSJ highlights data showing increasing support for #charter schools among minorities v. NAACP opposition #
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Five Questions Every Parent Should Ask https://dropoutnation.net/qpa #edreform #FamilyEngagement #ParentPower #
- RT @Eduflack: RT @HSequity #Colorado signs on to #CommonCore meaning all 19 #RttT Rd2 finalists are committed #edreform #
- RT @EduSpiel: @dropoutnation @gnaeyaert No, we don't want to hear what the people say. Let council, state decide for us. #edreform #
- Not much difference in GA: Barnes the D is running away from #edreform Deal won't take #RttT money. Only Handel would pursue reform. #
- God Save the Peach State! It will need every prayer as the achievement gap in that state grows. #edreform #
- RiShawn Biddle's Latest Labor Watch Report on "Last Hired, First Fired" and generation gap w/in #NEA #AFT https://dropoutnation.net/783 #
- RT @ClaytonMuhammad: When the challenges in your life become more difficult, it’s only because you’ve become strong enough to handle them! #
- RT @EdEquality @PreventDropout: "A great teacher in a dysfunctional school….isn’t going to affect the change we need." http://ow.ly/2jOz1 #
- @RabinNickens You need to look at it all. Poor-performing teachers are a major cause of these problems. How can great teachers work in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens when they are surrounded by mediocrity and worse among their colleagues? It isn't scapegoating. If you don't clean up in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens your own ranks, then you have no right to complain about scapegoating. Getting rid of the bad apples is not just the job in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens of administrators, but fellow teachers who should demand high quality — especially highly effective teachers who know better in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens I understand how some teachers feel they are being scapegoated. But if you are a good-to-great teacher, the criticism doesn't in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens apply to you. Professionals understand this; they don't take the criticism personally. They take it constructively, seriously in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens then they fix their ranks (along with working to reform the rest of a system). One great teacher alone can't solve these in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens issues. But good to great teachers working together to reform their profession, embracing new approaches, a more in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens entrepreneurial mindset, and willing to cast off allies that do them no favors for those who do, will achieve plenty. in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens As Margaret Mead would say, a group of committed people can take on any challenge. It's the only way change has even happened. in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens Get rid of poor-performing, uncaring teachers from your ranks–call them out even–and we will have advanced both teaching and in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens high-quality education for all children by miles. in reply to RabinNickens #
- RT @harlemlink: Now hiring: Fourth Grade Co-Teacher! http://www.harlemlink.org/employment/coteach.php #
- RT @chadsansing: Steve Peha responds re: systemic reform on @dropoutnation & @mcleod (cont) http://tl.gd/2teqlo #
- @RabinNickens Apparently, you're not paying attention to the entire #edreform conversation. It isn't just poor-performing teachers… in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens — and again, please pay attention, we're talking about poor-performing teachers — aren't the only people being held in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens accountable. School districts and their administrators also get criticism, as do ed schools (who poorly train teachers), as do in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens state officials and legislators. And yes, even the federal DOE has been roundly criticized by #edreform activists. in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens Just because you choose only to listen to one end of a wide conversation doesn't mean that the full depth of the convo in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens isn't happening. It is your job to listen closely, as it is my job to do so, in the arena of debate and advocacy. in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens The #edreform conversation has gone on longer than you and I have been alive. Since the 1970s when southern in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens governors and chambers of commerce began worrying about the quality of education in their schools. Over those decades, in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens the conversation has included criticism and efforts to reform districts, develop assessments, standards, new options in school in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens choice. Teacher quality has finally come under the microscope because the research has shown that it is the single-biggest in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens factor in education quality. Not the only factor, but the biggest. As Vicki Phillips would say, if you don't change what in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens happens in classrooms, you can't reform education. It's just that simple. Decades of #edreform activity has proven this over in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens and over again. in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens Teacher quality is important. High-quality teachers deserve to work in a culture of genius that allows them to do great work in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens without dealing with mediocrity that brings down their efforts. That mediocrity is why the John Taylor Gattos, the Jaime in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens Escalantes and others can't extend their impact. The culture within ed encourages low-quality because its professionals in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens tolerate low quality. There is no excuse for it. These are the lives of children at stake. This ain't no soundbite #edreform in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens Thanks for your thoughts. in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens By the way: Balanced discussion is all well and good. But when it ignores facts in evidence, then it isn't shedding light in reply to RabinNickens #
- @RabinNickens or leading to action that will help those who need it. Sometimes balance is just another word for "do nothing". #edreform in reply to RabinNickens #
- RT @jeffzeleny: Can Obama influence a Dem.race? He's calling Colo. voters tonight to find out. http://nyti.ms/9FcXMb #obama #edreform #
- RT @OmbudsmanEd: RT @Stand4Children: RT @educationweek Indiana Makes 35 in #CommonCore Push #CCSSI #edreform #
- RT @Ed_Reform: RT @EdEquality: Dropout Nation: Watch: Addressing the Boys Crisis in Reading https://dropoutnation.net/bgh #literacy #edgap #
- Off-ed: Sure, he is. RT @TPCarney: Edd Doerr: "Carney is taking the side of Wall Street against Main Street…" #
- A rarity in many places, sadly. RT @DarlaBunting: Happy people enjoy seeing other people happy. #
- RT @mikedebonis: Gray ad nailed by @tweetelissa: If it's a more humble Fenty you want, attack ads mocking his humility probably won't help. #
- Changes his mind. RT @dorieturner: AP: Deal reverses course on federal education money #Election2010 #edreform #
- Changes his mind. RT @dorieturner: AP: Deal reverses course on federal education money #Election2010 #edreform #RttT #
- Voices of the Dropout Nation: Steve Peha on Integration and Systemic Reform https://dropoutnation.net/qgx #edreform #BlackEd #edgap #
- RT @KarenLeFever: RT @dropoutnation: Check out the RiShawn Biddle/Dropout Nation Newsletter at http://conta.cc/d8AFEx via @constantcontact #
- RT @mathewi: RT @om: who agrees with me that launching BB Torch on at&t is like getting married in a ceremony officiated by divorce atty? #
- @markowenh Yeah. It definitely belongs on Sprint or Verizon. Preferably with more RAM and a better processor. in reply to markowenh #
- RT @Dr_EricWaters: Every 26 seconds, a child drops out of school. #edreform #dropout #
- Five teens will drop out of school every two minutes. One hundred fifty students every hour #edreform #dropouts #
- Sign of immaturity in a profession: When members call honest, constructive criticism of laggards within ranks "bashing" of entire profession #
- This wouldn't be tolerated within other professions. In fact, self-criticism (and criticism from the outside) is invited. It keeps the #
- ranks of the profession honest. Journalists do this all the time, criticism "hacks" and those who fall below the standard… #
- same for lawyers, economists, accountants. Confident professionals welcome the legitimate criticism, add perspective, think it through… #
- take action. In less than mature professions, such self-criticism and external criticism is called "bashing". This line of thinking is #
- intellectually dishonest, promotes mediocrity and fails to protect the profession from exterior pressure for reform. #
- It renders those confident professionals powerless because they cannot engage in criticism without disturbing the status quo. #
- Now, dear good and great teachers: You have some terrible colleagues within your ranks. They doing you — and your students — no favors. #
- Let's get them out of your ranks so you can do great work on behalf of your students — our children. You both deserve it. #
- RT @iwantwealth: @dropoutnation a teacher and a cop walk into a bar…LOL sorry can't finish…but the blue "code" is parallel #edreform #
- RT @DarlaBunting: If we continue to ignore that 1 in 2 black males dropout of hs, then we will continue to see a decline in the black family #
- RT @DarlaBunting: That's 1 in 2 black males that are less likely to attend college. That's 1 in 2 black males more likely to go to prison. #
- RT @DarlaBunting: black, educated women complain about the current single situation, think about future generations… #edreform #
- RT @iwantwealth: Some1 makes your 18 y.o. daughter a pornstar…do you get mad at "someone" or at "dad" skills? YOU molded her values right? #
- @bcrosby A good way to find out is the very way your #NEA and #AFT locals oppose: Objective evaluations based on student performance in reply to bcrosby #
- @bcrosby This would certainly give us a pretty good objective sense of the levels of poor performing teachers within the ranks. in reply to bcrosby #
- @bcrosby But if we want to take a possible answer out of the air, we could always use #DCPS #039;s IMPACT evaluations: 6 percent who lost in reply to bcrosby #
- @bcrosby positions, and at least 20 percent overall (including those dismissed and those who needed improvement). in reply to bcrosby #
- @bcrosby But again, we would need an objective evaluation system — not perfect, but the most-objective — to get the full picture in reply to bcrosby #
- @bcrosby But in every school in this country, good-to-great teachers know who isn't measuring up. They are constantly moved around in reply to bcrosby #
- @bcrosby in dances of lemons from school to school, largely because they have seniority and cannot be easily dismissed without in reply to bcrosby #
- @bcrosby onerous process. This doesn't excuse the districts: They hire the teachers; they perform faulty evalutations; they don't lobby in reply to bcrosby #
- @bcrosby state legislators hard enough to revamp trad. teacher evaluation rules/restrictions. But teachers are also responsible in reply to bcrosby #
- @bcrosby for accepting this state of affairs as well. After all, policing a profession is the responsibility of all within a profession. in reply to bcrosby #
- RT @EdEquality: RiShawn Biddle's Latest Labor Watch Report on "Last Hired, First Fired", generation gap w/in #NEA #AFT #
- At Dropout Nation: Why Desegregation Must Be Secondary to Systemic Reform https://dropoutnation.net/r9t #edreform #CivilRights #
- A Maxim RT @DrStevePerry: Discipline is respect. #
- What we must remember. RT @DrStevePerry: Children will do virtually anything for someone they believe loves them… #edreform #
- @bcrosby By the way: It doesn't matter the percentage. It's the damage they do to their students — our kids. Remember that. in reply to bcrosby #
- RT @DrStevePerry: 75% of black children in Atlanta failed the examination to get into 9th grade. Fundamental failure in education. #
- And yes, parents, this is for you: RT @DrStevePerry: If you have more video games than books, you have a problem. #
- For improving your kids future: RT @MarcSean86: Dropout Nation Podcast: Five Questions Every Parent Should Ask https://dropoutnation.net/qpa #
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