- Coming at 3 p.m. Sunday: The Dropout Nation Podcast: Five More Questions Every Parent Should Ask at DropoutNation.net #edreform #
- RT @College_Success: RT et al: "#i3 Winners: Long on Talent, Execution,"Best Practices"–Not Transformation" #edreform #
- Preach RT @justinanderson1 All too often opponents of #edreform have no plan to improve…other than to keep doing what has already failed. #
- RT @MassMathScience: RT @dropoutnation: The Dropout Nation Podcast: Five Questions Every Parent Should Ask https://dropoutnation.net/qpa #
- No. RT @justinanderson1: Wish people who oppose value added testing…would spend more time crafting alternative. Do they have 1? #edreform #
- All about the kids? Sure. RT @DA_magazine: News: Milwaukee #NEA Files Suit Over Lack of Viagra Coverage http://ow.ly/18u0ak #edreform #
- @EduSpiel Many of them headed to private school because the teachers don't even think the public schools are working. in reply to EduSpiel #
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Five More Questions Every Parent Should Ask https://dropoutnation.net/fmq #edreform #ParentPower #BlackEd #
- @DianeRavitch: Oh please. What you are essentially saying is that there should be no accountability for American public education. #edreform #
- @DianeRavitch: You have finally whittled down whatever credibility you had left. #
- @classroomtools You may think so. But what she is calling for is the failed lack of accountability model that hasn't worked in 5 decades. in reply to classroomtools #
- @classroomtools We've been through the Ravitch model before. And 1.3 million kids every year pay the price #edreform in reply to classroomtools #
- @classroomtools And I would go further: @DianeRavitch offers no coherent alternative to either status quo or #edreform in reply to classroomtools #
- @classroomtools I would disagree. The fact that so many poor-performing teachers/admins aren't removed from schools is critical #edreform in reply to classroomtools #
- @classroomtools Real accountability means consequences — and not just for the kids (who pay the ultimate price). What we have is a culture in reply to classroomtools #
- @classroomtools of mediocrity in education that fails students and high-performing teachers alike. What we need is a culture of genius in reply to classroomtools #
- @classroomtools in which we provide high-quality teaching and more-rigorous curricula in reply to classroomtools #
- @classroomtools Oh please. As seen in #KIPP and other high-performing schools serving poor communities, great teaching and curricula can' in reply to classroomtools #
- @classroomtools can overcome issues of poverty. It isn't about being poor. It's about great teaching. Schools can't solve social issues, but in reply to classroomtools #
- @classroomtools they can teach kids and do better at it. They can equip even the poorest children to succeed and achieve their own stories. in reply to classroomtools #
- @classroomtools To say otherwise is to simply damn children to prison and poverty with low expectations. Plain and simple. in reply to classroomtools #
- @classroomtools It's sad that you think this way. Very sad. in reply to classroomtools #
- I'll make this clear to everyone: If you think poor kids cannot learn, cannot achieve, cannot be taught, then please, get out of education. #
- To argue that dropout factories, academic failure mills, poor-performing teachers, lousy administrators aren't exacerbating poverty… #
- is to ignore the importance of education. Again, please go elsewhere. You're not what we need in our classrooms. #
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Five More Questions Every Parent Should Ask https://dropoutnation.net/fmq #edreform #ParentPower #BlackEd #
- @classroomtools I think Kozol means well. He certainly has the interests of our poorest kids in mind. But I think he ends up defending… in reply to classroomtools #
- @classroomtools the status quo by his unwillingness to embrace #edreform He embraces an old school version of reform that comes out of a in reply to classroomtools #
- @classroomtools belief that you can solve poverty just by integrating black and white kids and funding equity, when decades of such efforts in reply to classroomtools #
- @mrsenorhill I wouldn't say KIPP, for example, kicks out a lot of kids. And the evidence generally is that they aren't. But in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill you do have an issue in KIPP that the parents have to live up to their end of the bargain, and KIPP demands a lot of parents… in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill as they do out of the kids and the teachers. The parents need to understand this, which is why it isn't enough to provide in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill choice. You have to educate parents to realize that being lead decision-makers in education includes being knowledgeable and in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill working hard. And this would be true even in a trad. district that adopted the KIPP model. in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @classroomtools have proven ineffective (see Abbott in New Jersey for the biggest example). He also lets the teaching profession off the #
- @classroomtools hook for not embracing a focus on subject-knowledge competency, showing caring for kids, measuring outcomes of work. in reply to classroomtools #
- @mrsenorhill WEll, I would argue that the idea that schools serving middle class and wealthy families are doing a great job is a myth. in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill In fact, if you look at test score growth in many cases, the KIPPs and trad. schools turning around performance are doing a in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill better job improving student achievement — even if the test scores are lower in the main — than wealthier/middle class in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill schools. We don't pay attention to wealthier schools because it is assumed they are doing a better job. But NCLB has exposed in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill that myth over and over again. With black and Latino students in particular, wealthier schools are doing just as poorly. in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill Oh no, the KIPP model isn't the only model. I just use it as one example. Other schools are doing great work with different in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill models. Catholic schools, for example, use a different model. And project-based teaching can work, so long as it is rigorous. in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill The problem is that in many cases, trad. schools use projects in order to avoid accountability, doing the hard work. in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill I don't say that is happening in your case. But it has happened quite often, especially in graduation gamesmanship…. in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill The kid can't pass the exit exams because they weren't taught. But the projects are used to justify letting the kids graduate. in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill But again, there is no one answer. KIPP is just one answer. So is Harlem Link. So is Montessori. It's about rigor and high- in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill quality teaching. We don't have enough of either. in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill I understand those who think achievement scores shouldn't be the only thing that matters. But in life, what isn't measured in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill isn't improved. You need the most-objective method for measuring student achievement. Tests aren't perfect, but nothing made by in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill man will ever be and more importantly, the perfect is more often the enemy of the best. Standardized tests, at this time, are in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill the best, most-objective measurement of student achievement. And ultimately, it is a tool. It doesn't prohibit schools or in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill teachers from pursuing other goals in education, whatever they may be. It only provides information needed to improve how kids in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill are taught. in reply to mrsenorhill #
- RT @iwantwealth: Please go elsewhere. You're not what we need in our classrooms. Via @dropoutnation (LOVES IT) #
- RT @justinanderson1: Then they need to STFU. RT @dropoutnation: No. RT @justinanderson1: Do they have 1? #edreform #
- I can't disagree. RT @justinanderson1: Then they need to STFU. RT @dropoutnation: No. RT @justinanderson1: Do they have 1? #edreform #
- RT @honeynoir: RT @CoCreatorRadio: "I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."- Mozart #
- @mrsenorhill No. Like so much in education, it's about laziness and low expectations. Schools can meet their mandates to educate all kids in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill and pursue other goals. Many teachers and administrators fail to be creative because it takes work. In a system in which in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill that hard work has not been demanded or expected, it's easy to simply blame accountability to a lack of creativity in educating in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill kids. Companies have to meet accountability to shareholders all the time; they also have to earn a profit in ways that are in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill both ethical and sustaining (lest they end up like Enron). Many companies do this all the time. Same in the law, same in other in reply to mrsenorhill #
- @mrsenorhill professions and field. Why is education an exception? It isn't. And shouldn't be. in reply to mrsenorhill #
- RT @elearnnet: #edu #education Five More Questions Every Parent Should Ask – 8.8.10 – RiShawn Biddle – #edreform #
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