- Joe Nathan on what MN must do to spur #edreform respond to #ArneDuncan challenge #edpolicy #
- Haberman on how urban districts help create and perpetuate a culture of unemployment #edreform #urbaned #BlackEdu #
- At Dropout Nation: Reform School Funding, End Zip Code Education #edreform #BlackEdu #edpolicy #
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Beyond Budget Cuts #edreform #
- Cruel RT @amyalkon: What do you think of the mom who thinks much of her kid's art belongs in the trash can? #
- Off-edu Phyllis Chesler's photographic history on the repression of women in Egypt (Via @AmyAlkon) #
- RT @ToughLoveforX: http://ilnk.me/670e from @dropoutNation Perceptive post to see how Money plays out in US Edu. #edreform #EduKare #
- RT @notjessewalker: I'm happy to hear that Mubarak's wife/sons have arrived in London…even happier if I hear that they're house-hunting. #
- RT @Dyrnwyn: New bill may let students in Jersey City, other under-performing districts, switch schools http://t.co/hLIIdc4 #edreform #
- Adam Emerson notes that Democrats weren't always against vouchers or tax credits #edreform #SchoolChoice #
- Off-edu RT @tomweber_mpr: Each video from #Egypt is more gripping than the last #jan25 http://j.mp/dKKXU0 #
- Paraphrasing JFK, those who don't make evolution in education possible, make revolutionary school reform inevitable. #edreform #
- The parents and those who are looking for to end the nation's dropout crisis will not let the #NEA #AFT and other defenders dictate terms. #
- They lost the credibility to do so when 150 kids drop out into poverty and prison every hour. #edreform #
- The parents and those who are looking for to end the nation's dropout crisis will not let the #NEA #AFT others dictate terms. #edreform #
- They lost the credibility to do so when 150 kids drop out into poverty, prison every hour. #edreform #
- At Dropout Nation: Accountability? We Don't Have Enough of It #edreform #TQReform #NoChild #ESEA #edschools #edpolicy #
- RT @chrishorancomm: The new majority: teachers with 10 or fewer years of teaching experience #TQReform #edreform #
- @FrankBeard @Dyrnwyn Actually, even if they did their jobs, the appeals processes, along with the emphasis on observations… in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard @Dyrnwyn would still make the current system of teacher evals, performance management, meaningless for teachers and students #
- @FrankBeard @Dyrnwyn A broken system is still a broken system, whether or not everyone in the system is doing their part. #
- @FrankBeard @Dyrnwyn And teacher performance mgmt, with a lack of objective data use, emphasis on subjective observations, and the lack of #
- @FrankBeard @Dyrnwyn strong tools for holding laggard teachers (and laggard principals) accountable, needs to be scrapped. Period. #
- @FrankBeard @Dyrnwyn No it isn't subjective. If a kid doesn't advance by at least a full grade klevel, then the teacher isn't doing an in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard adequate job. If the student advances more than that, then the teacher is doing good work. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard Teacher quality isn't subjective. It can be objectively measured. Whether one wants objective evaluation is different story. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard @Dyrnwyn Well, his teacher played a part. There are no unmotivated students; the kids are the result of poor teaching and in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard @Dyrnwyn Not only of just one teacher, but many. And low-quality principals and school systems are also part of the problem. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard People often don't know enough about the impact of low-quality instruction, curriculan to know differently. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard @Dyrnwyn Asking students to diagnose educational experience is like asking you and I to self-diagnose physical or mental illness in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard Apparently, you think everyone is just the product of their own action. That isn't so. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard The moral instruction of kids are in the hands of parents; the academic instruction is that of schools. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard If your parents are poor moral examples, all you will do is follow bad examples. If you are poorly taught in math, reading in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard and subjected to low expecations, you will be poorly educated. You can make decisions, but without good instruction in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard those decisions will only be bad ones except in the rare outlier of someone emerging in spite of the odds. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard Apparently, Frank, you're rather obtuse. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard Let's be clear, teaching kids to be responsible doesn't mean absolving adults of responsibiltiy. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard Let's be clear, teaching kids to be responsible doesn't mean absolving adults of responsibility. #
- @FrankBeard You seem interested in just placing the responsibility for low-quality instruction and curricula on the students when they in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard don't actually teach. Kids are not little adults; in fact, the minds of kids don't fully develop until age 25. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard This doesn't mean that you don't teach kids responsibility. What it does mean is that teachers and administrators cannot in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard absolve themselves of responsibility for low-quality work and educational malpractice. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard But thanks for your thoughts. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard But poor instruction and curriculum is responsible for student underachievement. The problems manifest in full in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard in middle school with truancy, suspensions. But the problem begins at the start of a child's career in school. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard We know that if a child doesn't read adequately by 3rd grade, they will manifest discipline problems. Since kids aren't adults in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard and don't know how to say to a teacher that they are illiterate, they act out. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard Essentially, poor student behavior is in many ways a poor instruction problem. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard Both in academic sense (poor reading and math instruction), and also, let's be honest, poor parenting. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard At least in the sense that the parents don't always fully diagnose their kids' reading problems. And that's if the parents can in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard read themselves. Which is also a problem. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard It's worse than that. Because evaluations are of low quality, and many administrators don't conduct them, the districts in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard keep low-quality teachers on the payroll. It is also an ed school problem; ed schools don't do a good job of in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard recruiting aspiring teachers with strong subject competency, strong leadership (and entrepreneurial) ability and in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard empathy for students. The problem is systemic. It doesn't start and end just with teachers. in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard And let's be clear: Many administrators themselves were laggard teachers who got sent upstairs. The dance of the lemons in reply to FrankBeard #
- @FrankBeard is a rather systemic problem. in reply to FrankBeard #
- RT @asoutherngirl @m_rhee @turnageb Let's make focus on providing grt schools instead of worrying abt whether charter/traditional. (AMEN!) #
- RT @adamjemerson: RT @dropoutnation: At Dropout Nation: Accountability? We Don't Have Enough of It #edreform #TQReform #
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Beyond Budget Cuts #edreform #edpolicy #
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Re-Imagine the Teaching Profession: #edreform #TQReform #teachers #
- RT @Dyrnwyn: suddenly understand, more than even I thought before, why @govchristie and the #njea will never be on the same page. #edreform #
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