When we talk about the kids who almost always get left behind, it’s not about the science. It’s about the politics… I think we need to have more from the system. We have to have more transparency. We have to have communication (to families).
Dianne Piche of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, arguing for greater fiscal and educational accountability from school districts and states, at today’s conference on Title 1 funding sponsored by Center for American Progress and the American Enterprise Institute. Piche also noted that it may be time to embrace Parent Trigger laws in order to overcome the failures of education policy in giving parents power.
Unless you empower parents with something that has meaning, it won’t work… If you let parents choose their school or something about their child’s program, they will be engaged.
Vanderbilt education professor emeritus James W. Guthrie (now of the George W. Bush Presidential Center) on why the family engagement set-aside in Title 1 has been ineffective. In short, the need is for school choice and parent power.
We will never support an evaluation system which allows teachers in challenged areas to teach less than teachers in other areas.
Interim D.C. schools chancellor Kaya Henderson, defending the district’s IMPACT teacher evaluation system after being named full-time to the job by D.C. Mayor Vince Gray.
It appears that the mayor has changed quite a bit since he’s been elected. I did not know the mayor would so quickly abandon things that I honestly felt he felt in his heart.
Washington AFT local boss Nathan Saunders after learning that his effort to tear down Michelle Rhee’s school reform regime may not go so well after all.
Right now, highly qualified teaching (in the No Child Left Behind Act) is about the credential. We have to move beyond the credential.
Oakland schools boss Tony Smith on the importance of moving away from compliance and further emphasizing accountability in federal education policy.
We have been much too focused on what we put in and not what we get out.
Center for American Progress’ education policy czarina Cynthia Brown on the need to make productivity an element of accountability — and get away from just increasing education spending.
