Monday, March 12, 2012

Teachers, the New Piñata

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A lot of "reforms" center on teacher quality as the critical factor in fixing our education system.   While I think teacher qualit...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Some Think Brown v. Board of Education Is A Good Policy, Not a Court Ruling

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Previously, I blogged about an article by a Philadelphia man who wrote that poor black kids should be doing more to pull themselves up by t...
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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Reverse Robin Hood: Poor Districts Pay More, Get Less

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Sometimes there are some really egregious local issues that deserve national attention.  This one comes from Pennsylvania, and I hope some o...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

How do teachers measure up?

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The is a big push to improve teacher accountability and rating systems, and with good reason.  Many teachers get almost no feedback, rated e...
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

The Hands-On Classroom

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My mom was a waitress when I was growing up.  I watched as her hard work, dedication, and skills were undervalued by customers, employers, a...
Friday, February 3, 2012

It Ain't Easy Being Upwardly Mobile and Poor

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As you may recall , I grew up poor and ended up going to college.  Surely, that’s success, right?   My investment in education and motivatio...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Electives aren’t Elective for Artists and Diplomats

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As funding gets tighter and tighter, more and more schools are inclined to cut funding for music, the arts, foreign langu...
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