Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Responses to Simplistic Approaches

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Co-Chairs of the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education -- Helen Ladd, Pedro Noguera, and Tom Paysant -- issued the following statement on ...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

What Went Wrong? Fenty's Real Mis-steps

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The election confirmed what polls had shown for several weeks, that Fenty and Rhee had squandered their opportunity to reform the schools a...
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

"Rheeform" -- What Went Wrong?

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The meltdown of Adrian Fenty's re-election bid and the surprising Washington Post poll indicating that the Chancellor's approval/di...
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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Washington Post's blind allegiance to Michelle Rhee

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There is a larger story overshadowing the report on DC test score achievement gaps in the Washington Post dated Aug. 27, 2010 by Bill Turque...
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Monday, July 26, 2010

Civil Rights Coalition Calls for Changes in Obama Approach to Education

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A coalition of the leading Civil Rights organizations released today a 17 page report titled "The Opportunity to Learn Campaign," ...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Drop In Test Scores Should Make Us Think

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Valarie Strauss points out in her Post blog column yesterday , that the whole house of cards that has been built by the Rhee administration ...
Thursday, July 8, 2010

New Study on Teach For America

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Valarie Strauss reports today that a new study that reviews the the national literature on Teach For America (TFA) out of the University of...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

Wash Post Article Gets It Wrong on School Funding Equity

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The following is a response from Mary Filardo, Director of the 21st Century School Fund to the June 6, 2010 article on the front page of the...
Thursday, June 3, 2010

DCPS Teachers Approve New Contract Overwhelmingly - But What Does It Mean?

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Washington Post reporter, Bill Turque today summarized the new WTU Teachers Contract approved ovewhelmingly by teachers in the vote tallied ...
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Pedro Noguera Critiques Obama Administration Approach to Ed Reform

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NYU's Pedro Noguera, one of the nation's foremost advocates for equity in the schooling for poor and minority youth, writes this wee...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Valarie Strauss Again Sets the Record Straight on Charters

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In responding to the puff piece on charters and edu-entrepreneurs in the New York Times magazine today, Valarie Strauss pointed out that Ste...
Monday, May 17, 2010

WTU Contract Funded, according to Gandhi. Now goes to members for a vote

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According to a Washington Post story by Bill Turque last week Fenty and Rhee announced that they had received Natwar Gandhi's blessing a...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Rhee Contract with WTU Invalid???

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Looks like there's an adult in the room. Natwar Gandhi, the DC CFO is refusing to certify the negotiated contract because it is premised...
Friday, April 23, 2010

DCPS Budget Mismanagement -- What A Mess!

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City Councilmemebers are demanding Michelle Rhee's "report card," and according to the Washington Post's Bill Turque , the...
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The Same Budget that Was in Crisis Causing Firings Now Finds $34 M Surplus to Fund Teacher Raises

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Teaching asks a lot of teachers. An effective school system is one that inspires teachers to give their all for a life of inspired teaching....
Saturday, April 10, 2010

My Thoughts on the Proposed WTU Contract

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On Wednesday, April 7 th I attended the WTU informational session on the proposed new contract. Two things that jumped out immediately wer...
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Tentative Agreement Reached in WTU Contract Negotiations!

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WTU president George Parker has called a membership meeting for Wednesday, April 7th at McKinley HS, to review the details of the tentative ...
Monday, March 22, 2010

Inexcusable: Empty promises to a D.C. school

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This is the very important story about Bruce-Monroe at Park View ES that was not explained in the print edition story ( Three closed D.C. sc...
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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Reacting to the "Low Performing School" Label at T.C. Williams HS.

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Patrick Welsh, who teaches English at T.C.Williams HS in Alexandria, VA, writes today in the Washington Post , describing the reaction among...
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Two New Books Recommended by Valarie Strauss

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Washington Post columnist Valarie Strauss in her column today applauds the advice and the research from Linda Darling-Hammond and Diane Ravi...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Two Kinds of Superintendents.....Which One Do We have?

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Diane Ravitch's new book The Death and Life of the Great American School System is out. It takes on the so-called reform movement of the...
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Friday, January 22, 2010

The Press Got it Wrong says Ravitch

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The editors and reporters at the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Education Week, were flat out wrong about what Randi Weingart...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Weingarten Proposes "A New Path Forward"

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In a comprehensive speech at the National Press Club , AFT president Randi Weingarten charted a new path for public education reform. With c...
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Monday, December 7, 2009

Hardy MS Parents Confront Rhee

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Chancellor Rhee met with predominently African American parents and teachers who had demanded that she explain why their beloved, talented, ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Showdown Over Individual Teacher Talent May Be the Wrong Focus

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The escalating conflict over firing and hiring individual teachers may be the result of an ill conceived reform strategy in DCPS. To the ext...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Uniting for Real Education Reform -- a teacher reports on the impact of the Oct. 8 Rally for Respect

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After a stressful few weeks of uncertainty from the impending RIFs followed by 16 lay offs at my school alone, it was a welcomed feeling to...
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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Rhee Fires Teachers, Apparently Without Cause -- Budgetary or Competence

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The RIFs came down Friday as 229 teachers and others totaling 388 school employees got pink slips. They will be put on paid leave until Nove...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

SHAPPE Letter Questions $ Cuts and RIFs

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On this day when budget cuts were due to be translated into pick slips delivered to teachers in every school, the Senior High Alliance of Pr...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

The Cat's Out of the Bag on Budget Cuts

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Over the weekend City Councilmember David Catania revealed privately to " Teachers and Parents for..." member Kerry Sylvia that t...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Mass Hiring and Mass Layoff -- What Gives?

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DC teacher Dan Brown's September 18 Huffington Post article on the DCPS budget cut to schools hits the nail on the head. He explains wh...
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Marginalized For Life

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Ten years working with students as a DCPS social worker and I can confidently say that David’s situation is not remarkable. Due to concerns...
Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Marginalized taking the DC BAS

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Only two days after Labor Day and the high stakes testing frenzy is in full swing across DC Public Schools. At my school students started t...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009

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PROGRESS? IT DEPENDS HOW YOU MEASURE IT! By Guy Brandenburg, retired DCPS math teacher Question: Can the statisticians in the group check th...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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REGULAR DCPS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OUT-PERFORM THEIR CHARTER SCHOOL COUNTERPARTS -- Situation Almost Exactly Reversed at the Secondary Level ...
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