From WickedLocal Cambridge: Cambridge —Last Thursday, Harvard graduate and current U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was honored as the Chief Marshall of his alma mater’s graduation ceremonies. Traditionally, the Chief Marshal for Harvard Commencement is elected from the class that is celebrating its 25th reunion, according to the Harvard News Service. Duncan, who graduated […]
Edu-commentary… assembled
May 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I thought I would try a new, semi-regular feature picked up from the blogosphere: gathering comment and commentary from around the education world for your unadulterated enjoyment, or perhaps to your chagrin. Michelle Rhee on PA: In cases where there aren’t enough spaces in good charter schools, and in which neighborhood schools are failing to […]
Darling-Hammond to Every New and Old Educator on Graduation Day
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From The Nation, a big chunk of Darling-Hammond’s commencement speech to the graduates of TC. It is honest, brave, and hopeful, and may every educator, new and old, take a few minutes to read it, and heed it: At the commencement ceremony for Columbia University’s Teachers College on May 18, Stanford education professor Linda Darling-Hammond—a […]
A T-Shirt for Arne Duncan
May 30, 2011 By 2 Comments
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Are Books Obsolete? An analysis of data from Titles in Print
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Episode 19
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Plumbing the Depths of the White Hat Charter School Sewer
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A really fine piece from Tom Beyerlein writing for the Springfield News-Sun: David L. Brennan’s White Hat Management, whose 46 charter schools include one in Springfield, is being sued by the boards of nine northeast Ohio schools who say the for-profit company won’t reveal how many taxpayer dollars go for educating kids and how many […]
Challenging Charter School Segregation Almost 60 Years After Brown
May 29, 2011 By 1 Comment
Once considered hothouses of educational innovation, charter schools have become corporate-run testing sweatboxes of segregation and subjugation of minorities in America’s urban centers. In suburban areas of the South and Southwest, charters remain segregated, too, but in the form of milky white dream schools with rich curricula, highly-qualified teachers, and new facilities bristling with technology. […]
National Research Council Finds High School Exit Exams Increase Dropouts Without Increasing Achievement
May 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
PDF Summary Conclusion 2: The evidence we have reviewed suggests that high school exit exam programs, as currently implemented in the United States, decrease the rate of high school graduation without increasing achievement. The best available estimate suggests a decrease of 2 percentage points when averaged over the population. In contrast, several experiments with providing […]
National Research Council Rebukes NCLB (Duncan-Gates-Broad) Policies Based on "Primitive Intuition"
May 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
After ten years of test, punish, and push out policies and hundreds of billions of tax dollars spent for the benefit of the education industry and corporate foundations, American schools have been blown up and children are less educated than their counterparts in countries with sane education policies. Even as measured by their gains on […]
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