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One More Time, NYC Charters Don’t Outperform Publics
Gary Rubinstein, an education blogger and math teacher at New York City’s Stuyvesant high school, has just posted a terrific analysis of Big Apple charter-school and public-school performance, showing once again that charters do not outperform publics–with one exception, which … Continue reading
Why Jon Alter Needs To Do More Homework on Charters
First, let’s savor the irony: Two former (private) school chums duke it out over charter schools. Last Monday, Jonathan Alter published an article in the Daily Beast that was at least partly a response to my New York Times OpEd, … Continue reading
Posted in Education, New Orleans Charter Schools
Tagged A Smarter Charter, Albert Shanker, Andre Perry, Anthony Recasner, anti-union, Atlanta, charter schools, cheating, cheating scandals, continuous improvement, Democrats for Education Reform, Diane Ravitch, Doug Lemov, Education reform, Francis W. Parker, Halley Potter, Howard Fuller, Hurricane Katrina, Jonathan Alter, Labor Day, middle-class, New Orleans, New Orleans Charter Middle School, no-excuses charters, Obama, One Right Way, Paul Vallas, pay checks, Phillips Academy, Richard Kahlenberg, Teach for America, teachers, TFA, unions, wages, Waiting for Superman
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More on New Orleans Charter Schools: The Graduation and College-for-All Myths
Since publishing my OpEd in the New York Times last Sunday, several other articles and research projects have shed much-needed light, during this week marking the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, on the kids who are falling between the cracks … Continue reading
Posted in Education, New Orleans Charter Schools
Tagged ACT, ACT scores, charter schools, college-for-all, Drop Outs, Dropouts, exit codes, Grinnell, Hurricane Katrina, LDOE, Louisiana Department of Education, Middlebury, New Orleans, OPSB, Orleans Parish, Research on Reforms, RSD, Sci Academy
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Diane Ravitch on the Uses and Abuses of Data in Education Reform
I’m delighted to announce that education historian Diane Ravitch will be joining me and Errol Louis, director of the Urban Reporting Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, next week to discuss the crisis in education reform. Dr Ravitch, … Continue reading
Building A Better Teacher: Some Hard Lessons of Ed Reform
I picked up Elizabeth Green’s new book, Building a Better Teacher, with great anticipation. By the time I finished reading the nicely written, highly detailed descriptions of some of the latest efforts to improve teaching, I was alternatively gratified, intrigued … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Education, Quality Management
Tagged accountability, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, brockton high, Carol Burris, charter schools, Deborah Ball, doug lemove, Hanushek, iterative learning, jugyokenkyu, kaizen, KIPP, KIPP Infinity, lesson study, Magdalene lampert, no excuses, Race to the Top, Relay graduate school, Spartan Village, standardized testing, Teach for America, teacher evaluations, test scores, TFA, value-added, W. Edwards Deming
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