Tag Archives: NCLB
MORE THAN JUST THESE THINGS, OUR LIVES CHANGE WITHOUT HAIKU- LOST IS HUMAN TOUCH
The Huffington Post includes a list of 12 common items that have become obsolete this decade. Check ‘em out. If newspapers, and landline phones, and calling, and cameras with film, and fax machines, and wires and CD’s and dial-up internet … Continue reading
Filed under public education, school reform, technology in schools
WHAT IF HOPE WAS A NATIONAL PROMISE?
So we are down in Georgia attending a community charity event for Intuit. I didn’t bring my laptop so I am writing this post from my phone. No pics today… just this thought: what if the “free and public education” … Continue reading
CHEATING OUR KIDS
This past week the National Center for Education Statistics released a report that may have been a shocker for people outside of the education industry: when it comes to student achievement, many of our states are cheating! Or at the … Continue reading
Filed under charter schools, public education, school reform, standardized testing
JOURNALING CHAOS 4: “Las Preguntas”
The “I Ching” teaches that “Before there can be great brilliance… there must be chaos.” This is PART 4 in a series of blog posts that document our research, strategic thinking, observations and debates as we take on one of the last vestiges of … Continue reading
100 THINGS I AM OPTIMISTIC ABOUT ON THE 101st DAY OF THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY
…Education, Iraq, swine flu, press conferences, basketball, being American, economic recovery, green energy, housing, kids, race relations, jurisprudence, Pakistan, college costs, the White House website, Republican demise, GM, Oval Office photos, American voters, health care, health care for kids, Guantanamo, … Continue reading
THE LANGUAGE OF THEIR FATHERS
My students speak the language of their fathers and their fathers don’t all speak English. California is a tough place to live and go to school if you don’t speak English. We have a long and inglorious history in this … Continue reading
Filed under charter schools, El Milagro
BLACK BELT MUSINGS TO A BAG OF ICE
There are schools all across America where 100% of the students are performing at their “grade level” as they always have… and always will. They don’t have to wait until 2014 or whenever NCLB shames every school into compliance or … Continue reading
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JOY OR DANCING
An article by Iris C. Rotberg, a research professor of education policy at George Washington University, in Washington, appears in the June 11 edition of Education Week. It is entitled– “Quick Fixes, Test Scores, and the Global Economy: Myths That … Continue reading
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