March 2012 Blog Posts (45)

Management-Speak Disguises a Short-Sighted Vision of School

In decades of trying to improve schools, things aren’t working out. Maybe, we should apply a lesson of life to our approach to elementary school: Do the present right, and the future will take care of itself.

On the surface much of the lingo of school improvement seems full of confident commitment to excellence and success for all. Language like accountability for measurable outcomes, high standards, data driven decision-making, racing to the top, leaving no children behind, and so on…

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Added by Rick Ackerly on March 4, 2012 at 9:55am — No Comments

New standards may kill desire to rate teachers by test scores by Jay Mathews

New standards may kill desire to rate teachers by test scores

Last week, I examined the nation’s move toward Common Core…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 2, 2012 at 5:43pm — No Comments

How Do We Know When Students Are Engaged? bY BEN JOHNSON

How Do We Know When Students Are Engaged?

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Added by Michael Keany on March 2, 2012 at 5:41pm — No Comments

The True Story of Pascale Mauclair - labeled by Post as “city’s worst teacher.”

The True Story of Pascale Mauclair

Within hours of the publication of the Teacher Data Reports (TDRs) last Friday, the UFT began to hear stories of teachers and their families being hounded by news reporters from the New York Post.

On Friday evening, New York…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 1, 2012 at 2:48pm — 2 Comments

An Alternative To The Federally Mandated Teacher Evaluation Plans

An Alternative To The Federally Mandated Teacher Evaluation Plans

All of the plans for evaluating classroom teacher performance in the public schools share a common flaw: failure to recognize that the present system of public education in the United States are incapable of providing children…

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Added by Victor John Yannacone, jr. on March 1, 2012 at 12:00am — No Comments

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