Month: February 2013

• U.S. House Education Workforce Committee: Choice = grow = good?

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  February 1, 2013

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  Charter Schools, Vouchers

  Choice=grow=good? is the reasoning of a top ten of “Fast Facts on School Choice” recently released by the House Education and the Workforce Committee (see list below). Let’s test their “moving in the right direction” logic. I choose to spend money=my credit card bill grows=good? I eat too many calories=I become overweight and my waist grows=good?…

  

• More: Obama facing school “turnaround” civil rights complaints

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  February 1, 2013

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  School Turnaround

  In case you wondering the genesis of Wednedays’s quote… my favorite critical barracker on Linkedin had this to say about Cloaking Inequity’s last turnaround post: I find your headlines and general approaches for displaying issues a bit too disingenuous and misleading and superficial. The least you can do, in this case, is describe “turn-around schools”…

  

• Malcolm X: “Education is our passport to the future…”

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  February 1, 2013

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  Wisdom

  Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.