Month: October 2015

• A Top Ten of @ArneDuncan Inanity: Obama’s Basketball Buddy Drops Ball on Ed

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  October 2, 2015

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  Wisdom

  Originally posted on Cloaking Inequity: So what happens when a President chooses a basketball buddy as Secretary of Education? Really, Obama… what did you expect when you chose a non-educator, non-expert to lead American education? A leader who left Chicago in shambles, whose school “turnarounds” didn’t work. Disappointed by his latest inanity at the Mom…

  

• “Lead Bravely.” How To Change the Story About Community-Based Education

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  October 1, 2015

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  Accountability, Charter Schools, Community-Based Accountability

  by Sarah Lahm for The Progressive Magazine Just as the Progressive launched its new “Education Fellows” project, as a way to refocus education policy on democratic, child-centered principles, one of those fellows–California professor Julian Vasquez Heilig–came to Minnesota to talk about community-based education reform. Vasquez Heilig spoke at the University of Minnesota on September 24 to a late…