Month: December 2015
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Teach Thought: Reform, Charter Schools, Poverty and Politics
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What’s the reason why Democrats and Republicans are afraid to discuss education in their stump speeches or debates? Will the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) federal education bill be better than No Child Left Behind? What are some positive attributes of charter schools? In this Teach Thought podcast episode Drew Perkins (Director of Professional Development at…
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Will a prominent corporate charter school chain face a class action lawsuit for their alleged refusal to serve special education students? I first blogged about BASIS in the post What BASIS?: Nepotism and aggrandizement in charters? At the time, I included Charter School Scandals uncovered special report about BASIS. The first BASIS charter school was founded in Tucson in 1998 by…
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Are you mad at Secretary Clinton about the “school closure” comments? I get it. You don’t want to be Barack Obama’d on education. We were promised hope and change and thought that would extend to education. Instead Arne Duncan took the reigns from George W. Bush, Rod Paige, and Margaret Spellings then did even worse.…
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We could hide away in daylight We go undercover, wait out the sun Got a secret side in plain sight Where the streets are empty, that’s where we run Everyday people do everyday things but I Can’t be one of them I know you hear me now, we are a different kind We can do…
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The Boston Globe recently printed an opinion column entitled ‘Mismatched’ black students pay the price of affirmative action. Jeff Jacoby was either grossly ignorant of the facts or simply racially prejudiced. Here is the letter I wrote responding to Jacoby: The columnist neglected to mention important data that would better inform Globe readers in his column ‘Mismatched’ black students…
Cloaking Inequity 
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