Month: February 2017
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What is community-based accountability? In 2012, I first conceptualized community-based accountability in the post Accountability: Are you ready for a new idea? Over the past several years, California has undertaken this new approach for its more than 4 million students (See all posts on community-based accountability). Local control has been a bedrock principle of public schooling in…
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Is Teach For America’s culture and standardized teaching approaches inconsistent with the needs of Special Education students? Truth For America is a podcast about Teach For America (TFA) that provides voice to educators, parents, students, and other key stakeholders. Truth For America is co-hosted by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig and Dr. T. Jameson Brewer. They…
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Originally posted on deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog: On February 22, 2017, US ed sec Betsy DeVos participated in an interview with journalist and Trump supporter, Kayleigh McEnany, for the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC). Below is the full video followed by the full transcript of that interview (approx 9 minutes): ? KM: Hi, Madam Secretary. It’s so…
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This is must see TV! Diane Ravitch, former Assistant Secretary of Education and current president of The Network For Public Education, joins Tavis Smiley to discuss the uncertain future of America’s education system. Click here for the show. (I couldn’t figure out how to embed it here on the blog)
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NAACP Hearing — Charter schools are marketing themselves to white families as a way to send their kids to school without “those kids.” Source: How I Got Schooled at the NAACP Hearing
Cloaking Inequity 
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