Category: Accountability

• Michelle Rhee: The Mask Is Off

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  January 7, 2013

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  Accountability

  Michelle Rhee: The Mask Is Off.

• I am giddy!!: Community-Based Accountability

  4–6 minutes

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  January 4, 2013

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  Accountability, Community-Based Accountability, High-Stakes Testing

  I am giddy!! I had writer’s block all summer. I owed Professor Rich Milner and two co-authors (Dr. Muhummed Khalifa and Dr. Linda Tillman) my portion of a chapter for the upcoming Handbook of Urban Education to be published by Routledge. We were asked to write on a “direction for future work (and needs) in the field of…

  

• Animated Conversation: Dewey and Dubya

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  December 3, 2012

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  Accountability

  Its finals week at UT-Austin. Lindsay Redd and Lindsay Butterfield created this short animated discussion between George W. Bush and John Dewey for their final project presentation today in my Education Foundations course. Enjoy!

• Race and NCLB Waivers: Moving Around the Chairs?

  3–5 minutes

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  November 25, 2012

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  Accountability, African Americans, High-Stakes Testing, Latina/os

  In the recent vote for 2012 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award, the Florida SBOE race-based test score goals came in a close second to TFA for the prize. In fact, two of my Linkedin connections made the following comments in response the posting:  I vote for ALL ESEA waivers that systematize the achievement gap in many,…

• Conclusion: Are Vouchers a Panacea or Problematic? Pt. VI

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  November 10, 2012

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  Accountability, African Americans, Latina/os, School Finance, Vouchers

  Written in collaboration with Dr. Jaime Portales Voucher supporters in the United States and elsewhere claim (including Sen. Dan Patrick) that vouchers will improve the educational opportunities of disadvantaged students (Sugarman, 1999), and contribute to the social integration of middle- and upper-class students. Voucher supporters argue that, since school choice is already available to upper-class…