Category: Wisdom
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Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Last November, there was a bitter contest for the position of Superintendent of Public Instruction in California. The charter lobby pumped millions of dollars into the campaign of Marshall Tuck, former CEO of Green Dot charter schools. The charters spent twice as much as the California Teachers Association, which…
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Originally posted on Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Over the years there have been various studies comparing the ‘effectiveness’ of TFA teachers to non-TFA teachers. Though these studies are based on the results from standardized tests that may or may not be appropriate for this purpose, the results of these papers are still interesting to look at.…
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Learned this week that I was selected as a delegate for the 2019 Education International 8th World Congress that will take place July 19-26, 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. I will represent my scholarly research at forums, workgroups, and caucuses and focus on how educators “play a critical role in ensuring improvement in the status and image…
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CloakingInequity.com just hit 1,000,000 views! I’m not able to post as much these days so I appreciate you visiting when I do write.
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California just banned for-profit charter schools. Existing California law, the Charter Schools Act of 1992, authorizes charter schools to elect to operate as a nonprofit public benefit corporation. However, despite the original legal and policy vision for non-profit schools, thousands of students are now enrolled in charters controlled by for-profit corporations. Currently in California, according to the Assembly Education…
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