Tag: Waiting for Superman

• The Education Revolution Will Not Be Standardized

  5–7 minutes

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  October 11, 2013

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  High-Stakes Testing

  Education films/documentaries have come fast and furious in recent years, but none of them have recieved as much attention and publicity as Waiting for Superman. I don’t know about you, but I was disappointed with the film.  What I liked about Waiting for Superman was the opening conversation about the structural inequality and poverty in the US.…

  

• Frank Convo with KIPP’s Mike Feinberg: Do you call BS?

  13–19 minutes

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  April 25, 2013

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  Charter Schools, KIPP, Parent Trigger, School Finance, School Turnaround, Teach For America

  I had a coffee conversation with Mike Feinberg yesterday. About two weeks ago Mike Feinberg contacted me via email about one of my posts on Cloaking Inequity. He related that he wanted to clarify the conversation about KIPP’s funding. I agreed to meet with him at the Blanton Museum Café at UT-Austin for a coffee…

  

• WTF: US “Reformers” arguments are antithesis of Finland

  4–6 minutes

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  March 27, 2013

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  Accountability, Charter Schools, High-Stakes Testing, Wisdom

  WTF: Why the Finnish? It is ironic that reformers and the popular discourse (such as films like Waiting for Superman) often cite Finland, the “West’s reigning education superpower,” but actually completely ignore their approach to reform. They often use Finland as an example of success and then overlay their own ideas for reforms that are…

  

• Charter School Growth: @ProfessorJVH on KUHF Houston

  1–2 minutes

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  February 14, 2013

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  Charter Schools

  http://app1.kuhf.org/articles/1360863414-Houston-Charter-Schools-Plan-to-Grow.html My (brief) thought on charter school success aired in a story today on KUHF Houston public radio. See Cloaking Inequity’s full  thread on charters here.