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• California Legislature Cant Agree On "Reforming" Education

  
  Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher — Authority: 509
  Its a valid question: are the changes required in order to qualify for federal Race To The Top funds genuine reforms, or just changes with no real teeth? I already wrote about one change the legislature has made in order to be compliant--and no one can tell me its impact!--but now they cant agree on others : ...
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• Latest Evidence Of NCLB Working

  
  This Week In Education — Authority: 557
  Thenumber of people in U.S. prisons has been rising since 1972, but nowits expected to drop. ( The Slatest )
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• OUT AND UP:

  
  BrothersJudd Blog — Authority: 559
  N.J. eyes expanded school choice : The program allows children to attend schools outside their home districts. In South Jersey, 5 districts take part. (Rita Giordano, 12/20/09, Philadelphia Inquirer) With a governor-elect who has vowed to support more educational options, attention has turned toward a little-known ...
  1 day ago

• Reform metaphors

  
  SmallTalk — Authority: 516
  On vacation this week but still blogging occasionally Lying on a beach somewhere, thinking of course about metaphors for school reform. Doesnt everyone? Bush used the best one, No Child Left Behind , coopting the Childrens Defense Fund slogan of Leave No Child Behind , and turning it ...
  5 days ago

• RTTT: Overplaying Their Hand?

  
  This Week In Education — Authority: 557
  Supporters are crowing that Race To The Top has already turned into a big winner, and indeed thats true when it comes to press attention and states efforts to get themselves in shape to compete for funding.  Needless to say, I would be among those who arent applying right away.  The moneys too small, the ...
  5 days ago

• Sattler: Approps Beats Reauthorization

  
  This Week In Education — Authority: 557
  From Title I guru and new contributor Cheryl Sattler: Who needs reauthorization when theres appropriations? Last night, the Senate passed the appropriations conference report that funds, among many other things, education. The House passed it last week, so it now moves on to the White House for Obamas signature. ...
  1 week ago

• No Childhood Left Behind?

  
  Postcards from the Funny Farm — Authority: 128
  (This is a continuation of a previous blog ) Out here in California, the minions of teachers are skitterring and cramming for the California Standards Test April 30th. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has produced an arena where teachers are pressured to make kids score 75% or higher on this annual standardized test. ...
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• Some media discover there is a controversy about NCLB

  
  Choosing Democracy — Authority: 125
  From US News and World Report, December 9, 2009 At the Department of Education headquarters in Washington, officials no longer refer to the No Child Left Behind law by name. Last June, the quaint red schoolhouse the Bush administration built in front of the department building as a symbol of his signature domestic ...
  1 week ago

• The Education Wars

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 147
  Speaking of Obama, he and his chief nitwit Arne Duncan still intend to implement the ruinous No Child Left Behind . Never mind it doesnt work. Ravich: We promised to keep a close watch on what is happening at the federal level, and now it begins to get interesting. And a bit scary, if you care about the future of ...
  1 week ago

• Quotables

  
  SmallTalk — Authority: 516
  Diane Ravitch on "NCLB 2.0" Charter school organizers and management companies must be licking their chops, waiting to scoop up the new federal dollars and new opportunities for market expansion. The charter movement began as an effort to strengthen public education, but it has turned into a movement to get rid ...
  1 week ago

• High-Stakes Testing: Korean Killer

  
  The Frustrated Teacher — Authority: 139
  The question you should ask is, Is testing to death a good idea? Korean children excel at testing, but at a price Lessons for U.S.: Fewer high-stakes exams, more respect for teachers Sheena Choi As it has done numerous times in the past, America is once again looking to education for solutions to national ...
  1 week ago

• NAACP Goes to Court Over Resegregated Schools in NC

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 137
  After years of standing on the sidelines watching the resegregation of American public schools, the NAACP has finally had enough. Their target is Wayne County, North Carolina, which has two districts, one all black (four white students) and poor (94%), and the other 90 percent white and economically stable . And ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Math and Science Standards, Assessments for WA State

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — Authority: 118
  I think we all know how I feel about standardized testing and the No Child Left Behind profanation. If there remains any confusion as to my opinion regarding those particular atrocities (and if my hints haven’t been overt enough), there will be an opportunity to catch up on your reading below. Standardized ...
  2 weeks ago

• Eduwonk Andy aches for more accountability

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 601
  Andy Rotherham’s latest U.S. News column argues that transparency is not enough in most policy spheres, including education. Accountability is needed, too. The Bush administration assumed the federal No Child Left Behind law would produce a tidal wave of student and school performance data that would swamp ...
  2 weeks ago

• NCLB: The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

  
  Choosing Democracy — Authority: 125
  This is the title of Chapter 4 of Education Hell: Rhetoric vs. Reality, Transforming the Fire Consuming Americas Schools.  By Gerald W. Bracey.  2009, An excellent read.  Buy it as a Christmas gift for someone. Gerald Bracey passed away about Oct.20, 2009. Gerald W. Bracey, one of the most erudite, prolific, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Year one, Obama; Year seven, NCLB— where, when will the two meet?

  
  The Leading Source — Authority: 125
  Last Tuesday I wrote about ASBJ ’s December forum, which features seven education experts commenting on the Obama Administration’s ambitious agenda for the public schools. It’s titled “ Year One ,” for obvious reasons, and perhaps by the time we get to “Year Four,” or possibly, “Year Eight,” ...
  2 weeks ago

• HOLIDAY WEEKEND QUOTABLES

  
  SmallTalk — Authority: 516
  Louisiana teachers need help, not blame, says union head "Our evaluation systems dont work," [AFT Pres. Randi] Weingarten said. She asked teachers how many of them had been subjected to so-called "drive-by" evaluations where someone comes in your room for 15 minutes with a checklist." Dozens of teachers raised ...
  3 weeks ago

• GREEN DOT MEANS, GO AHEAD:

  
  BrothersJudd Blog — Authority: 559
  City of Choice : School reform and parent power come to Tinseltown. (RiShawn Biddle, 11/30/09, National Review) Last week, LAUSD finished soliciting bids to hand over control of twelve of its schools to private managers. Among the bidders is Green Dot Schools, one of the nation’s most successful charter-school ...
  3 weeks ago

• Keep the good school promise

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 596
  Those who want to dump standards and testing are abandoning the good school promise , writes Tom Vander Ark, ex-Gatesman, on his blog. The primary reason we have a federal law like NCLB is that school boards (and state boards) allowed generations of chronic failure. They cut bad employment deals and asked for more ...
  3 weeks ago

• Democrats join corporate America in attack on schools

  
  Choosing Democracy — Authority: 125
  Here we have it: The Democratic Leadership Council, corporate power, and the Broad Foundation joining hands to destroy public education. Bill Gates must have taken the day off. 

Dont dismiss this as right-wing propaganda typical of the Wall Street Journal editorial page. This trio is likely to be spewing ...
  3 weeks ago

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