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The Frustrated Teacher: 6/30/13
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The Frustrated Teacher: Facebook / BTR Links
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Education, NCLB, Politics, and Humor. John Taylor Gatto: Against School. Facebook / BTR Links. Facebook / BTR Links. Links to my appearances on Blog Talk Radio Shows:. Total Education Show November 2010. Total Education Show December 2010. Total Education Show January 2011. Total Education Hour May 2011. I called in to talk to Whitney Tilson). The Great Education Reform Debate I January 2011. The Great Education Reform Debate II February 2011. The Great Education Reform Debate III March 2011. Six Years U...
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The Frustrated Teacher: A Confederacy of Reformers
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Education, NCLB, Politics, and Humor. John Taylor Gatto: Against School. Facebook / BTR Links. A Confederacy of Reformers. The following is from Crazy Crawfish's Blog. Intentionally Flawed Teacher Evaluation Systems. A scourge of questionable teacher evaluation systems and Value Added programs has surged across Louisiana, but across dozens of other states as well. While all these systems are referenced as “ Valued Added. This data will be very valuable to these companies, and potentially very harmful to ...
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Is the Common Core a Runaway Train? Is it Unstoppable? Let’s Ask Stephen Krashen | Living Behind the Gates
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Data Behind the Gates and Links to Writings About Gates. Living Behind the Gates. July 14, 2012. Is the Common Core a Runaway Train? Let’s Ask Stephen Krashen. The Common Core train has left the station. Is it a runaway train? Americans, get ready. Common Core State Standards. Have already left the station, according to Stephen Krashen, who was featured in. 2012), and the. National Association for Bilingual Education. But who is this Stephen Krashen? Why should we ask him? Why not ask Bill Gates? 8220;It...
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Students?First: August 2011
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Aug 29, 2011. Students Need Us To Work Together [Or, We're The Pot, AFT Is The Kettle]. We should be working together, not attacking each other. Earlier today, the AFT issued a press release five days after the anonymous attack website Rheefirst - which has been passing itself off as a grassroots voice in opposition to reform - was exposed. As being started and run by the teachers' union. In the release, they condoned the site saying it was not "a big deal.". Aug 22, 2011. Ulrich Boser is a senior fellow...
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Students?First: June 2012
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Jun 9, 2012. Close the US Education Quality Gap (By a faker). But by Yukong Zhao. Was this intentionally misleading? Yukong Zhao is the Director of China Business Development of Siemens Energy Inc. Zhao is a father of two school-age children. They live in Orlando, Florida. (Note: This article only represents the personal viewpoints of Mr. Zhao, not those of his employer, Siemens Corporation.). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Subscribe in a reader. 3-11 Conversation w/ Tavis Smiley.
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Students?First: February 2012
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Feb 24, 2012. Empowering Teachers To Drive Change (Change They Don't Want, Need Or Condone). Abby Parker was a teacher in Baltimore and education program manager for both non-profit and government agencies in Washington, DC, before joining StudentsFirst last May. In her current role as National Manager, Teacher Outreach she works with teachers across the country who want to advocate for change. If you are one of these teachers, I hope you will reach out and join us. Feb 14, 2012. But too often, teachers&...
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Students?First: September 2011
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Sep 28, 2011. Paying Teachers More Matters [Or, I Will Cite A Preliminary Source- And I'm Not A Teacher]. The National Center for Education Statistics has issued a new report titled "Beginning Teacher Attrition and Mobility". It's the first glimpse into a major longitudinal study of why teachers stay in the profession, and why they leave. Here's what we've found by tracking new teachers who entered the profession in the 2007-2008 school year, and whether they stayed after their first year of teaching:.
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Students?First: December 2011
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Dec 30, 2011. College Students Organizing To Support Reform (Even Though We Don't Really Know What That Means. We're Too Young And Inexperienced). George Hornedo is currently a junior at Cornell University and has taken a semester off to intern at the White House. George joined StudentsFirst because he believes we need to create a more equitable public education system for all children. With this in mind, we launched StudentsFirst on Campus. Have accomplished so much since the launch last October. In...
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Students?First: Bringing Effective Teachers To Struggling Schools (Or, Yet Another Way To Ignore Poverty)
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Apr 5, 2012. Bringing Effective Teachers To Struggling Schools (Or, Yet Another Way To Ignore Poverty). Rebecca Sibilia is the Director of Fiscal Strategy for StudentsFirst. She is a former state education Chief Financial Officer, and has worked with Congress, Venture Capital Funds, and community based organizations to create, fund and implement school choice programs. The report has three critical findings:. Pay-based incentives work to attract quality teachers to low performing schools;. The UFT and NY...