Category: Accountability
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Getting Sober from Racism and Bigotry

America is effectively drunk on racism and bigotry, and it’s time to sober up and recognize the harm that this drunkenness has caused and act accordingly.
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Assessing ESEA Flexibility
I encourage a review of the ESEA Flexibility proposal. I was very interested in the suggestions for “Consultation” and this proposal should be great motivation for community and stakeholder discussion. There is good and bad in this proposal. It essentially guts NCLB and replaces it with state-level approaches, though generally…
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Six of Seven District Schools Earn State Achievement Award
Congratulations to our hardworking students, families, teachers, and administrators for their efforts to make Cheltenham shine in 2010!
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Going Beyond the Core
Almost from the start of my term on the Board, I have struggled with how to understand value and affordability metrics in education. As an engineer, I’ve been taught to analyze any system for its structure of performance, feedback, and control. This is the essence of any accountability system. Of…

