Category: Articles
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Improving Academic Achievement for Disadvantaged Children | Edutopia
James Comer’s life work suggests that the test-driven regimen in schools will never successfully close the achievement gap. More to the point, it will also fail in preparing our students for the many roles we want them to fill as they become society’s responsible adults. Note four messages Comer conveys…
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10 Strategies to Use In Productive Turbulence
[Terrific list that has MANY applications. jb] Let’s try to put this back together into 10 guiding principles for taking advantage of productive turbulence: With exponential change, you can’t communicate enough and transparency is the only option Build culture first, principles second, systems third Lay the groundwork for a few…
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How to Get Our Citizens Actually United – NYTimes.com
The idea behind the Fair Elections bill was that candidates could solicit small donations from people in their state or district — whether up to $100, $250 or $500 — and if they crossed a threshold of support designed to avoid subsidizing fringe candidates, they would receive $4 of public…
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Board’s Eye View: 5 lessons from 5 years on the school board
Though I aspired to being more than a reminder of some facts of life as member of a board of education, gravity was at least a starting point. And I appreciated my friend’s larger message: that much good can come from keeping institutions honest. In fact, as I reflect on…
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Study: Vocational certificates can payoff more than a bachelors – USATODAY.com
Good news for new high school graduates who dont think college-level algebra or freshman English is their thing. A study released Wednesday finds that certificates awarded through short-term vocational training programs can reap a bigger payoff than a bachelors degree. via Study: Vocational certificates can payoff more than a bachelors…
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Keep Public School Public | ASBJ
U.S. public schools serve a variety of purposes. They conserve contemporary values, attitudes, and social mores. They provide economic opportunity and social mobility to children of less advantaged families and thereby promote a dynamic society. They ensure a supply of educated workers. They help take care of and raise children…
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Top 10 List of Public Education Success | ASBJ
Policymakers and pundits have decried “our failing schools” so often it’s become an accepted truth. But the naysayers are wrong. To be sure, our schools need to do better. But we have much to be proud of, too, and it’s on this foundation that we can build a 21st century…
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Why Should We Care About Vocational Education? | Edutopia
Why Should We Care About Vocational Education? | Edutopia.
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Are Charter Schools Public Schools? | National Education Policy Center
I noted in my blog last week that the visionaries of the charter school idea—Raymond Budde of the University of Massachusetts and Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers—never intended that charter schools would compete with public schools. via Are Charter Schools Public Schools? | National Education Policy Center.
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