Monthly Archives: August 2007
Teaching to the Test
Sherman Dorn has a good post on the new Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of public attitudes towards public education. Excerpt: My nomination for most significant result is from Table 14, asked of those who agreed in a prior question that … Continue reading
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Where is the Outrage? Where is the Anger?
From Marjorie Passman (excerpted in the Capitol Times, full version below). Where is the Outrage? Where is the Anger? Has anyone noticed the education budget proposed by the State Assembly? If so, where is the outrage, where is the anger? … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Budget, Local News, School Finance
The Teacher Voice in Data-Driven Accountability
From Randi Weingarten (President of the United Federation of Teachers, NY), via EdWonk. Excerpt: We hear a lot these days about what I call “3-D reform,”—data-driven decision making and about using tests to improve teaching and learning. Sadly, in this … Continue reading
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What Works? Reading Recovery!
The Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse has released their evaluation of early reading programs and the top rated program is Reading Recovery. From Education Week: Just one program was found to have positive effects or potentially positive effects across … Continue reading
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Who is to Blame?
(Hint, it isn’t the Oshkosh Area Board of Education.) State Rep. Carol Owens (R. Oshkosh) issued a press release opposing school closings in the OASD. Owens voices such admirable thoughts as: “Our small community schools are the backbone of the … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Budget, School Finance, We Are Not Alone
Republican Education Offer
Not an offer you can’t refuse. The Republican’s have sketched their new line in the sand on the education portions of the state budget (the linked document references this Legislative Fiscal Bureau analysis). There is a very little movement and … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Budget, Local News, School Finance, Take Action
Early-childhood program pays for itself, study finds
A new longitudinal study shows the effectiveness of intense early education intervention in our schools. excerpts: “More than 20 years later, educational attainment is higher and felony arrests are lower for the alumni of a Chicago early-intervention program for low-income … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Gimme Some Truth, National News
Sign the petition to end the madness
The Educator Roundtable have started a petition calling for the dismantling of the No Child Left Behind Act and is now online. To reach the 2014 goal set by this legislation, the standards must rise annually. Even school administrators who … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Gimme Some Truth, No Child Left Behind, Take Action
(anti) NCLB Video
From Susan Ohanian via the Educator Roundtable and the Education Disinformation Detection and Reporting Agency (EDDRA) Click here to watch. Thomas J. Mertz
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