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So apparently Ben Carson will run education for Donald Trump? Well, when Campbell Brown of The 74 asked him about education he said,  “Campbell, I think no child should be left behind.” OK then… Meanwhile, in actual school improvement goings on, a lot on charters: Here’s a new NACPS report on the health of the charter movement. A …

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Whiteboard Advisors/EdSurge webinar next week on what ESSA is all about. RSVP here. Cami Anderson made news when she said that education reform has made things worse. Actually, no. What she said was that reform has not put a dent in the school-to-prison pipeline or possibly made that problem worse. Her remarks were taken out of …

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It was 30 years ago today that the Challenger lifted off from Florida – with New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe aboard as one of the seven astronauts on that mission. President Reagan: There’s a coincidence today. On this day 390 years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama. …

Continue reading “Barr For Mayor? Remembering Challenger, CAP On Achievement, School Choices, JeffUVA And Agile Mind, Tenure, Cami Anderson On Charters…Today Featuring Sharks!”

I wrote about Cami Anderson’s pathbreaking work in New York City for USN in ’09.  She’s still at it and The Times points to one of her successes.

What does it say about our sector that it falls to the Marxist who wrote a whole book criticizing reform and schooling to write the most straightforward stuff about the patent absurdity of our testing “debate?” It’s at least entertaining I guess. Rural education blog series via Bellwether – rural is more diverse than perhaps you …

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Sara Mead on why curriculum and teacher quality are not either/ors. Max Marchitello and Justin Trinidad with a new analysis about lessons MSI’s can teach more generally about training teachers to work with diverse populations. Here’s Justin on the ed school faculty piece of that conversation. Meanwhile, Brookings asks if the teaching force is becoming more diverse? This …

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Allison Davis on using evidence and building an evidence base. Come for the interesting content, stay for the goofy pictures. NCEE is socializing the chart on the right, it’s an interesting generational issue for the US relative to some other countries. A lot of kids are bored in school and a lot are stressed out, …

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The strike is on in LA. It’s about bigger political agendas than the district (national narratives, political ambitions of people involved, etc…) and so the district’s situation is getting lost. Remember, from 2001-2016 expenditures in LAUSD are up 55%, but salaries and wages 24%. That’s in large part because spending on benefits are up 138% …

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Some education types on this list of women changing Silicon Valley – including New Schools alums Wayee Chu and Jennifer Carolan of Reach Capital.  ICYMI – concerns about the NAEP modality with the shift to digital. NAGB says they’re on top of it, a lot of skepticism out there that goes beyond just state chiefs complaining. …

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Teens and anxiety, important. So the idea is out there that teachers unions and hedge funds and private equity are mortal enemies. That’s understandable if all you pay attention to is social media and the rhetoric. In fact, they are more like frenemies, because teachers’ union controlled pension funds are one key source of funds …

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