AM News: Michelle Rhee Fends Off D.C. Cheating Accusations from 2008
By Editor's Pick April 18, 2013 8:55 am
Education advocate Michelle Rhee fends off accusations LATimes: Michelle Rhee, head of an influential education advocacy group that backs using student test scores to evaluate teachers, this week fended off accusations that she failed to pursue evidence of cheating …
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Senators to Arne Duncan: Stop Flat-Funding Key K-12 Programs
By EdVoices April 17, 2013 1:35 pm
Washington
The Obama administration has been a big fan of using competitive grants to drive its agenda on everything from teacher quality to standards to “personalized learning,” much to the chagrin of some advocates for school districts.
So far, Republicans …
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Postings on the BLK SHP Voices for Education event at the 92Y
By Editor's Pick April 17, 2013 10:39 am
On April 4th, I participated in a great event at the 92YTribeca as a panelist. I’m waiting for video on this, a DVD is being sent to me, so we’ll look at the record.
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The Ignored Arm of the Commons and the Invisible Hand of the Market
By Editor's Pick April 17, 2013 10:17 am
Education Week has posted a new report on charter school funding, the blog titled “Charter Schools’ Funding Lags, Study Finds”:
Charter school students receive about $4,000 less in per-pupil funding than their regular public school peers according to an …
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Charter schools are not about charter schools
By Editor's Pick April 16, 2013 7:51 pm
By Kelvin Smythe
Reposted from Networkonnet.
The education situation is dire, western economies are struggling, with one of its manifestations being the rich and powerful acting to undermine public schools. Charter schools not being about charter schools is emblematic of …
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It’s only an island if you look at it from the water
By EdVoices April 16, 2013 10:51 am
David Kernohan has a good piece on education funding and the manner in which MOOCs commercialise higher ed over on his blog (although I disagree with his criticism of Jim Groom and Stephen Downes). It resonates with some discussions I …
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AM News: Chicago Union Pushes for Organizing in Charter Schools
By Editor's Pick April 16, 2013 8:51 am
Chicago Unions' Charter-School Push WSJ: Charter schools have spread across the country while generally keeping organized labor out, with operators saying they can manage schools better when their staffs aren't unionized. But labor groups are now making a big push to get …
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Feds Can Do More to Promote Funding Equity, Report Urges
By Editor's Pick April 15, 2013 4:25 pm
From Learning the Language blogger Lesli A. Maxwell
Forty years after the Supreme Court ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez that state funding formulas for public schools that are based on local property taxes are not unconstitutional, …
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Education reform continues as federal funds dry out
By Editor's Pick April 15, 2013 11:57 am
The first round of School Improvement Grant funding is now in its last year. Looking back, what’s been learned through SIG schools receiving NEA support? More important, what will happen once the funding ends?…
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Common Questions About Common Core
By Editor's Pick April 15, 2013 10:07 am
Chris Miraglia
Today’s InterACT guest blog post was written by Chris Miraglia, an intermediate school US history teacher from Santa Ana USD. A frequent commenter at this blog, Chris also writes at his own blog and is active on Twitter…
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