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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Reunion prompts diversity questions
My wife had her 20th high school reunion recently. She attended a large public high school noted then, as now, for the diversity of its student body. But attendees of the reunion itself were not nearly as diverse as the … Continue reading
New Orleans as Phoenix
One of the interesting thought experiments of the past decade is the question: what if you could redo an entire school district including a large percentage of independently managed schools with different models, instead of the usual one-size-fits-all central bureaucracy … Continue reading
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Boettcher evaluation: More facts, please
I am generally leery of statements in education which begin “It’s a fact…” I am even more so when these facts overwhelmingly support the organization making the claim in a sort of self-congratulations (though this is extraordinarily common). So I … Continue reading
California dreaming?
Sweet dreams or nightmares? Say what one wants about the advantages or disadvantages of what follows, but the pace of change — not minor, incremental, paper-shuffling change; but bold, substantial, systematic change — quickens: In a startling acknowledgment that the … Continue reading
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Why measuring growth matters
Last week’s CSAP results were coupled with the Colorado Growth Model in a way that began to peel the onion back on school and district performance. However, one major piece was, to my mind, still missing. The growth model does not differentiate … Continue reading
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