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Lemon musical chairs
In another sign that antiquated and harmful education practices once thought sacrosanct are starting to fall, Denver’s “Dance of the Lemons” — the process by which the teachers no principal will hire are forcibly placed into a classroom somewhere in … Continue reading
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The turnaround fallacy
A remarkable and contrarian essay (and video) in Education Next by Andy Smarick which addresses the current federal and district fascination with school turnarounds and makes a fairly persuasive historical point: they usually don’t work. For as long as there have been struggling schools in … Continue reading
The reform stew…
Recent news in the same vein: Big money into education reform. From the LA Times: The Ford Foundation pledged $100 million Wednesday to “transform” urban high schools in the United States, focusing on seven cities, including Los Angeles. The seven-year initiative is among … Continue reading
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Do charter schools benefit all students?
A very provocative study that can be seen as a companion to the Hoxby piece in NYC. An excerpt from a news summary summarizes it thus: Marcus Winters, who follows education for the Manhattan Institute, has released a paper showing that even … Continue reading
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DPS’s School Performance Framework, magnified
With the DPS Board election now over, it’s back to the grind. Much of the current discussion around DPS — including the bulk of a recent A+ meeting — is focused on the School Performance Framework (SPF). Now I like the … Continue reading
Dropout epicenters
The ever-entertaining Daily Beast has a piece on high school dropouts, but also ranks the 10 cities with the lowest percentages of high-school graduates. It’s an interesting list, since most of the big urban cities (Detroit, Chicago, etc) are not on it. The pandemic … Continue reading
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Neighborhood schools quiz (part two)
I wrote a post last week on Neighborhood Schools, in no small part because I think the term is an open vessel in which people place widely divergent beliefs about what is important in public education. Every designed system has virtues and errors. … Continue reading
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