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Coming late v. leaving early
In a debate that makes one yearn for the intellectual challenge of “tastes great v less filling” comes news that DPS’s five additional late-start days, added to the calendar at the DCTA’s request during the last round of contract negotiations, may become five additional leave-early … Continue reading
The disease of direct placement
Tomorrow, the Denver Board of Education will hear public comment on and discuss Superintendent Boasberg’s proposal to limit forced direct placement for Title I schools. While I continue to believe this policy — which turns a free-form dance into musical chairs — … Continue reading
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Half-pregnant reform
An excellent article in the Washington Post describing the efforts in Boston around both charter and district-led pilot schools: [Boston] has unleashed imaginative teachers to run both independent charter schools and semi-independent “pilot” schools, with much of the rest of the country … Continue reading
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Obamaesque change in education
Somewhat overlooked in Obama’s first press conference were his comments on education. Here’s my shorthand: 1) more reform; 2) more money; 3) higher teacher pay; 4) better teacher training; 5) fire bad teachers; 6) pro charter; 7) high standards. Imagine the following … Continue reading
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Is the ivory tower basement still college?
With a lot of focus on college preparation and readiness as early as middle school (including the charter on whose board I serve), it’s disquieting, but probably important, to read another view. Here is a piercing article from The Atlantic on the “destructive myth” … Continue reading
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Today for school lunch: Salmonella!
Being a reduced-cost or free lunch student has always meant significant disadvantages in nutrition and overall health (not to mention taste). But even its worst critics could assume that these lunches were not actually dangerous. No more: from an article in the … Continue reading
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What would POTUS eat?
My particular hotspot for the federal school lunch program and the sheer inertia of action to fix it is usually pretty precise, but imagine instead a kinder, gentler question: what would the guy in charge of feeding the President Of The … Continue reading
Posted in Nutrition, Whimsy
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