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Category Archives: School Performance
What can turn DPS around?
DPS Board Vice-President Michelle Moss quoted in Monday’s Denver Post article: “We are turning to charter schools and innovation schools, but even if we serve 10,000 more kids in charters, the vast majority are still in Denver schools that are dramatically … Continue reading
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Education resolution: diminish dualism
The mind tends towards division and opposition: heads v. tails, black v. white, defense v. offense, progressive v. conservative, Capulet v. Montague. This simplicity has its advantages, but considered and thoughtful debate is not one of them. In education generally — … Continue reading
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The charter difference in D.C.
Having just posted on the need to close bad charter schools, it’s good to end the week on a positive note. In Washington D.C., long one of the cities with the worst public education system in the nation, charters are … Continue reading
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Closing bad charters
After a national election where both candidates supported enhanced funding for charter schools, and the appointment of a Secretary of Education who has seen an expansion of charters in his Chicago district (47 over his term), it is hopefully time to move … Continue reading
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Competition and Choice
Denver Public Schools’ recent decision to have different schools share buildings provoked fearful cries of “increased competition” among some neighborhood advocates. But these objections blur the important distinction between competition and choice. While unfettered competition could well have a negative … Continue reading
Management and labor
While I continue to admire the attempts, I don’t know of any successful organization where there is not a credible distinction between management and labor, particularly in something as complex and demanding as education. Full article. The principal of a … Continue reading
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How to spend $2 billion, badly…
IF there was any doubt, this article by the irrepressible Diane Ravitch looks as the Gates (Bill, not Rubber) initiative to create small high schools and finds that there are no quick fixes for urban education.
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