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Mahler and Newton
Like most people, the events at Newton left me stunned — the scale of it, the suddenness, the finality. The hours and days afterwards were defined primarily by silence: I could not talk about what happened, even with family or … 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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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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Five roads to nowhere
The venerable New York Times gave some print real estate to Harold Levy, Chancellor of New York City schools for a few years, who offers his advice for “Five Ways to Fix America’s Schools.” Here is the lede: AMERICAN education was … Continue reading
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Beware the “for the kids” canard
One of my seminal moments in education reform was a Denver BOE meeting many years ago. There was a resolution before the board, and a BOE member spoke passionately and articulately in its favor, ending their statement by saying “we … Continue reading
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Education Songs
I was surprised yesterday to see my iPod’s random shuffle cough up a song titled “Education” by modest mouse. Unfortunately (perhaps predictably?) it sucked. And the lyrics were pretty bad as well, even for high-school poets. A few minutes on Google and … Continue reading
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The Theory of New Orleans…
It is simply impossible, Pastorek has come to believe, for a traditional school system, run from the top down by a central administrator, to educate large numbers of poor children to high levels of achievement. “The command-and-control structure can produce marginal … Continue reading
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