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Recent Posts
- LePage-King dustup has drawn us away from important policy debate
- Thought of the Day: Reactions
- Commissioner’s Update – March 26, 2015
- Encouragement
- LePage tax cut plan, based on disproven thinking, comes at a staggering price
- Surviving Friendly Fire: 8 Tips for Dealing with Unfair Criticism
- It’s All Urgent! Six Ways to Prioritize When Everything’s a Priority
- Commissioner’s Update – January 29, 2015
- Millions in public school funds on the line if Maine loses federal education waiver
- All six of Maine’s charter schools have student waiting lists
- Expenses up more than revenue in state K-12 budget proposal
- LePage’s ridiculous corporate tax giveaway will face legislative scrutiny
- LePage proposes under-the-radar corporate tax giveaway
- Washington State Democratic Party Committee Votes to Reject Common Core
- Who Is Profiting From Charters? The Big Bucks Behind Charter School Secrecy, Financial Scandal and Corruption
- The Reality Tale of Two Education Systems: One for the Poor, and One for the Rest
- Report recommending EPS changes now available
- More money for K-12, but costs rising
- Exposing K-12 Schools Achilles’ Heel
- The Role of the Community in Education
- Step By Step, the Journey Towards Freedom From Grade Levels
- The Abdication of Parenthood: A Cry For Help?
- 10 Wishes for Schools in 2015
- China’s Education Gap
- Education on Wheels: What are the Real Costs of Busing Too Many Kids to School?
- LePage Administration proposes public charter school funding fix
- Commissioner’s Update – January 22, 2015
- There’s no answer sheet for questions about how LePage’s tax reform plan would affect Maine schools
- Mind Over Marshmallows
- Pennsylvania: Watching Public Education Die in Delaware County
- “Schools in Context”: The Full Text of a Major Study Comparing the U.S. to Eight Other Nations
- How and Why Money Matters in Schools (one more time – updated)
- A Néw Bill to Abolish Annual Testing
- 3 Ideas to Revolutionize School
- How To Manage Systems
- $48/barrel oil. What do you mean we shouldn’t be happy about that?
- South Portland school officials worry LePage plan could cause local budget woes
- LePage flat-funds education in proposed budget riddled with cuts
- LePage’s push for school district consolidation: Incentives not penalties
- With tax cuts, LePage owes voters fiscal responsibility
- The Law of Diminishing Intent
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- Henry Ford’s Advice
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Should teachers be evaluated by student test scores?
April 22, 2013 by Scott McLeod Should teachers be evaluated by students’ standardized test scores? While that idea seems to make intuitive sense, my newest resource on value-added measures (VAM) highlights the rating volatility, legal issues, and other concerns that have led … Continue reading
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Textbooks Up Their Game
Inkling Adapting College Best Sellers for iPad, Capitalizing on Interactive Features By JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG Maybe the iPad will move digital college textbooks out of theory and into practice. Jeffrey Trachtenberg talks to Simon Constable, Eric Savitz and Lauren Goode … Continue reading
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Florida: Don’t Let a Charter Corporation Steal Your Neighborhood School
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Bill Sublette is a former Florida state representative who is now chairman of the Orange County school board. He is a Republican. In this excellent article, he explains how the parent trigger bill,…
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Holding back our children
Digital technologies are magnifiers and amplifiers of our humanity. They extend the reach of our human voice. They increase a millionfold our capacities and inclinations to find, connect, and share with others. They boost exponentially our abilities to collaborate with … Continue reading
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Letters to the editor: LePage ignores public schools’ successes
David Lentini, North Berwick, ME. – PORTLAND PRESS HERALD: Posted:Today Updated: 10:06 AM – I am vice chair of the Board of Directors of Maine School Administrative District 60, but I am writing as a private citizen. My views here … Continue reading
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Eliminating the “Extra” from Extracurricular Activities
by Justin Bathon Why do we not give P.E. credit for participating in football? Or any of the other various sports requiring physical activity? The kids are far more active in football than they are in the P.E. class. We … Continue reading
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Michelle Rhee: Wrong again
Her education “reform” movement sends the lovely message that communities should stay out of their schools By David Sirota Former DC schools chancellor Michelle Rhee Most who are reading these words will probably agree that our country is facing a … Continue reading
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Getting rich off of schoolchildren
Stop pretending wealthy CEOs pushing for charter schools are altruistic “reformers.” They’re raking in billions By David Sirota News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) (Credit: AP) Last week, Los Angeles provided yet another example of a … Continue reading
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