Remainders: Bloomberg takes Thompson’s ed record to TV

by Maura Walz, at 8:04 pm

Two percent of the 300 responders to an Insideschools poll said their school has no parent association.
Quick and the Ed defends open-sourced instructional materials against doubts about their quality.
Jay Mathews debates Valerie Strauss over the proper response to accusations of cheating.
Ed is Watching recalls the lessons of the 1994 Denver teachers’ strike.
A federal judge threw out Chicago’s school desegregation order.
Robert Pondiscio says that our current “vague, insubstantial, voluntary national standards” won’t stick.
Norm’s Notes posts a letter to Joel Klein from P.S. 84 parents.
High-quality early childhood care can boost kids’ test scores through fifth grade, a new study found.
But policy-makers don’t pay too much attention to school research, another study reports.
Over 2,000 people rallied in Michigan for changes to make the state more competitive for Race to the Top.
The subject of Mayor Bloomberg’s first attack ads? Thompson’s education record.
But as GothamSchools’ Anna Phillips reports, Thompson’s record is much more complicated.

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There’s more to the story at PS 84 in Brooklyn. From what I understand, the then-PTA was hostile toward the “new” parents–which I’m assuming means mostly white–and from what I understand, in 2006, the cops were called because a fist fight ensued. I don’t think Superintendent Quail has been unreasonable or Tweed is to blame in this particular instance. I’d love to see communities and parents also take some responsibility for their end of perpetuating unfortunate hostile feelings, which can also make it hard for any principal to run a school and for all parents and children to feel good about the school and want to participate. It’s unfortunate the class and race wars still play out in schools, but I think we have to remember that racism cuts all ways.

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