Comments on: Final Race to the Top guidelines keep rule that may exclude NY

By: Energy Recovery

Energy Recovery — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:43:25 +0000

I can’t imagine any cause more worthy than education. It really does deserve as many billions as we can give it. Certainly some rules most be imposed and followed, and carefully. Bureaucrats want to get paid too.

By: american transit cityzen

american transit cityzen — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:48:21 +0000

I have questions that have a lot to do with the american education policies. How students that arived yesterday when their parents travelled to america from american territories have the same learning opportunities and the benefit to learn in charter schools? How the academically challenged poor students get equal treatment in test designed for students from economically rich states? How is the distribution of education moneys to poor states equal to the moneys assigned to rich states? If the teacher is a professional how come they are treated like production line part-time employees? Americans can understand that the same problematic situation that we have in our economy due to the corporate management All for Profit philosophy can be brought on to american education with exploratory teaching role designs coming from Profit guided CEO's. Woha!

By: Sommer

Sommer — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:23:16 +0000

What kind of information are you looking for exactly? I may be able to help.

By: Evelyn Ricketts

Evelyn Ricketts — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:04:42 +0000

I am working on a class project at my school about the “Race To The Top” program. I have been trying to find information about it for a few days now! I am really lost and I need some help! If anyone has info could they please be of assistance to me! Thank you very much!

By: Ken Maurer

Ken Maurer — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:08:25 +0000

The Rt3 solutions for improvement point the blame for a district’s failure on four areas: fire the Principal, fire the teachers, divide the school into charter schools, and dissolve the school. Rt3 assumes ahead of time that it must be the leadership that is the problem. If not leadership, it must be the teachers who cannot teach. If not the leadership who cannot lead or the teachers who cannot teach, then it must be all the rules and regulations bogging down the school so a change to a charter school that does not have to follow these cumbersome rules and regulations must be the answer, and finally…public schools do not work so we must dissolve the school and send the students to private schools that work (also not under the cumbersome rules and regulations). Maybe the answer should be to accept the following premise: “We cannot expect every student to learn the exact same thing in the exact same way in the excat same amount of time.” If we accept this premise, then Rt3 along with NCLB, will not work. A few questions might help explain my feelings: Does every student need to learn the exact same things? Do all student learn the same way or do some learn better via auditory, visual, and kinetic means? Does it take some students longer to grasp a concept or work a problem? Is the goal to learn the content or skill, or to be the fastest doing it? Rt3 is the wrong way to improve student learning.

By: Tom Carroll

Tom Carroll — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:13:45 +0000

On its face, the language of the final Race to the Top guidelines make New York State ineligible because the guidelines state that no state-level restrictions may exist that allowing student data to be used in teacher evaluations. This is stated as an “eligibility criteria.”

Yet, state officials have argued that since New York’s law applies not to all teacher evaluations but just tenure decisions (which albeit are teacher evaluations), New York is not disqualified. I directly asked Joanne Weiss, the head of the federal Race to the Top program this question at a public conference, and she accepted this distinction.

Now, I find the distinction absurd, but this conversation clearly indicates the federal Department of Education will not disqualify New York’s application on this basis, although it obviously will be a negative factor in the scoring of New York’s application.

For a more extensive discussion of this issue, see my additional comments at: http://bit.ly/21KpKM

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Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:50:15 +0000

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