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January 25, 2010
Remainders: Tough years for the city’s large high schools
- The New Yorker profiles U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
- A New York City trade school is seeing an enrollment boom triggered by the recession.
- Richard Kessler asks if the recession will “correct” the overgrowth of non-profit arts organizations.
- Edwize takes a look at the special education demographics of the schools slated for closure.
- The Alliance for Quality Education has a video of school closure protests from around the city.
- The DOE plans to open a new elementary school in M.S. 44 to alleviate overcrowding.
- Large high schools have been hit especially hard by the Bloomberg administration.
- Alyson Klein looks at what Scott Brown’s election could mean for MA schools.
- Leonie Haimson says there’s strong evidence students will drop out as their schools are closed.
- In a city losing its neighborhood high schools the choice is to specialize or wear your traveling shoes.
- CBS News is running a story tonight at 11 p.m. on NYC’s rubber rooms (no link).
- Pissed Off Teacher writes about the social benefits of attending a neighborhood school.
- Doing the math: Race to the Top cost every person in the U.S. $13.
- Pennsylvania’s Ed Sect. thinks the new teachers contract will give the state’s RttT application “oomph.”
- Is it being too cynical to think Duncan’s RttT decisions will be colored by politics?
- Peter Murphy said Sens. Craig Johnson and Ruben Diaz saved the charter movement last week.
- Richmond votes out a charter school, a move that may not last long under the new governor.
- And Texas mistakenly bans a children’s book…must have been that red bird.
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January 26th, 2010 5:33 am
Wow, between Arthur Goldstein and Pissed Off Teacher’s pieces about the attack and destruction upon neighborhood schools, it does become evident that Obama, Bloomberg, and Klein’s policies do aim to weaken and destroy communities…all in the name of “choice”. Yeah, choice for kids to have to get up at the crack of dawn to travel to their far away school, choice to return at supper-time even though their school offers no afterschool sports teams or music clubs, choice for small high schools not big enough to offer AP classes that the suburbs are chockfull of, choice of padded grade and State test scores that are hideously exposed on SAT tests, choice of remedial classes for predominant numbers of city high school graduates…
Oh, this depressing list could go on forever.
In essence, it’s fail the big high schools and break them up into small high schools, then fail the small high schools and turn them into charters. For-profit charters. That’s the game plan. Screw the kids. Screw the parents. Screw the teachers. Screw the communities.
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January 26th, 2010 4:00 pm
On a lighter note…the first article is worth $6 just to see the photo of Dunkadunk trying to dunk on the President, imho. The successful attempt would leave Mr. Obama presidunked, I believe.
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January 26th, 2010 11:08 pm
If anyone is interested in the New Yorker piece, I have a PDF of it. (You can only read it online if you have a subscription or you pay the OTO fee.)
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