A judge in the school closure lawsuit ruled that high school decisions shouldn’t go out yet. (Daily News)
Students and parents in Riverdale are fighting off a dress code for a second time. (Riverdale Press)
Proposed national standards would guide what all students learn in reading and math. (Times)
The Daily News says the proposed national standards will raise the bar for all students.
Nicholas Kristof says the world needs a new of Teach for America — in developing countries. (Times)
Doug Lemov, from Elizabeth’s Times article, describes his “Taxonomy of Teaching.” (NPR)
Kansas City will close half of its schools after this year for budget reasons. (Times)
Michael M.
I applaud the NYDailyNews editorial.
And yet I marvel at how adroitly the NYDN editorial board continues to let Bloomberg and Klein skate by. How many versions of this editorial must have been drafted to accomplish that straddle?
Taking just one subtopic as an example: Lauding Kleinberg for the rising 4-year graduation rate in the face of record number AND percent of NYC high school graduates needing remedial classes in the CUNY system (as I believe the NYDN itself covered within the last year), and before DOE’s numbers are audited to an apples-apples level with prior years that accounts for such rate-boosting shell games as “credit recovery” and the statistical legerdemain that undercounts what a lay person would consider “drop outs.”
On first blush, I would prognosticate that such a national standards program will be a giant pull of the thread on the Emperor’s Now-8-Year-Old Clothes. By the time the true state of undress is redressed, it will be too late for an entire generation of NYC kids, and too late to thwart Kleinberg’s… race to the top.
P.S. Re “…a bar higher than even the highest standard currently set by any single state. Including New York.” NY has implicitly high standards? Who knew. Tricky wording. Note even the authors couldn’t bring themselves to say “New York CITY.”
Michael M.
Re The Piece of Education Corps and “The Americans might teach English or computer skills, or coach basketball or debate teams.”…
Fantastic idea (especially with no jobs for young professionals at home). Better still, these Americans would come home with a more nuanced, if not humble, perspective on America’s role in the world, similar to Peace Corps veterans… and relatively missing from many intervening cohorts.
But gawd ferbid we try to teach computer skills in countries to which our billionaire eduphilanthropists and corporate overseers outsource tech support.
“My big problem with the rollout of the Common Core is that, if some teachers hadn't read this article, they might have felt like they were the only ones confused about the CCS rollout too.”
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