Thirty-six states are applying for Race to the Top’s second round, including New York. (Politics K-12)
The Early Learning Challenge is like Race to the Top in that it promotes risky reforms. (Sara Mead)
The city’s talk-focused teacher evaluation deal requires the union’s will to succeed. (Peter Goodman)
Kevin Carey: When people outside schools break rules, we don’t blame their industries. (New Republic)
Federal authorities actually have several tools to punish school districts that cheat. (Politics K-12)
An anonymous teacher describes how credit recovery worked at his/her school. (NYC P.S. Parents)
A parent wants to correct information that’s wrong in ARIS but wonders if anyone cares. (Insideschools)
Evidence from Chicago suggests that principals will move to fire teachers when they can. (Ed Next)
Ex-chancellor Joel Klein stayed mostly seated as new boss Rupert Murdoch was pied. (YouTube)
Insiders at NewsCorp see Klein’s ascendant role of fixer as a threat to their longtime counsel. (WSJ)
President Obama wants the nation’s CEOs to give more money to education, as critics blanch. (Yahoo)
Jeff S
You can easily recognize Klein’s bald head sitting in the row behind Murdoch and his son. It took this clown eight years to destroy the New York public schools. He knew nothing ab out education when he arrived and less when he left. It only took him six months to destroy Murdoch’s empire. Keep up the good work Joel.
Michael M. (parent still)
“When it comes to K through 12 education, we see a $500 billion sector in the U.S. alone that is waiting desperately to be transformed by big breakthroughs that extend the reach of great teaching,”– Rupert Murdoch
$500B/yr is more than the cost of the War in Afghanistan…. TOTAL!
$500B/yr is enough to build the 2nd Ave Subway, full length, 15 times over.
$500B/yr is enough to hire EIGHT MILLION elementary school teachers for a year.
$500B/yr is enough to cover 25 MILLION kids (at $20k per year) — that’s 25 New Yorks.
Newscorp’s current annual revenue is $33B. Why sell tabloids to the plebes when you can sell “breakthroughs” and “great teaching” to politicians (who you can bankroll)?
Make no mistake, Murdoch — and Kleinberg (sic) — are out to privatize public education. It’s the next military-industrial complex.
Think I’m kidding? For FY2010, the US Defense Budget was… $685B.
Say there are 300M Americans, 40M kids, $20k per, $800B/yr. Murdoch is eyeballing privatizing over half.
And what percent of that is Mr. Murdoch anticipating will flow to his own pockets? A modest 1%? Five BILLION dollars?
I say…. more pie!
At $4.99, that would leave $499,999,999,995.01 to spend on something USEFUL.
Pogue
Race to the Top again? Couldn’t someone in NY show some courage and tell Duncan and Obama to take their educational extortion money and stick it?
Hey, fellas’, help all children in the U.S. with a diverse education and smaller classes, otherwise it’s all union-busting/profit-making BS.
Pogue
Race to the Top again? Couldn’t someone in NY show some courage and tell Duncan and Obama to take their educational extortion money and stick it?
Hey, fellas’, help all children in the U.S. with a diverse education and smaller classes, otherwise it’s all union-busting/profit-making BS.
Thirty-Two Years
On the”credit recovery” article – my goodness, it was just so hysterical to read AND 100% TRUE! At my school it is EXACTLY how it was written in the article. A secretary gives out “packets” and it gets returned by the student (whenever) but the students tell me that they don’t even do it. Someone else does it and writes it, etc. Makes sense since there’s no monitoring so I guess I would get my sister to write it for me too. Anyway, besides it being totally ridiculous, the packets are pretty bad themselves. Imagine that these kids are actually gets an entire credit for an entire semesters class by handing in some crap on looseleaf. To this day, I still don’t even know who marks them. Well, that’s not totally true. I did find out that no one marks them as it’s automatic with a passing grade to boost the DATA. If the schools were AUDITED (reading this Mr. Liu?) then they would be in BIG TROUBLE because the schools DO NOT EVEN KEEP “the packets” ON FILE. They throw em’ out! LOL!!! It is the truth! I dare a Gotham reporter to ask to see a packet in ANY SCHOOL. Ummmm, ya can’t find em’ cause they’re GONE BABY!
Ralph
Of course, the way around credit recovery is how we do it in my school. The principal tells us that you will be “U” rated if your scholarship report (where do they come up with these terms?) is not at least 85% passing. After all, if less than 85% of your students aren’t passing your class, you MUST be an unsatisfactory teacher- right?
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