The U.S. Department of Education unveiled its vision for revamping vocational education. (Politics K-12)
An advocate of apprenticeships offers her take on the country’s career education approach. (The Nation)
A guide to spending on lobbying in New York State starts with always-hot education. (New York World)
The DOE’s former number-two warns about the “vultures” who would curb mayoral control. (SchoolBook)
In Florida, the decline of tourism has given rise to roadside hotels filled with homeless families. (HuffPo)
A new Brookings Institution report argues that housing policy is education policy, too. (HuffPo)
A group that has focused on helping schools improve is now working with start-up schools. (SchoolBook)
The city’s budget watchdog sees little hope of recouping early childhood intervention costs. (GS Scribd)
A Staten Island principal praises a female student who completed an unlikely project. (Soaring Seagulls)
A Common Core implementation convention of states focused on teacher prep. (Curriculum Matters)
Guest
Nadlestern’s article is so right on and so brave and so truthful and since you have to use facebook to comment and reveal your identity he wont get many comments. Like amen. And god help us when the next democratic hack comes into office. And I am a huge democrat.
SickofBloomberg
“And teachers could no longer hide behind the shield of student and family poverty to avoid consequences for their students’ failures.”
Spoken like the true ignorant Bloomberg disciple he actually is.
The DOE constantly preaches the necessity for research based methods to be used in schools, but when that research does not coincide with Bloomberg’s personal agenda, out the window it goes.
If Nadelstern knew anything about children and education he would never have written the above statement.
And I am a huge teacher.
http://twitter.com/nycdoenuts nycdoenuts
Kudos to the Deputy Chancellor!! He has perpetuated the same education failures as everyone else in the city’s modern history and has yet somehow managed to imply that it was teachers’ fault with almost a sophisticated ease! When you believe in accountability, just don’t think they you’re the one who should be held accountable -and then say so in the New York Times!!- that is one amazing job of sophistry!!
For the record (and based on a bit more fact) the school system as is existed before mayoral control was taken away in the late 1960s failed to educated the city’s poorest students, yet worked in the great neighborhoods. The system as it existed after that event? Failed to educated the city’s poorest students, yet worked in the great neighborhoods. And just this week, we all learned that the system that he worked under during the last ten years (the one that he was a big part of) has failed to educated the city’s poorest students, yet has worked in the great neighborhoods.
The rest of the educated world says it’s poverty. But Captain Kangaroo here says it’s just an excuse. And he courageously manages to ignore a few very obvious facts behind Klein’s (read: HIS) successes ….
…that those GREAT graduation rates of 65% came during a time when the money was flush, the classrooms had more teachers and the exams were easier AND the bar for passing them was ten points lower than they are now. He knows all of this (we all know all of this), yet he forgets to say it in his piece (because he’s too eager to try to take credit for something).
Look, when the next great NYC Ed. history book is written, it will be revealed that no other group of men and women managed to lock out, marginalize, swindle and demonize more stakeholders (as they produced the same failures as their historical predecessors) as this team did during the aughts -and Nadelstern was one of the leaders of it all. It will reveal that what these guys did during the past ten years that we’ve all experienced wasn’t just a failure of education policy; It was a failure of democracy. Any mayor who takes this guy’s advice has got be just loony.
.
Congrats to Bloomberg for getting him out.
I
kk, parent
“It will reveal that what these guys did during the past ten years that we’ve all experienced wasn’t just a failure of education policy; It was a failure of democracy.”
Nailed it! So so right on and truthful.
kk, parent
forgot to add that I am a huge parent.
Michael M.
Mr. Nadelstern clearly thinks that the only alternative to the current model…. is the original model.
That’s some deeeep thinkin.
Brendan Patrick6
He is utterly delusional. There are huge correlations between student achievement and poverty. But that is just the teachers’ union’s fault right?
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.