TNTP’s ‘Irreplaceables’ sells short a teacher’s ability to improve professionally. (This Week in Education)
A parent whose children participated in a cancelled healthy foods program laments its end. (NYC Parents)
Study: Texas charter schools tend to enroll fewer high needs students than district schools. (Ravitch)
“Money Talks” considers the costs of the education sector’s embrace of big business. (WNYC)
Teacher: those who excel don’t need special encouragement to stay in teaching. (Pissed Off Teacher)
Baker: Study on vouchers should not be used to argue for more school vouchers. (School Finance 101)
Randi Weingarten said all of the Chancellor’s District schools turned around in two years. (MSNBC)
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Michael Fiorillo
“… the education sector’s embrace of big business?”
Wouldn’t it be a little more accurate to have a headline like “… big business’ vampire embrace of public education?”
Mr. Flerporillo
I keep thinking that one of these days, someone will try to demonstrate how “big business” is a bigger force in education today than it used to be, and if so, to what extent. I’m not saying it is or it isn’t, and I’m genuinely interested. But I certainly don’t recall my textbooks being published by mom-and-pop shops when I was a kid. What percentage of, for example, the New York City education budget is going to “big business”? Is it higher or lower than it was 5 or 10 years ago? If only there were someone with deep convictions that “big business” was taking too many NYC education dollars, surely they’d try to do this.
Mr. Flerporillo
I keep thinking that one of these days, someone will try to demonstrate how “big business” is a bigger force in education today than it used to be, and if so, to what extent. I’m not saying it is or it isn’t, and I’m genuinely interested. But I certainly don’t recall my textbooks being published by mom-and-pop shops when I was a kid. What percentage of, for example, the New York City education budget is going to “big business”? Is it higher or lower than it was 5 or 10 years ago? If only there were someone with deep convictions that “big business” was taking too many NYC education dollars, surely they’d try to do this.
Mook
The last two irreplaceables I knew who left were recent Ivy League grads who couldn’t believe the nonsense that teachers have to put up with. When you’ve been raised to believe that the whole world is your oyster, working a grueling job and then getting crapped on by Joel Klein and the press does not seem like the fulfillment of ones aspirations.
I’ve always thought that if the press actually cared about education, rather than busting the teachers unions, they would spend more time talking to people like this. But they don’t. So good teachers will keep leaving and we’ll keep reading the same old stories about whether test scores have gone up or down.
Boom Chicka
Principals in Philadelphia schools suspected of cheating have remained in their positions. No surprise there. It happens here in NYC as well. Fort Hamilton H.S. is one great example. Accountability and higher standards? Nonexistent at Fort Ham.
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