What are those “informational texts” the Common Core prioritizes? Here’s a reading list. (Answer Sheet)
In Oklahoma, any family that wants to send their children to high-quality pre-K can. (American Prospect)
The Evander Childs Campus in the Bronx was without a library for five years, until now. (New Visions)
Five unanswered questions about Race to the Top-District start with why there are finalists. (Politics K-12)
The demise of desegregation offers lessons for those working toward educational equity now. (Atlantic)
UFT chief Michael Mulgrew is at 13 of 100 powerful New Yorkers. Dennis Walcott is at 57. (City & State)
A top female student won a full ride to Stanford, the ”Brooklyn Castle” chess teacher reports. (ES’s Blog)
Chicago missed out on charter-district collaboration funds because of its change at the top. (Catalyst)
A city teacher says a broken school choice system fuels the city’s low college readiness rate. (HuffPo)
Another looming teacher evaluation logistical issue: Student-Learning Objectives. (Ed in the Apple)
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Thanks Gotham for the universal pre-K in Oklahoma post which should conclusively confirm pretty clearly to everyone that this is the way to solve the education problem in this country. According to the most in depth study of pre-K in Oklahoma, the gains found since 2002-2003,
“were among the biggest ever documented
for a universal pre-K program. By the time they started kindergarten,
pre-K kids were nine months ahead of their peers with the skills
necessary for reading, like recognizing letters and being able to tell
stories. They were seven months ahead in pre-writing, including the
ability to hold a pencil, and five months ahead in counting and other
pre-math skills”.
This result has been confirmed in pretty much all research on high quality pre-K for low income children. The irony of this is that had Bloomberg-Klein started such a program in NYC after he was first elected (the research on the value of pre-K for low income kids was already well known by then), Bloomberg could have legitimately claimed the title of the “Education Mayor” by now and the DOE wouldn’t have made the complete mess we are in today.
Ok, now that we know Bloomberg-Klein wasted the lives of one generation of NYC kids, we have a second chance in the next election. DeBlasio is the only candidate who has come out clearly and strongly on dramatically expanded NYC pre-K as his top ed priority. Come on New Yorkers, wake up call. Let’s not make the same mistakes twice.
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