Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., challenged the Obama administration’s school turnaround models last week with the release of a report arguing for more flexibility in school improvement methods (see story here ). “The heavy-handed imposition of punitive measures in the current models run the risk of impeding long-term success,” the report contended
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Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict?
Take the Hard Road With all due respect, are we seriously having this discussion again? Pre-NCLB, we had “reconstitution-eligible” schools in Maryland that made little to no progress even under threat of state takeover and we had transformation schools in DC (how was that working?)
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Jeanne Allen responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 26, 2010 01:54 PM
Rob Manwaring Responds Over at the Quick and the Ed, Rob Manwaring of the Education Sector addresses the turnaround question.
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Eliza Krigman responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 27, 2010 10:54 AM
Not “Why”, But “How” Representative Chu asks why so many of us here aren’t asking why failed schools have failed.
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Steve Peha responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 26, 2010 10:15 PM
America’s Next Top Model Instead of debating the features and flaws of school turnaround models, let’s talk about functionality. What should a good turnaround model be able to do? A set of thoughtful criteria might give the judges a sense of what to look for when the contestants sashay down the runway
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Steve Peha responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 26, 2010 05:46 PM
In Response to Rick Hess & Others Howard Adelman and Linda Taylor submitted the following: Let’s talk about Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching and Re-engaging Disconnected Students! Hess and others continue to marginalize the focus on this primary and essential component by referring to it as stuff like family engagement and community health care. Much more is involved.
Flexibility=Failure We’re talking about the worst schools in the country that have been on a Needs Improvement list for most of a decade. They’ve had years of flexibility, they should be closed and replaced
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Tom Vander Ark responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 24, 2010 11:19 PM
Tough Problems Need Tough Solutions Mr. Cohen reminds us of the most salient issue here when he says that “We are talking about the bottom 5% of schools; not the bottom half, not the bottom quartile. These are the schools for which all of the interventions of the past have failed.
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Steve Peha responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 24, 2010 05:03 PM
An Evidence-based Turnaround Effort Academic research and real-world experience show that the Administration’s “turnaround” requirements are unlikely to succeed. In fact, the evidence in Chicago and other cities for such interventions is of significant failures, making them a risky experiment with our nation’s children and schools.
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Monty Neill responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 24, 2010 03:05 PM
What Am I Missing? There is nothing in current law or the Obama blueprint that keeps a school from utilizing all the good ideas that Rep.
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Sandy Kress responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 24, 2010 01:21 PM
You need only watch the newly viral YouTube video of Greyson Michael Chance singing Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” to wonder what would happen if the right people saw you do your thing. Indeed, it seems careers can be made or lost in the wilds of Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook
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5 Ways to Tweet, Post, and Comment Your Way to Success
In China there have been a growing number of attacks on schoolchildren. Just last week there was a man that was in the midst of a land dispute with a school so he took a meat cleaver and killed two teachers, seven students, and injured 11 others. This is the fifth assault in less than two months, which is causing not only grief but growing concern among parents and the government
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Attacks on Students in China
Now teachers can expect to get not only gets more students, but more relevant, serious, and potential student leads, and build a reputation too with the new “Follow” feature on WiZiQ.
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The New Follow Feature for Teachers – More Reputation, More Leads
According to a report by the Center for Public Education, for-profit education management organizations run about 16 percent of charter schools and are behind the growth in “virtual” charter schools, which operate online. For-profit EMOs have increased the number of virtual charter schools they run from 13 in the 2003-2004 school year to 50 in 2008-2009. With states strapped for cash, for-profit EMOs could be a part of the financial solution, given that they draw in private investment and have a track record of leveraging technology in ways that reduce the cost of education.
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For-Profit Companies And Public Education
“For-Learning” Schools An organization’s “for-” or “non-” profit legal status seems to me unrelated to its ability to help children learn. Some organizations are focused on learning, others aren’t
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Steve Peha responded to For-Profit Companies And Public Education on May 17, 2010 08:35 PM
Students can now follow teachers and keep themselves updated on the public learning objects created by the teachers they follow. The main advantage for students is that they not only get most relevant class, test or tutorial updates, but also teachers can quickly find and contact them.
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Students, Follow Your Teachers and Build Your Network
Analysis of NCTQ teacher layoff paper The Great Lakes Center has reviewed the NCTQ paper on teacher layoffs, finding that while it contains some good descriptive material, its recommendations are neither new nor easy to implement. Critically important is the defnition of a good or effective teacher
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Monty Neill responded to The Education Jobs Bill And Reform on May 12, 2010 10:40 AM
“Last Hired, First Fired” Kills Jobs Eight years ago a friend had a serious house fire. When the insurance adjustors arrived, they noted, “The fire department did more damage than the fire.” Let’s not do that here.
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Kati Haycock responded to The Education Jobs Bill And Reform on May 11, 2010 11:49 AM
Remember The Student-Kate Walsh Responds Kate Walsh, president, National Council on Teacher Quality, submitted the following in response to this week’s question: If a house is on fire, as mentioned earlier in this discussion, who do you get out first? The kids, of course. Which, in this case, means students—the true beneficiaries of effective public education.
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Eliza Krigman responded to The Education Jobs Bill And Reform on May 11, 2010 11:21 AM
Keep Unproven ‘Reforms’ Out of Jobs Bill Here’s another effort to push “reforms” with no record of success as the answer to our education challenges.
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Lisa Guisbond responded to The Education Jobs Bill And Reform on May 10, 2010 03:40 PM