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Phoenix Charter Academy’s Mission Impossible?
The month of May opened with the official granting of 16 charters.…
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4 lessons from vocational-technical schools
Over the past couple of weeks, I've shared a number of videos…
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Voc-tech schools lowering the dropout rate
This is the fifth and final leg of my series on the tremendous…
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Cracks in the national standards consensus
Back in the fall, I mentioned that I thought that after the…
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Vocational-technical schools working with business
The local business community has always been heavily involved…
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Choosing to succeed in regional vocational-technical schools
What sets Massachusetts's education reform efforts apart from…
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Whither METCO?
If METCO closes the achievement gap, and if closing the achievement gap is a top priority, why are we cutting METCO funding?
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Stealing from our ed reform blueprint
It used to be that Massachusetts was the state that everybody…
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National standards dissent and pep rallies
About a week ago, the state of Texas responded to national…
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Vocational-technical schools that work
A week ago, parents in Boston got their school assignments…
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Proven reforms for urban students
There are no silver bullets. In education, our landmark 1993…
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Some thoughts on parochial schools
March 17th marked St. Patrick’s Day. Today, Glen Johnson…
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Does the heroic reform model work?
School Choice Models & Public School Reform from Mike Dean on…
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Questioning the Convergence on National Standards
The Southern writer Flannery O'Connor’s Everything that Rises…
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If the feds pay, the states will play
Don't worry, Governor Patrick, Lieutenant Governor Murray and…
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How big of a deal was the 2010 ed reform law?
Back in January 2010, there was a lot of hoopla around the…
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Mid-terms and the national education debate
The national standards may have been approved in nearly 40…
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Can Big City Superintendents Fix the Schools?
When Adrian Fenty was elected as the mayor of Washington…
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The Texas standards controversy: You decide
Gilbert King notes in his blog that
Ironically, it was textbooks…
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Ho-hum to the Guv on education
This morning on the Todd and Tom show on WRKO, Joe Battenfield…
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Massachusetts gets Race to the Top grant
The Race to the Top grants have been made and Massachusetts…
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Ed Commish "blatantly violated the law"
Patrick Anderson at the Gloucester Times reports today that Superior…
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Day 9 – Tested innovation for failing urban schools
Countdown to World-Class Schools summarizes 12 actions the incoming…
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Day 8: Give Urban Kids Access to a Rich Liberal Arts Curriculum
Countdown to World-Class Schools summarizes 12 actions the incoming…
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On national standards, you get what you pay for
This week, State House News broke a story on the “cozy relationship”…
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Great news on Roxbury Prep Charter School
Here is a great outcome from the passage of the charter school…
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Well, so much for objective analysis : MA DESE and RttT one more time
The Secretary and Commissioner of Education have repeatedly…