Building Better SchoolsBuild and Support Issues
How a Flawed Idea is Teaching Millions of Kids to Be Poor Readers https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
Learning Policy Institute: Lessons from the Golden State. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/advancing-equity-excellence-lessons-golden-state?utm_source=LPI+Master+List&utm_campaign=4b69734bcb-LPIMC_CALessons_PositiveOutliers_20190814&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7e60dfa1d8-4b69734bcb-42289731
Learning Policy Institute: Effective Professional Development https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/effective-teacher-professional-development-report
How Not to Blow Continuous Improvement https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/how-not-blow-continuous-school-improvement-moment?utm_source=X+National+Education+Gadfly+Weekly&utm_campaign=3c1e4bd9a1-20160918_LateLateBell9_16_2016_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ef00e8f50e-3c1e4bd9a1-71635837&mc_cid=3c1e4bd9a1&mc_eid=ebbe04a807
What Finland is actually doing to improve its acclaimed schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/08/30/what-finland-is-really-doing-improve-its-acclaimed-schools/?noredirect=on
Why I Pay School Taxes. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/28/speduktr-why-i-pay-school-taxes/
Six problems with a growth mindset strategy. https://gadflyonthewallblog.com/2019/08/12/six-problems-with-a-growth-mindset-in-education/
Jan Resseger: When traditional educators set education policy and speak for public schools, it makes a difference. https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/20686/
Dyslexia doesn’t mean low intelligence. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cracking-the-code-of-dyslexia/
Free science materials. https://edsource.org/2019/nationwide-project-provides-free-science-materials-to-meet-californias-new-standards/616162
Marc Tucker: Part 2 of the world’s best educational research strategies. http://ncee.org/2019/08/education-research-2/
Gary Rubenstein: How to change math instruction. https://garyrubinstein.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/death-of-math/
US students score low on problem solving compared to other industrial nations. http://ncee.org/2019/08/21st-century-skills-can-us-compete/
Rebuttal to NYTimes 1619 article on slavery. https://reason.com/2019/08/21/the-founders-were-flawed-the-nation-is-imperfect-the-constitution-is-still-a-glorious-liberty-document/
https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/25/bill-phillis-those-who-know-public-schools-best-love-them/
Charter, Voucher, Privatization, and Public School Hostility Travails
Wall Street Journal opinion piece on why charter performance claims of success are an illusion. https://www.wsj.com/articles/charter-schools-success-is-an-illusion-11566859572
Lubienski and Malin: School Vouchers Actually Harm Children https://dianeravitch.net/2019/09/03/lubienski-and-malin-school-vouchers-actually-harm-children/
How ALEC seeks to destroy public education; https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/31/alec-advocate-for-charters-and-vouchers-and-scourge-of-teachers-unions/
Jeff Bryant: How private vetting firms are ruining superintendent’s searches. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/08/a-national-public-school-leadership-disaster-private-firms-vetting-candidates-for-superintendent.html
Tom Ultican: Broad academy graduates are destroying public education. https://tultican.com/2019/08/29/broads-academy-and-residencies-fuel-the-destroy-public-education-agenda/
What happened to students who began a Kipp school in 2003. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/27/what-happened-to-the-students-who-began-in-kipp-in-2003/
Tultican: The New Teacher Project is out to Destroy Public Education https://tultican.com/2019/08/10/tntp-is-a-part-of-the-destroy-public-education-infrastructure/
John Thompson’s new book on the dangers of privatization of public service. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/28/john-thompson-reviews-an-important-new-book-about-privatization-of-public-services/
Charter cyber schools prey on poor school districts. http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2019/08/pa-poorer-districts-worst-hit-by-cyber.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FORjvzd+%28CURMUDGUCATION%29
Steve Singer: Charter Schools are Gobbling Up My School District https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/17/steven-singer-charter-schools-are-gobbling-up-my-school-district/
Shawgi Tell: Charter school lobbyists are on the defensive. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/12/shawgi-tell-charter-lobbyists-are-on-the-defensive/
Arkansas. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/09/04/the-walton-plot-to-privatize-the-public-schools-of-arkansas/
California. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/12/california-inspire-charter-chain-grows-while-floundering/
California. Another low performing charter scam. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/28/los-angeles-controversial-charter-leader-takes-over-learn4life-centers/
California. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/27/california-schools-tied-to-massive-online-charter-scandal-are-closing/
California. The home-school charter business behind the latest scandals. http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2019/08/ca-homeschool-charter-business-behind.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FORjvzd+%28CURMUDGUCATION%29
Charter School legislative battle ends in a compromise. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-28/california-charter-schools-deal-sacramento
Ohio. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/14/ohio-gets-another-virtual-charter-school/
Ohio. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/14/bill-phillis-charter-enrollment-in-ohio-drops-sharply/
Kansas. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/18/jan-resseger-tax-cuts-in-kansas-produce-civic-disaster/
Rhode Island. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/23/providence-plans-to-defund-its-public-schools-to-expand-no-excuses-charter/
Kentucky. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/16/kentucky-the-states-attacks-on-its-teachers-are-outrageous/
New Hampshire. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/09/07/betsy-devos-floods-new-hampshire-with-46-million-for-charters/
Texas. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/21/texas-the-idea-charter-flimflam/
Texas. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/09/05/texas-public-schools-outperform-charter-schools/
Pennsylvania. Steven Singer: https://gadflyonthewallblog.com/2019/08/22/gov-wolf-tries-to-stop-charter-schools-gorging-on-public-school-funding/
Pennsylvania. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/17/pennsylvania-governor-wolf-proposes-charter-law-reform-charter-lobby-cries-foul/
Pennsylvania. Peter Greene: Gov. of Pennsylvania says charter schools are private not public schools. http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2019/08/pa-governor-calls-charters-private.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FORjvzd+%28CURMUDGUCATION%29
Pennsylvania. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/22/pennsylvania-bethlehem-superintendent-speaks-out-against-harm-of-privatization/
Pennsylvania: Steve Singer https://gadflyonthewallblog.com/2019/08/18/whos-trading-public-school-funding-for-a-tax-credit/
Oklahoma. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/20/john-thompson-an-epic-case-of-fraud-in-oklahoma/
West Virginia. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/20/west-virginia-charter-advocates-are-perturbed/
Gary, Indiana https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/24/jan-resseger-for-profit-mgt-did-not-turn-around-the-schools-of-gary-indiana/
Louisiana. The failure of vouchers. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/26/louisiana-the-failure-of-vouchers/
New Orleans. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/14/mercedes-schneider-on-nola-charter-chaos/
New Orleans. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/20/new-orleans-an-amazing-feat-of-spinning-poor-results/
New Orleans. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/16/new-orleans-how-a-student-graduated-although-she-could-not-count-or-read/
New Orleans. Twenty-five percent of students are chronically absent. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/19/new-orleans-25-of-students-are-chronically-absent/
New Orleans. https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2019/09/02/nola-2018-19-ap-scores-two-high-schools-carry-the-entire-district/
New York City. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/30/how-deblasio-protects-the-charter-industry-in-nyc/
San Antonio. Betsy DeVos’s plan to overrun San Antonia with charter schools. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/17/reader-why-charter-schools-demand-federal-money/
Washington DC. https://tultican.com/2019/09/08/dc-charter-school-performance-almost-matches-public-schools/
Washington DC. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/09/08/district-of-columbia-rachel-cohen-explains-how-taxpayers-fund-an-army-of-charter-school-lobbyists/
The Failed Promise of School Reform
Wall Street Journal front page article raises questions about heavy reliance on classroom technology. https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-a-school-district-where-technology-rules-grades-fall-parents-ask-why-11567523719 and https://dianeravitch.net/2019/09/08/wall-street-journal-schools-invest-zillions-in-technology-parents-push-back/
What do education reform failures have in common. https://www.educationnext.org/what-do-education-reform-failures-have-common/
Peter Greene: The “burn and churn” model has not worked. http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2019/08/burn-and-churn-mcmodel-is-failing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FORjvzd+%28CURMUDGUCATION%29
GERM: Stopping the worldwide “reform” movement. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/31/germ-warfare-stopping-the-global-education-reform-movement/
Peter Greene: 3rd grade reading retention doesn’t work. http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2019/09/third-grade-reading-retention-does-not.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FORjvzd+%28CURMUDGUCATION%29
Three “reform” high schools funded at $10 million each fail. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/15/three-of-10-xq-schools-have-failed-despite-a-promise-of-10-million-each-to-reinvent-high-school/ and another $10 million dollar “reform” high school fails. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/12/laurene-powell-jobs-another-10-million-xq-school-fails/
Tom Ultican: Teach for America is bad for America. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/19/tom-ultican-tfa-is-bad-for-america/
California. Criticism of Los Angeles School District’s plan to rank schools by a single measure. https://edsource.org/2019/qa-with-michael-kirst-single-rating-for-schools-just-too-simplistic/617064?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=qa-with-michael-kirst-single-rating-for-schools-just-too-simplistic-9-07-19; https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/18/los-angeles-lausd-ponders-dumb-plan-to-grade-schools/ and https://dianeravitch.net/2019/09/06/los-angeles-astroturf-parent-group-pressures-beutner-to-rate-schools-by-their-test-scores/
MGT Consultants: Profiting from the School Crisis in Gary, Indiana and Taking Over Three Colorado School Districts. https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2019/08/23/20861/
Ohio. State takeover focuses on districts with high levels of poor children of color. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/09/01/ohio-state-takeovers-target-districts-that-enroll-poor-children-of-color/
Fordham: Three lessons from Tennessee’s school turnaround efforts. https://fordhaminstitute.org/ohio/commentary/three-school-turnaround-lessons-learn-tennessee?mc_cid=3f6c0611d5&mc_eid=ebbe04a807
Newark eliminates pay for performance. Jersey Jazzman: The merit pay fairy dies in Newark. https://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-merit-pay-fairy-dies-in-newark.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FCqnJA+%28Jersey+Jazzman%29 and https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/20/newark-wipes-out-performance-pay-for-teachers/
Larry Cuban: several posts on the realities of reforming schools. https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2019/08/14/bread-crumbs-and-school-reform/; https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2019/08/17/one-way-or-two-way-traffic-the-policy-to-practice-street/ ; https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2019/08/31/from-policy-to-practice-reforming-american-schools-and-classroom-lessons/ ; https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2019/09/04/why-is-incremental-change-in-schooling-typical/; https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2019/09/07/seating-charts-and-the-grammar-of-schooling/ and https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2019/08/22/teaching-in-the-age-of-trump-andrea-rinard/
Jan Resseger: Don’t trust superintendents from Chiefs for Change. https://dianeravitch.net/2019/08/15/jan-resseger-do-not-trust-superintendents-from-jeb-bushs-chiefs-for-change/