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Monday, August 19, 2013

8-19-13 SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE

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What We Know Now (and How It Doesn’t Matter) | the becoming radical
What We Know Now (and How It Doesn’t Matter) | the becoming radical.

“The key to school performance is diversity of socioeconomic classes.”
The quote above is from Richard Kahlenberg’s latest study for Little Rock schools. Here is a clip from the Arkansas Times blog about the study.  Here’s the full report: . . . .Kahlenberg concludes that the magnet schools and transfer program have been successful in producing both racial and socio-economic integration. But he said that […]


How YOU Doin’?
A friend asked me just a day ago, “How are you holding up? Sending a child off to college and the start of school can be very stressful.” I will admit that I went a bit of a rant – and fortunately for me the friend understood. How am I doing? Turns out – not […]

8-18-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face
SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Just When You Think It’s Safe to Go Back into the MediaYesterday, I shared an excellent collection of investigative journalism confronting the accountability machine in Florida (HERE and HERE), work from as far back as 1999 in the St. Petersburg Times and a recent article in the Miami Herald. Overnight, however, I was prompted to look at Peter Cunningham’s “Ravitch