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Monday, October 21, 2013

10-21-13 @ THE CHALK FACE

@ THE CHALK FACE:



Insight into co-location, dirt edition #edchat #TFA
Sort of a follow-up to a previous post of mine. As a public school, your kid shows up, we teach them. It is rather well-documented that charter schools, shall we say, select the most successful students. All I have to say is, “How the HELL are you going to suspend a five year-old SIX times […]

An Industry of Mediocrity?: How about Journalism?
Careless, shoddy, flippant, thoughtless—these are the words that come to mind when I think about most journalism addressing education. There are a few shining examples of journalists doing their work (Valerie Strauss comes to mind), but mostly, those are the words. So when I saw  ‘An Industry of Mediocrity’ at The New York Times, and […]



10-20-13 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: This Year, Boston is the Epicenter for Public School DestructionToo bad.  You missed it. No, not my birthday.  You still have time to prepare for that.  (Hint: it’s the 9th day after the New Year starts.) What you missed was the Annual National Summit on Education Reform, held by Jeb Bush and his anti-public-school reform group, Foundation for Excellence in Education (up is down,