* Top public school expels students who can't maintain a B average <http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/lQjIlxnlkJhdmbCibSnZspqT?format=standard> A 2.8 GPA in...
Joe Nathan
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Jul 29, 2008 11:04 am
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Belmont School Opens: Toxic or Not? Los Angeles Officials Tout $Billion Dollar School on Full Disclosure Network® Reality TV News Series Los Angeles, CA: The...
PR WEB
Jul 29, 2008 11:05 am
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Carolyn, I don't think schools necessarily have to be part of some "progressive grassroots educational reform movement." Deb's point about "both ingredients...
Mike
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Jul 30, 2008 10:30 am
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Amen. What a tragedy, stupidity, and disgrace. Deb ... -- Deborah Meier deborah.meier@... Visit my website: http://www.deborahmeier.com Also visit Meier...
Deborah Meier
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Jul 30, 2008 10:30 am
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From a Chronicle of Philanthropy interview 7/29. Question from Greg Schuckman, Northern Virginia Community College Board Chair: Your foundation has done some...
Hi Deb: I have one question: Who's "us?" Stevve on 7/28/08 9:44 AM, Deborah Meier at deborah.meier@... wrote: Gresat question Grannan! I suspect that...
Steve Jubb
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Jul 30, 2008 10:31 am
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I've posted a dissection of Edison Schools' (EdisonLearning's) latest claims of soaring achievement in its Philadelphia schools on www.examiner.com . ...
What's left of once-high-flying Edison Schools has made a sweeping boast about achievement in the schools it runs in Philadelphia. One problem: the claim is...
It is mind boggling that public funds can support such a policy. ... From: smallschools@yahoogroups.com [mailto:smallschools@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
In Charles Payne's new book, So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools, he writes about "the disability of ideology and the...
Speaking of great questions, thanks Steve for that one ... "us" means all of us I hope, even when we don't always weigh in or agree. Judy In a message dated...
Bravo Chris...I'm so glad to have a thoughtful comment that moves beyond the mindless politics of the right and left. Charles Payne's book should be required...
Van Schoales
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Aug 1, 2008 2:07 pm
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Every single one of us. Yes! debx ... -- Deborah Meier deborah.meier@... Visit my website: http://www.deborahmeier.com Also visit Meier and Ravitch on...
Deborah Meier
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Aug 1, 2008 2:07 pm
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So it sounds like this viewpoint encourages the attitude: "It's all good." That's apparently not the view Mike and Susan's book is taking, and it doesn't...
Chris, Thanks for your comments and analysis. There's lots of areas of agreement here. I am a fan of Charles Payne's work and our latest book borrows a lot...
Mike
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Aug 4, 2008 7:37 pm
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For those who missed the conference of the Alternative Education Resource Organization, you might be interested to know that we made a set of 13 DVDs of the...
Thanks for the detailed response Mike, it gives me a lot to think about and look into. Let me just respond quickly that I really don't intend to sharpen...
The project-based curriculum of the course was “a lot more like what I experience in college now,” says Eva Lorenz. “It was more adult, I think. We were...
WHAT KIDS CAN DO
Aug 6, 2008 9:03 pm
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"In our very first year, we were able to decrease the number of kids that were held back by 57 percent, cut class disruptions in half and provide many...
It wasn't me drawing the lines, though, Chris; that wasn't my language. I was quoting Mike's book. Where he says I misinterpreted was in asking how his...
Associate Superintendent Mary Shelton called the numbers "sobering." She said school principals are trying to account for some of the missing students to see...
Sacramento Bee
Aug 12, 2008 5:43 pm
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Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/5eg65o BLOWBACK Green Dot's empty promise Despite its claims, the organization's plans to run Locke High...
$5.5 million grant targets race gap in Madison high schools ANDY HALL 608-252-6136 August 11, 2008 A $5.5 million federal grant will boost efforts to shrink...
Madison.com
Aug 14, 2008 4:17 pm
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Charter Schools Bloom In New Orleansby Andrea Hsu Listen Now [3 min 55 sec] add to playlist Enlarge Andrea Hsu/NPR Channa Cook, principal of Sojourner Truth...
Who got the grant? Who takes the credit? http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/ I’ve worked with high schools around the country on quite a few grant proposals....
San Francisco Chronicle State's schools improve, achievement gap widens http://tinyurl.com/5g5d96 Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, August 15,...
Please share with appropriate lists and candidates: August 18, 2008 Dear colleagues, Humanities Prep, a successful collaboratively run public high school of...
Does anyone know where to find any SLC research that looks at achievement, graduation rates or college success that goes beyond anecdotal case studies? The US...
