The Answer Sheet Archive: Charter schools
2 false claims that drive school reform
"Accountability" and "merit" are compelling concepts, especially when we are talking about adults who are charged with educating our children. But the concepts have been misused in school reform, writes an educator.
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Valerie Strauss
| February 27, 2011; 11:00 AM ET |
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Accountability, Charter schools, Guest Bloggers, Performance pay, Teacher assessment
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accountability movement, charter schools, geoffrey canada, merit pay, michelle rhee, performance pay, school choice, teacher pay, teachers, waiting for superman
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Unsolicited advice for Teach for America on its 20th anniversary
Here are five completely unsolicited ideas for Teach for America's next 20 years, on the occasion of its first two decades:
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Valerie Strauss
| February 12, 2011; 8:43 AM ET |
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Charter schools, Teachers
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charter schools, teach for america, teach for america anniversary, teacher evaluation, teachers, tfa anniversary, wendy kopp
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Things I’m sick of hearing
It’s time for school reformers to find new ways to attack their critics. It’s getting tiring hearing the same old refrains, which go something like this.
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Valerie Strauss
| January 26, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Achievement gap, Charter schools, Laugh and cry, Michelle Rhee, Standardized Tests
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charter schools, data-driven reform, michelle rhee, president obama, school reform, standardized tests, teachers unions
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Policing the rush to charter schools
What would happen if we applied some school reform policies to city police departments?
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Valerie Strauss
| January 20, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Charter schools, Guest Bloggers, Teachers, Vouchers
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charter schools, gov. mitch daniels, indiana education, indiana schools, journal gazette, schools and police, vouchers
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What reformers are doing to urban kids (or 'it's terrible what they are doing to these schools')
What it means to learn has been transformed for a generation of urban children, writes author Natalie Hopkinson. In the name of reform, education -- for "failing" urban kids, anyway -- is about learning the rules and following directions. Not critical thinking. Not creativity.
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Valerie Strauss
| January 14, 2011; 5:01 AM ET |
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Charter schools, Guest Bloggers, School turnarounds/reform
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african-american blacks, charter schools, d.c. charter schools, d.c. schools, the root, urban schools
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More questions for KIPP
Here's the next chapter of a debate on KIPP schools.
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Valerie Strauss
| January 10, 2011; 4:30 PM ET |
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Charter schools, Guest Bloggers
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century foundation, charter schools, charter schools and segregation, jay mathews, kipp, kipp charter schools, kipp schools, knowledge is power program
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