The Answer Sheet Archive: Larry Ferlazzo
The Michigan Fish Test and school reform
Educator Larry Ferlazzo explains what school reformers could learn from the Michigan Fish Test: a little humility. (What's the Michigan Fish Test? Read on.)
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Valerie Strauss
| March 11, 2011; 4:00 AM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, Larry Ferlazzo
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larry ferlazzo, michelle rhe, michigan fish test, school reform, studentsfirst
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4 concerns about Michelle Rhee
A veteran teacher lists his four chief concerns with Michelle Rhee and her leadership of D.C. schools.
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Valerie Strauss
| February 16, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, Larry Ferlazzo, Michelle Rhee
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d.c. schools, d.c. test scores, larry ferlazzo, michelle rhee, rhee test scores, student achievement
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Videotaping teachers the right way (not the Gates way)
A teacher describes what he says is the right way to videotape teachers to help them improve and explains why he thinks a Gates-funded videotaping project is taking the wrong approach.
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Valerie Strauss
| January 18, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, Larry Ferlazzo, Teacher assessment, Teachers
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evaluating teachers, gates foundation, gates funded project, gates project and teachers, how to evaluate teachers, larry ferlazzo, teacher assessment, teachers, teachers and gates foundation, videotaping teaches
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The 'Parent Trigger' doesn't help schools or parents
The so-called “parent trigger” law in California, which allows a majority of parents (from a school or from their “feeder” schools) to sign a petition that forces a school to be converted into a charter, is not a genuine parent engagement strategy. The recent effort to apply the law for the first time shows why.
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Valerie Strauss
| December 14, 2010; 10:45 AM ET |
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Charter schools, Guest Bloggers, Larry Ferlazzo, Parents
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california schools, california's parent trigger, charter schools, larry ferlazzo, parent revolution, parent trigger, parent trigger law
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Teachers: What we need to do to fix schools
Fourteen teachers from urban schools around the country worked for a year to study how to improve troubled schools. Here are the results.
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Valerie Strauss
| December 9, 2010; 2:10 PM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, Larry Ferlazzo, School turnarounds/reform, Teachers
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larry ferlazzo, quality teachers, school reform, teacher assessment, teacher development, teacher planning, teachers, teachers leadership network, urban schools, urban teachers
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The importance of being unprincipled
Teacher Larry Ferlazzo writes that sometimes, sticking to our principles isn't the right thing to do, and suggests that we sometimes aim to be "unprincipled."
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Valerie Strauss
| October 31, 2010; 3:55 PM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, Larry Ferlazzo, Teachers
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larry ferlazzo, teachers, waiting for superman
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