The Answer Sheet Archive: School turnarounds/reform
How Bill Gates misinterprets ed facts
Richard Rothstein explains just how wrong Bill Gates is in his school reform prescriptions, which are based "on the misrepresentation of one fact, the misinterpretation of another and the demagogic presentation of a third." But his specific prescriptions, and the urgency he attaches to them, are based on the misrepresentation of one fact, the misinterpretation of another and the demagogic presentation of a third. It is remarkable that someone associated with technology and progress should have such a careless disregard for accuracy when it comes to the education policy in which he is now so deeply involved.c
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Valerie Strauss
| March 11, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, School turnarounds/reform
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bill gates, naep, richard rothstein, student achievement, student progress, teacher development, teacher evaluation, the washington post, washington post op-ed
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Philosophical proof: Why testing obsession is nutty
Here a longtime educator and philosophy major presents a philosophical argument that she says proves that today's relentless focus on standardized test scores is crazy.
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Valerie Strauss
| March 10, 2011; 10:30 AM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, School turnarounds/reform
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biodiversty, homeschooling, philosophical proofs, philosophy, school reform, standardized test scores, standardized testing
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The Bill Gates problem in school reform
How our celebrity-obsessed culture affects school reform: If Bill Gates had no money, would anybody care what he has to say about how to fix public schools (especially since he lacks strong evidence to back his positions)?
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Valerie Strauss
| March 2, 2011; 8:00 AM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, School turnarounds/reform
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Obama's mistimed Miami school visit -- with Jeb Bush
What a tag team. At a time when Wisconsin teachers are protesting to keep their collective bargaining rights, President Obama is traveling to Florida to share a stage with the anti-union Jeb Bush, the former governor who led corporate-driven, standardized test-obsessed school reform and tried to reduce teachers union influence.
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Valerie Strauss
| March 2, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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School turnarounds/reform, Standardized Tests
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arne duncan, president obama, president obama and teachers, rick scott, scott walker, wisconsin protests, wisconsin teachers
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Why my fellow blogger Jay Mathews is wrong
Jay, Jay, Jay. You know I don’t like arguing with you because you know more than I do about a great many things. But in this case, not so much.
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Valerie Strauss
| February 22, 2011; 2:44 PM ET |
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Congress, School turnarounds/reform, Vouchers
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charter schools, class struggle, d.c. vouchers, detroit schools, jay mathews, joe lieberman, no child left behind, race to the top, school reform, susan collins, voucher program, vouchers
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A salvage operation for public education
Bill Gates may mean well, but he’s not qualified to be America’s education czar. Curriculum expert Marion Brady says that the first step in the salvage operation needed to save free, universal public education in this country is to reject centralized, top-down corporate control.
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Valerie Strauss
| February 19, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, Learning, Marion Brady, School turnarounds/reform
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bill gates, how kids learn, how students learn, marion brady, public education, school reform, the learning process
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