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(2)
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(3)
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(1)
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(2)
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(15)
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(3)
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(21)
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(11)
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(2)
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(1)
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(1)
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(30)
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(1)
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(5)
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(1)
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(9)
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(3)
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(2)
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(3)
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(8)
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(1)
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(2)
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(3)
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(5)
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(2)
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(1)
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(1)
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(2)
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(5)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(5)
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(11)
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(5)
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(3)
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(3)
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(1)
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(1)
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(16)
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(5)
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(1)
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(2)
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(1)
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(1)
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(38)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(4)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(8)
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(1)
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(2)
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(20)
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(4)
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(4)
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(1)
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(2)
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(4)
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(2)
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(5)
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(1)
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(4)
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(2)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(5)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(14)
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(1)
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(3)
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(1)
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(2)
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(3)
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(24)
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(2)
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(9)
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(4)
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(9)
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(1)
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(1)
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(6)
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(7)
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(1)
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(3)
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(1)
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(1)
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(3)
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(1)
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(1)
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(2)
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(1)
Green Dot
(11)
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(1)
Haimson
(4)
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(2)
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(2)
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(17)
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(2)
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(1)
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(1)
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(11)
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(14)
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(2)
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(1)
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(5)
Heavy Like the Weight of a Flame
(1)
Hebrew Language Academy
(2)
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(1)
Helen Marshall
(1)
Herbert Hoover
(1)
high schools
(2)
high stakes testing
(47)
Hillary Clinton
(26)
history
(2)
hold back
(1)
Horn
(1)
Howard Schwach
(1)
Howard Wolfson
(2)
Hoxby
(1)
HSA
(6)
Huffington Post
(2)
humor
(9)
ICE
(28)
ICE-TJC
(8)
IEO
(1)
imes
(1)
inaugurations
(1)
Inside Job
(1)
investigations
(1)
Iran
(1)
Iris Blige
(1)
Irish Ropes
(1)
IS 303K
(1)
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(1)
ITAG
(1)
Jack Freiberger
(1)
Jack Welch
(1)
Jamaica HS
(13)
James Eterno
(2)
James Liebman
(6)
James Merriman
(1)
Jane Addams High School for Academics and Careers
(1)
Javits Convention Center
(1)
Jay Mathews
(2)
Jean Claude Brizard
(1)
Jean Shepherd
(3)
Jeff Coplon
(1)
Jeff Zahler
(1)
Jesse Jean
(1)
Jessica Shiller
(1)
Jim Callaghan
(3)
Jim Horn
(1)
Joe Williams
(1)
Joel Klein
(11)
Joel Klein
(101)
John Angelet
(1)
John Claude-Brizard
(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(3)
John Merrow
(3)
John Thompson
(1)
John White
(2)
Jose Vargas
(1)
Josh Karan
(1)
Jr.
(1)
JREC
(1)
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(1)
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(1)
Julie Cavanagh
(4)
June 4th
(5)
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(8)
Kaplan
(3)
Karen Lewis
(7)
Kathryn Wilde
(1)
Kathryn Wylde
(1)
Kathy Blythe
(1)
Katie Couric
(1)
KGIA
(1)
KIPP
(13)
Klein
(7)
Kozol
(1)
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(2)
LA Teacher Union
(10)
LA Times
(1)
LA Union
(6)
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(4)
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(1)
Lafayette HS
(4)
large schools
(4)
large/small schools
(20)
LATA
(1)
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(1)
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(2)
LBJ
(1)
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(1)
Leadership Academy
(3)
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(1)
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(2)
Lehman HS
(3)
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(1)
Leo Casey
(10)
Leonie Haimson
(26)
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(2)
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(1)
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(8)
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(2)
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(2)
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(1)
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(2)
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(1)
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(2)
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(1)
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(3)
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(4)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(3)
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(1)
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(2)
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(3)
Manhattan Institute
(5)
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(1)
Marc Millot
(2)
Marcia Lyles
(1)
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(2)
Martine
(1)
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(2)
Matt Taibbi
(1)
Maxwell HS
(5)
May 9 rally
(5)
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(2)
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(81)
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(1)
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(1)
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(2)
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(1)
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(5)
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(6)
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(38)
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(2)
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(2)
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(5)
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(1)
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(30)
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(1)
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(1)
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(20)
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(1)
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(45)
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(1)
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(1)
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(8)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(4)
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(1)
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(1)
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(5)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(20)
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(9)
Neoliberalism
(7)
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(1)
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(17)
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(3)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(2)
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(2)
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(5)
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(1)
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(4)
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(2)
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(3)
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(1)
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(1)
NY Times
(34)
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(1)
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(2)
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(6)
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(11)
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(1)
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(44)
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(1)
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(9)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(2)
Obama
(33)
Obama education
(29)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(4)
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(5)
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Panel for educational policy
(21)
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(3)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(19)
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(2)
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(8)
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(4)
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(1)
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(2)
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(31)
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(1)
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(1)
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(6)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(3)
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(1)
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(4)
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(49)
POV
(1)
pre-k
(2)
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(1)
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(1)
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(4)
Principals
(7)
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(1)
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(12)
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(1)
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(1)
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(2)
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(2)
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(4)
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(6)
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(1)
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(3)
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(7)
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(1)
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(12)
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(1)
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(1)
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(3)
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(2)
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(1)
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(6)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(3)
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(4)
racism
(2)
radical math
(2)
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(2)
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(1)
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(6)
Randi Weingarten
(149)
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(1)
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(1)
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(2)
Real reformers
(3)
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(3)
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(1)
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(2)
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(1)
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(6)
reorganize
(4)
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(1)
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(1)
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(2)
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(2)
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(2)
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(1)
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(3)
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(5)
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(1)
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(53)
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(1)
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(6)
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(2)
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(2)
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(22)
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(6)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(2)
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(7)
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(3)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(9)
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(7)
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(2)
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(2)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(2)
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(1)
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(1)
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(5)
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(1)
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(4)
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(9)
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(9)
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(7)
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(2)
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(2)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(5)
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(2)
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(1)
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(3)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(16)
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(7)
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(1)
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(1)
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(1)
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(2)
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(16)
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(1)
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(1)
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(2)
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Teach for America
(29)
teacher abuse
(3)
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(1)
teacher agenda
(1)
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(4)
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(1)
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(8)
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(8)
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(4)
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(2)
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(5)
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(1)
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(27)
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(2)
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(2)
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(2)
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(2)
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(4)
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(11)
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(1)
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(20)
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(1)
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(14)
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(7)
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(9)
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(2)
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(9)
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(2)
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(2)
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(6)
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(1)
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(2)
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Showing posts with label Carnival of education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carnival of education. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Lorri Hosts the Carnival at Examiner
The Road Not Taken, the 196th Edition is up and running.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
The Carnival of Education is Up and Running

Hosted this week by our buddies at The Chancellor's New Clothes and a great job by Learners Inherit the Earth, whose partner in crime, A Voice in the Wilderness, is off traveling in the wild.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
NYC Educator Hosts this week's carnival...
......eat it all up and a Happy Thanksgiving!
Friday, October 5, 2007
The Carnival of Education ....
... is up and running at Evolution - not just a theory anymore.
And check out the rest of Greg Laden's site for some wonderful commentary on science and religion. His latest post on cycad sex got me all excited. I'm keeping a careful eye on the cycad right outside my door for any hanky panky. I may sneak up on it and post a picture later. (It may be X-rated, so shield your eyes.)
And check out the rest of Greg Laden's site for some wonderful commentary on science and religion. His latest post on cycad sex got me all excited. I'm keeping a careful eye on the cycad right outside my door for any hanky panky. I may sneak up on it and post a picture later. (It may be X-rated, so shield your eyes.)
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Carnival of Education is Open
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
The Carnival is up and running this week

.... at The Education Wonks
Check out Teaching Fellow Jose Vilson's post in this
Excerpt:
New York City teacher Jose Vilson takes issue with a recent Village Voice article that equated the first year's service of many City teachers with those from the classic movie "Blackboard Jungle."
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
The Carnival of Education is now open
Hosted this week by Matthew Tabor at:
http://www.matthewktabor.com/2007/08/29/welcome-to-the-134th-carnival-of-education/
http://www.matthewktabor.com/2007/08/29/welcome-to-the-134th-carnival-of-education/
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Monday's PEP: Patrick Sullivan Reports on...
.....Middle Schools Initiative, School Safety & Cell Phone Ban
at the NYC Public School Parent Blog
Let's reform middle school with more Lead Teachers and professional development but ignore recommendations to reduce class size. Of course, that fits into the "it was the teachers fault all along" theme of the BloomKlein administration. Just more of "let's make it look like we're trying to solve the problem rather than actually finding solutions that will work."
Patrick provides a unique perspective as the only truly independent member of the PEP - Panel for Educational Policy (BloomKlein's bogus replacement for the old Board of Education) - who can report from the inside.

NYC Teaching Fellow and author Dan Brown explodes the Joel Klein and his Tweedledee approach in his post "Solving the Middle School Mystery" at the Huffington Post.
Aug. 14, 2007
Why do standardized test scores drop -- sharply, in many cases -- when students hit middle school?
Today, The New York Times reported on NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's answer to the $64,000 question of education:
"Generally speaking, those in elementary school do what you tell them to do. And I think it's also true by the time they get to high school, they don't. It's in those middle years where they transfer from one to another."
He went on to present a maddeningly misguided and half-hearted plan of dedicating $5 million toward 50-performing New York City middle schools.
The mayor of New York City's distillation of our urban education crisis is baffling and offensive. Firstly, how can he be so sure that "what you're telling them to do" is actually in their best interest? Since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, NYC elementary schools have fixated on testing, testing, testing. Today's middle school students have lived with counterproductive mania for this their entire scholastic lives.
Urban kids in sixth and seventh grade are hip to the fact that the test preparation craze that has dominated their years in school is actually a superficial, bureaucratic charade that has nothing to do with their own personal futures. An alarming number of sixth graders taught English Language Arts by my wife in the Bronx pointedly told her last January: "The test is over. I'm done." Scores are dropping now because those children have been failed repeatedly since Day One, and their foundation of enduring skills and understandings was never built in the interest of manufacturing short-end bumps on test score graphs.
Rather than making school a nurturing and personal experience, kids, as early as kindergarten, are jammed into overcrowded classrooms, denied support services like fundamental skills tutoring, denied much-needed counseling, and are supervised by administrators more worried about test scores than their real needs. It's no wonder that they "stop doing what you tell them to do," as the mayor says. Bloomberg is blaming the victims here. (And also, who is the "you" that Bloomberg mentions? Does "you" contain the families of the Bronx, for example? It doesn't seem so.)
Students don't spontaneously combust in middle school. When a student's "achievement" on the line graph tumbles, something undetected has been wrong for a long time. Solving the mystery of the middle school decline will require a genuine look at dedicating real resources to truly support every student -- from birth through high school graduation day.
Bloomberg shows little interest in such a difficult, expensive yet crucial undertaking. The New York Times reports:
"But the mayor shied away from adopting the most far-ranging changes recommended in the reports, like significantly reducing class sizes, creating a special middle school academy to train teachers about early adolescence, and removing police officers from city schools to create a more welcoming atmosphere."
How will voiceless public school students get real solutions, not stunts, from their elected leaders?
Dan Brown is a writer and teacher in New York City. His memoir of his first year teaching, The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle, is being released this month by Arcade Publishing.
at the NYC Public School Parent Blog

Let's reform middle school with more Lead Teachers and professional development but ignore recommendations to reduce class size. Of course, that fits into the "it was the teachers fault all along" theme of the BloomKlein administration. Just more of "let's make it look like we're trying to solve the problem rather than actually finding solutions that will work."
Patrick provides a unique perspective as the only truly independent member of the PEP - Panel for Educational Policy (BloomKlein's bogus replacement for the old Board of Education) - who can report from the inside.

NYC Teaching Fellow and author Dan Brown explodes the Joel Klein and his Tweedledee approach in his post "Solving the Middle School Mystery" at the Huffington Post.
Aug. 14, 2007
Why do standardized test scores drop -- sharply, in many cases -- when students hit middle school?
Today, The New York Times reported on NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's answer to the $64,000 question of education:
"Generally speaking, those in elementary school do what you tell them to do. And I think it's also true by the time they get to high school, they don't. It's in those middle years where they transfer from one to another."
He went on to present a maddeningly misguided and half-hearted plan of dedicating $5 million toward 50-performing New York City middle schools.
The mayor of New York City's distillation of our urban education crisis is baffling and offensive. Firstly, how can he be so sure that "what you're telling them to do" is actually in their best interest? Since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, NYC elementary schools have fixated on testing, testing, testing. Today's middle school students have lived with counterproductive mania for this their entire scholastic lives.
Urban kids in sixth and seventh grade are hip to the fact that the test preparation craze that has dominated their years in school is actually a superficial, bureaucratic charade that has nothing to do with their own personal futures. An alarming number of sixth graders taught English Language Arts by my wife in the Bronx pointedly told her last January: "The test is over. I'm done." Scores are dropping now because those children have been failed repeatedly since Day One, and their foundation of enduring skills and understandings was never built in the interest of manufacturing short-end bumps on test score graphs.
Rather than making school a nurturing and personal experience, kids, as early as kindergarten, are jammed into overcrowded classrooms, denied support services like fundamental skills tutoring, denied much-needed counseling, and are supervised by administrators more worried about test scores than their real needs. It's no wonder that they "stop doing what you tell them to do," as the mayor says. Bloomberg is blaming the victims here. (And also, who is the "you" that Bloomberg mentions? Does "you" contain the families of the Bronx, for example? It doesn't seem so.)
Students don't spontaneously combust in middle school. When a student's "achievement" on the line graph tumbles, something undetected has been wrong for a long time. Solving the mystery of the middle school decline will require a genuine look at dedicating real resources to truly support every student -- from birth through high school graduation day.
Bloomberg shows little interest in such a difficult, expensive yet crucial undertaking. The New York Times reports:
"But the mayor shied away from adopting the most far-ranging changes recommended in the reports, like significantly reducing class sizes, creating a special middle school academy to train teachers about early adolescence, and removing police officers from city schools to create a more welcoming atmosphere."
How will voiceless public school students get real solutions, not stunts, from their elected leaders?
Dan Brown is a writer and teacher in New York City. His memoir of his first year teaching, The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle, is being released this month by Arcade Publishing.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
The Carnival Of Education: Week 127
Head over to the midway of the 127th Carnival of Education!The very latest roundup of entries from around the EduSphere. Now playing at the Education Wonks.
We have 2 items submitted, which means this blog will get hits from all over the place. Let the word go out... BloomKlein have destroyed the school system an the UFT has helped them.
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