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Educational Leadership:School Reform: What We've Learned:On Lasting School Reform: A Conversation with Ted Sizer on 2009-10-29
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Our research suggests that you're not going to get significant, long-term reform
unless you have subtle but powerful support and collaboration among teachers,
students, and the families of those students in a particular community. Without
that, you can get short-term changes in instruction, but you won't get at the
heart of reform—which is the willingness of the kids to work hard on important
things.
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Best Antidote to Poverty? Good Teachers. - Nicholas D. Kristof Blog - NYTimes.com on 2009-10-29
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The obstacle isn’t teachers, it’s the whole web of uninvolved parents, home
problems, broken down communities, and so on. In these communities, how can
teachers be effective?
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NEA - Intersection of Church and State on 2009-10-03
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Fear is our default. Who gets disadvantaged in that are the children.”
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Church members around the city are linking up with students in school-sanctioned
arrangements to provide tutoring and mentoring.
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Teaching Pioneer Deborah Meier on Obama's Education Policy and the Future of Charter Schools on 2009-09-19
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The mayor claims that mayoral control works, but, in fact, if you look at the
data about which systems are doing best around this country, urban systems, in
fact it’s the ones that don’t have mayoral control, not mayoral control. And
even in this last round of test scores in New York City, in fact, the cities in
New York State that don’t have mayoral control did better than New York City.
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