Renee Moore (teachmoore)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

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Teacher Magazine: Reaping What We've Sown: How Schools Fail Low-Income Parents on 2009-10-16
Eager Students Fall Prey to Apartheid’s Legacy - NYTimes.com on 2009-09-25
- Teachers’
- Most teachers in South Africa’s schools today got inferior educations under the
  Bantu system, and this has seriously impaired their ability to teach the next
  generation
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    Renee Moore on 2009-09-25
    
    Compare this to what happened to an entire generation of Black educators in the South after the Brown decisions. Hundreds of veteran Black teachers, many with advanced degrees and years of experience, were summarily fired by school districts rather than given positions in the newly integrated schools. Others suffered demotions, lost of benefits, and other indignities. A large part of that was retaliation as Black teachers were considered among the leaders of civil rights activism within their communities.
  - which
  - including teacher absenteeism
  - this deficiency was worse in poor and working-class communities
  - implicitly challenging the powerful South African Democratic Teachers’ Union
    Renee Moore on 2009-09-25
    
    How many of these are fully qualified teachers, or are these lower ability persons recruited to work in these more challenging and stressful schools (think urban or rural poor)? Are all of these teachers members of and protected by the Union? What is the Union's position and who is its leadership?
  - Teachers’
  - Teacher vacancies commonly go unfilled for months, she said. Principals
    cannot select the teachers in their schools or discipline them for
    absenteeism.
  - critical an effective principal and disciplined teachers are to student
    achievement
100 Best Blogs for Teachers of the Future | Clear View Education Blog on 2009-08-04
21st Century Learning: The Fabric of Community- The Key to Transforming Education on 2009-08-02
Living in Dialogue: Reform, Transform, Or Just Hang On for Dear Life? on 2009-08-02
Up Against the Wall | Learning Matters on 2009-06-10
New Push Seeks to End Need for Remedial Classes Before College - NYTimes.com on 2009-05-28
- - Renee Moore on 2009-05-28
    
    This recent article in NYT, profiles one community college freshman faced with the now common problem of being placed in remediation for basic English even though she has just graduated with a diploma from high school. It highligts many important and disturbing issues about the lack of consistency in our educational system.
- The two systems don’t communicate well at all.”
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- - Even some high school honors students failed college placement exams and were
    assigned to her developmental courses, she said.
    
    “Boy, were they surprised,” Ms. Manchin said.
    Renee Moore on 2009-05-28
    
    I had a niece in this situation. A member of the high school honor society, who had taken honors English courses all the way through high school. Yet the state college wanted to put her in remedial English based on her ACT subscore for the English section of the test. This is disturbing when we have considerable documentation that these college entrance tests (ACT, SAT) are not good predictors of the performance of African American students in college settings. So why are colleges still making these decisions based on flawed information?
  - Three English teachers and five math teachers were uncertified, she
    Renee Moore on 2009-05-28
    
    Anybody see a connection between the high percentage of uncertified persons in this school and the dismal performance of its graduates who attempted college? Why do they even refer to these people as "teachers"? They're just sitters.
The Selling of School Reform on 2009-05-28
Teacher Quality: Conversations on Quality - Rethinking Schools - Volume 20 No. 2 - Winter 2005/2006 - Rethinking Schools Online on 2009-05-25
Looking at the classroom from the other side on 2009-05-23

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