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Paul Mulshine, Amoral Self-Indulgence & New Jersey School Finance « School Finance 101
On most days, I can simply laugh off a ridiculous Paul Mulshine column in the Star Ledger. Most of his claims regarding education, taxation and the intersection of the two range from flat-out incorrect to wacky and misguided. But Mulshine’s claims in his column on Wednesday June 22 nd necessitate a response.Klein Once Called Snow Day for Caroline Kennedy | NBC New York
Former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein once called a snow day after Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg asked him for the favor, according to a published report. In its gossip column "Gatecrasher," the Daily News reported that Klein and Kennedy appeared at an event recently, and told the story. Klein said that soon after Mayor Bloomberg named him chancellor in 2002, he visited Kennedy Schlossberg in Martha's Vineyard , where her son, Jack, asked if he had the power to declare snow days. Klein said he did and the boy asked for one on his birthday, Jan. 19. Klein said he would. The boy attended private school, but Klein said he knew that a public school snow day often meant the day off for private schools too.
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has officially taken away nearly all collective bargaining rights from the vast majority of the state's public employees. Walker signed the bill to do so privately Friday morning. He planned an afternoon news conference in the Capitol.
msnbc: Wis. GOP set to pass anti-union bill - Politics
Naomi Klein: Wisconsin's Shock Doctrine | The Nation
March 9, 2011 At a time when Citizen’s United has made it possible for corporations to dominate the political arena, unions serve as the last line of defense against the privatization of the public sector and as one of the few remaining voices for the working class. That's why the right is trying to take labor down.
Almost two years ago, a report on New York City charter schools rocked the education policy world. It was written by Hoover Institution scholar Caroline Hoxby with co-authors Sonali Murarka and Jenny Kang. Their primary finding was that: On average, a student who attended a charter school for all of grades kindergarten through eight would close about 86 percent of the “Scarsdale-Harlem achievement gap” [the difference in scores between students in Harlem and those in the affluent NYC suburb] in math, and 66 percent of the achievement gap in English.
Shanker Blog » A 'Summary Opinion' Of The Hoxby NYC Charter School Study
Caroline M. Hoxby Stanford economics
Effects of education on economic growth, the market for college education, school finance, school choice, financial aid in higher education, peer effects, local public finance, property taxation (3) “Do and Should Financial Aid Decisions Affect Students’ College Choices? in College Choices: The New Economics of Choosing, Attending, and Completing College.” University of Chicago Press , 2004
Investigation into APS cheating finds unethical behavior across every level | ajc.com
Curtis Compton, ccompton@ajc.com A state investigation found former Atlanta schools superintendent Beverly Hall and her top aides either ignored or destroyed evidence of test cheating across the district. Superintendent Beverly Hall and her top aides ignored, buried, destroyed or altered complaints about misconduct, claimed ignorance of wrongdoing and accused naysayers of failing to believe in poor children’s ability to learn. For years — as long as a decade — this was how the Atlanta school district produced gains on state curriculum tests.(Hemera) An investigation into Atlanta’s public school system has uncovered evidence that teachers and principals have been secretly erasing and correcting answers on students’ tests for as long as a decade. A state investigation found that 178 educators at 44 of the district’s 56 schools engaged in cheating. The report is a huge blow to an urban school district that for years was hailed as one of the country’s most successful due to increased student performance. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution : Superintendent Beverly Hall and her top aides ignored, buried, destroyed or altered complaints about misconduct, claimed ignorance of wrongdoing and accused naysayers of failing to believe in poor children’s ability to learn.
Massive Teacher Cheating Scandal Erupts in Atlanta
Who’s the most influential educator in America? | Taking Note
As always, remember that John’s book The Influence of Teachers is for sale at Amazon. A month or so ago, I speculated about the most influential person in American education — then two weeks ago I expanded upon those musings in a feature for the New York Daily News. In both columns I put forth four nominees — Wendy Kopp , Big Bird, Arne Duncan and Joel Klein — and chose Joel for his remarkable network of eleven protégés now influencing what happens in schools and classrooms around the nation. I was attacked for my choice by people who feel that his influence has been negative, or even destructive. Few seemed to notice that I neither praised nor condemned the former Chancellor’s policies.Wendy Sue Kopp (born June 29, 1967) is the CEO and Founder of Teach For America (TFA), the national teaching corps and the CEO of Teach For All . [ edit ] Background Kopp attended Highland Park High School in Dallas, Texas and later was an undergraduate in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs , Princeton University .
Wendy Kopp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WENDY KOPP proposed the idea for creating a national teacher corps in her undergraduate senior thesis at Princeton University in 1989. She then did just that, creating Teach For America (TFA) shortly after graduation. Ms Kopp tells the remarkable story behind the early days of the organisation in her book " One Day, All Children... ". Today TFA attracts many of the brightest college graduates to teach in America's neediest communities.
Wendy Kopp interview: Eight questions for Wendy Kopp | The Economist
Teach For All thanks its global founding partners for their generous support in making the launch and ongoing development of Teach For All possible: Deutsche Post DHL, The Nduna Foundation, The HSBC Global Education Trust, Visa Inc., Robertson Foundation, and New Profit Inc./Monitor Group.