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Report on BPS School Choice Plans

According to researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Boston Public Schools’ proposed student assignment plans do not address inequitable access to high quality schools and, in fact, make the situation worse. Read more: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news-impact/2012/09/hgse-researchers-bps-plans-will-increase-inequity/#ixzz27tOz7UDb Direct link to the … Continue reading

29. September 2012 by RK
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America’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline

“In the fourth grade, the sorting begins in earnest between those children in the pipeline to college and those heading in the direction of prison. Children begin to understand in about the third grade whether they are part of the … Continue reading

03. April 2011 by RK
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Critical Literacy and an Analysis of the Blueprint for Reform

Although the Blueprint for Reform was published by the U.S. Department of Education a year ago I find Ernest Morrell’s analysis of it to be worth a second look for two reasons. One, he is speaking at the Simmons College … Continue reading

14. March 2011 by RK
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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

“When I witness wholesale nba jerseys a teacher (a rare one who hasn’t yet drunk the test-prep Kool-Aid) challenge adolescents with a dilemma, an anomaly, an incongruity, a question with Should no clear answer, Get and listen as the kids … Continue reading

24. January 2011 by RK
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High Stakes Testing

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24. January 2011 by RK
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Rank and File Teachers Score Huge Victory

“There are no charter schools, to my knowledge, in any of the upper-class, middle-class, or even white ethnic areas of Chicago. They are primarily in Latino and African American neighborhoods. In some areas they’re so thick that nearly all the … Continue reading

24. January 2011 by RK
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