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More Than an ‘A’; Mindset and Assessment | Connected Principals
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put yourself in a growth mindset. You’re a novice—that’s why you’re here. You’re here to learn. The teacher is a resource for learning. Feel the tension leave you; feel your mind open up.” Carol Dweck, Mindset
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One of my big questions that I have in the traditional model of grading is the following; when a student receives an ‘A’ for their work, why is there a need to continue?
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For all of the school administrators and/or school policy makers who are hell bent on making sure that resources that can assist in learning remain off the table in their schools
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Is there a point in time that you will be embarrassed at the opportunities that you denied learners due to your narrow-mindedness?
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LAUSD proposes to eliminate Ds as passing grades | 89.3 KPCC
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How Online Learning Companies Bought America’s Schools | The Nation
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if you’re an educator and you’re not feeling a sense of foreboding for the near future, I’m not sure what it’s going to take.
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The strategy has become really clear: villify unions and teachers through policy and public outcry in ways that effectively compromise our voices when we push back
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That is the recipe now to a) gain political favor and b) make lots and lots of money.
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I’m not convinced anyone in the conversation wants to do harm to kids. But I am convinced that all of this is being driven by dollars.
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the Kuhrs and 26 other students were suspended for wearing the T-shirts and bracelets.
The Kuhrs sued, claiming the ban violated their First Amendment rights
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“In this case the defense argued safety and the placement of gang ties to the expression,”
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I Don’t Understand Michelle Rhee – Bridging Differences – Education Week
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It cannot be a spirit of civic generosity that motivates for-profit corporations
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I am troubled that Rhee thinks that teachers are the biggest problem facing American education
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Rhee has turned this urban myth into a national crusade against teachers. If scores are low, she suggests, it is because the students have lazy, incompetent teachers who should be fired.
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the benefits of her innovations are questionable. For one thing, the federal NAEP tests in 2011 showed that the D.C. public schools have the largest achievement gap of any city tested by that program
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At the center of the scandal was a principal Rhee had repeatedly singled out, honored, given bonuses, and promoted. He resigned.
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Of all the images of Rhee, the one that sticks in my head is when she invited a PBS film crew to watch her fire a principal
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She enjoys watching people suffer.
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she controlled her restless class by putting duct tape on their mouths
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I find offensive the very concept of “StudentsFirst.” The basic idea is that teachers are selfish and greedy and do not have the interests of students at heart.
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How can she feel good about leading a campaign to turn public education into a for-profit enterprise and reduce teaching to a job, not a profession. I don’t see the good in any of this. And I don’t understand why she does.
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Studies Give Nuanced Look at Teacher Effectiveness – Inside School Research – Education Week
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“The beauty of multiple measures isn’t that there are more of them—more can be more confusing—these need to be alligned to the outcomes we care about,”
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Teachers don’t fall neatly into quartiles
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Graduate School Is Art School – Manage Your Career – The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Art students go to school to improve their art, to receive input from those they admire, to find a mentor, and to be in a community of the like-minded. Careers are possible, but no one counts on one.
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Jobs can be easily discarded. Scholarship is a community and a way of life.
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Romney Vows to Shrink Education Department | Inside Higher Ed
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“The Department of Education: I will either consolidate with another agency, or perhaps make it a heck of a lot smaller. I’m not going to get rid of it entirely,” Romney said. He said that one reason to keep the agency was to have a federal role in pushing back against teachers’ unions.
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