Save Our Schools NJ spokesperson interviewed about the charter school reforms for which the grassroots group is advocating. The reforms would increase charter school transparency, accountability, and demographic representation, and require new charter schools to receive community approval before opening, bringing New Jersey’s charter law in line with the rest of the nation. Video Rating: [...] Read more »
Organizational Behavior in Education: Leadership and School Reform (10th Edition)
Organizational Behavior in Education: Leadership and School Reform (10th Edition) An authoritative and timely examination of organizational behavior and how leaders can create effective school cultures. Well-established as a standard textbook in the preparation of effective and thoughtful school administrators, Organizational Behavior in Education continues its tradition of offering students of educational administration the [...] Read more »
School Reform From The Inside Out: Policy, Practice, And Performance Reviews
School Reform From The Inside Out: Policy, Practice, And Performance Giving test results to an incoherent, badly run school doesn’t automatically make it a better school. The work of turning a school around entails improving the knowledge and skills of teachers-changing their knowledge of content and how to teach it-and helping them to understand where [...] Read more »
Voices of Reform Rural Transformation at West Carter Middle School
West Carter Middle School serves fewer than 500 students in the small town of Olive Hill in the rural Appalachian region of Kentucky. Between 2000-2004, the school faced persistent low achievement in math and reading proficiency. A transformation was needed and in 2005 a new principal was hired bringing about an increase in collaboration among [...] Read more »
Bill Gates on Education Reform
Bill Gates spoke with Katie Couric on Obama’s push for reform in the US education system. Video Rating: 4 / 5 Read more »
The Dark Side of School Reform: Teaching in the Space between Reality and Utopia
The Dark Side of School Reform: Teaching in the Space between Reality and Utopia The Dark Side of School Reform directly engages some of the more difficult aspects of working as an educator in a public school. This book investigates what it means to teach, lead, and live during times of ongoing and intense change [...] Read more »
Ravitch on Obama charter school accountability Race To The Top 1% public education reform vs
Diane Ravitch on Arne Duncan, 1% Obama charter public education school reform teacher bashing no child left behind race to the top. She did not say the SEGREGATION word but spoke of a two tier education system when charter schools exclude low performing kids poor kids and needy kids with disabilities. Billionaires blame teachers for [...] Read more »
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education In her critically acclaimed national best seller, Diane Ravitch examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once fiercely defended. Evaluating wildly popular ideas for restructuring schools, including charter schools and testing, she explains why [...] Read more »
More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee
More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee Traditional narratives of black educational history suggest that African Americans offered a unified voice concerning Brown v. Board of Education. Jack Dougherty counters this interpretation, demonstrating that black activists engaged in multiple, overlapping, and often conflicting strategies to advance the race by gaining [...] Read more »
Pittsburgh Schools Deal With Discipline
Pittsburgh Schools are still fully embroiled in the high school reforms enacted in 2006. A task force, with goals are similar to those of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, is currently leading the reforms. Pittsburgh Schools evaluate the reforms in accordance with the Excellence for All Plan, an initiative that seeks to develop [...] Read more »