School Reform

Chicago Annenberg Challenge Explained

Education Week | Dakarai I. Aarons | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago

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The Chicago Annenberg Challenge, chaired from 1995 to 1999 by Barack Obama, is being portrayed by some critics of the Democratic presidential nominee ...

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The Vagaries of Vouchers

Gerald Bracey | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media

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Gerald Bracey

What is with the Washington Post? one week says that the Washington, D. C. voucher program doesn't work -- the next it runs an editorial begging Congress not to kill the program.

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HBO Raises the Bar Again With Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card

Dan Brown | Posted 06.20.2008 | Entertainment

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Dan Brown

Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond are too smart to offer up any magic bullets. Their fascinating documentary puts viewers inside Baltimore's Frederick Douglass High School for a full school year.

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Newt Gingrich and Me: A Charged Moment at an Education Blogger Summit

Dan Brown | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media

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Dan Brown

Gingrich's automatic dismissal of everyone currently within the struggling education system feels parallel to the disastrous de-Baathification process following the US invasion of Iraq.

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School-Level Cuts Hit New York City; Why, Bloomberg, Why???

Dan Brown | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics

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Dan Brown

This is not about keeping a stock's price afloat; you are cutting kids' after-school programs, guidance counselors, smaller classes, computers. Erasing these entities will incontrovertibly have an effect, and a terrible one at that.

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New York City Schools Receive Misleading Report Cards

Dan Brown | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

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Dan Brown

New York City has led the charge into a dangerous era of importing statistics-driven paradigms from the business sphere. These mechanistic models are an ill fit in education, a wholly human institution.

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