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• Delaware's Plan to Strengthen Our Schools

  —Red Clay Now

  Every child in Delaware deserves a world-class education. From the moment they leave our schools, Delaware's students will compete for jobs and college admission against students from across our country and around the globe. Their ability to compete – and Delaware's economic future – depends on providing Delaware students with [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 4:27pm EST
  

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• Race to the Top or Something Closer to the Heart

  —Children and Educators First!

  Vermont Commons, Number 31, Fall, 2009
  from  [www.pathsoflearning.net]
  by Dr. Ron Miller (see links below for more information on Miller's alternative approach to education.)
  
  I was inspired by Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency. When I read The Audacity of Hope, I was convinced that he was [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 8:41pm EST
  

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• How should a teacher be rated? (Today’s Essential Question)

  —Transparent Christina

  Thompson: First Do No Harm…. from Russo’s Blog “Teachers can be forgiven for worrying about the imposition of crude, unfair policies characterized by the phrase ‘sort and fire,’ given public education’s history of half-baked, fads, and fleeting reforms.” It was nice to read the acknowledgment that “The work of teaching is complex, but test-based accountability [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 11:57am EST
  by John Young

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• RUSH RUSH RUSH QUICK QUICK QUICK: RttT Style.

  —Transparent Christina

  File this under time is the friend of good decision making, not the enemy…..why do I have a feeling a lot of states and districts are going to wish they had more time and used it wisely to make the best decisions….. Under the Obama administration’s guidelines, in addition to prompting legislative education [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 11:43pm EST
  by John Young

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• Race to the Top Insights: interesting stuff…… #edreform #RttT

  —Transparent Christina

  After listening to the second half of the U.S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top technical seminar, it’s clear that there are many, many state-specific circumstances for which state teams want answers. South Dakota asked if Indian-chartered schools count as charter schools. Hawaii officials had a few questions about how the application applies to [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 11:07pm EST
  by John Young

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• December Delmar Board Of Education Meeting

  —Delmar DustPan

  
  Instead of listening to joyful music tonight at the High School Band Concert we entered "The District Office" for the 7 PM Board Of Education Meeting
  
  The District office meeting room is small so only about fifty people could sit in it [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 8:59pm EST
  

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• Teaching Moment Bloomberg and Klein’s data troubles. #NYC #Kleinfail

  —Transparent Christina

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  Klein also found good news in the demographics. “Whose blacks are on top?” he said. “Our blacks are dramatically outperforming everybody else.” Klein does sincerely care about education, but his inartful choice of words points to one of the problems with the ongoing overhaul of the public-school system: The obsession with tests too often treats kids [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 11:45pm EST
  by John Young

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• Motor City Madness: NAEP failure is devastating.

  —Transparent Christina

  Sharlonda Buckman, CEO of the Detroit Parent Network, called for jailing and civil lawsuits against anyone in the city’s educational system that is not doing his or her share to help properly educate children. “Somebody needs to go to jail,” she said in a tearful address to 500 parents gathered [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 11:03pm EST
  by John Young

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• Arne Duncan linked to Chicago ed corruption probe?

  —Kilroy's delaware

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  Obama Secretary of Education Arne Duncan linked to Chicago corruption probe “Attorneys for the Board of Education have refused to turn over either Scott’s or Duncan’s credit card records on the grounds they are both under investigation.” Scott is Michael Scott the president of Chicago school board who committed suicide. Illinois corruption fighter and [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 7:41pm EST
  by kilroysdelaware

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• The Turnaround Trap: Frederick M. Hess

  —Transparent Christina

  Given the good intentions, it’s only natural to root for turnarounds. But, while the phrase “turnaround” may be relatively new to those in education, “silver bullet” enthusiasm has a long track record in other sectors. And that record makes the case for steely-eyed realism. Even in the business world, where management enjoys many more degrees [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 5:04pm EST
  by John Young

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• Dropouts going Elvis without a trace

  —Kilroy's delaware

  Delaware schools: Looking for early signs of dropout risk; Educators hope to be able to intervene early The Department of Education did not have data on why about 82 percent of the students dropped out because their schools or districts did not report it. Coffield said the department plans to require schools [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 9:01pm EST
  by kilroysdelaware

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• A sinking feeling about the ‘race to the top’: Russ Dondero

  —Transparent Christina

  The race-to-the-top mentality in education or in the workplace creates a “blame the victim” mentality. The victims are the students and teachers who have to master testing rather than critical thinking skills. Yes, we want the best teachers and need to get incompetent teachers out of the classroom. To do this we need to challenge [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 9:33pm EST
  by John Young

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• Race to the Top Assessment Program Public & Expert Input Meeting Boston – General Assessment Meeting November 12, 2009

  —Transparent Christina

  Before the nation can successfully implement better assessment practices, it must first reject theincorrect assumptions and flawed logic of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). To ensure effectiveeducation reform, including high-quality assessment, the Administration must overhaul NCLB,its draft requirements for Race to the Top (RTTT), and the “Assessment Program Design” towhich [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 9:24pm EST
  by John Young

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• Bake Sales Banned in New York City

  —Red Clay Now

  A new wellness policy put in place by Mayor Bloomberg bans most bake sales and other fundraising activities at schools in New York City. This new policy is aimed at curbing childhood obesity. Instead of food-based fundraisers, the city's Education Department would like to see the students and school groups [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 3:31pm EST
  

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• Friday Open Thread

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

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  Time for your open thread again. Type away and have fun! We’ve had an invasion of scientific “experts” lately, so I thought you might enjoy this. Wikileaks has the doctoral thesis of one Kent Hovind, in Christian Education from Patriot University. Kent Hovind is currently in prison for tax evasion (he [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  by Unstable Isotope

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• Thompson: Creative Insubordination

  —Transparent Christina

  When asked about the lack of scientific evidence to support favoredturnaround strategies, Duncan declined to answer, but replied “there’sa lot of scientific evidence that the status quo doesn’t work.” Ratherthan fight a losing battle with education reporters who know thelimitations of Value Added Models, Charter Management Organizations,and current turnaround methods, [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:33pm EST
  by John Young

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• Will a new charter school address DOE’s failures

  —Kilroy's delaware

  Delaware schools: Looking for early signs of dropout risk; Educators hope to be able to intervene early In January, Delaware schools will begin targeting students at risk for dropping out by analyzing attendance and math and reading scores. Last week, the Markell administration announced its education reform plan, which aims to help [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 7:57pm EST
  by kilroysdelaware

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• University Of Minnesota Under Fire for Task Force's Discrimination-Based Teacher Education Plan

  —Salisbury News

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  A branch of the University of Minnesota may require all education students at the school to understand and accept that they are either privileged or oppressed and that they be well-versed in issues like "white privilege," "institutional racism” and the "myth of meritocracy in the United States."
  
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 9:00am EST
  by joealbero

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• Could it be this simple?

  —Transparent Christina

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  I don’t know, but this sure is interesting…..thoughts?? Please add comment. To help sleepy teens, some school districts have tried delaying the opening of the high school day. Educational researcher Kyla Wahlstrom, from the University of Minnesota, has been following districts that changed their start times, tracking the effect on schools and students. The Minneapolis [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 11:18pm EST
  by John Young

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• Peggy Gaskill and the Wicomico County Retirement Policy

  —Delmar DustPan

  Peggy Gaskill, a bookkeeper at Wicomico High School, was fired in
  June 2009 for inappropriate behavior and failure to comply with Wicomico County Board of Education procedures. The 60 year old has been charged with 39 counts of theft. She has worked for the school system for 32 [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 6:30am EST
  

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• Bake Sales Banned in New York City

  —Red Clay Now

  A new wellness policy put in place by Mayor Bloomberg bans most bake sales and other fundraising activities at schools in New York City. This new policy is aimed at curbing childhood obesity. Instead of food-based fundraisers, the city's Education Department would like to see the students and school groups [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 6:00am EST
  

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• Did Arne Duncan have sex with Tiger Woods ?

  —Kilroy's delaware

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  The United States Secretary of Education wants school principals to run schools as if they are CEO’s. Perhaps Tiger Woods should bend Arne Duncan over and take a driver to his ass! Arne,  the next time you come to Delaware rather then stroke your ego by having Governor Markell kiss your ass maybe [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 8:27pm EST
  by kilroysdelaware

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• Bookkeeping Irregularities Investigated

  —Salisbury News

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  Peggy Gaskill, a bookkeeper at Wicomico High School, was terminated in June 2009 for inappropriate behavior and failure to comply with Wicomico County Board of Education procedures.
  
  Discrepancies in school accounts that were under her control were reported to the Wicomico County Board of Education’s Finance Department, which [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 7:45am EST
  by joealbero

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• I wonder why parents want choice in education

  —DelawarePolitics.net

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  Another day and another incident of bullying and ethnic intimidation in a Philly School.  If it happened in a work place, it would not be tolerated by adults. Now students are taking matters into their own hands after 26 Asian students were assaulted and needed medical treatment. The environment [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 7:35am EST
  by David Anderson

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• “Evaluation based on instruction-INSENSITIVE tests cannot help but reduce the quality of teaching (and teacher morale).”- Gerald Bracey

  —Transparent Christina

  In the last 50 years, the United States has descended from viewing tests first as a useful tool, then as a necessity, and finally as the sole instrument needed to evaluate teachers, schools, districts, states, and nations (Bracey, 2009). In a nation where test mania prevails, tests will occupy part of the education landscape [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:52pm EST
  by John Young

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• Thompson: Is Our Education Policy Folks Learning?

  —Transparent Christina

  Given the latest discussion of the coverage of education and the press, Linda Perlstein’s hyperlink to Nick Lemann’s account of the passage of NCLB couldn’t be timelier. But first we should recall Lemann’s greatest scoop, an interview with Karl Rove on “the death of the Democratic Party” scenario where Rove systematically disabled the [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 4:15pm EST
  by John Young

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• Extended school day / year

  —Kilroy's delaware

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  The United States Department of Education aka Arne Duncan takeover wants to see public schools extend the hours in the school day and number of days per year. Personally I see this as a good idea because there is too much down time during summer break. I would rather see the number [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 7:55am EST
  by kilroysdelaware

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• Markell selling out our poorest students

  —Kilroy's delaware

  December 1, 2009 :State Releases Comprehensive “Plan to Strengthen Delaware’s Schools”  Regulations submitted to help every child receive a world-class education. Today, the administration submitted for review proposed regulations that focus on improving teacher evaluation systems and turning-around struggling schools, which are significant elements of the state’s “Plan to Strengthen Delaware’s [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 4:40pm EST
  by kilroysdelaware

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• Show Me the Money!

  —Red Clay Now

  No matter what our opinions are in regards to the school districts consolidating, do you really think Delaware lawmakers are going to put ALL the savings (if there is any) back into education? [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 6:05am EST
  

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• Education Secretary Arne Duncan Says School Principals Must Act Like CEOs

  —Transparent Christina

  Duncan says that one of the major ways to get this done is to make sure that principals have the same skills as CEOs . “We have to treat them as such, and we have to train them as such,” he says in this new podcast, the second in a series of interviews [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 1:34am EST
  by John Young

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