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Jeff Bernstein

Better teachers, equipment won't improve schools as long as students avoid work | Deser... - 0 views

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    "In the past few years I have come to realize that the main problem with our education system today is not what is taught, where it is taught, by whom it is taught or how it is taught. The main problem with education today is students who refuse to work."
Jeff Bernstein

Richard Iannuzzi: Setting the Record Straight: New York's Teacher and Principal Evaluat... - 0 views

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    As a party to the agreement (I was personally at the table throughout the negotiations), NYSUT sought to maintain principles that are good for students and fair to teachers. We believe we succeeded. This agreement creates a thoughtful, collaborative framework that allows teachers, principals and parents to develop a majority of the evaluation measures through conversation and negotiation. It recognizes the complexities involved in teacher evaluation and emphasizes the continual improvement of teaching skills in ways that benefit all children. At a time when poverty and the wealth gap widen the achievement gap, this agreement strives to strengthen public education by building on collaboration to help every child succeed.
Jeff Bernstein

Lessons learned from teaching | StarTribune.com - 0 views

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    After 38 years of teaching in Vermont and Minnesota in a variety of schools and programs, I've decided to step away and retire from classroom teaching. I've cleaned out my classroom, graded all the papers and returned my library books. Now I need to clean out my head. Here is my bucket list of 10 items that are useless and should be removed from schools, followed by 10 items that should be the center of every school system.
Jeff Bernstein

On the Front Lines in the War on Poverty - Deborah Meier - 0 views

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    "My "golden age" in New York, the one that allowed a variety of experiments in trust to flourish, happened not by accident and not just because of a few good administrators. It was possible because of a short-lived sea change in the national political conversation. It came because for a while there was a public commitment to wage a war on poverty and on behalf of racial equality."
Jeff Bernstein

Protecting Classrooms From Corporate Takeover: What Families Can Learn from Teachers' U... - 0 views

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    "Teachers are fighting the privatization wave by connecting with families right where they live."
Jeff Bernstein

Learning the Fitzwalkerstan Way: Wisconsin's Walker Pushes Privatization of Education |... - 0 views

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    "Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker continues to court national support for an extreme agenda of attacking public employees and public services while diminishing local democracy and shifting public money to private political allies. Despite the fact that Walker's moves have been widely condemned in his home state, the hyper-ambitious career politician has repeatedly suggested that he will not moderate his positions because he wants to shift the tenor of politics and policymaking far beyond Wisconsin."
Jeff Bernstein

In Central Falls, charter schools considered great learning resources | Rhode Island ne... - 0 views

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    "In Cranston, people are fighting over whether to allow a new public charter school. Yet, 10 miles to the north in Central Falls, local educators are embracing charter schools to an extent unheard of in most school districts across the country. And the city's school superintendent, Frances Gallo, is leading the effort."
Jeff Bernstein

Education Week: Study Finds Learning Gains for Title I Students - 0 views

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    While the U.S. Department of Education warns that a majority of schools are falling behind in meeting the student-progress targets required under the No Child Left Behind Act, a new analysis suggests that students who participate in the law's largest education program, the Title I program for disadvantaged students, are making strides in mathematics and reading.
Jeff Bernstein

Hess: The Keys to E-Learning Success - Digital Education - Education Week - 0 views

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    The ability to measure cost effectiveness in education, and convince parents and educators that it's in their best interest, will determine the future of online education, according to a paper authored by the American Enterprise Institute's Frederick M. Hess.
Jeff Bernstein

Learning the Hard Way - 0 views

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    Joel Klein reviews books by Steve Brill and Terry Moe.
Jeff Bernstein

What's Teaching and Learning Got To Do with It?: Bills, Competitions, and Neoliberalism... - 0 views

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    Educational reforms enacted through federal policies are directly impacting the voice of children, teachers, and teacher educators. The recently introduced bi partisan bill "Growing Excellent Achievement Training Academies for Teachers and Principals Act" frames a plan for state accreditation for teacher training academies based on student achievement. The newly introduced Race to the Top (RTT) competition, focused on early childhood, includes motivating states to receive some of the $500 million allotted to create ratings systems to score early childhood programs, write standards and related standardized tests, and expectations of what an early childhood teachers should know. Both the proposed bill and RTT competition are positioned to regulate with market driven ideology, reinforcing and reproducing social injustice and undermining democratic ideals.
Jeff Bernstein

All Things Education: Education Films Series III, Our Town: The kind of teaching and le... - 0 views

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    A few weeks before Waiting for Superman came out, I watched a documentary called Our Town. It's about an English teacher in Compton, California, who leads a group of students through putting on the first play, Thorton Wilder's classic "Our Town," their high school has produced in years. It is a pure documentary--there's no agenda (or at least not any obvious one to me), moralizing, politics, or what my husband terms, "auto-hommage."
Jeff Bernstein

For San Diego Schools, a Fear That Larger Classes Will Hinder Learning - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Many in the forefront of what is called the education reform movement - like Bill Gates, the philanthropist, and Arne Duncan, the nation's education secretary - have attended private schools with small class sizes. Others, like New York's mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, and its former schools chancellor Joel I. Klein have sent their children to private schools with small class sizes. Imagine if the poorest public school children had the same opportunity. That is what has been happening for several years in this urban district of 130,000 students. Using state money and federal stimulus dollars, San Diego has held class size to 17 in kindergarten through second grade at its 30 poorest schools.
Jeff Bernstein

Now Rupert Murdoch Wants to Change the Way Our Kids Learn | The Wrap Media - 0 views

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    "Just seven months after his surprising expansion into reading, writing and arithmetic with the $360-million acquisition of Wireless Generation, News Corp.'s chairman and CEO seems intent on making the grade in what could be the future of education -- economized, customized, data-driven digitized instruction. "
Jeff Bernstein

Jeb Bush's Cyber Attack on Public Schools | Mother Jones - 0 views

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    Is the former Florida governor's online-education advocacy: A) a stealth attack on teachers' unions; B) presidential positioning; C) an effort to divert public money to private corporations; D) all of the above?
Jeff Bernstein

Success Charter's Co-Location in District 15 Faces Hurdles - Carroll Gardens, NY Patch - 0 views

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    Success Charter Network founder and former Councilmember Eva Moskowitz faces multiple hurdles in her attempt to open a K-8 charter school in the Cobble Hill/ Boerum Hill area next fall.
Jeff Bernstein

Principal to Congress: I was wrong when I supported NCLB. Learn from my mistake. - The ... - 0 views

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    "Here is an open letter to Alexander and his committee about the NCLB rewrite that was written by an award-winning principal, Carol Burris of South Side High School in New York."
Jeff Bernstein

What's the purpose of education in the 21st century? - The Washington Post - 0 views

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    "What is the purpose of education? The question came into stark relief when Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker recently tried to quietly change the century-old mission of the University of Wisconsin system by proposing to remove words in the state code that command the university to "search for truth" and "improve the human condition" and replacing them with "meet the state's workforce needs." Walker backed off when the issue became public and sparked intense criticism from academics and others, but the issue remains a topic of national debate and of the following post. It was written by Arthur H. Camins, director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J."
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