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  • Teachers Without Borders on 31 Jul 12
     
    Diverse Charter Schools: Can Racial and Socioeconomic Integration Promote Better Outcomes for Students? Poverty & Race Research Action Council; Century Foundation Kahlenberg, Richard D.; Halley Potter Published: May 2012 Examines how current policies and philanthropic priorities create high-poverty, racially isolated charter schools, benefits of socioeconomically diverse charter schools, and approaches taken in successful examples. Proposes policy and funding reforms.
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  • Teachers Without Borders on 13 Apr 12
     
    Describes charter school management practices linked to improved student achievement: setting high expectations for student behavior to promote a safe and focused learning environment, and providing intensive, individualized coaching for teachers.
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    The Earth Charter Initiative is a diverse global network of people and institutions that promote the values and principles of sustainable development.
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Diane Ravitch: Standardized Testing Undermines Teaching : NPR - 0 views

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  • "I came to the conclusion ... that No Child Left Behind has turned into a timetable for the destruction of American public education," she tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "I had never imagined that the test would someday be turned into a blunt instrument to close schools — or to say whether teachers are good teachers or not — because I always knew children's test scores are far more complicated than the way they're being received today."
  • "The whole purpose of federal law and state law should be to help schools improve, not to come in and close them down and say, 'We're going to start with a clean slate,' because there's no guarantee that the clean slate's going to be better than the old slate," says Ravitch. "Most of the schools that will be closed are in poor or minority communities where large numbers of children are very poor and large numbers of children don't speak English. They have high needs. They come from all kinds of difficult circumstances and they need help — they don't need their school closed."
  • "Regular public school parents are angry because they no longer have an art room, they no longer have a computer room — whatever space they had for extra activities gets given to the charters and then they have better facilities. They have a lot of philanthropic money behind them — Wall Street hedge fund managers have made this their favorite cause. So at least in [New York City] they are better-funded ... so they have better everything."
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  • "Race to the Top is an extension of No Child Left Behind. It contains all of the punitive features. It encourages states to have more charter schools. It said, when it invited proposals from states, that you needed to have more charter schools, you needed to have merit pay — which is a terrible idea — you needed to judge teachers by test scores, which is even a worse idea.
  • On teachers unions "They're not the problem. The state with the highest scores on the national test, that state is Massachusetts — which is 100 percent union. The nation with the highest scores in the world is Finland, which is 100 percent union. Management and labor can always work together around the needs of children if they're willing to. I think what's happening in Wisconsin and Ohio and Florida and Indiana is very, very conservative right-wing governors want to break the unions because the unions provide support to the Democratic Party. But the unions really aren't the problem in education."
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PBL project-based learning video TWB education OER

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    A video about PBL and how it works in a small charter high school in the USA.
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  • Teachers Without Borders on 20 Jan 12
     
    Last week, 450 charter schools in the Valencia region of Spain threatened to close their doors, leaving 250,000 pupils on the streets. The reason: they can no longer pay their bills for basic, essential services such as electricity and water because they have not received any funding from the local authority for the last six months.
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  • Her specialty - teaching English as a second language - is about to become an even hotter commodity in Quebec.The Education Department plans to expand intensive English in Grade 6 to all French public schools over the next five years. It predicts about 1,235 extra teachers will be needed to teach those classes.
  • A normal teaching workload is 300 to 400 students, said Lise Winer, a professor in second language education at McGill University's Integrated Studies in Education department."You have 10 classes and you see them for 75 minutes twice in a nine-day cycle. It's just hard to keep track of things," Winer said.
  • The Education Department believes that with the expansion of intensive English more students will be drawn to the field because the new positions will be more attractive. In intensive English classes, teachers typically work with the same group of students for a semester as opposed to juggling many classes.
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  • Because of Bill 101,the French Language Charter, intensive English classes in French schools can't involve instruction in other subjects like mathematics and science.
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