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Who Should Decide What Students Read? (2009)

PiGuy sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 30, Clicks: 4)
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Dane L. Peters -- In efforts to encourage young adults to read more, the question of how to decide what they read always prompts lively debate among teachers, parents, and young people themselves. My experience as an educator and lifelong reader leads me to the axiom: The more adults encourage and the less they intrude, the better.

1 comments | Tags: dane l. peters gossip girl series reading diane ravitch | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Why renowned educators are 'occupying' the Ed Dept

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 18, Clicks: 4)
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Today teachers, students, parents, researchers and other activists are starting the second annual "Occupy the DOE" event on the grounds of the U.S. Education Department to protest corporate-based school reform. A new teacher explains why she is attending.

2 comments | Tags: valerie strauss united opt out diane ravitch amy rothschild u.s. department of education | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Key education activists protesting in D.C. next week

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 70, Clicks: 4)
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Valerie Strauss -- Leading education activists are converging on Washington D.C. next week to protest school reform.

1 comments | Tags: valerie strauss united opt out national school reform diane ravitch standarized tests | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Diane Ravitch: Wrong on the Common Core

nitajo sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 18, Clicks: 4)
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Marc Tucker -- Diane Ravitch has played a very important role in recent years as an apostate from the camp that has devoted itself to market-driven education reform and the use of tough-minded accountability systems inimical to teacher professionalism. But her reference in her blog on this subject to her opponents makes me wonder whether she is opposed to the Common Core State Standards because her opponents are for them.

0 comments | Tags: diane ravitch common core state standards marc tucker | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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State takes closer look at national education standards

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.omaha.com (Views: 43, Clicks: 4)
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Nebraska's refusal to adopt the Common Core academic standards in math and language arts could cost students, teachers and taxpayers as 45 other states press full steam ahead to implement them, some educators say.

2 comments | Tags: nebraska common core state standards school funding diane ravitch | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Diane Ravitch Launches New Education Advocacy Counterforce

nitajo sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 15, Clicks: 4)
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Michele McNeil -- Education historian Diane Ravitch, a fierce critic of current education reform trends, is launching a new advocacy organization that will support political candidates who oppose high-stakes testing, mass school closures, and what her group calls the "privatizing" of public schools.

0 comments | Tags: diane ravitch school reform network for public education michele mcneil social networking | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Ravitch Forms Anti-School Reform Group

Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 44, Clicks: 5)
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Diane Ravitch explains why she she has formed a new advocacy group as a counter to Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst and like-minded organizations that are pushing standardized test-based and other changes in education policy.

1 comments | Tags: valerie strauss diane ravitch school reform network for public education michelle rhee | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Ravitch Opposes Common Core

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 146, Clicks: 38)
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The leading voice in the movement against corporate-based school reform believes in national standards but has come out against the Common Core.

3 comments | Tags: valerie strauss diane ravitch common core state standards national governors association achieve | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Ravitch on Rhee

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 110, Clicks: 4)
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Valerie Strauss -- The PBS show “Frontline” on Tuesday night aired John Merrow’s documentary on school reformer Michelle Rhee, which focused on the 3 1/2 years she was chancellor of D.C. Public Schools. There is sure to be a variety of opinions on what it said and what it didn’t say. Here is the reaction of education historian Diane Ravitch, who has become the preeminent voice in the growing opposition to Rhee’s style of school reform.

1 comments | Tags: valerie strauss diane ravitch michelle rhee frontline school reform | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Connecticut Adds New Tests for Kindergarten, 1 and 2 Grades

nitajo sumitted ago via http://dianeravitch.net (Views: 97, Clicks: 4)
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Diane Ravitch -- Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy wants to prove he is the biggest and baddest of education reformers. Through his efforts, the Legislature passed a “reform” bill that mandates new standardized tests for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade.

0 comments | Tags: diane ravitch school reform connecticut dannel malloy kindergarten | Topic: Early Childhood BAD >_<

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Analyzing the new PDK/Gallup poll on how Americans view public education

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 92, Clicks: 4)
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Diane Ravitch -- The annual Phi Delta Kappa-Gallup poll on education was just released and the sponsors characterize public opinion as split, which is true for many issues.

0 comments | Tags: diane ravitch phi delta kappa-gallup poll phi delta kappa public opinion school reform | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Arne Duncan: “We Don’t Know”

Kbuck sumitted ago via http://dianeravitch.net (Views: 82, Clicks: 4)
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Diane Ravitch -- At a recent meeting in New York City, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that “we as a country don’t know” how much student test scores should count as part of teachers’ evaluation. He said it shouldn’t be zero, and it shouldn’t be 100%. But it should be somewhere in between. As to what the number should be, the secretary said, “we don’t know.”

1 comments | Tags: diane ravitch school reform u.s. department of education arne duncan value-added analysis | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Diane Ravitch: Billionaires Want Charters in Washington State, Again

Kbuck sumitted ago via http://dianeravitch.net (Views: 85, Clicks: 5)
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Diane Ravitch -- Three times the question of charter schools has been put to a referendum in Washington State, and three times the voters have said no. .

1 comments | Tags: diane ravitch school reform u.s. department of education bill gates charter schools | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Ravitch: Will school choice kill public education?

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 89, Clicks: 3)
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Diane Ravitch -- The basic compact that public education creates is this: The public is responsible for the education of the children of the state, the district, the community. We all benefit when other people’s children are educated. It is our responsibility as citizens to support a high-quality public education, even if we don’t have children in the public schools.

0 comments | Tags: school choice public education school reform valerie strauss diane ravitch | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Outrage in Oklahoma

MrGreen sumitted ago via http://dianeravitch.net (Views: 106, Clicks: 5)
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Diane Ravitch -- Officials in the Oklahoma Department of Education posted on its website the personal information of students who received an exemption from state testing. The names, date of birth, test scores and disabilities of these students were made public.

2 comments | Tags: oklahoma end-of-instruction tests high school graduation achieving classroom excellence diane ravitch | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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