Class Struggle: August, 2011
Posted at 06:39 PM ET, 08/30/2011
By Jay Mathews
Post personal finance columnist MIchelle Singletary suggests parents avoid debt by asking their children to finish college in three years and live at home while doing it. I think that is a bad idea. It overlooks the lifetime benefits of discoveries made while wandering around campus.
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Posted at 05:00 AM ET, 08/29/2011
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Summer’s gone, almost. It’s time to get serious about fixing our schools.
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05:00 AM ET, 08/29/2011 |
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Posted at 12:00 PM ET, 08/25/2011
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Most Americans think it is, according to a new survey. That is an upsetting conclusion to one research psychologist.
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12:00 PM ET, 08/25/2011 |
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Posted at 12:00 PM ET, 08/23/2011
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Accountability is key to the way we are fixing schools. We measure what is happening and if the news is bad, the people in charge have to improve, or go. But a new study suggests ordinary people see accountability differently. They want schools that respond to them, not data.
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12:00 PM ET, 08/23/2011 |
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Posted at 05:00 AM ET, 08/21/2011
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Jonathan Keiler, an AP history and government teacher in Prince George’s County, Md., called himself Mr. Dumbhead at a conference presentation because he can’t reach his principal’s goal for passing the AP exams. He thinks the goal is not good policy. I think he’s right.
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05:00 AM ET, 08/21/2011 |
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Posted at 02:00 AM ET, 08/18/2011
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Many educators think it is rude to show up at a student’s home uninvited, but many teachers are making it work for them. A home visitor in D.C. describes how it works.
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02:00 AM ET, 08/18/2011 |
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Posted at 11:42 AM ET, 08/17/2011
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California educator Bruce William Smith has invented what seems to me to be an engaging summer game---which country has the best education system?
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11:42 AM ET, 08/17/2011 |
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Posted at 05:43 PM ET, 08/14/2011
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We want our kids to go to the schools that take applicants with the highest test scores. Now a new study suggests that our kids don’t need that competitive atmosphere to do just as well.
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05:43 PM ET, 08/14/2011 |
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Posted at 03:15 PM ET, 08/10/2011
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A controversy has broken out over a teachers’ union undermining the parent trigger in Connecticut.
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03:15 PM ET, 08/10/2011 |
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Posted at 11:54 AM ET, 08/09/2011
By Jay Mathews
Peter Gwynn appeared to be an energetic and imaginative teacher, but he didn’t fit in at his high school, run by very experienced administrators who had strict rules for doing things. So he is no longer working there. Should we fire teachers because they don’t want to be part of the team?
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11:54 AM ET, 08/09/2011 |
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Posted at 06:00 AM ET, 08/05/2011
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Oklahoma teacher and writer John Thompson shares his favorite story of an idiotic school reform appeal. Can you beat his example?
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06:00 AM ET, 08/05/2011 |
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Posted at 06:26 PM ET, 08/03/2011
By Jay Mathews
We know Wilson Elementary in D.C. had the city’s highest rate of classrooms with suspicious test erasures. We know its scores declined this year with stricter security methods. But D.C. has not released the erasure data that would help us figure this out.
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06:26 PM ET, 08/03/2011 |
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Posted at 12:00 PM ET, 08/03/2011
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One principal thinks the new D.C. evaluation system works well. The other thinks it hurts her ability to keep in touch with students and teachers. Who is right?
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12:00 PM ET, 08/03/2011 |
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