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April 15, 2008
April 15, 2008
Shouldn’t Schools Be About the Kids?
New York Times, NY, April 15, 2008
All teachers - tenured or not - who failed to meet improvement goals would be required to spend the summer in a retraining program, and then re-evaluated the following year. No improvement, no job.
High School in Pajamas: Inside Insight
ABC News, April 14, 2008
Insight, which operates as a publicly funded charter school, says it caters to students in a variety of situations -- those who work full time, teens who want to escape peer pressure and teasing…
McCrory and Perdue Should Trust Parents
The Daily Tar Heel, NC, April 15, 2008
North Carolina's charter school initiative is an incredible success. While the number of charter schools in the state is capped at 100, nearly half - three of seven - of N.C. high schools on Newsweek's top 100 U.S. high school lists are N.C. charter or magnet schools.
Opportunity Knocks: Don't Keep Schoolchildren Waiting
San Jose Mercury News, CA, April 15, 2008
After seven months of waiting, William Chavarin recently got the phone call he'd been hoping for: His son, long on the waiting list for the second grade at a well-reputed school, was in.
Merit-Based Pay A Much-Needed Educational Initiative
Greenville News, SC, April 15, 2008
Merit-based pay is a common feature of the private sector. Hard workers and high performers are rewarded. Why shouldn't that be the policy in the public sector as well?
Green Dot's Formula For School Success
Detroit News, MI, April 15, 2008
Local education leaders in Metro Detroit are interested in the Green Dot approach as a model for transforming existing public high schools and opening new ones in Michigan's urban areas. Barr's His formula for school success includes…
Teachers Must Embrace Reform Or Be Run Over By It
Detroit News, MI, April 15, 2008
Detroit Public Schools teachers are following a suicidal path if the union members continue to be the major obstacle to reforming the city's schools.
Thanks For Charter School Support
Chester Daily Local, PA, April 14, 12008
The Pennsylvania Coalition of Charter Schools (PCCS) applauds state representatives Barbara McIlvaine Smith and Duane Milne for supporting charter school families in spite of special interest group pressure.
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Teachers have to be more center stage in any school reform consideration. Unfortunately, the majority are disconnected academically professionally from those academic organizations that would keep them informed within their respective disciplines. If they were connected and informed they might speak more authoratatively and be heard.
Posted by: Gordon S. Hale | April 16, 2008 11:11 AM
