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Why We Must Recommit Ourselves to Excellent Public Schools For All

January 31, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Make every existing public school excellent–that’s the only solution.

What’s currently wrong with public education can be summed up by looking at two very local stories that embody in particular what needs fixing in public education. Racial, economic, achievement and other inequalities are playing out through real estate.

Filed Under: Cleveland/Akron, New York City, Parents Tagged With: charter schools

Improve Race to the Top — Here's How

January 28, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Responses to the NYT discussion by top education policymakers on the Obama Administration’s Race to the Top initiative, with independent suggestions for progressive education policy.

Filed Under: Federal Policy, Fixes Tagged With: Diane Ravitch, Michelle Rhee, Race to the Top

Education's Importance in "How We Win the Future," Theme of the State of the Union Speech

January 25, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Some likely points having to do with education policy that President Obama will address in his State of the Union Speech, January 2011.

Filed Under: Federal Policy, Uncategorized Tagged With: SOTU

Conservatives Sponsor "National School Choice Week"– A Trojan Horse to De-Fund Public Ed?

January 24, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

In what may be the opening salvo of conservative-style “education reform,” right-wing think tanks and policymakers will sponsor “National School Choice Week,” January 23-29, 2011.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Conservative Ed Reform

The VIVA Project (Grassroots Teachers) Meets With Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

January 21, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Teachers from around the country raise their voices from the grassroots so they can be heard in education reform efforts.

Filed Under: Educators, Federal Policy

The Tea Party Plans to Dismantle the Department of Education

January 18, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

What’s the Tea-publican Party agenda on education reform, and why do some want to dismantle the Department of Education?

Filed Under: Federal Policy

New Priorities: Governor Brown Overhauls California Education

January 16, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Governor Brown replaces 7 of 11 California State Board of Education members with his own appointees, charting a path for the state that tilts away from Schwarzenegger’s pro-charter direction and away from the White House’s Race to the Top agenda.

Filed Under: Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Francisco, School Boards

Science Grrl: Why I'm Not Worried About China

January 14, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Worry about China? Worry about 200 Chicago public schools that don’t have a library first.

Filed Under: Chicago Tagged With: Model Minority, PISA

Dear Asian America: Forget Chua's Book, This is Our "It Gets Better" Moment

January 11, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

This is an opportunity to talk about abandoning harsh immigrant parenting that didn’t work so well, and going forward with what did.

Filed Under: Parents Tagged With: Model Minority

Amy Chua's Book on "Model Minority" Parenting, A Tempest in a Green-Tea Pot?

January 11, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Why would you parent the same exact way your parents did if you had better parenting tools at your disposal?

Filed Under: Parents Tagged With: Model Minority

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