With apologies to 8 year old Virginia O’Hanlon from 1897.
Q: “DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no early learning plan. Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so. Please tell me the truth; is there a plan for the development and implementation of [...]
Tag Archives: education reform
Yes, Virginia (and Stan), there is a Plan!
Blowing My Ed Policy Mind
I go to a lot of meetings. And I mean A LOT. Sometimes they have different names: meetings, conferences, work groups, seminars, hearings, work sessions, colloquia, assemblies, conventions, workshops, appointment, rendezvous… but whatever they are called, they are pervasive in my work and life.
So I have gotten really good at tuning in and tuning out. [...]
Nationwide buzz on Waiting for Superman
The nationwide buzz is starting for the upcoming movie Waiting for Superman. The documentary, by director Davis Guggenheim, also of An Inconvenient Truth, follows five kids and their families as they struggle to get a quality education.
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote about the movie today. Here’s an excerpt of what he had to [...]
Test Scores Rise in L.A.’s Reform-Targeted Schools
From the Los Angeles Times:
Despite thousands of teacher layoffs and shrinking school budgets, Los Angeles Unified, the state’s largest school system, posted gains on annual standardized tests. Schools statewide also posted overall gains in results released Monday.
The rising scores brought generally good news concerning various reform efforts underway in L.A. Unified, including at Locke High [...]
A motivated, caring, innovative, knowledgeable, effective teacher in every classroom
(This blog post is written by Connie Gerlitz, one of LEV’s key activists and longtime education reform leader and activist, in response to the Seattle School Board meeting on Wednesday.)
We cannot confuse our love and respect for good teachers with the fact that their efforts are not universally replicated in our classrooms, and our children [...]
Who’s on First
Last night’s meeting of the Seattle School Board was a raucous affair. Except the part where everyone agreed. Kids first. No, seriously, kids first.
Orange t-shirts and messages on flyers and public testimony all aligned, put kids first in the teacher contract negotiations. There was also pretty unanimous agreement that the most important element [...]
Announcing our speakers series on ed reform
We’re happy to finally let all of you in on one of our big projects: the Voices from the Education Revolution Speakers Series.
Over the next year or so, we’ll be bringing in some of the leading movers and shakers in this education reform business. Better yet – all of the events are free.
We just [...]
Looking for an education reform documentary? Take your pick
The buzz is building about the number of education reform documentaries that are currently under development this year.
While An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim’s Waiting for Superman is garnering a good chunk of the attention (go see the trailer and read our previous blog post), there are other films worth watching for when they are [...]
Transform not reform
Huffington Post:
Picture this: while photographs of scenes from the past would look quite old-fashioned, photographs of classrooms from the past and from today look unmistakably the same–desks all in rows, facing the teacher, or what Constance Yowell of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation calls “the sage on stage.” The educational system that [...]
Education advocates welcome Arne Duncan to Seattle
Parents and education advocates turned out today to welcome U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Seattle. Duncan joined Senator Patty Murray at Aviation High School, a college preparatory and aviation-themed high school in Des Moines. Aviation provides innovative, hands-on experiences for students pursuing fields in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
Eric Liu, a board member [...]
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Kevin Johnson
Mayor of Sacramento & Founder of St. HOPE
Thursday, October 7 at 7pm
Mount Zion Baptist Church
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