April 2010
7 posts
“The policy argument that pay for performance is anathema to teachers’...”
– Charles Barone, director of federal policy at Democrats for Education Reform
Statement from EEP on Washington, DC Teacher...
STATEMENT BY THE EDUCATION EQUALITY PROJECT ON NEW WASH, D.C. TEACHER EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT NEW YORK, April 7, 2010 – The Education Equality Project (EEP) strongly supports Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s efforts to transform Washington, D.C.’s public schools. We commend her determined insistence that nothing is more important than students and their results. Rhee, a signatory of our project,...
The 21 Most Important Ever Edurati Twitterati
So, there are things like Yale’s crew team, or the White House, or things of legend like the World Series. They have been around forever, they are icons of power and stability and the focus of the ambitions of millions. People hold these things up as models of the status quo. This is not a list about those kinds of icons. This is a list about transforming education.
These are the people...
“When you’re looking at truth versus gossip, truth doesn’t stand a chance.”
– Barbara Mikkelson , which works all day long, through rain, snow hail and dark of night to debunk popular myths that just don’t seem to die.
Entrepreneur Thinking: What It Is, What It Ain't
My superintendent in the East Village apartment I rent would like me to believe that his solution for the cracks around the somewhat faulty plumbing in my bathroom ceiling and wall is entrepreneurial in its deployment and conceptualization. It most certainly is not. It is not Entrepreneur Thinking to “patch” water permeable cracks with duct tape and then paint over them with a...