Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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Avoid Worsening “ipadgate”: Talk To Users, Listen To Users, Pilot Decisions Before Moving Ahead
14 Oct 2013Amidst all the sound and fury surrounding LAUSD’s “ipadgate” or “ivebeenhadgate”, there is a sanguine voice that recalls: If there…
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When Democracy Sounds Harmonious
10 Oct 2013For those of you who raised children, perhaps you remember those first moments breathing the same air? It was hard…
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Broader, Fairer, Better: Education Today
07 Oct 2013Whatever happened to education? It’s gotten better and better and fairer and fairer! What’s happened to education is that it…
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It’s Not “Accountability” We Need, It’s “Responsibility”
03 Oct 2013“Accountability”, I’ve noticed, is a term generally employed by those seeking to avoid it, by bullying into silence those susceptible…
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Today’s Homework: Dr. Diane Ravitch
30 Sep 2013Do you know the name “Diane Ravitch”? Do you know who she is? Before becoming involved with education politics some…
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I Say Poverty, You Say “Lunch, Anyone”?
26 Sep 2013How many children in LAUSD are “poor”? What does poverty look like in LAUSD; how is it concentrated? It turns…
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Exploiting Vulnerabilities
23 Sep 2013They really seem to be doing it, following through with distributing ipads to one and all in LAUSD. To myself…
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Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain
19 Sep 2013On Tuesday the LATimes editorialized about “dysfunction” at the LA school board. They criticized the board for discussing the “minutiae”…
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Follow Aquino’s Yellow Brick Road…
16 Sep 2013Last Friday — the 13th, no less — yielded some surprisingly providential news as Superintendent Deasy’s top deputy, Jaime Aquino,…
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Should Common Core Override Common Sense?
12 Sep 2013The latest salvo from federally-forced EdReform, the “Common Core” and its implementation, seems to be branded by a scarcity of…
