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- 09-13-2010
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Blog By Deborah Meier/Education Week
Dear Readers,
I've had a lazy summer—while Diane has been busy on behalf of so many of us confronting the "enemy." But if you click on deborahmeier.com you'll see some of the results of my one summer task—reading newly found old boxes full of letters, documents, and clippings. I'm three-fourths done. One folder included my earlier correspondence with Diane—written when we saw each other as enemies! We had pretty harsh things to say about each other—only some of which were misunderstandings (e.g. how we each defined the heart of Progressive education). It leads me to be cautious: maybe some of my current "enemies" will...I've just read Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago, based on a study conducted by the Consortium on Chicago School Research led by Anthony S. Bryk. Bryk starts two steps ahead of most researchers: He acknowledges (1) that test scores do not equal even academic achievement and (2) that lunch forms are an inadequate measure of poverty. (more…)
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