History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
The school reform equivalent of playing “Mary Had A Little Lamb” with a Stradivarius
- 09-15-2011
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Blog by Larry Ferlazzo/ Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
I read something truly awful today in The New York Times Magazine article, What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? But before I share what it was, I’d like to preface it by restating my concerns about a pattern I see of some school reformers taking ideas and practices that have a huge learning and teaching potential and, instead, warping them so their benefits disappear and can actually become destructive. The title of this blog post comes from one I wrote last year explaining how the Gates Foundation was doing just this with its use of videotaping teachers and using student surveys. In that post, I explained that: (more...)
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