Are turnaround districts the answer for America’s worst schools?
October 21, 2015
The Hechinger Report's article by Emmanuel Felton "Are turnaround districts the answer for America's worst schools?" chronicles the rise and potential/probability of this...
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Philanthropy 101
September 28, 2015
Philanthropy. Wikipedia describes the word etymologically means "love of humanity" in the sense of caring, nourishing, developing and enhancing "what it is to be human" on...
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Running for President
September 21, 2015
I cannot help but think the most recent televised Republican Party Presidential debates resembled a high school student election more than one for the leadership of our...
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Remembering Hurricane Katrina: Some Memories 10 years later.
August 31, 2015
Remembering Katrina. Some Memories - 10 years later. Ten years ago I was in New Orleans with a team of colleagues working to turn around the Orleans Parish School District,...
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Desegregation Debate
August 26, 2015
Recently the weekly public radio show “This American Life” broadcast a two-part series called “The Problem We All Live With” that has gone viral within...
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Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater: National Assessments and Standards
August 05, 2015
“Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater!” Fears of What’s to Follow as States Receive Assessment Results Remember the old adage,...
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Trends & Strategy
August 02, 2015
Last week I wrote two blogs on two seemingly unrelated trends in K-12 public education in America. Both however relate to each other because they intersect at the heart of...
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