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Our Vision | Idaho's Promise
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All of Idaho's students deserve an excellent education. What is Idaho’s Promise? Idaho’s Constitution requires that the state “establish and maintain a general, uniform and thorough system of public, free common schools.”. It doesn’t take much digging to realize that Idaho’s schools are not uniform. Current policy creates an inequitable system of funding depending on the district the student resides in, and the resources a district can offer to the student are tied to the dollars available. Current issue...
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On School DEforms in Louisiana | GFBrandenburg's Blog
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Just a blog by a guy who's a retired math teacher. On School DEforms in Louisiana. 8220;Crazy Crawfish” is running for school board in Louisiana. He has a long and useful article on how effective (or not) the DEforms have been that were instituted by the billionaires and their ex-TFA minions there, especially after firing all seven thousand New Orleans public school teachers after Hurricane Katrina. The answer, if you look at NAEP, is none. He also has a number of proposals on that which ought to be done.
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Disaster Capitalism, Greek Style (with a nod to Naomi Klein) | GFBrandenburg's Blog
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Just a blog by a guy who's a retired math teacher. Disaster Capitalism, Greek Style (with a nod to Naomi Klein). Disaster capitalism, Greek style. Under the terms forced on Greece just now, by the ‘troika’, all small Greek businesses need to pay all their taxes for the entire year, in advance, before they’ve earned any money at all. But foreigners living there can send out any funds they like, tax free– according to noted economist Joseph Stiglitz in the NYT. The European Central Bank. Let me also point ...
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Are Schools Misinterpreting Common Core Standards as Common Teaching? – The Progressive Educator
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A site guided by two education professors from the University of Arkansas that is dedicated to the ideal of progressive education in the United States. The opinions expressed here are the authors' and do not necessarily represent the University of Arkansas or any other entity. Search The Progressive Educator. Jason L. Endacott, Ph.D. Christian Z. Goering, Ph.D. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. At the Chalk Face. Top Posts and Pages. Teach...
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Living in Dialogue: Education Reformers Lost in the Woods Should Pause, Listen and Learn | National Education Policy Center
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Update: Frankenstein (ISEE) Idaho’s Longitudinal Data System Will Receive Life Support | Idaho's Promise
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All of Idaho's students deserve an excellent education. What is Idaho’s Promise? Update: Frankenstein (ISEE) Idaho’s Longitudinal Data System Will Receive Life Support. Rakesh Mohan, Director of Idaho’s Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE), delivered a scathing report. To the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee today regarding Idaho’s longitudinal data system, (Idaho System of Educational Excellence). OPE reported that districts spend on average. In a single month in preparing the monthly data uploa...
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Levi B Cavener | Idaho's Promise
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All of Idaho's students deserve an excellent education. What is Idaho’s Promise? Author Archives: Levi B Cavener. Coming soon to a school near you Idaho: Charter school cronyism. In the wake of financial scandals in the Gem State’s education world including the multi-million broadband fiasco, citizens have a right to be leery about cozy relationships between government entities and their business partners. Take, for example, the recent charter school petition. Continue reading →. August 21, 2016. Unfortu...
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Update: Frankenstein (Schoolnet) Now a Whopping 61 Million Dollars – Still Not Working. | Idaho's Promise
https://idahospromise.org/2015/03/23/update-frankenstein-schoolnet-now-a-whopping-61-million-dollars-still-not-working
All of Idaho's students deserve an excellent education. What is Idaho’s Promise? Update: Frankenstein (Schoolnet) Now a Whopping 61 Million Dollars – Still Not Working. Such was the scathing report. Issued by Rakesh Mohan, Director of Idaho’s Office of Performance Evaluations, to the legislature today on the current state of dysfunction regarding Schoolnet, Idaho’s Instructional Management System. While many details were not shared in the presentation today, the full report is available online. Through t...
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