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- North Carolina’s “Charter Schools Lite” Plan? Stand on Street with Sign “Will Trade Asinine School Reform for Federal Dollars”
- North Carolina Proposes Dropping School Buildings Full of Children from the Sky.
- The Lottery - A Documentary Film about Charter Schools and Public Education
- It can be done: 100% of the KIPP Gaston College Prep Class of 2010 has now been accepted to college!!!
- North Carolina Democratic Party Risks Much in Wake County Neighborhood Schools Fight
- South Carolina Lt. Governor Stirs Controversy by Equating Poor Families to Stray Animals
- Is Democracy Killing Public Education Reform?
- North Carolina NAACP demonstrates the weakness of African-American "Leadership"
- Wake County must face the EVAAS facts
- North Carolina Scores an "F" in Innovation?
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QPE
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7 weeks 3 days ago
If the NC NAACP had spent this much time in Wake School Board meetings over the past 20 years maybe Wake's minority students wouldn't be in such dire straits today. Seriously, if only as much thought and passion went into looking at the data.
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Demian Dellinger
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7 weeks 5 days ago
Global Citizen Year offers fellowship abroad opportunities for young people between their senior year of high school and freshman year of college. This kind of exposure & opportunity should be more broadly available to American high school grads.
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Demian Dellinger
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11 weeks 2 days ago
The North Carolina State Board of Education has adopted the Common Core State Standards, released earlier this week by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers.
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Demian Dellinger
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12 weeks 17 hours ago
Hopefully this will be a continuing trend. Could go a bit further but a good start. Annual teacher evaluations with half the rating based on student progress and new teachers will have to demonstrate boosted achievement for 3 years to get tenure.
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Demian Dellinger
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14 weeks 6 days ago
This is progress of sorts but allowing a local board to convert schools to charter schools still puts that same (possibly ineffective & visionless) board in charge to handcuff real & necessary innovation & reform. Interesting concept but no.
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Demian Dellinger
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22 weeks 5 days ago
As I predicted in the Fall, North Carolina's failure to use charter schools as part of its strategy to improve public education has cost the state hundreds of millions. http://qualitypubliceducation.com/blogs/north-carolina-scores-f-innovation
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Demian Dellinger
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26 weeks 3 days ago
John Tedesco talks a length about the changes the new new school board want to adopt. Accusations of racism and legal threats by the NC NAACP muddy what should be a serious discussion about the future of Wake Counties struggling students.
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Demian Dellinger
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31 weeks 4 days ago
Being from North Carolina I am born with a license to take stabs at our backwards neighbors to the south but com' on. This is too easy.
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Demian Dellinger
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31 weeks 5 days ago
Data can be a double-edged sword. You can't confuse projections with predestination. Too often this data can be used as an excuse by school boards and districts for condoning low performance from its students "because the data model predicted it."
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Demian Dellinger
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33 weeks 6 days ago
NC's NAACP has come out against change to Wake's diversity policy. Looks like: 1) a failure to understand the failure the data shows and 2) a sad belief that low-income kids can't learn and succeed w/o breathing the same air as their rich peers.
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Demian Dellinger
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50 weeks 1 day ago
Tom Vander's brief evaluation is spot on.
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Demian Dellinger
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51 weeks 1 day ago
This is very interesting research!
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Demian Dellinger
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51 weeks 3 days ago
Bill Gates gets it. Why should the richest man in the world care more about your child's education than your local leadership?
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blizzkin
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52 weeks 14 hours ago
Good questions here - should KIPP take on a region, like HCZ has? http://tinyurl.com/mhabbw
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KIPPNorthCarolina
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1 year 2 weeks ago
Posted KIPP Myths on our website. As we go out in the world talking about KIPP we run into the same myths and misconceptions over and over. It is nearly always best to take these problems of perceptions head on.
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Demian Dellinger
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1 year 2 weeks ago
Teachers Unions are probably one of the biggest threats to public school reform in troubled regions because they prefer tenure to accountability. Unions have their place but most often outlive their usefulness, institutionalize and corrupt.
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blizzkin
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1 year 4 weeks ago
NYTimes writes of unions moving into charters - b/c teachers are underpaid & overworked? Teachers at top charters need to be paid MORE, duh! And that is eminently do-able, with the right financial management.
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Demian Dellinger
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1 year 8 weeks ago
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
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blizzkin
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1 year 9 weeks ago
How do we convince Durham leaders to bring in KIPP or something similar to their new East Durham Children's Initiative? Regular public schools just ain't gonna change for them!
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Demian Dellinger
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1 year 12 weeks ago
Where do KIPP schools fit in discussions of diversity as a prerequisite for high performing schools? And why does diversity only seem CRITICAL when it means having more white kids at a black schools and not visa versa?
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Demian Dellinger
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1 year 12 weeks ago
Congratulations. The graduation was awesome!
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Demian Dellinger
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1 year 13 weeks ago
I can't help but KNOW that such draconian measures are not required for the academic and personal success of kids. Yes, discipline and structure are good things but it is necessary to stop at the line of treating kids like cattle or robots.
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Demian Dellinger
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1 year 14 weeks ago
There is a fine line between collaboration and healthy competition. The trick is finding the right balance to create something that is productive and not destructive.
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KIPPNorthCarolina
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1 year 14 weeks ago
Graduation is June 6, 2009 at 6pm.
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KIPPSchools
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1 year 14 weeks ago
We're Hiring Nationwide. Great jobs for people with passion and experience.
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QPE
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1 year 14 weeks ago
On April 30th KIPP Gaston College Preparatory held the first ever College Signing Day, where the entire school assembled to witness the graduating seniors announce their college of choice and sign their acceptance letters.
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QPE
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1 year 14 weeks ago
What if we could twitter but just twittering between education people?
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