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Six on Schools: Why does repeating grade 3 help?; Have the teacher strikes created a blue wave of national teacher activism?; NJ becomes second state to require that schools teach LGBT history; Chicago: Dollars for Teachers, Millions for Charter Operator; Black, Hispanic students still struggling despite rising graduation rates

Stephen Krashen: Why does repeating grade 3 help?

Why does repeating grade 3 help?

Why does repeating grade 3 help? Sent to Education Week, Feb. 4, 2019 Ed Week announced a study that concluded that “Repeating 3rd Grade Coul...

Have the teacher strikes created a blue wave of national teacher activism? How will teacher activism impact presidential candidate platforms?

"The Janus decision that was planned by the anti-teacher union, pro-choice think tanks and oligarchies seems to have  had the opposite of the effect intended; rather than erode the power of unions the SCOTUS decision appears to have reinvigorated teacher unions.

Hundreds of teachers  across the nation ran for political office.

In New York State the blue wave was a tsunami, Democratic wins both in September primaries, throwing out “straddlers,” who tried to work both sides of the political landscape and in November,  seizing control of both houses of the legislature by majorities that have never been seen.

Eliza Shapiro, in the NY Times, wrote,

Over the last decade, the charter school movement gained a significant foothold in New York, demonstrating along the way that it could build fruitful alliances with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and other prominent Democrats. The movement hoped to set a national example — if charter schools could make it in a deep blue state like New York, they could make it anywhere.

But the election … strongly suggested that the golden era of charter schools is over in New York. The insurgent Democrats … have repeatedly expressed hostility to the movement."

https://mets2006.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/have-the-teacher-strikes-created-a-blue-wave-of-national-teacher-activism-how-will-teacher-activism-impact-presidential-candidate-platforms/

New Jersey becomes second state in nation to require that schools teach LGBT history

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2019/02/01/nj-schools-teach-lgbt-history-new-law/2743028002/

Many questions remain as to the reliability of the state’s new list of struggling schools and why some schools were taken off the list and others not

https://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2019/02/many-questions-remain-as-to-reliability.html

 

Chicago: Dollars for Teachers, Millions for Charter Operator

https://dianeravitch.net/2019/02/03/chicago-dollars-for-teachers-milliions-for-charter-operator/

Black, Hispanic students still struggling despite rising graduation rates

Thanks, Leonie for keeping the focus on distorted test reports and the fact that disparate results speak louder than words.

 

Susan Edelman does a nice report here.  My concern is that we're fixated on high school patterns (Regents, grad stats and SHSAT, of late) and how different groups of students do after nine years of schooling.  If test data is what everything comes down to, there must be a deeper analysis of the troubling scores obtained by 440,000 students in grade 3 through 8--only obliquely mentioned and left for readers to infer--in this piece. 

 

Fred

 

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I’m quoted in this article about the pathetically low grad rates of ELLs:

Just 29 percent of those kids graduated in four years, and 41 percent in six years.

“NYC is a magnet for immigrants from all over the world. If our school system can’t graduate even half of them within six years, there’s something deeply wrong,” said education watchdog Leonie Haimson, founder of the nonprofit Class Size Matters.

 

 

https://nypost.com/2019/02/02/black-hispanic-students-still-struggling-despite-rising-graduation-rates/

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