Not gonna say it was
quite like seeing Lady Gaga walk into our library basement, but it was pretty cool. Just a few (paraphrased) nuggets able to persist through my stats-addled brain-fog:
We hold school time constant and let learning vary. We need to flip those: everybody to mastery, no matter how long it takes.
One of my big problems with NCLB was that it overidentified underperforming schools but didn't give states the money to help those schools.
Teacher evaluation has to be based in part on student achievement. It's a common sense connection parents know. Last year she had a poor teacher and hated math. This year she loves her teacher and math's her favorite subject.
If you want to guarantee great turnout at a school committee meeting out in the suburbs, don't propose revamping the reading curriculum--propose changing the school day by 20 minutes.
We just voted to do the first state takeover of a school system, in Lawrence. I was at a school in a different city yesterday, and I was sitting there talking to those people, thinking, We should take over this district, too.
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