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Comment on: Where district schools falter, state should add more charters - Editorials - The Boston Globe
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Comment on: Early education would do more for kids in poverty - Letters - The Boston Globe
yes, you are correct, experienced, licensed, and adequately compensated teachers are better for our kids' education. Just ask the states that are non union. Their states perform at the worst levels in more »
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Comment on: - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Any article that leads with a platitudinal cliche reeks of myopathy. Charter school attrition and mcas test prep help them duke the stats in our current age of edu-advertisement. If charters schools i more »
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Comment on: A perfect day turns evil - Metro - The Boston Globe
Dogs did sniff before the marathon. Blaming elected officials and police solves nothing and is I unfair. These butchers are to blame, not anyone else. Remember that.
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Comment on: Take an accurate count - Editorials - The Boston Globe
Nat Hawthorne writes: "very small difference in SPED enrollment between charters and traditional public schools." Anyone who WORKS in the field knows that this is not the case. According to "Disabilit more »
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Comment on: Take an accurate count - Editorials - The Boston Globe
This article highlights the fact charters and public schools compete for the same resources. Charter superiority is the rallying cry behind lifting the cap. However, let's use our common sense. Firstl more »
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We must take bold action to alter the status quo. Our children's future is at stake. As our teachers are held "accountable" we rely more and more on high stakes testing as the metric that defines our more »
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Comment on: Waiting lists for charter schools overstate demand, review shows - Metro - The Boston Globe
Nathaniel Hawthorne, - you want #s, here's some #'s It's true charter schools are #1, in SUSPENSION rates: Roxbury Preparatory Charter: 56.1% City on a Hill Charter: 43.6% Up Academy Charter Boston: 3 more »
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Comment on: Putting education at the center of the mayor campaign - Opinion - The Boston Globe
thank you scot, give me a week or two to collect info, contacts, etc. from children from my SY '10-11 or '11-'12 4th grade class. There were at least three kids I remember off hand in my class alone ( more »
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Comment on: Putting education at the center of the mayor campaign - Opinion - The Boston Globe
I wonder if edumom is actually a mother of a student in a charter, or a front person for DFER - paid to get the "message" out. Transparency - I'm a public school teacher - who are you really? If you a more »
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Comment on: Putting education at the center of the mayor campaign - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Part of DFER 's strategy is to conduct "polls" also, contact editorial boards to get message out - among many other "plays". Google DFER strategy, second link speaks of how's they got things done in C more »
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Comment on: Her best teaching came late in career, with experience and training - Letters - The Boston Globe
Experience matters, that's why education "reformers" with little or no chalk time will never get it. It's a ponzi scheme for them!
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Comment on: Merit pay system throws up roadblocks to success - Letters - The Boston Globe
Finally, TRUTH!
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Comment on: Putting education at the center of the mayor campaign - Opinion - The Boston Globe
I can't back up? Firstly, my STUDENTS last year took charter tests. They were in 4th grade. Hopefully, they were not used for admission purposes because that would be illegal. Nevertheless, tests were more »
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Comment on: Putting education at the center of the mayor campaign - Opinion - The Boston Globe
"lotteries for anyone who wants to apply"? How come the severe SPED kids at UP couldn't apply? What about the SEI kids? UP didn't offer programming for those kids, that's why. So, please refrain from more »
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Comment on: Putting education at the center of the mayor campaign - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Rant this: why do so-called higher performing charters not backfill seats? Why are their SAT scores lower? Why is BPS enrollment rate at an 8 yr high? Answers: They duke the stats through attrition br more »
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Comment on: Putting education at the center of the mayor campaign - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Charters do not educate all kids. Research the rates of autistic, downs syndrome, oppositional defiant disorder, point 4 special education, kids on 504 plans, and ELL kids. These children are educated more »
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Comment on: Woman held on $50,000 cash bail in attack on mother with baby in stroller - Metro - The Boston Globe
The town I loved so well......goodbye Savin Hill more »
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Comment on: After MCAS: The real test of the Common Core - Opinion - The Boston Globe
The "tests" have already been here, they are not "coming". Our nation's testing fixation is the most ludicrous policy ever conjured up by our aristocratic "stakeholders". Testing is not teaching. Teac more »
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Boston's school day is seven minutes shorter than the national average. The real status quo is using the phrase as a meaningless cliche, and then blatantly making up "facts". Boston's" shortest day in more »
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Comment on: Kids made it to school in snow â only to be parked in front of the tube - Letters - The Boston Globe
more teacher bashing...try to do my job - you couldn't. When you were in school you never watched a movie? When over half the class is out your lesson plan is out the window, otherwise half of the cla more »
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Comment on: Boston mayoral hopeful Connolly has a bland plan for the schools - - Boston.com
Keane, another opinionated writer that has no idea what he is talking about. Convert all of BPS to charters? Does he do any investigative reporting or does he simply get a policy brief complete with t more »
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Comment on: Charter schools: Results too good to ignore - - Boston.com
In a charter kids are booted and not replaced. In public schools we can get kids all year long. On the other hand charters do not "backfill" the seats of those who do not cut it. It's called success b more »
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Comment on: Charter schools: Results too good to ignore - - Boston.com
In the non-union world you have a system of nepotism, patronage, and corruption. In the non-union world ceos have recorded record profits, while the middle class suffers under their corporate greed. T more »
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Comment on: Charter schools: Results too good to ignore - - Boston.com
Oh, but lauding the fact that a man is not teaching anymore because of a homophone confusion is indeed personal. Your own writing is riddled with many more errors. You serve as a cliched example of te more »
Chrissy, I guarantee you that the average union public school teacher works many more hours than the average employee in the private sector. We do not have a "paid vacation". And it's not "12 weeks". more »