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Comment on: John Connolly is better off without Boston Teachers Union endorsement - Opinion - The Boston Globe
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Comment on: John Connolly is better off without Boston Teachers Union endorsement - Opinion - The Boston Globe
If all you try to accomplish in a school is high MCAS scores, at best, that is all you will get. As TSeeker says, "The teachers I remember best were old enough and had working conditions reasonable more »
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Comment on: John Connolly is better off without Boston Teachers Union endorsement - Opinion - The Boston Globe
This starts to sound like an effort to "deprofessionalize" teaching. Just like medicine. Let's have more paras, physician assistants, and pay the teachers or doctors less,or make them work longer for more »
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Comment on: John Connolly is better off without Boston Teachers Union endorsement - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Which studies, Scot?
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Comment on: John Connolly is better off without Boston Teachers Union endorsement - Opinion - The Boston Globe
What happened, Scott? Did Stutman accidently scuff your highly polished loafer? Thie personal attachks in this article seem unbecoming. "codswallop" Interesting word, but it does not really ad more »
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Comment on: John Connolly is better off without Boston Teachers Union endorsement - Opinion - The Boston Globe
"Let's apply that to charters: BTU teachers make the assumption that the BTU contract sets the proper wage for teachers. But if you have qualified people who are happy to work longer days for the same more »
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Comment on: John Connolly is better off without Boston Teachers Union endorsement - Opinion - The Boston Globe
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Comment on: John Connolly is better off without Boston Teachers Union endorsement - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Well said.
The economic disparity between Charter Schools and BPS district schools is troubling.
So is Scott's personal attack on Stutman. What are Scotts's motives on this issue?
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Comment on: Waiting lists for charter schools overstate demand, review shows - Metro - The Boston Globe
Keep wondering and guessing, Nat.
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Comment on: Turkish-born educators seek to expand charter schools in Massachusetts - Metro - The Boston Globe
The possible cultural bias and business ethics issues raised by this article are interesting. It points out the dangers of the possible abuses of public funding by charter schools with little or no d more »
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Comment on: Turkish-born educators seek to expand charter schools in Massachusetts - Metro - The Boston Globe
The failure to retain the teachers recruited from overseas, after spending significant money on them, is troubling.
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Comment on: Turkish-born educators seek to expand charter schools in Massachusetts - Metro - The Boston Globe
"To speak to one of the particular comments in the reporter's article regarding public funds being used for VISA's. It is not an uncommon practice for public schools, traditional or charter, to expen more »
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Comment on: Two new charter schools for City on a Hill - Rock The Schoolhouse's blog - Boston.com
Charters are able to "counsel out" high school students for almost 2 years before they take the MCAS (all of 9th grade and most of 10th grade). Furthermore, they do not fill the empty seats once a st more »
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Comment on: Boston charter school faces probation for declining MCAS scores - Metro - The Boston Globe
I am sorry to learn that Magrait's child's needs went unmet by this charter shool.
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Comment on: Two new charter schools for City on a Hill - Rock The Schoolhouse's blog - Boston.com
Hyperbole alert: Mr. Stergios states that City on a Hill has " 900 applicants for the 90 open slots available each year". Not quite accurate. The school's own website supplies the following data: " more »
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Comment on: Two new charter schools for City on a Hill - Rock The Schoolhouse's blog - Boston.com
To say nothing of the virtual lack of special education and english language learners in charter schools. These students require more services and do not fare as well on standardized tests, or in col more »
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Comment on: Two new charter schools for City on a Hill - Rock The Schoolhouse's blog - Boston.com
Great point. By the nature of the beast, charter school students and their families are self selecting and more motivated to start with. Why does the author keep excluding the City's exam schools fro more »
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Comment on: South Boston charter school proud of its record - Letters - The Boston Globe
With a shrinking student population, due to withdrawals, viewing success by the allegeldy increased percentage of students scoring proficient or advanced on standardized tests is misleading. The sa more »
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Comment on: Debate swirls about UP Academyâs record on retaining students - Metro - The Boston Globe
How many of the withdrawing students were replaced? Let's see the academic, disciplinary and SPED data for the withdrawing students. Its not who you start the year with totally, it is who you still more »
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Comment on: Debate swirls about UP Academyâs record on retaining students - Metro - The Boston Globe
Well said.
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Comment on: Gloucester charter school to close next week - Metro - The Boston Globe
Well said. The public schools are paying the price for this failed venture both ways - loosing the funding in the first instance, and having to accept the students back after the Charter School blew more »
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Comment on: Gloucester charter school to close next week - Metro - The Boston Globe
It is interesting to note, that one of the causes of the failure was declining enrollment. The same thing is happening in UP Academy in Boston. Their attrition rate is the same as the regular distri more »
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Comment on: Boston schools brace for enrollment increase in early grades - Metro - The Boston Globe
"But he said few closed schools remained mothballed. Many have already been reactivated, including two that specifically serve elementary-school-age students, he said." Priceless comment. They were c more »
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Comment on: Boston will help private preschools boost quality - Metro - The Boston Globe
The goal is laudable. However, where is the funding coming from? The already overly stretched school budget? It is troubling that the City continues to utilize outside vendors to meet its responsibi more »
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Comment on: Red Sox counting on bounce-back seasons from starting pitchers - Red Sox - Boston.com
So, what role does the "catching by committee" strategy that the team has deployed since 'Tek left, have in the pitching problems? Tek used to get credit for improving the pitching when he was here. more »
Your's is but one version of his record.