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Comment on: We face a gap in opportunity, not achievement - Letters - The Boston Globe
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Comment on: Where district schools falter, state should add more charters - Editorials - The Boston Globe
What are these new strategies the charters employ? How about counseling out students who do not fit the charter mold? How about strategies that suspend children for dropping pencils in their classroo more »
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Comment on: A pro-charter school mayor? - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Scott...there is no such thing as a blind lottery. Why can't YOU accept that the even having a lottery is a form of cherry picking. It IS true that parents seeking to escape the schools that are now more »
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Comment on: A pro-charter school mayor? - Opinion - The Boston Globe
The biggest hypocrisy is the charter claim that it is the new civil rights movement. Actually it is just the opposite. There is a selective nature about who gets into charter...and kids who don't fit more »
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Comment on: - Opinion - The Boston Globe
The largest charter school in Boston is the Renaissance school. A school that continues to fail. Given the lack of funding the Boston Public Schools continue to make advances. Lifting the cap is not more »
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Comment on: Boston School Superintendent Carol Johnson knows the price of public service - Metro - The Boston Globe
I really don't get it Yvonne. Your article is filled with compassion for a person who put in a lot of hours at the expense of her family. But don't you realize that teachers also put in a lot of hou more »
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I thought I stated that. White middle class values include an overemphasis on standardized testing. They often do not value the critique of inequality and racism.
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This is not surprising given the corporate agenda in education. See this tweet between Jim Stergios (Globe blogger from the Pioneer Institute) and another blogger...the Edushyster. https://twitter.co more »
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Comment on: Middle class Bostonians with children need a reason to stay - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Larry, this is not an easy fix but it's true: in order to fix our schools we have to deal with the fallout from poverty. Step into a Boston school, and you will find there are excellent teachers all more »
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The Globe editorial board's love affair with the MCAS is misplaced. Recently James McDermott, who helped create the exam, has done a 180. These high stakes test have caused irreparable harm to a gen more »
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Comment on: Waiting lists for charter schools overstate demand, review shows - Metro - The Boston Globe
You know who's not waiting for charter schools? The families of the students who regularly get kicked back to the public schools just prior to MCAS testing. The families of the students whose langua more »
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Comment on: Putting education at the center of the mayor campaign - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Why does Lehigh continue to push for charters but fails to mention the probation of one of the largest charter schools, the Rennaissance School? The Rennaissance comes closest to mirroring the student more »
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Teaching on a cart is absurd. And this isn't the only place this happens. Teachers all over the city are forced to teach on a cart. Science teachers at many of the high schools are forced to teach more »
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Comment on: Career ladder for Lawence teachers would boost achievement - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Obviously not a critical thinker.
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Comment on: Career ladder for Lawence teachers would boost achievement - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Also...just as speeding tickets go up during tight budget years...so will bad evaluations.
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Comment on: Career ladder for Lawence teachers would boost achievement - Opinion - The Boston Globe
This plan has no merit. Teachers need the freedom to speak their mind. Linking pay to evaluations will make it virtually impossible for teachers to challenge anything...let alone bad principals (and t more »
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Comment on: After MCAS: The real test of the Common Core - Opinion - The Boston Globe
CF3 - Take a look at Campbell's Law "The more any quantitative social indicator is use for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to di more »
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Kenny Salim is a fraud. Don't believe anything he says. His main concern is the bottom line and he has little understanding of what schools are about. He taught for a couple of years and made his w more »
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Teachers already work an extended day in this city for no compensation. It's called helping kids after school, planning at home and on the weekends, making calls to parents etc. After 26 years teach more »
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Connolly's continued malignment of the Boston Public Schools is little more than a publicity stunt that will do little to improve public education in this city. The breaking up of the status quo that more »
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Comment on: Charter schools: Results too good to ignore - - Boston.com
There must be charter school seats available now. Who's in the seats of all those "problem" students the charters are pushing back into the public schools now that MCAS season is upon us. We don't lo more »
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Because health care reform has yet to address the greed of insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, and for-profit hospitals (and I count many of the so called non-profits as for profits give more »
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Laughing as I read Michael O'Neill's comments about making the decision. This is an appointed school board and the mayor wants this plan. It's a done deal. You know it...I know it...anyone with a hea more »
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Comment on: Boston charter school faces probation for declining MCAS scores - - Boston.com
Interesting. When the state lowered their enrollment and cut their budget there was actually a 15% increase in their per pupil allotment! In other words when it was being shown that this charter sch more »
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Comment on: In Boston, Whole Foods co-CEO Mackey says capitalism gets a bad rap - Business - The Boston Globe
This guy equates the creation of "value" (commodities) as inherently good. What about all the waste that comes with these commodities. Not to mention the brain-washing (marketing) that has gone on t more »
Excellent letter!