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Posts in category Effective Public Schools

Increasing class sizes like ‘herding cattl...

Increasing class sizes like ‘herding cattle’

North Carolina’s public school children could return in August to very different classrooms if the state Senate budget is passed. The proposal is up for a second vote today before moving on to the House. It reduces the number of teacher assistants and pre-kindergarten slots, and it removes the cap on kindergarten-through-second-grade class sizes. Read […]

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Editorial: Public Schools Must Come Fir...

Editorial: Public Schools Must Come First

“North Carolina’s children can’t afford legislators who take their cue from fairy tales. They need lawmakers who want public schools to succeed and will develop policies to help build up the schools, not tear them down.” Take time to read the entire editorial!

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What if Finland’s Great Teachers Taught in U.S. School...

What if Finland’s Great Teachers Taught in U.S. Schools?

Finland’s Pasi Sahlberg is one of the world’s leading experts on school reform and the author of the best-selling “Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn About Educational Change in Finland?” In this piece he writes about whether the emphasis that American school reformers put on “teacher effectiveness” is really the best approach to improving student achievement. He […]

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Why We Need a Moratorium on the High Stakes of Testi...

Why We Need a Moratorium on the High Stakes of Testing

The president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, called late last month for a moratorium on the high stakes attached to new Common Core-aligned standardized tests. (You can read about that here.)  Here’s a piece in support of that call, written by Jeff Bryant, an Associate Fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future , who happens […]

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