Public education’s core functions are teaching and learning, an endeavor in which private enterprise plays a growing role. Edbizbuzz offers perspective on this emerging school improvement industry. (For entries prior to September 2007, visit the archives.) (Disclosure: Marc Dean Millot is an unpaid adviser to the presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. John McCain.) ...
John Thompson is a Teacher in Oklahoma Centennial High School , Oklahoma City Public Schools . The following are my recommendations for NCLB II. I would like to pay special attention to the way that these sorts of proposals could benefit the education providers industry. 1. Abandon the effort to devise a single, overarching, national accountability system. Instead, create accountability systems for each individual reform effort. 2. Remove sanctions from AYP. Testing data should be used for a ranking system, or a "consumer reports" system or for some other way of using the disinfectant of the light of day to hold systems accountable. In return, states must close loopholes and increase the disaggregation of data, for instance, by disaggregating the dropout and the graduation rates. ...
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John Thompson is a Teacher in Oklahoma Centennial High School , Oklahoma City Public Schools . The following are my recommendations for NCLB II. I would like to pay special attention to the way that these sorts of proposals could benefit the education providers industry. 1. Abandon the effort to devise a single, overarching, national accountability system. Instead, create accountability systems for each individual reform effort. 2. Remove sanctions from AYP. Testing data should be used for a ranking system, or a "consumer reports" system or for some other way of using the disinfectant of the light of day to hold systems accountable. In return, states must close loopholes and increase the disaggregation of data, for instance, by disaggregating the dropout and the graduation rates. ...