Article from the LA Times.

Montgomery County, MD–one of the best school districts in America –is at risk of losing its share of Maryland’s  Race to the Top funds because it has a highly effective and time-tested teacher evaluation system that does NOT tie teacher evaluation to student test scores, according to the New York Times. Article link.

What happens in schools is driven more by the politics of private interest than by the politics of public interests, and certainly more by politics than by objective inquiry. The Gates Foundation provides a great example. Gates’ money was the single greatest motivator behind the high school reform/small school movement.   Why?  Bill Gates, or someone ...

Bill Brennan (ELP 2009) will be presenting his website project School Leadership and speaking on a panel at  “Design, Systems, and Learning for the 21st Century”. The conference will be held on July 11, 2011 from 8 a.m . to 5 p.m. on Long Island.  Here’s the link for more information http://dsl21.weebly.com/monday-july-11.html

After a great presentation on Marxism by Kwame in Social Theory, I found this. It’s a pretty good encapsulation of some of Marx’s and Engel’s early thinking.  It’s from Marx’s General, a biography of Frederick Engels and his thinking,  by Tristram Hunt. ” The mode of production in material life determines the social, political, and ...