Comments on: In the news: teachers take on “Race to the Top” nation-wide; PPS staff recommend hip hop charter http://ppsequity.org/2009/10/15/in-the-news-teachers-take-on-race-to-the-top-nation-wide-pps-staff-recommend-hip-hop-charter/ Covering the beat of Portland Public Schools Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:00:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ken http://ppsequity.org/2009/10/15/in-the-news-teachers-take-on-race-to-the-top-nation-wide-pps-staff-recommend-hip-hop-charter/comment-page-1/#comment-41913 Ken Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:04:12 +0000 http://ppsequity.org/?p=1023#comment-41913 The Board of Assessment and Teaching weighed in on the Race to the Top. Their letter to the DOE outlines their major concerns with the RttT (which is also the blueprint for the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind). http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12780 Worth reading. I've also put up a run-down of the concerns here: http://schoolsmatter.blogspot.com/2009/10/national-academy-of-sciences-releases.html -KL The Board of Assessment and Teaching weighed in on the Race to the Top. Their letter to the DOE outlines their major concerns with the RttT (which is also the blueprint for the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind).

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12780

Worth reading. I’ve also put up a run-down of the concerns here:

http://schoolsmatter.blogspot......eases.html

-KL

]]> By: marcia http://ppsequity.org/2009/10/15/in-the-news-teachers-take-on-race-to-the-top-nation-wide-pps-staff-recommend-hip-hop-charter/comment-page-1/#comment-41701 marcia Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:56:20 +0000 http://ppsequity.org/?p=1023#comment-41701 Hip Hop? What next? GEESH! Hip Hop? What next? GEESH!

]]> By: howard http://ppsequity.org/2009/10/15/in-the-news-teachers-take-on-race-to-the-top-nation-wide-pps-staff-recommend-hip-hop-charter/comment-page-1/#comment-41666 howard Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:53:27 +0000 http://ppsequity.org/?p=1023#comment-41666 I'm looking forward to their vision of education reform and solid reasons for putting educators, not "education management organizations," in the driver’s seat. I’m looking forward to their vision of education reform and solid reasons for putting educators, not “education management organizations,” in the driver’s seat.

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