School-within-school segregation

Notice who is complaining. . .

Honors class leads to diversity debate

2 million minutes

Official web site

2MM blog

Gerald Bracey rebuttal

Lessons from Freire

Henry Giroux offers lessons from Freire

An excellent excerpt:

"What Freire made clear is that pedagogy at its best is not about training in techniques and methods, nor does it involve coercion or political indoctrination. Indeed, far from a mere method or an a priori technique to be imposed on all students, education is a political and moral practice that provides the knowledge, skills and social relations that enable students to explore for themselves the possibilities of what it means to be engaged citizens, while expanding and deepening their participation in the promise of a substantive democracy. According to Freire, critical pedagogy afforded students the opportunity to read, write and learn from a position of agency - to engage in a culture of questioning that demands far more than competency in rote learning and the application of acquired skills. For Freire, pedagogy had to be meaningful in order to be critical and transformative. This meant that personal experience became a valuable resource that gave students the opportunity to relate their own narratives, social relations and histories to what was being taught. It also signified a resource to help students locate themselves in the concrete conditions of their daily lives, while furthering their understanding of the limits often imposed by such conditions"

Duncan/Friedman's misleading use of data

Friedman's Op-Ed

My Op-Ed rebuttal at Schools Matter

More refuting data

Writing. . .and academics

The Shadow Scholar
The man who writes your students' papers tells his story

Brilliant from Walt Gardner

The Gini Index and Educational Achievement

And a piece of mine about teaching as a profession:

The Teaching Profession as a Service Industry

Responses to WfS in one place. . .

http://dailycensored.com/2010/10/19/legend-of-the-fall-snapshots-of-whats-wrong-in-the-education-debate/

http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Tale-of-Two-Films-by-Paul-Thomas-101010-109.html

http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/CEP/eJournal/v005n002/a008.shtml

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/2010/10/dear_deborah_i_reviewed_waitin.html#comments

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-charter-schools/

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/10/16/3108075/superman-offers-mirage-not-a-miraclehorror.html#storylink=scinlineshare

http://www.truth-out.org/the-myth-bad-teacher64223

http://www.fairtest.org/real-facts-about-waiting-superman

http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2010/12/fact-checking-waiting-for-superman.html

When students speak up. . .

Brave New Voices 2010 - "Love Letter To Albuquerque Public Schools"

Teacher-led schools

A better way to run schools. . .

Follow up: Litte Rock Central: 50 Years Later

Interactive map of poverty by states

Most impoverished states @ Huffington Post

Slate articles on class, income, wealth (repost from earlier)