strategy & comms guy; progressive; former teacher; love for #phled; pragmatist; sarcasm generator; sixers & phils fan. opinions my own.
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Excited to share the new @TNTP report on the diversity--or lack thereof--of teacher prep programs. A brief thread: @dropoutnation @selmekki @Mr_Ankrum @ConorPWilliams @citizenstewart @ericlerum @TravisJBristol @EquityAndy @kforbriger @Josh__McCarty tntp.org/publications/view/t…
almost never post here, but my new record is out on all streaming services. hope you enjoy! tr.ee/K_Xb9OA-_0
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Hearing an interested party has come forward with an alternate use for the Fashion District
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I have spent my entire professional career focused on making this country better for children. It pains me to exist in a world where the next generation will not have it easier.
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As a Jew, I tend to vote against the person with the support of the neo-Nazis
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My lukewarm take is that we should remove debates from the election cycle. Coming up with clever quips is not a required skill for serving in elective office. If anything, debates reward slickness over substance, and contribute to damaging horse-race politics. Get rid of them!
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Cold marketing emails are annoying enough, but I've started getting cold marketing calendar invites for meetings! Even though they're easy to delete/ignore, it feels like an invasion of privacy. My time does not belong to you, random dude who thinks I should start a podcast!
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Congrats to my former @TNTP colleagues for a great new report on schools that are successfully catching kids up. As tempting as it is to look for "silver bullets," the best schools are the ones that do the basics well. tntp.org/publication/the-opp…
Fiscal conservatism = spending $6 million on a book that is in the public domain
Just announced @RyanWaltersSupt is asking for $3 million for Bibles in the classroom from this years budget…the OSDE meeting has begun @kfor
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New: I look at the nascent movement to revive school integration through state courts.
Advocates say they've learned from the successes and failures of the prior era of desegregation "busing." wsj.com/us-news/education/ed…
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Just insane how much the number of homeless students in one of the richest cities in the world has gone up in the last few years, really an indictment of multiple mayoral admins and pretty much everything else nytimes.com/2023/11/01/nyreg…
This piece exemplifies why @mattbarnum is such a great and important reporter—it’s fair, thoughtful, and focused on what matters. chalkbeat.org/2023/10/11/239…
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Terrific @smervosh story on DoD schools. When I was at @TNTP we used to talk all the time about how the "secret" of great schools is usually that they have the resources, people, and flexibility to do the basic things well. That seems to be the case here. nytimes.com/2023/10/10/us/sc…
I can’t wait to read stats from @jaysonst / @SlangsOnSports on the start to Dodgers/D-Backs. . .
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Note that we often do not see differences this big - or even differences at all - between teachers entering the classroom through different routes/programs.
@jjgottlieb & I show that these teachers negatively impact student achievement. This is concerning w/ 1/4 students in TX have teachers prepared via online teacher prep programs. It takes these teachers *3 years* to reach the effectiveness of a typical 1st yr teacher 2/x
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This is a big deal. I've long know that it was impossible that these online alt-cert mills were adequately preparing teachers--now there's empirical evidence confirming that they are terrible. They are also growing, so we as a society have some important choices to make.
In case you missed it, excited to share a brief featuring our recent study on the preparation of teachers via fully-online programs- where coursework is online, and candidates complete just 30 hrs of classroom observation prior to becoming teachers. ttu-ir.tdl.org/handle/2346/9… 1/x
