Kudos!  All it takes is just one district to break away from the business as usual and take a stand on this platform that everyone is calling “education reform”.  Well one district did!  An article by Greg Meyers entitled “Key to Student Achievement?  ASPIRE to it” is just the movement that’s needed.  It’s not education reform but education transformation as Meyers calls it.  It not only reviews statistical growth in specific metrics on how the Houston Independent S

Yesterday on Talk of the Nation, NPR’s Larry Abramson and Claudio Sanchez explain Obama’s proposed education overhaul and assess his new Race to the Top initiative.  Since the Bush Administration’s No Child Left Behind Act brought sweeping changes to our education system, many argue it emphasizes testing over learning.  You can listen to the Story below:

I hate to admit this because I didn’t think it would actually happen…this soon but I’ve been a blog less writer for almost a week and a half!  Up until then I’ve had no problems finding topics to comment on or respond to but all of a sudden it’s like the blog wall hit me, and it hit me hard.

So just when I thought about how to refuel my writing, this article shows up in my outlook email today!  Yes…I’m back in the passion of blogging and I really do like this article…so here goes.

This time last year, encouraged by my board of directors I embraced social networking and decided I was long overdue for one of those social networks, so I joined LinkedIn.  Building a network of professionals, staying in touch and collaborating in a virtual way is something I have enjoyed.  One particular feature I like with LinkedIn is the ability to add a reading list.  This has been a valuable application to share and watch other lists within my network allowing me to

“The Secrets of Charter School Success” by Diane Ravitch

If you’ve got some time, this is a great article by Diane on evaluating the success of charter schools…are they helping to enhance the system or are they just pulling more of the overachieving students away from the mainstream?  Are they improving test scores or not?