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How a Virtual AP Course Changed Her Son
May 16, 2008Maria Allen worried about her son Matthew's prospects in high school and beyond. He had always been regarded as an underachiever by his teachers. He received B's in middle school with virtually no effort because he did well on what were, she thought, very easy tests.
Five Ways to Boost Charter Schools
May 16, 2008Sara Mead and Andrew J. Rotherham, two of my favorite educational researchers, have inspired me to save the charter school movement with five brilliant if perhaps too far-sighted suggestions for reform.
Teachers in Trouble, Parents Ignored: Readers React
May 16, 2008Twenty-one years later, Suzanne Stradling still remembers her third-grade teacher. The woman passed out math worksheets that each student had to complete and bring to her for a personal assessment. Stradling spent the entire time writing her answers, erasing them and writing them again because she said she was so terrified by the teacher's yelling at students who did not seem to be working and deriding students when they presented answers. Stradling's most vivid memory is of a dyslexic classmate named Sean, who stood in the front of the class as the teacher "launched into a tirade about his laziness, stupidity, and probable future failure."
Teachers in Trouble, Parents Ignored: What to Do?
May 16, 2008 My series of columns the last three weeks on the frustrations of parents trying to influence how their children's teachers are dealt with in crises has gotten a big response from readers. Many of them are as puzzled as I am about how to break through the ill-considered rules and inertia that make these situations so difficult to resolve.
Teachers in Trouble, Parents Ignored, Part III
May 16, 2008This is the third in my series of columns on a frequent, but underreported, cause of friction between parents and schools -- the rules that keep parents from getting information and having influence when their children's teacher has a problem. A short story about this clash between a parent and a principal appeared in the Post May 7.
Teachers in Trouble, Parents Ignored-- Part II
May 16, 2008This is the second in my series of columns about parents who are denied important information and find themselves frozen out of important decisions about their children's teachers. A less-detailed account appeared in The Post on May 7.
Teachers in Trouble, Parents Ignored -- Part I
May 16, 2008I have written several columns about clashes between educators and parents, a subject that rarely gets much attention because it is so personal. Those involved are often reluctant to give details. Over the last few years I have been saving material on some particularly interesting cases in which parents feel school officials froze them out of the process of dealing with their children's teachers. A few months ago, less-detailed versions of these episodes were reported in The Post. Today, and in the next two columns, I will describe four cases at more length, and follow with a column of reader reactions, and one on how experts in parental issues think these cases should have been handled.
Inside the KIPP School Summit
May 16, 2008 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The first thing I noticed about the KIPP School Summit, the annual meeting of the country's most intriguing public school network, was the food. It was cheap, simple and abundant -- potato chips, popcorn, corn chips, juice bars, hamburgers and fajitas available outside the many meeting rooms last week. This was fuel for teachers half my age, about 1,200 of them, nearly all in their 20s and early 30s.
Take That AP Test or Flunk
May 16, 2008J. David Goodman's story in the New York Times last week about the new Advanced Placement policy at two high schools in New Jersey at first made me cringe.
Making Teacher Hiring Less Comfortable
May 16, 2008For those who still think helping children learn is everybody's top priority in our schools, let me cite a disturbing dispute over where to send several hundred teachers at 23 D.C. schools that are about to be closed for inadequate enrollment.
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