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Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts
Sunday, February 16, 2014

Latest Ann Arbor Chronicle Column: Good Ideas, Flawed Process at AAPS

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Here is my latest Ann Arbor Chronicle article. The focus is on Jeanice Swift's new proposals (mostly good) and the school board's la...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Listen and Learn Tour Results Are Being Shared Now Via Meetings, Report, and Video

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Superintendent Jeanice Swift had separate meetings with teachers and parents/community members at every single one of Ann Arbor's schoo...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

State 1, Local 0: The MEAP and Three Star Holidays

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A few days ago I was contacted by someone from the Arab American Parent Support Group, who was concerned that the MEAP was scheduled to be g...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Read. Think. Act

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Things to read: Article about the experience of being a test grader: Inside the multimillion-dollar essay-scoring business . Reading about...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Finding a New Superintendent: A Four-Legged Stool

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If you want to know what other people think we should look for in a new Superintendent, take a look at these survey results . I agree with 8...
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Parents, Schools, and the Personal is Political Question

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For a while now I have been following Leonie Haimson (yes, following on twitter and getting her email messages). Leonie Haimson is the exec...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Ann Arbor: Important Budget Forums

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You know the space on this blog is valuable, right? Maybe not in terms of money but in terms of those intangibles, like prestige and idealis...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Pat Green's Salary Issue, Redux

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Christine Stead, AAPS School Board member, recently commented about the Superintendent's salary  on her blog, saying, " This topic ...
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Friday, March 8, 2013

Yesterday's EAA Hearing Available on Video

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I am so very grateful for all of the work of Michigan Parents for Schools . Yesterday, Steve Norton taped* the House EAA Expansion Bill he...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Ypsilanti Schools Shuts Down Facebook Page

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To cut to the chase: The new Ypsilanti Community Schools Board (the Ypsilanti/Willow Run consolidated school board) current Ypsilanti sc...
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Saturday, December 8, 2012

How A (Zombie) Bill Becomes A Law in Michigan, Featuring Schoolhouse Rock

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Here is what we say happens through the legislative process: from Schoolhouse Rock, "I'm Just A Bill." But in Michig...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Ann Arbor: Stop Overtesting Our Kids!

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Ann Arbor: There's a new group in town.  This is a group dedicated to reducing the amount of standardized testing and "assessment...
Monday, September 10, 2012

Patricia Green "Declines to Comment"

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Check out this morning's article in annarbor.com by Danielle Arndt about class sizes and difficulty enrolling in full classes. And what...
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Friday, January 20, 2012

This Week's Observations: Banned Books, Technology, and Charters

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Plymouth-Canton Schools (which actually do draw a small number of students from Washtenaw County have banned two books from an AP English c...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

The MEAP-ing and the Meaning of a B

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Since the MEAP test is being given over the next few weeks, I thought it would be appropriate to meditate on the MEAP-ish meaning of the (le...
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