Gene V Glass
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Texas Charters Use Occasion of Texas Judge's Decision to Whine About Their Funding

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The Texas Charter Schools Association was hoping to get Judge Dietz — who ruled on August 28th that Texas school funding levels were inadequ...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Put a Hold on that Pultizer Prize Until We Answer a Couple of Questions

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A Phoenix newspaper, the East Valley Tribune, recently ran an article with the exciting title "BASIS Chandler ranks among world's b...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

K12 Inc. Keeps Trying to Get Its Virtual Charter School into Maine

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A 2012 Maine Sunday Telegram investigation of K12 Inc. and Connections Education (Pearson) showed that Maine’s digital education policie...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

One State Has the Courage to Stand for What It Believes

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On August 19th, the Vermont State Board of Education issued a remarkable document. Their "Statement and Resolution on Assessment and A...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Year-Round-Schools? Is anybody really interested in that any more?

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Year-Round-Schools were popular back when the Beatles were all the rage. But you don’t hear about them much any more … year-round-schools, t...
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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Follow Up to "50 Myths & Lies"

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My co-author, David Berliner, and I were recently interviewed by Larry Ferlazzo as a follow-up to the publication of our recent book 50 Myth...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

When Economists Strive to Disparage U.S. Schools, They Work Magic

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Erik Hanushek frequently attempts to prove that virtually everything is wrong with the U.S. public school system: the teachers are bad, the ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Why Are Charter Schools Spending So Much on Administration?

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The state of Arizona has long been a leader in charter schools. Of a million students enrolled in K-12 public education in the state, appr...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

An Administrator Tells What It's Like in One Sector of America's Schools

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KB, a school administrator on the East Coast was provoked by a posting on Infinite Campus on this blog to reply. His observations follow: ...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Warren Buffet a Foe of Public Education? Not Exactly.

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Perhaps because of Buffet’s close association with Bill Gates — they played bridge together over the Internet and Buffet gave his billions...
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