In a radio interview earlier this year, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan shared his views on No Child Left Behind. The law “has to be rebranded,” he said. “No Child Left Behind has become toxic.” More from the interview:
What No Child Left Behind did right was it put a spotlight on the achievement gap…. So it gets great [...]
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Re-branding NCLB
Learn from Lerner
Dr. Richard Lerner wrote a book called The Good Teen: Rescuing Adolescence from the Myths of the Storm and Stress Years. Get it. Read it. Here is a nice excerpt from the book that focuses on why the deficit model to youth development is deficient and why government programs and policies that focus on [...]
Quote of the week
“We’ve spent years working on ways to restructure schools, but what matters most is the relationship between one student and one teacher. You ask a kid who has graduated from high school to list the teachers who mattered in his life, and he will reel off names. You ask a kid who dropped out, and [...]
Geoffrey Canada
Watch this 5 minute clip of Geoffrey Canada speaking recently at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC. Geoffrey is the president of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), an ambitious effort to break the cycle of poverty in a 97 block area of New York City. He exudes PYD. Notice how he doesn’t focus [...]
Quote of the week
The Quote of the Week comes from Peter Block’s book, Community: The Structure of Belonging:
“Most sustainable improvements in community occur when citizens discover their own power to act. Whatever the symptom — drugs, deteriorating houses, poor economy, displacement, violence — it is when citizens stop waiting for professionals or elected leadership to do something, and decide [...]
