More on Achievement first and "school reform"...

While we are pondering our student-centered, positive, district-supporting response to the AF debate (and it is coming soon), we have run across the following blog posts and articles in the media. A theme emerges, which we will let speak for itself:

The first is a blog post from Keith Catone, a senior research associate at Brown’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform, written as a response to the presentations made at one of RIDE’s open meetings to discuss the AF application:

http://bottomupeducation.org/2011/12/09/achievement-first-is-racist-but-who-isnt/

The second is an article from Time.com:

http://ideas.time.com/2011/12/09/why-are-the-rich-so-interested-in-public-school-reform/

The third is an Op-Ed piece from the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/opinion/the-unaddressed-link-between-poverty-and-education.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

There is also an older Op-Ed from the Times that echo’s some of our previous comments about the need for all stakeholders, including teachers unions, to come together to support positive, student-centered reform:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/opinion/teaching-with-the-enemy.html

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