What is clear
about Green Dot is its commitment to small high schools, and so the reorganized Locke consisted of six schools.
'» There are no details
about Green Dot's recruitment of teachers, training, etc..
One would like to know more
about Green Dot's philosophy, practices, model, if any, but all one manages to learn is that, as one teacher explained to the students, «at the new Locke, teachers cared about their students, wanted to help them pass their classes, and would not abandon that effort [implying the former teachers did not «care,» etc.?].
Just curious
about the green dot that shows up beside a persons name..
Not exact matches
By Renee Ciulla
Green rolls of open hills
dotted with lines of solid, red silos and white grazing sheep appeal to and please even those who aren't passionate
about farming themselves.
Combining the hot
dot pattern with
green pants and silver shoes is a huge risk, but that's what fashion is all
about.
But let me tell you
about Vivian's ruffle sweater, it comes in this white and black polka
dot as well as a
green color.
Known in education circles and beyond as an aggressive agent of change, Barr has been in talks with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
about how to boost failing schools and whether
Green Dot's methods can serve as a blueprint for fixing schools across the country.
Podcast: Mike Petrilli talks with author Alexander Russo
about his book on Locke High School and
Green Dot's efforts to turn it around.
Margaret Spellings, then secretary of education, visited a
Green Dot school in Los Angeles in 2007, and the principal of Locke at the time, Frank Wells, then in his third year (he had lasted longer than his recent predecessors), spoke up
about his frustrations.
(One distinction of
Green Dot among charter school organizations is that its teachers are unionized, but we are not told anything more
about the union except that it is not the one that had represented the Locke teachers.)
Diane Ravitch makes many points in her article «The Myth of Charter Schools» [NYR, November 11, 2010]-- some we agree with, some we disagree with, namely ill - informed conclusions
about what we can learn from Locke High School, a high school of more than three thousand students in Los Angeles that
Green Dot took over from the school district in 2008.
About 50 students and several parents descended on
Green Dot's downtown headquarters Tuesday.
At Locke,
Green Dot took the risk of operating under the same conditions that hobble many public schools — accepting all the students within the attendance boundaries, whether or not they wanted a charter school, would follow its rules or even understood what the change was
about.
What some may not know
about Garcia was that he worked on educational equity and supported charter schools, even served on the board of
Green Dot Public Schools.
Back in 2003, when I was a reporter in Los Angeles, I had begun work on a piece
about Steve Barr, whose
Green Dot Charter Schools was simply a handful of charter schools in Tinseltown's gritty neighborhoods.
Over the next four years, I saw firsthand that
Green Dot was serious
about delivering on their promises.
About one - third of
Green Dot's more than 500 teachers took part in crafting the evaluation method.
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The school's outcome overall appears positive, but I continually compare it with what might have been, and note that
Green Dot now appears a mere footnote in the national conversation
about how to improve America's schools, whereas we were front and center at the end of the previous, disastrous decade.
Now, students attending Locke «are 1.5 x more likely to graduate» than students at other district schools (
About,
Green Dot Website).
If you take all of the unduplicated suspensions that
Green Dot reported, they account for 11.8 % of all suspended students in the district, even though they serve
about 1.4 % of the student population.
«I think it's a huge blow to the [Democrats for Education] brand,» says
Green Dot Public Charter Schools founder Steve Barr in this new Huffington Post story
about the controversial endorsement of Prop. 32 by Gloria Romero, former state legislator and current head of Democrats For Education Reform California.
Restoring the energy to its 6.8 - kWh peak is equally simple: keep the engine spinning at medium revs for
about fifteen minutes in Sport mode — or better still in Race — and the
green dots will duly light up again.
You can also add funds to the card at places like
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about $ 4.50 per load.
«I walk two doors down to the 7 - Eleven, I buy my
Green Dot reload, and I put my money on my card... I don't have to even think
about it, it's just already there.»
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It is a gloss household paint on canvas by Damien Hirst, 9 inches square with a red
dot, a yellow
dot, half a
green dot, half a black
dot, half an orange
dot, a quarter of another red
dot, half a beige
dot,
about 95 percent of a blue
dot and
about 95 percent of a blue -
green dot.
The Times has been publishing a series of «Business of
Green» special sections focused on this same trend, and the International Herald Tribune does so in the Business of
Green blog, which predated
Dot Earth by
about seven months.
[ANDY REVKIN says: Well, I'm
about to begin a
Dot Earth group on FlickR, and one category of image could be of your favorite «little
green places.»
However, nobody needs to worry
about missing notifications while they are temporarily disabled and Amazon's Echo, Echo
Dot, and Echo Show devices will flash a
green light to show that there are missed notifications.
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About Blog Little
Green Dot is an eco-lifestyle guide for busy people who want a healthy, happy & green life, with ideas for your home, family, beauty and lifes
Green Dot is an eco-lifestyle guide for busy people who want a healthy, happy &
green life, with ideas for your home, family, beauty and lifes
green life, with ideas for your home, family, beauty and lifestyle.
In the absence of a lawn, there's still lots of scope to have flower beds and pots
dotted about for a lush,
green effect.