SCHOOL DISCIPLINE CROSS-CURRENTS: Goldstein's DC - based counterpart Erica Green has also been writing
strong education stories, including this one about disparate school discipline in Minnesota.
Not exact matches
His
strongest apostrophes of rage, guilt, and frustration occur midway through a narrative interspersed with background
stories: tales about his ancestors and their adventures in Europe, his mother's
education, the lives of his friends and neighbors, his grandmother's obsession with cleanliness, and his grandfather's eccentricities.
Strong causal evidence is actually relatively rare in
education policy, so we are mostly stringing together bits of anecdotes and non-causal evidence to tell
stories that justify our preferred positions.
Many of us have our own American Dream
story of parents or grandparents or aunts or uncles who grew up poor, but worked hard in school and used a sound
education and a
strong work ethic to climb the ladder of opportunity.
On Thursday, New Jersey
education blogger Laura Waters expressed some
strong objections to Chalkbeat's coverage of a new Harvard study of student achievement gains in Newark, suggesting that the
story (written by national reporter Matt Barnum) must have been rushed or he was slanting his coverage.
Three hundred and seventy members
strong, this cross-disciplinary network of teachers earning certification in bilingual / ESL, STEM, mathematics and special
education, is a place for exchanging resources, curricula, proven practices and
stories of success.
Every day new
stories are added to the narrative that quality early childhood
education will grow America
stronger.
Participant numbers, Participant satisfaction, donor engagement, Retention, volunteer involvement, number of people supported through
strong kids, impact
stories, Participant success in terms of
education.