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Just when you thought that the latest controversy involving Success Academy was about to die down, it fans even more flames with its latest effort to blame the media. But in the process of arguing the New York Times fails to cover incidents of teachers engaging in educational and physical abuse of children in their care, the charter school operator (along with today's report in the Times on how Success addressed the incident) once again reminds us of how it has failed to adequately address the abuses of Charlotte Dial, the teacher whose actions were revealed by the paper two weeks ago.
Since the revelation by the Times of Dial snatching and ripping the class work of the then-six year old daughter of Nadya Miranda for not answering a question to her satisfaction, then ranting that "there's nothing that infuriates me more than when you don't do what's on your paper", Success and its founder, Eva Moskowitz, have worked overtime with its allies among school reformers to argue that the newspaper has some kind of vendetta against it. On Tuesday, Success upped the ante by issuing an 11-page letter to the paper's editor in charge of Big Apple education news coverage, Amy Virshup, complaining that the Times has focused undue attention on the operator while ignoring criminal and educational abuse of children by teachers working within New York City's traditional district.
In the letter, Moskowitz argues that the Timeshas done little more than provide "feel-good" stories on district schools while ignoring incidents such as the arrest of Mark Valentinetti, a teacher who worked at P.S. 83 in the Bronx, for slapping of his students, as well as the return of teacher Richard Parlini to the classrooms of another district school in spite of being previously removed for spanking his students. Declares Moskowitz: "the so-called "paper of record" has to date devoted none of its considerable resources to cover these stories, let alone investigate this systemic pattern of abuses."
Let's give Moskowitz and her public relations staff some credit: It didn't violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, as her previous effort last year against PBS NewsHour. Just as importantly, the letter is another reminder of the need to overhaul teacher dismissal rules and end near-lifetime employment laws that protect laggard and criminally-abusive teachers. Oddly enough, this is an issue on which the Times, along with the Daily News and the New York Post, has covered for the past few years. There are far too many criminally-abusive teachers like those cited in the letter working in classrooms and they shouldn't be there. [If Success Academy was setting a good example on its own, its commentary on educational malpractice would come off as anything but hypocritical.]
Yet Moskowitz hasn't proven her argument that the Times is somehow biased against the schools Success operates. For one, the paper has shed plenty of light on educational abuses throughout the district. One simple search on the paper's own Web site reveals stories on the city's test-cheating scandal, which has led to the firing of now-former John Dewey High School Principal Kathleen Elvin as well as the suicide of another principal, Jeanene Worrell-Breeden, who ran Teachers College Community School. The Times also covered the arrest of a school leader, John DiFiore, on charges of criminally-abusing a 14-year-old student in his care. The Times also took aim at the district's continuing failure to do well by children trapped in its special education ghettos, as well as its failure to disclose a third of violent incidents that happened in its school buildings.
Then there's the Times's two year-long coverage of the crimes of Sean Shaynak, a former teacher at the prestigious Brooklyn Tech, who pled guilty in December to abducting and showing nude photos of himself to one of the students in his care. In 2014 alone, the Old Gray Lady wrote two extensive profiles on how Shaynak managed to get hired by the district spite of a record that included having been charged (though not convicted) of beating up the son of one of his neighbors. [Both profiles, by the way, were cowritten by Kate Taylor, the reporter who is the source of Moskowitz's ire.]
Moskowitz cites none of these stories in her letter decrying the Times' coverage. In fact, she seems to go out of her way not to do so. Apparently the school operator complaining about fairness doesn't believe in extending such courtesy itself. Lucky for Success that it is a school operator, not a media outlet that subjects itself to the traditional rules of objective journalism.
One can argue that the Times could spend more time covering every incident of abuse by teachers. I wouldn't disagree one bit. But media outlets, as entities that have deal with limited space (and even smaller budgets), have to make choices on coverage. Let's also keep in mind that the Times is also covering other issues that also affect children beyond classroom walls. This includes reports on abuse and killing of inmates at Riker's Island and Clinton Correctional, two major prisons that house many parents of children who attend traditional district and public charter schools. Again, Moskowitz's argument about the Times' coverage has no merit.
But while Moskowitz cites examples of educational and criminal abuse of children by teachers in traditional districts, she downplays Dial's own abuse as well as the school operator's refusal to deal with it properly by kicking her out of its classrooms. As far as Moskowitz is concerned, firing Dial would have been nothing more than the pursuit of "better PR" at the expense of what Success considers to be a model teacher "dedicated to teaching and improving".
But in simply suspending Dial and returning her to the classroom, Moskowitz has done little more than tolerate the kind of educational malpractice that happens far too often in traditional districts. In fact, one can argue it is even worse because Success isn't governed by collective bargaining agreements or by state laws governing tenure and dismissal, and therefore, can more-easily rid its schools of laggard and abusive teachers. Moskowitz has actually behaved worse in this situation than your average district superintendent.
What Success has done instead is engage in a crisis management strategy geared toward protecting Dial and its own practices from scrutiny. This becomes clear from the Times' latest story on the teacher's malpractice, which features an interview with Nadya Miranda, the mother of the harmed girl. As the Times reports, after Success finally showed the video to Miranda, she was asked by Success staffers to sign on to an e-mail it drafted telling the paper that she didn't want the video released to the public. When Miranda confronted Moskowitz during a meeting about the video a week later, Miranda said the school leader told her curtly that "you had enough to say". Miranda, along with several other parents, walked out of the meeting, then pulled her daughter from the school. The fact that Miranda and her children are homeless, and thus, struggling with other issues, makes Dial's malpractice even more unacceptable.
Anyone who has paid attention to Success' crisis management tactics over the past few months shouldn't be surprised — nor should anyone else. Through actions such as Moskowitz's unauthorized release of school discipline data on the son of Faida Geidi, Success has proven more interested in defending the outfit than in doing right by the children and families it serves. That its board members, including CNN anchor-turned-reform advocate Campbell Brown have used their own media outlets to defend Success from criticism makes clear that the organization will not address its issues even when a media outlet shines light on them.
These issues are deeply-ingrained. As former Success teachers and school leaders such as Jessica Reid Sliwerski have noted in the Times first story on Dial's misdeed, the practice of ripping papers and embarrassing children for their learning struggles has been common practice within the operator for some time, and has been taught in professional development courses it has held. Moskowitz, in particular, is unwilling to consider that Dial's "model" is damaging children in the operator's care, an issue pointed out by Miranda in her interview. Add in Success' long-documented overuse of out-of-school suspensions and other forms of harsh school discipline, and it becomes clear that the operator approaches teaching poor and minority children from a Poverty Myth thinking similar to that of far too many traditionalists.
Firing Dial would have been a tacit admission by Success that all isn't well within it. Such humility isn't possible, either for the institution, its founder, and its allies. For traditionalists looking to halt the expansion of school choice in both New York City and the rest of the nation, Success' unwillingness to address the damage its educational malpractice does to futures of children gives them the ammunition they need to continue their own.
There is a difference between an anomaly — or a rare event or incident within a system or institution that will almost never happen again — and what is normal or tends to be the established practice within that very organization. Based on the responses to the latest revelation about the practices of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy chain of charter schools, this is something that the school reform movement must learn, especially if it is to remain a moral movement that builds brighter futures for all children.
As some of you already know, the charter school operator once again went on the defensive last week after the New York Times released a video showing Charlotte Dial berating one of her first-grade students for failing to properly show how she answered a math problem. After the six-year-old, confused by the question, began to count, Dial snatched a paper the young girl had did the work on, ripped in half, then screamed at the girl and told her to go to a chair and sit. Dial then ranted that "there's nothing that infuriates me more than when you don't do what's on your paper."
Was there anything that the young girl did that merited Dial's response? Not according to the video. She didn't misbehave. In fact, she said nothing. As Dial screamed at her and engaged in her own tolerated brand of misbehavior, the child meekly walked over to the chair and sat. Put simply, Dial's behavior was educational malpractice, abusive, intolerable, and just plain unacceptable.
But as bad as Dial's behavior was, Success' response was even worse. After New York Times reporter Kate Taylor, who obtained the video from a former teacher's aide, brought it to the attention of the operator, it didn't dismiss her or even put her on a long-term suspension. Instead, Success Academy took her off the job for a week, then put her back into the classroom. After the Times ran the story this past Thursday, Moskowitz and her crisis management flunkies hastily put together a press conference in which they accused Taylor and the newspaper of teacher-bashing. [Success also put together a hashtag on Twitter, #StopBashingTeachers, that was quickly hijacked by traditionalists who have long considered Success a bete noire.]
As far as Moskowitz was concerned, Dial's misbehavior was just another "anomaly" that didn't represent how Success conducts its business. If anything, as far as Moskowitz was concerned, Dial was still a "model teacher" deserving of being considered an example of high-quality instruction for her colleagues. Save for a few reformers, most-notably Valentina Korkes of the otherwise reliably pro-Moskowitz Education Post, most reformers lined up behind Moskowitz' party line. This included former CNN anchor-turned-reform advocate Campbell Brown, who sits on Success Academy's board and runs reform-oriented media outlet 74. Despite the piece quoting one parent supportive of Dial and Success Academy, Brown accused Taylor and the Times of failing to balance the piece with even more quotes from supporters. [The Times editor overseeing Taylor's coverage, Amy Virshup, took apart Brown's logic.]
One would believe that Dial's misbehavior was an anomaly — until you review the long and well-reported record of Success Academy's bad practices.
As Jessica Reid Sliwerski, a former teacher and school leader-turned-education technologist, confirmed to the Times, ripping up student papers and embarrassing them has always been a common practice within the operator's schools. Sliwerski should know. After all, she was one of Success' golden children. Her work as a teacher and school leader at one of Success' Harlem schools was profiled four years ago by Steve Brill in Class Struggle, his considerable tome on the battles over transforming American public education, as well as a companion piece in the Wall Street Journal. Sliwerski notes that ripping student papers was taught to teachers by the professional development Success runs with Touro College, while making children cry was considered within a key to having them learn. [Your editor moderated a panel featuring Sliwerski last year at SXSWEdu.]
Another sign that Dial's action was no anomaly lies in the Times revelation last November that Success' school in the Fort Greene section of New York City's Brooklyn had kept a list of 16 kids who it deemed had "got to go". Those students, by the way, were suspended multiple times by the school over the year. Nine of those children ultimately left the school. [Since the Times revelations, several families have filed suit against Success over the effort to push their children.] As she did last week amid the revelation of Dial's misdeed, Moskowitz claimed that the "got to go" list was just an "anomaly", even as the chain kept the principal who oversaw the effort, Candido Brown, on the job, albeit in a teaching role.
But as the families of 13 children who attended Success' schools have detailed in a complaint filed last month with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, efforts to push out children weren't limited to the operator's Fort Greene locale. The parent of A, for example, noted that the principal of Success' Harlem 4 "urged her" to pull her now-12-year-old son out of the school. Another parent, whose six-year-old attended the Harlem 3 school, was asked numerous times to withdraw the kid from the school (and wasn't even given a re-enrollment notice). And as documented four years ago by now-former New York Times columnist Michael Winerip, Success seems to thrive on pushing out struggling and supposedly troublesome children.
Then there is Success Academy's long-documented overuse of out-of-school suspensions and other forms of harsh school discipline. A year ago, the New York City branch of education news chain Chalkbeat reported that Moskowitz's charters suspended 17 percent of its students in 2011-2012, the sixth-highest among the 12 charter operators surveyed in the outlet's analysis of data supplied to the Big Apple's traditional district; the 27 percent suspension rate for the outfit's Harlem 1 school is higher than all but 13 charters surveyed. As former PBS NewsHour correspondent John Merrow noted in his controversial report on the operator last October, one Success Academy school (with 203 children enrolled) meted out 44 suspensions to just 11 kindergartners and first-graders; essentially each child was suspended at least four times during the school year.
Particularly damning is the case of a kindergartner at Success' Crown Heights school who had issues using the bathroom. Her family is among the 13 who filed last month's civil rights complaint against the operator. Because of her issues and Success' unwillingness to provide the child with an aide as required under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the young girls was often marked as being a discipline case for not following school rules. That it would be hard to follow school rules when you have a disability didn't seem to occur to Success' teachers and school leaders.
As saddening as these incidents are, they aren't shocking. Why? Because Success has long-embraced overusing harsh discipline as a component of instruction and building its school culture. The operator's own school discipline code gives teachers and school leaders wide leeway to suspend and expel children. Even worse, it is so arbitrary that a child can be suspended for any reason. This includes failing to sit in the "Ready to Succeed" position, "Being off-task", or forgetting to bring a pencil to school. Despite the overwhelming evidence that overuse of harsh school discipline does little to improve student achievement, Moskowitz, with help of allies within the school reform movement such as Michael Petrilli and Robert Pondiscio of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, has strongly defended these practices and implicitly argue that Success cannot improve student achievement without them.
The most-damning evidence that Dial's misbehavior is no anomaly became clear last October when Moskowitz released the school discipline record of one of the operators former students, the son of Fatima Geidi, a parent interviewed by Merrow for his report on Success, as part of the operator's crisis management campaign against the piece. By doing this, Moskowitz likely violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the federal law that governs the privacy of student records, which bars Success from releasing discipline records without the permission of families. Even worse, by citing the discipline record of Geidi's son, Moskowitz betrayed the school reform movement's mission of nurturing and protecting the lives and futures of children. She used the life of a child who may be in need of real help as ammunition against a negative media report.
But again, this is nothing new. Over the past five months, Moskowitz has shown that she will always choose to preserve the institution she founded over being a champion for children and their families. In that time, she has shown that she is more-willing to protect the teachers and school leaders that work for Success than be defenders of the young lives who sit in its classrooms. And over and over again, like a traditionalist superintendent in a failing district, Moskowitz has demonstrated that she will explain away any incident as an "anomaly" instead of acknowledging that there may be some deep-seated issues within the institution and its model of educational practice.
At a certain point, either Moskowitz or Success Academy's star-studded board, must acknowledge that when the institution has several incidents of educational malpractice, they are no longer anomalies. They represent the norm for the institution itself. Success Academy no longer merits a defense, especially from school reformers who, like Born-Again Christians, know better and should no longer tolerate its malpractice.
Featured photo courtesy of Chalkbeat New York.
This morning's passage by the U.S. Senate of the Every Student Succeeds Act puts an unfortunate nail in the coffin of the No Child Left Behind Act and the strong accountability provisions that helped spur reforms that have helped more children attain high-quality education than at any other time in the history of American public education.
But the death of No Child came long before the passage and President Barack Obama's seemingly inevitable signing of this legislation. In particular, today's passage is just one of two dates that correspond to major mistakes in national education policy that should be remembered by people who care about building brighter futures for children.
The earliest date was in September of 2011. That is the time when now-former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced his grand waiver scheme to deal with problems arising from implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act. The law was then four years overdue in being reauthorized. More schools were at risk of being identified as in need of improvement than the authors had intended in 2001, when the Act was passed. Instead of addressing this problem through legislation or administrative action, Duncan used the problem as leverage to force states to accept input policies he, along with the Obama Administration and centrist Democrat reformers, favored.
The administration had a choice about how to resolve the problem. It could have gone one of two directions. Unfortunately, the manner in which it implemented its decision represented a huge mistake that has had and will continue to have serious negative consequences for our nation's schools and its students.
The Obama Administration could have, absent legislation, chosen to give states flexibility specifically to avoid over-identification in return for improvements and strengthening of their accountability systems. This would have been a superb occasion to advance and further refine the accountability provisions already in federal law.
Had this been the basis of administrative action, several good results would have likely occurred. First, accountability would have been improved. Second, relief would have been appropriate to deal with problems that were then arising from NCLB. Third, the Congress would likely have accepted the action because it fit within the legislative intent behind No Child. And finally, making accountability work smarter and better would have likely lessened the public opposition to accountability that has developed in the wake of a system that has not been updated and improved.
Instead the Obama Administration chose a different, fateful path. It weakened accountability. It did so by reducing the scope of accountability to a very few schools, permitting super-subgroups to be used to mask subgroup problems, and arbitrarily voiding certain consequences permitted under No Child. Further, the Administration decided without any Congressional authority whatsoever to create its own quid pro quo requirements for granting the waivers. Among other things, it demanded that states adopt certain content standards, which were generally deemed to be the Common Core standards. And it required that states develop certain kinds of teacher evaluation systems. None of this was authorized by the Congress, and all of this was highly controversial.
Even worse, the administration's process for vetting proposals from states under the waiver process has been a demonstrative failure. As Dropout Nation has documented throughout the past four years, Obama and Duncan granted waivers to states that didn't have reforms in place to make their plans successful, often over the objections of its own peer review panels. Anyone who has spent time working on issues at the state level knows how difficult it is to implement anything amid opposition from teachers' unions and school districts who rarely want to do the right things for children.
The point here is not to debate whether these were good or bad policies. The point here is simply to say that the Obama Administration weakened accountability in return for demanding state action to adopt policies based on its favored input strategies, using un-repaired features of No Child as the basis for the deals.
This strategy has failed. Not only has state performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress been stagnant in the four years this waiver scheme was put in place. As a result, the improvements in student achievement in the last decade (as measured through NAEP) have stalled.
Now, we have this date in this ending year, when both houses of Congress, with the Obama Administration's blessing, gutted accountability with the so-called Every Student Succeeds Act. While annual testing and the provision for states to put together accountability plans with certain features continues to be required, this legislation fundamentally finishes off the evisceration of accountability begun by Obama and Duncan four years ago.
The federal government will have virtually no authority to enforce the meager "requirements" that remain. It will also have no power whatsoever to require any consequences for schools that fail to lift student achievement or close achievement gaps. The law has substantially weakened the rightful civil rights role played by the federal government in ensuring that children from poor and minority households, young men and women from black and Latino households long served poorly by public education, are provided high-quality education.
There are those reformers now cheering the passage of the bill who hope that states and districts will become accountable on their own. But this isn't happening. As seen in Texas, California, and even in strong reform-oriented states such as Indiana and New York, traditionalists have been successful in weakening standards for high school graduation, getting rid of accountability measures, and ditching tests that are key in observing how well schools are serving our children. Opponents of reform have been successful in getting more money for doing less for our students — and that is all that has happened. And that can be credited to the Obama Administration's decision four years ago to abandon strong accountability.
The celebration that those reformers who wanted an end to No Child, especially those in the Beltway, are doing right now will eventually turn to jeers and tears as they recognize what has been lost. The tools needed to provide high-quality education to children in our schools and beat back traditionalists who want anything but are now gone. What has replaced them will serve neither them nor our children any good.
Let's hope for the best, and let's work toward a far better end than I am predicting. But, from this month on, we must be exceedingly vigilant about the policies and practices that are adopted across the nation in the absence of federal pressure to improve and reform. We must watch all measures of student achievement, and if this month indeed proves to be the second red letter date marking the continuation of a long period of stagnation in student achievement, we must vow to bring news of such stagnation to the awareness of our fellow countrymen and women. And we must then press with all our strength for a return of the accountability we must bear if our young people are to be educated effectively to the high standards that are required for their success.
If you want to fully understand why bad school leadership is damaging to our children, just consider the lawsuit filed yesterday by a young woman in Indianapolis against the Circle City's traditional district over her abuse at the hands of a school leader now-convicted of child seduction. When school leaders tolerate — and engage in — educational malpractice, they are putting the academic, emotional, and even physical wellbeing of young men and women at risk.
The young woman, named A.S. in the complaint, alleges in the suit that Indianapolis Public Schools had allowed Corey Greenwood, a former dean and principal at several of its high schools, to continually prey on female students (as well as have affairs with teachers under his charge) at the schools in which he worked over an eight-year period. Even after the district's police department and human resources department uncovered evidence that he engaged in numerous acts of "inappropriate sexual conduct" with a student on the grounds of Emmerich Manual High School, the district's human resources chief and other executives allowed Greenwood to keep his job and even allowed him to progress in leadership (including a stint as vice principal) at two other high schools. Only after Indianapolis Metropolitan police officers were informed about one of his man incidents of criminal abuse of A.S. — did IPS finally toss him out of the district. [Greenwood would later plead guilty to child seduction, serving a mere 14 days in prison.]
How did Greenwood manage to stay in school leadership for long? The lawsuit blames his mother, former IPS principal and central office bureaucrat Jacqueline Greenwood, for intervening on his behalf. During those eight years, even as she failed upwards as principal of notorious failure mill Arlington High and as overlord of the district's middle and high schools, Mother Greenwood would help Corey avoid trouble by helping him gain transfers and promotions. That she was his boss during the last five years of his time working at IPS all but ensured he would be protected from questions about actions such as asking one of the children in his care to send him nude pictures of herself. Mother Greenwood herself was finally kicked out of IPS last year, two years after her son's criminal abuse of children came to light.
As with any lawsuit, of course, the defendants will have their own side to the story. Indianapolis Public Schools, distancing itself from past leadership, issued a statement declaring that it would "co-operate with the proceedings".[So far, neither Corey Greenwood nor his mother have anything to say.] But none of the allegations in A.S.' suit are shocking. Why? Because IPS has long been the epitome of failed school leadership.
Much of Greenwood's misdeeds took place under Eugene White, whose regime as superintendent was notorious for tolerating nepotism. During his tenure, White himself managed to put two of his own children onto the district's payroll; this included his son, Reginald, taking a job as dean and coach at Arsenal Tech High School. When White wasn't hiring relatives (and tolerating the nepotism of his bureaucrats), he was firing more-competent school leaders. Among the ousted: Jeffery White, whose effort to turn around what is now John Marshall Community High School ended abruptly after he ran afoul of the superintendent and his mandarins.
White was also infamous for tolerating educational malpractice by school leaders under his watch. This included Jackie Greenwood, whose 25-year reign as principal of Arlington High was marked by graduation rates of as low as 12.5 percent (according to a 2005 analysis by The Indianapolis Star), as well as a failure to send many of those who did graduate to success in higher education and life. It was White who kicked her upstairs back in 2007 to serve as director of the district's secondary schools, giving her numerous opportunities to protect her son from his alleged criminal abuse of children. Little wonder why Corey Greenwood could convince a teacher, Melissa L. Jones, to assist him in an attempt to cover up his criminal abuse of A.S. once cops learned of the misdeeds; he learned well from his bosses.
But White couldn't have fostered this culture of failed school leadership on his own. The district's own board, long renowned for its incompetence, enabled White's mismanagement and corruption. When White the Elder wanted to bring his son into the district in 2009, the board amended the district's anti-nepotism policy so that the Younger would report not to him, but to one of the district's assistant superintendents. The fact that the executive ultimately reported to White made the entire exercise in fig-leafing both laughable and shameful. [The good news is that most of the school board members who helped White continue IPS' culture of abuse are now out to pasture.]
White would eventually be forced out as IPS' chief executive in 2013. But not before his reign of terror damaged the lives of far too many of the district's children. It includes the 1,632 high school graduates (or 22 percent of the 7,420 young adults who graduated from the district) during White's tenure allowed to collect counterfeit sheepskins in spite of failing at least one of Indiana's battery of standardized tests. This includes the thousands of other children who never graduated at all — and have been condemned by White's malpractice and that of other adults on his watch to poverty and prison. It includes the 6,326 third-through-eighth-graders who didn't pass the Hoosier State's reading and math tests during White's last year overseeing IPS because of his years of incompetence. And as documented by A.S.' lawsuit, this allegedly includes young women who were preyed upon by Cory Greenwood during his own reign of terror as a school leader.
Certainly IPS is no exception when it comes to criminally-abusive school leaders and teachers running amok. Halfway across the country in California, Los Angeles Unified is still dealing with the consequences of school leaders tolerating criminal abuse by former teachers such as Miramonte Elementary's Mark Berndt. Last month, a Golden State superior court ordered L.A. Unified to pay $6 million to two young men who suffered at the hands of Paul Chapel III, a former teacher at Telfair Elementary who was eventually convicted of criminally abusing 13 children. The district has paid out another $139 million to the families of 70 children abused by the aforementioned Berndt.
But the IPS lawsuit offers this important lesson: When school leaders tolerate educational abuse and neglect of children, they will also accept the kind of corruption that eventually leads to criminal abuse. In such cultures, adults within them will do anything to protect the perpetrators as well as the reputations of the districts in which they work instead of doing the right thing by the youth in their care. And the consequences of the shoddy leadership lingers years after those who oversaw academic and operational failure have moved on.
There's a lot to be learned from what has happened in Indianapolis — and even more to be done to help all children succeed. Ridding districts and other school operators of failed school leadership is critical to building cultures of genius in which youth can be safe as well as can learn.
I find it bizarre and disappointing to read the constant barrage of commentary that the accountability measures put in place by states and through the No Child Left Behind Act are only about shaming, hurting, or putting the "stick" to teachers and other adults working with our students.
Some, but by no means all, of this moaning comes from traditionalist educrats and their supporters. This includes the National Education Association, the American Federation of School Teachers, and those associations representing suburban and even urban districts. They simply don't like the pressure of accountability and want to eviscerate it altogether. Many of these folks have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and quite a lot of people power and time over many years to destroy accountability instead of helping teachers, school leaders, families, and communities leverage those tools to help our children. They are what I call the "end, don't mend" crowd.
Yet there are legitimate complaints from teachers and parents who have never been given the tools needed to help students, who have been victims of accountability practices from school leaders and others that have run amok and implemented poorly to the detriment of everyone else. These complaints deserve attention, merit fixing, and shouldn't be dismissed by school reformers or anyone else. As powerful as accountability has been in helping more students achieve success, the tools cannot survive if we don't address legitimate complaints.
What's most disappointing about much of this is that many of these problems have actually been caused or worsened by inept school leaders who either weren't trained in the best consequences to apply to improve teaching and learning or cynically chose the path of blaming accountability instead of fixing the problems it identified.
This is unproductive and shameful. Instead of responding with solutions that would actually use accountability to help teachers and improve schools, school leaders and others who run public education systems too often put a bad name on accountability and, at the same time, kept students behind.
I want to illustrate two ways that administrators could respond to a bad diagnosis in a more constructive way. These examples have been mentioned by other Dropout Nation contributors, including André-Tascha Lammé, and even your editor. This was (and still is) the purpose of accountability: to use standards and measurements to help schools improve. It was not to blame or shame, but it was also not to continue to hide problems or neglect to fix them.
The federal Institute of Education Sciences has produced 19 outstanding practice guides that, based on the very best research, show in practical ways how many of our most difficult problems in education can be best addressed. The George W. Bush Institute, with which I am affiliated, has compiled similarly excellent resources to help middle schools become more successful. There is no reason why school leaders don't leverage those resources, along with the data from accountability, and improve their schools and districts.
My basic question is this: how many school leaders do you know who have turned to these resources and implemented them vigilantly and with fidelity to improve their schools? On the other hand, how many school leaders do you know who have complained about testing and accountability? If you know more of the latter than the former, you now know the nature of the main problem you face.
While watching the sorry spectacle of education policy making in the current session of Congress, we must remember above all else the main lesson of the last 20 years in education in America: Accountability works!
The evidence behind the effectiveness of these policies is now clear and abundant. For me, of all the research that has been presented over these many years, the most convincing are the charts showing student achievement patterns on the Long Term National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Both before and after the peak of the accountability movement, student results were and have become again relatively flat. But the gains between 1999 and 2008 were significant.
For nine-year-olds: African American students advanced more than 1½ grade levels in reading and a little less than 1½ grade levels in math; Hispanic students advanced 1½ grade levels in reading and over two grade levels in math; and white students advanced about a grade level in both subjects. This means all subgroups of students advanced substantially, and, because disadvantaged students advanced the most, the achievement gap narrowed at the same time.
For 13 year-olds, all three subgroups advanced about a grade level in math, with the greater gains for African American and Hispanic students. In reading, where the results have unfortunately been flat over the long term for all students, African American students gained a grade level.
The data for students with disabilities show sizable gains as well.
One would think, in a rational world, that intelligent policy makers, looking at these charts, would quickly conclude that something good is going on, and it ought to be preserved. Even if there were problems associated with the policies, one would at least expect an approach of "mend, don't end."
But, amazingly, this is not the case. Educrats who have been pressed to change and improve under accountability policies never liked the pressure. So, they organized a ferocious campaign and poured millions of dollars into tarnishing and destroying the reforms.
If results mattered, the reforms would be preserved, improved, and extended. Instead, in today's sad political environment, the reforms are deemed "much maligned," and are in jeopardy of being tossed.
Ironically, perhaps, it is the Democrats, who count teachers and other education special interests among their strongest constituents, who are responding positively to the appeals of civil rights groups to preserve at least basic elements of accountability policies.
But, what's with the Republicans who control the Congress? Are they insisting on real and significant parental choice? Are they standing behind their traditional position of refusing to borrow and spend on a function some believe can best be performed by the states? Are they supporting the honorable and sound conservative position from the early 2000s that accountability and choice ought to be the condition for federal dollars that are spent? No, no, and no.
Here's the current prevailing Republican view at the federal level, and it's one their sponsors are very proud of: Let's continue to tax and borrow billions of dollars, ship them in large part to local bureaucrats and unions to spend without any requirement they prove results or to expand parent choice, and spout to the world that all of a sudden every child in America will now be well educated.
Even more stunning than all this is how these Republican leaders can feel so very proud of themselves as they jump into bed with the very folks who do more than virtually all others in money, organization, and nasty campaign rhetoric to taint, destroy, and defeat not only education reformers, but also Republican candidates for office at every level.
How very ironic that NEA and AFT stand poised to win their biggest political victory in 20 years — money without accountability or choice – delivered to them on a silver platter by a smiling Republican Congress.
Maybe it's just quaint to think results should matter in the making of policy. Maybe it's become quaint, too, even to think that common sense ought to matter in the making of policy. But as the Congress crawls back, even in the midst of a huge budget deficit, to "revenue sharing" as the model for this generation's contribution to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, I can only shake my head.
We waited seven years of an overdue reauthorization for this? I hope to wake up and find it's all been a bad dream.


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This episode was ok, but I'm starting to be confused...
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Makes me wonder how game and anime are related exactly, is anime an alternative retelling with the same characters?
Anyway, I'm liking the characters and the seiyuu are doing a great job. Story doesn't look that interesting for now and it does feel a bit too rpg-like but hopefully it will improve once we get to the "main story" (if there is one! )
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Animations went downhill from the previous ep but still enjoyable. Kyrie is useless yet again lol. But somehow I don't see him as annoying as most of the useless male leads, maybe because he's already a wuss in the first place and not actually try to stand in front of Morte's path, plus he's more like a comedic relief I guess. Kuma-guy remains awesome as always when saving the stupid cat girl.
Anybody know what beastkin is Lia? Is she a dragon by any chance. Lol @ her expression when she froze against Kyrie. If its indeed love at first sight then hillarity is guaranteed in future eps.
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I think I love Lia...Gun totting gothic wearing dragoness? Yes please...
*cough* Putting that aside wasn't a bad episode. The action scenes animation kinda took a hit but oh well...Still hoping for a clarification on what they mean when they say "World Destruction". That and learning more about the state of the world would probably help in understanding just why morte is on this little crusade of hers...
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Talking of animation director, that of ep3 is HIM, Ishikawa Kensuke, all guys who watched Noein know. I myself can't wait, but you guys will say complains about his art style again, won't you? Or I wonder if you haven't noticed him yet?
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Toppi, or whatever the teddybear is called, is confirmed as the best character of the show with episode 2.
This episode was good but not as good as the first one, though jokes really made me laugh.
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So far I also like the veil of mistery behind Morte's reasons for destroying the world, but I think this "destroying" may not be a physical one, in which the world cease to exist but a sort of reset or something like that.
If it turns out that she literally wants to wipe out the world from existence, then they'd better make up some good reasons.
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Just finished watching episode 1, and I must say, the premise of the show is subversive! very different. World destroyers rather than saviours, and lumped into the group without knowing so! (at least for our main hero and the teddy bear) I really like the different take on fantasy quest.
The teddy bear looks like the one in FMP Fumoffu. Double cuteness.
Animation is smooth. Character design is fairly good. Let's hope the show gets even better.
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Well this was a great episode. I think that kuma is awesome. I did not realize that he was this cool when I changed my avatar. But the only think that could make him better is if he would of went pedo bear on the cat girl, lol. Oh I was hoping for it when he picked her up, lol. But still I am wondering what type of organization is the world salvation committee (or whatever its called), they seem to be made of beast people with assassin like tendencies. And they seem to have ninjas on morte and com... Man they always know where they are...
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Well great episode, can't wait for the next one. I wonder why this series is not as popular? What the hell are people watching this season???
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There's probably something "wrong" with the world, and in order to "save" it (or rather, reset it..?) it must be first "destroyed". Or something like that... I don't think Morte is really out to cause the apocalypse.
This is anime is on the ok range so far, and it has gotten me interested in the upcoming DS game of the same name—which I think is its main purpose from the very beginning. It seems that the anime sets itself apart by having a few differences from the game, so at least it won't be just a repeat of what I'll be knowing. For one thing, Kyrie is made of more "main character" material in the game, not to mention the character relationships are a bit different as well.
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So far the series is enjoyable because of the veil of mistery around the real meaning of world destruction, if Production I.G is able to use this at its own advantage, the show might turn out absolutely awesome.
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I think there are a few bits here and there that suggest that humans in the setting of World Destruction are treated as second rate by the otherkin. Could the Destruct Code be something to tip the balance in favour of humans?
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It's just what you never knew you needed- a display box that costs half a grand. What am I smoking? Nothing, I promise, but they're just so darn perfect as dust-free receptacles for all manner a strange objet d'art, it's tempting to forget the price tag.
Designed by Eva Lilja Löwenhielm for Asplund, each glass box or "kub" has a wood base, and, happily, there are a few fun colors and sizes to choose from: square violet, square orange, wide white or the tall yellow are in stock over at Huset Shop, while the Asplund online shop has two different wood base options as well as an extra olive color choice.
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Fitting some yoga into your daily routine can help lower stress, improve posture, help you sleep better, get you feeling more flexible and generally make you feel a little less moody.
The great thing about yoga is that you don't need a lot of equipment to do it. Find some free space in your home or outdoors (if you're feeling brave), grab a mat and be prepared to stretch your body and work on your breathing.
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It's no surprise that wearable startups and big name companies are eyeing up the potential of smartening up one of the most popular ways to keep fit.
So what's on offer? We take a look at the current crop of yoga friendly wearables available now and see what's coming in the future.
This yoga friendly smart clothing line has one aim and that's to make sure you're exercising correctly. Using an array of five motion sensors that fit inside a machine washable pair of exercise leggings or a shirt, the setup will be able to track movements including repetitions, range of motion and power in real time.
Those sensors will be able to offer instant feedback to improve form and can even tell you when to stop if you've over exerted yourself. Enflux raised the sufficient funds on Kickstarter to bring it to life and is expected to ship by March 2017.
$399, Getenflux, Kickstarter
Microsoft Band 2
The constantly improving second gen fitness tracker/smartwatch hybrid is one of the few that lets you add guided workouts from the Microsoft Health app to play out on the Band 2.
From the app, you can select or download a host of different workouts, including yoga, with varying difficulty levels developed by the likes of Gold's Gym, Shape Magazine, Men's Fitness and Muscle & Fitness.
Once a workout is downloaded and synced, simply hit the workout Tile on the Band 2 and you'll see details of the exercise along with data duration and heart rate readings.
Still very much a concept, Sydney based studio Wearable Experiments has devised a pair of smart tights that can interact with the skin through haptic vibrations.
Each vibration of Nadi adapts to the body's position, communicating feedback to guide correct posture and form. The tights sync up to an Android app, (iOS available later), that can be paired to monitor form and alignment based on a range of user movement. Other features of the app include recommended poses to help improve form and flow.
There's no details on price, availability or even a release date as of yet, so Nadi follows the likes of the FOX Alert Shirt, Durex Fundawear and Navigation Jacket in Wearable Experiments' growing conceptual design arsenal.
FitStar Yoga
The fitness platform dedicated to creating personal workouts was recently snapped up by Fitbit, so it's no surprise to hear that the two play nicely together. You can sync FitStar data to the Fitbit companion app with the same option available to Jawbone UP users as well.
Fitbit of course recently introduced the Blaze, a smart fitness watch that offers step-by-step workouts on the colour touchscreen display. Currently, there's only 3 available workouts and that doesn't include yoga (which you can get via the iOS FitStar Yoga app). Fitbit has told us that it plans to add more FitStar workouts in the future, so here's hoping yoga is top of that list.
SmartMat Yoga Mat
Okay, so it's not technically a wearable but this intelligent yoga mat could save you having to pay for yoga classes. Once you've calibrated the mat to learn your body shape and size, it's able to focus on correcting alignment, balance and achieving that perfect pose.
Compatible with iOS and Android devices to store and monitor progress on the companion app, it has dedicated modes for when you're having a private session at home or when you need to move to class mode. It promises six hours of battery life and, crucially, rolls up just like a regular yoga mat.
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Scuba Diving Certification Program KUUCHIITAAU Looking For Funding To Support Youth Interest
Scuba Diving Certification Program for youth, "KUUCHIITAAU" plans to raise fund to support the course.
Waskaganish First Nation, (September 25, 2016) - A philanthropic certification program, "KUUCHIITAAU" is aiming to engage the youth's interest in scuba diving. Cameron Donaldson, the originator of the course is seeking to raise funds to run this certification program.
KUUCHIITAAU targets youth aged from 16 to 35 and will help to provide an entertaining and educational program to support health, inspire further learning and exploration in the future. The career opportunities that this program will open up for the young generation, include – tourism, environmental monitoring, emergency response, public safety search and recovery diving, ecology, archaeology, hard hat diving, hydro dam inspection, oceanography, underwater videography, aquatic therapy and recreation as well as many others. While leading a fun experience, the program will also make sure a strong emphasis on safe operations is maintained throughout.
This scuba diving program is largely driven by the fact that scuba dive experience help to recover from post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, resulting in improved body function and lowered anxiety. "With this potential for wellbeing and healing we feel youth deserve this opportunity to experience it for themselves", said Cameron Donaldson, the creator of this program.
Along with a funfilled scuba trial experience, the participants will get the opportunity of getting an open water diver certification with the PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors who has issued 24 million certifications). The prerequisites are as fun as the course sounds – only 'love for the water' and a completed medical form.
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Scuba Diving Certification Program for youth, "KUUCHIITAAU" plans to raise fund to support the course.
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Terry McGowan, Director of Quality Assurance at Giant Landover, discusses the many programs the grocer has in place to support the U.S. military.
Ahold's Maryland-based Giant Landover banner supports the nation's military as a key service to the community, as demonstrated by the slate of programs designed to aid U.S. service members.
"Supporting our nation's military men and women and their families is one of our core community engagement areas for Giant," said Terry McGowan, director of quality assurance and a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. His reserve career has followed a supermarket career spanning Philadelphia to Fort Worth, and now the Baltimore-Washington area. He has completed tours in Iraq and Afghanistan during the past 10 years, and is currently a master sergeant and platoon commander in a Wilmington, Del., reserve unit.
"Service members and their families are obviously a unique and valued part of the fabric of our region," McGowan affirms. "We have a lot of military in this area, between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., so it's a big part of our business."
Statement of Support
McGowan mentions an event last year in which Giant revealed an aggressive military hiring initiative and signed an official statement of Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense agency that develops and promotes support for guard and reserve service.
"Last year, we also participated in some job fairs throughout the region, including a large one at the M&T bank stadium — home of one of our partners, the Baltimore Ravens," McGowan says. "Another such event took place at the Washington, D.C., armory shortly after. We have hired 24 veterans since the beginning of this initiative."
USO Partnership
Giant-Landover has also maintained a strong partnership with the USO of Metropolitan Washington and Baltimore, along with the USO of Delaware, according to McGowan.
Of the company's annual USO giving campaign, McGowan notes: "This year, we collected monetary donations from thousands of our patriotic customers, who bought 17,000 snack-pack care packages — a small box of different snacks, hand sanitizer, etc. — and through customers' generous support, the USO received a $100,000 donation and the 17,000 care packages were donated to deployed service men and women.
"From my personal experience of being deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 10 years as a reserve member, I can speak to the tremendous impact that those care packages have when you're deployed," he adds.
Serving the Nation's Capital
Given the grocer's proximity to the nation's capital, Giant's commitment to military members certainly has an impact on the local community. "There are 15,000 major military installations in our operating area, so more than 10 percent of our country's military force is actually based in the Washington metropolitan region," McGowan observes, adding that every branch of service maintains a major installation within the chain's store footprint, including Dover Air Force Base, in Delaware, on the northern end, and the Marine Corps, based in Quantico, Va., to the south.
"The individuals who serve in those bases are our neighbors, our friends, our family members and, in many cases, spouses, so, it's one of the reasons I'm proud of the work that we do supporting military families," he says.
'Giant Proud'
"I tell this story many times, when — back in November 2011 — I had just been with Giant for about a month," recounts McGowan, "and they published a list of all the contributions the company made within the past year. I remember being amazed at the amount of programs we were involved with," he concludes, citing the following among the most noteworthy:
- $2 million raised and donated through A+ School Rewards program, which benefits more than 2,000 schools in the company's operating area
- Triple Winner, which raises millions of dollars for adult and pediatric cancer research
- 1 million pounds of food donated to hunger relief organizations, plus an additional 5,000 turkeys given to regional food bank partners around Thanksgiving Partnerships with such organizations as Toys for Tots Foundation and the Salvation Army
Customer Participation
There is no shortage of ways for customers to get involved in Giant's support programs, the most substantial of which is the effort with the USO to send service members care packages — 17,000 of which have been purchased so far by customers.
Reflecting on the ways in which he aspires to live up to Ahold USA's Better Neighbor promise, McGowan says: "I'm involved in many of Giant's responsible retailing initiatives," including plastic, cardboard and organic recycling programs, as well as a new campaign to eliminate 1 billion bags from the company's operations by the end of 2015. McGowan has also worked to launch Giant's Meat the Needs meat donation program, in which meat that hasn't been purchased by its sell-by date is frozen, stored and donated to local food bank partners.
Of all of those activities in which he takes part, however, "I'm probably most proud of being a member of the board of directors for the Children's Cancer Foundation, which raises funds for children's cancer research and different support organizations," he concludes, adding that Giant is the corporate sponsor of the Children's Cancer Foundation's annual gala.
"It's a great organization, we're their biggest benefactor, and we've been a partner for over 30 years," he says of the foundation. "It's been the core of our operation."


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http://dcprosportsreport.com/?p=1694Washington's bye week now in the past, CB Shawn Springs and DE Jason Taylor return to the Redskins lineup. BUT, the Redskins also come out of the Bye Week with a boosted secondary that now feature DeAngelo Hall. The Redskins secondary has been the strong point of the defense and Hall gives that defense an even bigger shot in the arm.
Hall may also be in line to take over punt returning duties from an ineffective Antwaan Randle El. Hall is very good at it and has blazing speed and could boost a punt returning unit that, besides one TD return by WR Santana Moss, has been disappointing at best.
But, the signing of Hall also led to the release of CB Leigh Torrence. The move of releasing Torrence was not that popular in the locker room and with several analysts,. Torrence has been superb on special teams, and despite the one long pass that cost the Redskins the game against St. Louis, Torrence has played fairlry well in the secondary.
Several players said Torrence was an important part of the secondary, a unit that has been the strength of the defense this season. Torrence and oft-injured veteran Shawn Springs were the only cornerbacks who played the slot on inside receivers, and Torrence earned praise for his coverage skills and was a standout on special teams. Some veterans assumed the Redskins would release rookie cornerback Justin Tryon, a fourth-round pick who has rarely been used and struggled in the preseason, and said they were stunned that Torrence was gone.
Two things here. First, should the Redskins have sent 4th rounder Justin Tryon to the practice squad and kept Torrence? Possibly. BUT, teams prefer draft picks over others, that the business of the NFL. Second, I don't completely buy into the Torrence and future thing. Ok, Torrence may have been popular in the locker room, and that is fine, but this stuff where Torrence has shown great promise and such, well, I simply would not go that far. Torrence has been average, much what you would expect from a 4th corner back. Hall or Torrence? Must you really answer that. Talking about the future, well, look to Tryon or next year's daft anyway, Torrence wasn't going to move up the depth chart here. Remember Chris Horton? If they need depth CB next year, they will likely draft depth corner help.
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Twitter announced on their blog a few minutes ago that they have added photo filters to their iOS (iPhone) and Android apps.
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Just last week, it was announced that Instagram photos were no longer going to show in Tweets. This change apparently was made yesterday.
Here is a little promo Twitter created for the new photo filters. There are a number of new editing options in this update. The complete list can be found on Twitter's blog, but let me save you some time- they are almost exactly the same features as Instagram.
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