• Schools: The Disaster Movie

  September 05, 2010

  John Heilemann | New York Magazine

  A debate has been raging over why our education system is failing. A new documentary by the director of An Inconvenient Truth throws fuel on the fire. The Harlem-based educator and activist Geoffrey Canada first met the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim in 2008, when Canada was in Los Angeles raising money for the Children’s Defense Fund, [...]

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  tags: Davis Guggenheim, Michelle Rhee, Randi-Weingarten, UFT, Waiting for Superman

• Broke—and Building the Most Expensive School in U.S. History

  SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

  | The Wall Street Journal

  Benches that talk, a Cocoanut Grove auditorium, and a marble slab engraved with quotes from Ted Kennedy. At $578 million—or about $140,000 per student—the 24-acre Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex in mid-Wilshire is the most expensive school ever constructed in U.S. history. To put the price in context, this city’s Staples sports and entertainment [...]

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  tags: Expensive Schools, Graduation-Rates, LA, Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools, School Construction, Test Scores

• Newark public schools need revolutionary reform

  August 31, 2010

  Shavar Jeffries | The Star-Ledger

  The children of Newark have limitless potential. They are beautiful, intelligent, ingenious and creative — each with a unique contribution to make to our world. Developed properly, their boundless talent can secure the future of our city, state and country. Yet in Newark’s public schools, as in many other urban districts, our children’s endless talent [...]

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  tags: Education Reform, Newark, Public Schools

• LA unveils $578M school, costliest in the nation

  August 22, 2010

  CHRISTINA HOAG | Yahoo News

  LOS ANGELES – Next month’s opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential contender was assassinated in 1968.

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  tags: $578 million, Expensive, LA, Los-Angeles, Public School, Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools

• Making the Grade

  | MSNBC

  E3 Executive Director Derrell Bradford, Founder of the American Indian Public Charter school Ben Chavis, and Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, talk education reform with MSNBC’s Tameron Hall and Hill Harper.

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  tags: Ben Chavis, Charter Schools, Derrell Bradford, Hill Harper, Jonathan Alter, Tameron Hall, Teachers Union

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