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Wall Street Journal - Obama’s School Reform Policies are a Priority
on Jul 15, 2010 by Joel I. Klein, MIchael Lomax and Janet MurguÃa
In the days following his inauguration, President Obama included a package of educational reforms in his stimulus bill that offered states financial incentives to make dramatic improvements in their education systems. About 10% of the $100 billion allocated for education was used to create competitive grants. States could only win them by drafting comprehensive and aggressive plans to, for example, adopt higher academic standards, turn around chronically low-performing schools, and redesign teacher evaluation and compensation systems.
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Why great teachers matter to low-income students
on Apr 11, 2010 by Joel I. Klein, Michael Lomax and Janet MurguÃa (Washington Post)
In the debate over how to fix American public education, many believe that schools alone cannot overcome the impact that economic disadvantage has on a child, that life outcomes are fixed by poverty and family circumstances, and that education doesn't work until other problems are solved.
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How Should Teacher Effectiveness Be Assessed? Joel Klein
on Oct 20, 2009 by National Journal Education Expert Blog
New question from the National Journal Education Experts Blog -- How should teacher effectiveness be assessed? What role should student performance and standardized testing have in this equation? Joel Klein, NYC Public Schools Chancellor and EEP Co-Founder weighs in.
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Transforming the Teacher Profession
on May 11, 2009 by Joel Klein (The Huffington Post)
Eliminating the racial and ethnic achievement gap in our nation's public schools is the most urgent civil rights challenge for this generation.
I co-founded the Education Equality Project to address the injustice and inequity that African-American and Latino students confront every day in their schools.
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Charter Schools Can Close the Education Gap
on Jan 12, 2009 by Joel L. Klein and Al Sharpton
Dear President-elect Barack Obama,
In the afterglow of your election, Americans today run the risk of forgetting that the nation still faces one last great civil-rights battle: closing the insidious achievement gap between minority and white students. Public education is supposed to be the great equalizer in America. Yet today the average 12th-grade black or Hispanic student has the reading, writing and math skills of an eighth-grade white student.
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