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Top Headlines:

27 July 2010: Teachers losing faith in Obama's Race-to-the-Top and Education Policy...http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2010/07/401178.shtml 

5 July 2010:  National teachers union comes out against RttT:  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/education/05teachers.html?_r=1

School Turnaround Models Draw Bipartisan Concern

• 21 May 2010 article in Education Week By Alyson Klein
• http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/05/21/33turnaround.h29.html?tkn=MYMFOL2kmNFQMNKSPQ2ZjGifqC%2BXekyvEK7x&cmp=clp-edweek   
• The Obama administration’s prescription for turning around low-performing schools—particularly the models districts must follow in making those improvements—is raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill, as Congress gears up for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

RttT Background Information

• definitions, acronyms, etc. 
• A critique of SB6696  This is law that was passed to help the State with its RttT application. It has many profound provisions
• Arguments in favor of RttT and the counter-arguments...click here
• What's not to like about conventional school restructuring models?..click here
•  The Fifty Schools in Five Years optional component of the RttT Partnership Agreement ..click here

Anti RttT hotlinks

• RttT violates federal code section 3403  http://mathunderground.blogspot.com/2010/05/rttt-violates-federal-code-section-3403.html

 These are petitions that we DO NOT endorse: 

• Pro-Regressive Reform "Our Schools Petition"
• Pro-Regressive Reform "Community Values Statement"
• Pro-SB6696 petition from Stand For Children

Pro-RttT Orgs and websites, and online petitions 

 Pages, topics, links may bewill be added soon.... 

• review of http://www.greatlakescenter.org/docs/Policy_Briefs/Mathis_Restructuring.pdf
• recent new-stories on actual school restructurings 
• my memo to obama,
•  Review of BOTA letter: http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12780&page=1
• Pat Bailey's article explaining seniority issue...
• What is high stakes testing? Is MAP an example of HST? What are beneficial uses of standardized assessments?
• What is SPS' concept of curriculum alignment? What is a reasonable alternative to this? 
• What does a healthy model of superintendent evaluation look like?