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Paul Vallas in New Orleans: Episode 10 LearningM... - 18 views - 4 days ago
Does being bright, young and energetic qualify one to be a good teacher? New Orleans Superintendent Paul Vallas seems to think so.

About 20% of Vallas teachers are novices from groups like Teach for America and other organizations that recruit top graduates and send them into some of the nations toughest schools, with just 8 weeks of training, or less.

Want to see what happens to 3 TFA recruits in their first year on the job? Watch and find out.
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The Stimulus Gap LearningM... - 6 views - 4 days ago
When Hartford (CT) Public High School opened last September, the 1,600-student school — where for years just one in three students graduated — was nearly unrecognizable. HPHS is now divided into four small, career-themed academies, each with its own principal and wing of the building.

Its part of a fledgling effort, just two years old, to turn around Hartfords public schools, and it seems to be working.

So why, with over half a billion dollars in federal education stimulus money flowing to Connecticut — money intended to promote reform and protect jobs — is Hartford Public High School laying off teachers?
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Paul Vallas in New Orleans: Episode 9 LearningM... - 96 views - 2 months ago
Is a change in management enough to transform some of the worst schools in the country? Paul Vallas seems to think so, which might explain why the New Orleans superintendent is one of the biggest cheerleaders for charter schools.

Vallas wants to charterize the entire district, even though theres evidence that charters may be abusing their freedom.
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The 'Race': A Look at NCLB - Part 2 of 2 LearningM... - 1,069 views - 1 year ago
How schools take advantage of the little-known and rarely discussed "loopholes" that are buried in the fine print of NCLB.
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The 'Race': A Look at NCLB - Part 1 of 2 LearningM... - 1,591 views - 1 year ago
Despite all the tough talk about No Child Left Behind, thousands of schools with failing scores pass anyway. They do by using little-known and rarely discussed "loopholes" that are buried in the fine print of the law.

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and others discuss the loopholes and their impact on students.
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End of the Line: A Look at NCLB - Part 2 of 2 LearningM... - 582 views - 1 year ago
No Child Left Behind has been shaking things up in San Diego. Parents and teachers at Gompers and Keiller Middle Schools, long two of the city's most violent and low-performing schools, took advantage of the law to turn their schools around.

Today, violence is way down and test scores are climbing up. What made these parents and teachers decide to break with the system? How did they pull it off?

See more of our series on NCLB: http://www.pbs.org/merrow/tv/n ewshour/nclb3.html.
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Michelle Rhee in DC: Episode 1 - Pt 1 LearningM... - 3,612 views - 1 year ago
Washington D.C.'s new superintendent Michelle Rhee promises to turn D.C.'s failing school system around. But she's facing some pretty big challenges and skepticism from a city that has heard promises from 6 superintendents in the last 10 years.

Part 1 in our year-long series on leadership and school reform efforts. Be sure to watch the companion segment in New Orleans.
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Michelle Rhee in DC: Episode 1 - Pt 2 LearningM... - 2,703 views - 1 year ago
Washington D.C.'s new superintendent Michelle Rhee promises to turn D.C.'s failing school system around. But she's facing some pretty big challenges and skepticism from a city that has heard promises from 6 superintendents in the last 10 years.
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Michelle Rhee in DC: Episode 2 - Pt 1 LearningM... - 2,632 views - 1 year ago
The second in our year-long series following D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee as she confronts "a bloated and unresponsive" education bureaucracy.
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Paul Vallas in New Orleans: Episode 3 - Pt 1 LearningM... - 673 views - 1 year ago
EPISODE 3: We meet Antoine Duplessis and Brittne Jackson, two of many Recovery School District students who are struggling to remain in school despite a history of failure. Watch how Paul Vallas addresses what is perhaps his greatest challenge - making sure these students don't fall through the cracks.
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Paul Vallas in New Orleans: Episode 1 - Pt 2 LearningM... - 453 views - 1 year ago
Paul Vallas, the "turnaround" superintendent previously credited with fixing the broken school systems in Chicago and Philadelphia has taken the reins of the much smaller, but deeply troubled Recovery School District. With dismal test scores, immense poverty, and crumbling facilities even before Hurricane Katrina wreaked further damage on the system, there is skepticism in this city that has seen a wave of reformers come and quickly leave. Paul Vallas, however, is approaching his new charge with tremendous optimism.
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Paul Vallas in New Orleans: Episode 2 - Pt 1 LearningM... - 700 views - 1 year ago
If you were put in charge of one of the worst school districts in the country would you give the high school students free laptops?

That's exactly what Paul Vallas has done. The new superintendent in The Recovery School District in New Orleans is betting on some bold initiatives to turn the system around. In this week's podcast, hear Vallas talk about trying to upend old ways of doing business and set about changing how students learn.

This is the second segment in our year-long series following Paul Vallas try to turn around the Recovery School District in New Orleans.
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Channel Comments (4)
SmoothJazzDecember (1 week ago)
I believe you are right on the money for future generations. Education is the bridge that future generations will build our mother earth to be a place that we all can stand back and look and pronounce to all to hear that our collaborative efforts were well worth the actions taken.
dk4arya (4 months ago)
This is an awakening conversation that we must learn to live on minimum because everybody has desire and we have become habitual to get more and live on more but at the time when sudden economic fall hit us, we see faces of each other. Cutting jobs will only increase problems in the society. There should be another way to handle this problem. Instead of cutting jobs, employers and authorities can decrease salary of all to adjust the shortage of fund but of course keep the account to reimburse the same when good times come again whether in 10 years. I am sure people can live with little less than what they get but it would be very hard to live with nothing. Hope my advice is accepted by others and we can live together solving each others problems through sharing our wealth for this period. At the end I will say, there is a better tomorrow for all of us. Keep on working.
SpookHouseDave (4 months ago)
Hey Learning Matters! Awesome channel!

Love, Spook House Dave!
mindbodyhealer (4 months ago)
The 21 century should have been an age of enlightenment and of education reform, which would have naturally corrected the economy. The educational system should have reformed itself and became interdisciplinary, which would have provided the means for the children to integrated their minds and bodies. It's official, this country is an Obamanation.