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If you would like to see something like their [Rocketship charters'] model in action, you can visit Queen Anne Elementary.</i><br /><br />But Charlie, Queen Anne isn't for the most part a "high need neighborhood" (Rocketship's target).<br /><br />Interesting, though, that QAE's mascot is a rocket ship.<br /><br />http://www.queenanneelementary.com/<br /><br />http://www.rsed.org/suep.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17281578510716234624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-1220964142723634442011-11-28T12:57:41.410-08:002011-11-28T12:57:41.410-08:00No, my point is that questioning my motives rather...No, my point is that questioning my motives rather than my statements reveals that the charter defenders posting here have no case to make and cannot back up their position.<br /><br />I encourage you to question my facts aggressively -- I'm happy to discuss them.carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08127336930949752636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-940768688874078792011-11-28T06:06:33.792-08:002011-11-28T06:06:33.792-08:00caroline wrote: "challenging my motives witho...caroline wrote: "<i>challenging my motives without disputing any of the facts I've given you is the weak and ineffectual last resort of someone who HAS no arguments to make</i>"<br /><br />caroline also wrote: "<i>I'm highly skeptical of Rocketship's 'miracle!' test scores</i>" and "<i>If Rocketship's 'miracle!' achievement stands the test of time and public scrutiny, then I'll be convinced and will become an eager cheerleader. Oh, there goes a pig flying by...</i>"<br /><br />So sometimes facts are to be believed, and sometimes we're supposed to be skeptical of them.Charlie Mashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17173903762962067277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-6968427473666006802011-11-27T16:29:56.792-08:002011-11-27T16:29:56.792-08:00@Resisting Gullibility, challenging my motives wit...@Resisting Gullibility, challenging my motives without disputing any of the facts I've given you is the weak and ineffectual last resort of someone who HAS no arguments to make. My facts are accurate and are based on many years of closely following the charter school sector.<br /><br />What motives would you suspect I have? I have no financial interest in challenging the charter/reform juggernaut. Au contraire, as a journalist, I've HARMED my financial fortunes by cutting off the many available freelance options that are amply funded by pro-charter interests. (There are no parallel freelance options amply funded by pro-public-education interests.) Obviously, anyone with a greedy, dishonest and unprincipled agenda would be sucking up to the billionaire-backed charter/reform industry, not challenging it. <br /><br />@Charlie Mas, Rocketship has only three schools that have existed long enough to have test scores to report: Rocketship Los Suenos, Rocketship Mateo Sheedy and Rocketship Si Se Puede. Whatever other schools they have are in their first or second year of opeartion. They have been attempting to open or lay the groundwork for many. As I said, Rocketship has been lobbying a vast array of city officials here in San Francisco, though I'm not sure how many schools they plan to propose.carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08127336930949752636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-67318333521233853862011-11-27T07:08:41.861-08:002011-11-27T07:08:41.861-08:00Here is the Rocketship web site.
It looks like th...<a href="http://rsed.org/index.php" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is the Rocketship web site.<br /><br />It looks like they have about seven schools in San Jose right now.<br /><br />They say that "<i>Rocketship plans to open approximately 30 schools in San Jose by 2020</i>"Charlie Mashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17173903762962067277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-31090738601234044222011-11-27T01:27:30.116-08:002011-11-27T01:27:30.116-08:00well i.m sure skeptical of your motives Carolin
R...well i.m sure skeptical of your motives Carolin<br /><br />Resisting GullibilityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-69633212072529876172011-11-26T10:40:30.595-08:002011-11-26T10:40:30.595-08:00@Charlie Mas -- Rocketship is currently trying to ...@Charlie Mas -- Rocketship is currently trying to open dozens of new schools, and putting the hard sell on a long list of city officials in my community (in the hope that those officials will pressure the school board). What would be your definition of "overexpansion" if that's not it?<br /><br />Having followed charters very closely for many years, I've learned to question claims of "miracles!" -- I would strongly advise everyone to do the same -- repress any urge to be naive and gullible, and instead be questioning and skeptical, not just in school reform but in life. There's no downside -- if it turns out to be a true miracle, your initial skepticism will not have limited its wonders. There's that flying pig again...carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08127336930949752636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-65386705824900236572011-11-26T09:48:56.813-08:002011-11-26T09:48:56.813-08:00Many times a school will work well in one location...Many times a school will work well in one location. It's when they try to replicate that there is an issue. Not enough research is spent looking at the unique conditions of that school - the culture, the locality, past experiences of both students and teachers, the administrator, etc. <br />The school deformers are looking for a quick magic formula that -poof! - will make them big bucks and make them famous as the person/organization who "saved" public education. Reality is that it will take an investment of time, training, money, hard work, and social services. That's the magic bullet they're trying to ignore.CTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-3487373711187471272011-11-26T08:47:32.984-08:002011-11-26T08:47:32.984-08:00I think Rocketship works and works well.
I have l...I think Rocketship works and works well.<br /><br />I have looked into it a bit and it seems legit to me.<br /><br />They don't over-promise. They haven't over-expanded. They accept all students.<br /><br />I don't know how well they deal with a variety of disabilities, but I really like their model.<br /><br />If you would like to see something like their model in action, you can visit Queen Anne Elementary.Charlie Mashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17173903762962067277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-37354705598536337172011-11-26T00:29:08.042-08:002011-11-26T00:29:08.042-08:00CT
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SACT<br />great article<br /><br />SAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-44525119749805751922011-11-25T23:33:43.470-08:002011-11-25T23:33:43.470-08:00I'm highly skeptical of Rocketship's "...I'm highly skeptical of Rocketship's "miracle!" test scores, @AS. I think it would be stupid for my district to bring any in until they've been time-tested. My district BOE rejected an application, and got beat up by the press and the usual reformy voices for it, but I think they were being entirely prudent.<br /><br />Also, I know from contacts in city government that Rocketship was calling them all and putting on the hard sell. If they're so great, do they have to act like sleazy high-pressure salesmen? Rhetorical question. (City government has nothing to do with approving charter schools -- the hard sell was presumably just to add to the pressure.)<br /><br />If Rocketship's "miracle!" achievement stands the test of time and public scrutiny, then I"ll be convinced and will become an eager cheerleader. Oh, there goes a pig flying by...carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08127336930949752636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-7656973788045838242011-11-25T20:57:28.594-08:002011-11-25T20:57:28.594-08:00I hope to have a thread on the top charters to add...I hope to have a thread on the top charters to address the biggest/top performers. <br /><br />Again, choice is a loaded word.Melissa Westbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12588239576000641336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-87923474332614708142011-11-25T20:24:54.702-08:002011-11-25T20:24:54.702-08:00Have a look at the following:
http://vimeo.com/32...Have a look at the following:<br /><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/32543264" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/32543264</a><br /><br />This presents the Teacher Quality situation very clearly ... with the current "Teaching Profession" death spiral in Ed USA and what is occurring in many high rising high performing nations. ==> Ignorant teacher bashing is NOT a plan for success.<br /><br />Content expertise and a full year of intensive internship before Teaching ... in countries on the rise ..... versus Seattle's support for 5-week TFA corps members .... and Randy Dorn's ... No careful review ... No problem approval..... of conditional certs.<br /><br />Now get ready for more of the Rodney Tom -- Eric Pettigrew ... march of the morons ...<br /><br />If anyone thinks we are headed toward improvement .... through a current "push for charters" .... try a broader detailed viewing of the evidence.<br /><br />IF Joy Anderson's TFA appeal of Board action ..... was at Vegas ... the next move would be to double down on a class action lawsuit .... for repeated ongoing failure to .... "do anything positive in regard to achievement gaps". .....<br />========<br /> Claiming to have conducted a careful review of closing achievement gaps while not having done so ..... smacks of callous intentional disregard. <br /><br />--- Oh ya ... I forgot that every school quality school rhetoric.<br /> -I believe so - Oh, Neverminddan dempseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15536720661510933983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-87098414372944431262011-11-25T19:38:04.225-08:002011-11-25T19:38:04.225-08:00" SolvayGirl said...
My daughter's privat..." SolvayGirl said...<br />My daughter's private HS does amazingly well academically. Should public funds be supporting it? I don't think so."<br /><br />You might think so if you couldn't afford your private school and your daughter was stuck at Aki or RBHS. Not everyone can "scrape together" and get their family to help pay for private school. You are lucky but not everyone is. So why shouldn't every kid get what your daughter has?<br /><br />Think about it.anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03716725891562757052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-35957805877401336472011-11-25T17:08:13.624-08:002011-11-25T17:08:13.624-08:00Here is a must read article about the privatizatio...Here is a must read article about the privatization of our public schools and how they have become a "cash-cow" for Wall Street. <br />http://www.thenation.com/article/164651/how-online-learning-companies-bought-americas-schools?page=full<br /><br />If that link gets cut off, try <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/164651/how-online-learning-companies-bought-americas-schools?page=full" rel="nofollow"> this one.</a>CTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-61342738108680129262011-11-25T16:40:36.310-08:002011-11-25T16:40:36.310-08:00My daughter's private HS does amazingly well a...My daughter's private HS does amazingly well academically. Should public funds be supporting it? I don't think so.<br />There are plenty of types of school that do well—with the students they attract/accept. It's very unfair to compare any school to a public that must take all comers no matter what the issues.SolvayGirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12709893209963350066noreply@blogger.com