{"id":188,"date":"2010-05-05T17:45:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T00:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2010-06-05T10:37:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T17:37:57","slug":"learning-from-l-a-recognized-as-publication-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"“Learning from L.A.” Recognized as Publication of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Education Research Association interest group on District Research and Reform has named Learning from L.A.: Institutional Change in Public Education <\/strong><\/a><\/em>as its publication of the year. \u00a0This is a great and congenial group that has the wisdom of beginning its business meeting with good wine and cheese followed by a first-rate discussion of federal education policy by a panel that included my CGU colleague Carl Cohn. \u00a0LLA <\/em>has also been recognized as one of the academic books of the year by Choice<\/a><\/strong> <\/a><\/em>magazine, a publication of the American Library Association.<\/p>\n

Also, Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) has published a policy brief based on the book, which can be freely downloaded<\/a><\/strong>. <\/strong>And, the book has its own Facebook<\/a><\/strong> page that I hope will become a discussion site as it develops.<\/p>\n

The policy brief summarizes the book and its advocacy for the five policy levers that will move the Los Angeles Unified School District beyond what we call “permanent crisis”:<\/p>\n

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Signing books at the Harvard Education Press booth at AERA<\/p><\/div>\n

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  1. Legislation to allow LAUSD to create autonomous sub-districts.<\/li>\n
  2. Send money directly to schools.<\/li>\n
  3. Create positive incentives for students, teachers and administrators.<\/li>\n
  4. Invest in a technological infrastructure for student learning.<\/li>\n
  5. Deliberately add a variety of learning options and support choice among them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    PACE has also published a guide to candidates with a handful of the best ideas about what needs to be changed in California Public Education. \u00a0It’s Reforming Education in California: A Guide for Candidates and Citizens<\/a>, <\/em>reiterates much of what policy wonks have been saying for several years: that schools should get more flexibility but that they should target their resources, and that policies should be designed around continuous improvement.<\/p>\n

    So far, there is no evidence that any candidates are listening. \u00a0As John Fensterwald<\/a> reports, Whitman and Poizner continue view charter schools as magic bullets despite evidence to the contrary, and their campaigns are a marvel in superficiality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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