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Rob Levine

Minneapolis, MN
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5 years 27 weeks

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Posted on 05/10/13 at 07:36 am in response to Traversing the rocky educational landscape? These articles and sites will help

Here's a site that Beth will never recommend which is nonetheless perhaps the best site on education reform in the country, from the country's leading (yes, leading) educational historian.

Someone should ask Beth sometime what she has against Diane Ravitch:

http://dianeravitch.net/

Posted on 04/29/13 at 07:23 pm in response to Public charter BlueSky Online achieves kudos and formal accreditation

Why headline the article "Public charter..." ??? There is no such thing as a "private" charter school. That seems to me to be a bit of propaganda that elides the nature of charters. Are they public or private? They are public in the sense that they get public money; they are private in the sense that there is no public governance. So saying they're public in a headline would on the one hand be repetitive - they are funded publicly - but on the other hand admits that they're not entirely...

Posted on 04/24/13 at 11:21 am in response to Speaker Steve Perry provokes heated exchange on education reform

More nonsense from the Sup. She must be fired.

Regarding RESET - there isn't ONE mention of pedagogy or poverty in this corporate/plutocrat sponsored propaganda.

Posted on 04/24/13 at 05:17 pm in response to Speaker Steve Perry provokes heated exchange on education reform

Why are educators angry? Maybe it's because plutocrat billionaires are destroying public education and it's something they care about, both for themselves and for their students.

Posted on 04/25/13 at 07:34 am in response to Speaker Steve Perry provokes heated exchange on education reform

I didn't say anything about longer school days or real-time assessment, but since you mentioned it...real-time assessment is a joke and a waste of time and resources. What are you gonna do, test every student every minute of every day? Testing for assessment is good - if done right, and sparingly. Right now we're testing kids to rate schools, teachers and districts. Even the makers of the tests say this is inappropriate - they are made to assess students and students only! And what did any...

Posted on 04/25/13 at 07:47 am in response to Speaker Steve Perry provokes heated exchange on education reform

Here's the kind of high-quality journalism practiced at MinnPost - while this site censors my comments rightly questioning Lynell Mickelsen calling herself a progressive (while she continually attacks the teachers' union) the author Beth Hawkins is trolling deformer sites, yucking it up and encouraging Rheephormers to comment. #riggeddebate.

Meanwhile...while Mickelsen claims she was offended by Perry's comments here, here's what she said on Facebook:

"Steve Perry rocked the...

Posted on 04/25/13 at 08:05 am in response to Speaker Steve Perry provokes heated exchange on education reform

For some reason that link didn't work...but just surf over to "Contract for Student Achievement" in Facebook and you'll see Mickelsen's comments and the true feelings of the Rheephormers...including Beth Hawkins encouraging all the deformers to comment on her article here. I'm sure she's doing the same at Diane Ravitch's site, or the Public Education Justice group at Facebook...oops NOT!

Posted on 04/30/13 at 07:35 am in response to Speaker Steve Perry provokes heated exchange on education reform

What about the graduation rate, NOT the four year graduation rate?

Posted on 04/24/13 at 11:12 am in response to Education issues still contentious; legislators looking ahead to conference

Show me one credible study, preferably not funded by Gates, Broad, or the Waltons, that shows "..research that shows teacher effectiveness to have dramatic influence on student achievement." That is 100% baloney and you should (and probably do) know it.

As I've tried to drill into your heads, family and student characteristics account for about 70 percent of student outcomes on standardized tests; School, classroom and teacher characteristics account for the rest. At most a teacher...

Posted on 04/04/13 at 07:43 am in response to 38% of Minnesota schoolkids on free or reduced-price lunch

Using a smartphone camera to make pictures look like they were taken with a toy film camera seems just like the earliest "art" photographers who either took pictures of painted art or made pictures that looked like paintings. Photography as an art form didn't taken off itself until it shook off trying to imitate painted art.