Tag Archives: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Is Politics–Not School Improvement–Behind Brockton’s New Charter?

Posted on February 27, 2016 by aagabor

Who doesn’t love a charter school? From Newark to New Orleans, and Washington D.C. to Atlanta, charter schools are seen as the magic bullet not just for curing much of what ails public education, but for transforming poor communities themselves. … Continue reading →

Posted in Brockton, MA, Charter Schools, Education, Uncategorized | Tagged Adams scholarship, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, brockton high, Cape Verde, Education reform, English language learners, Governor Charlie Baker, Haiti, International Baccalaureate, Massachusetts Board of Education, Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, Massachusetts Education Reform Act, Michael Sullivan, New Heights Charter School, Qunicy College, special needs, Szachowicz | 4 Comments

Inside Success Academy: Nose Pressed to the Window Pane

Posted on December 9, 2015 by aagabor

On Monday, 28 educators gathered in the Bronx, for one of the hottest tickets in town, a tour of a Success Academy school. I was supposed to be there, having received an email notifying me that I was among the … Continue reading →

Posted in Charter Schools, Education | Tagged apprenticeship model, Baruch College, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bronx 1, charter schools, class size, CUNY, Diane Ravitch, Education reform, Eva Moskowitz, Jonathan Alter, KIPP, lead teacher, New York City Collaborates, PBS, smart board, special education, Success Academy, The Camel Dances | 12 Comments

Round Two In the Bay State’s Battle Over the Common Core

Posted on April 8, 2015 by aagabor

One of the big mysteries of the education-reform movement is why Massachusetts, the gold-standard of American education, jettisoned its highly successful education standards for the untested Common Core State Standards. One reason was a much-needed, post-recession cash infusion via Race … Continue reading →

Posted in Education | Tagged algebra, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Charles Chieppo, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Education reform, Gates Foundation, Jamie Gass, Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, MCAS, Mitchell Chester, NAEP, PARCC, Paul Reville, Pearson, Pioneer Institute Massachusetts, PISA, Sandra Stotsky, Szachowicz, TIMSS, Tom Birmingham | 14 Comments

Lessons for Education Reformers from W. Edwards Deming, America’s Leading Management Thinker

Posted on November 15, 2014 by aagabor

When I returned from speaking at the annual conference of the Deming Institute in Los Angeles last month, the education sites were abuzz about a new Time magazine cover trumpeting “Bad Apples”, the latest example of what has become a … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Education, Quality Management | Tagged Abraham Maslow, Allan Mulally, Amber Charter, American Enterprise Institute, Arthur Levine, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bloomberg, bonus system, Cadillac, Capdau charter, common causes, continuous improvement, Deming Institute, Education reform, Ford, Frederick Herzberg, GE, GM, heirarchy of need, If Japan Can Why Can't We, incentive pay, intrinsic motivation, Jack Welch, Joel Klein, Kahlenberg, lesson study, Mercedes Schneider, merit pay, open-source software, Peter Drucker, Pontiac, quality, quality improvement, Quality Management, Roger Smith, Sable, Scholastic, special cause, Taurus, Teach for America, teacher education, TFA, Time magazine, Toyota, Toyota Production System, unions, value-added measurement, VAM, Vanderbilt University, variation, W. Edwards Deming, work rules | 13 Comments

Building A Better Teacher: Some Hard Lessons of Ed Reform

Posted on August 15, 2014 by aagabor

I picked up Elizabeth Green’s new book, Building a Better Teacher, with great anticipation. By the time I finished reading the nicely written, highly detailed descriptions of some of the latest efforts to improve teaching, I was alternatively gratified, intrigued … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Education, Quality Management | Tagged accountability, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, brockton high, Carol Burris, charter schools, Deborah Ball, doug lemove, Hanushek, iterative learning, jugyokenkyu, kaizen, KIPP, KIPP Infinity, lesson study, Magdalene lampert, no excuses, Race to the Top, Relay graduate school, Spartan Village, standardized testing, Teach for America, teacher evaluations, test scores, TFA, value-added, W. Edwards Deming | 7 Comments

Grandmothers as Global Change Agents: How India’s Barefoot College Seeks to Transform the World’s Poorest Villages

Posted on February 2, 2014 by aagabor

Bunker Roy, the founder of India’s Barefoot College, likes to say that he got the best education in the world and it almost destroyed him. But instead of becoming a doctor or an engineer as his parents expected, he moved … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Education, Women | Tagged Barefoot College, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bunker Roy, Comoros Islands, Education reform, Gandhi, India, meagan fallone, poverty, puppets, Rajasthan, solar cookers, solar energy, water harvesting, World Bank | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Is Politics–Not School Improvement–Behind Brockton’s New Charter?

Inside Success Academy: Nose Pressed to the Window Pane

Round Two In the Bay State’s Battle Over the Common Core

Lessons for Education Reformers from W. Edwards Deming, America’s Leading Management Thinker

Building A Better Teacher: Some Hard Lessons of Ed Reform

Grandmothers as Global Change Agents: How India’s Barefoot College Seeks to Transform the World’s Poorest Villages

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