Thursday, August 29, 2013

The Power of Personal History in Education, A Research Proposal

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What is the most powerful way to motivate students, especially urban middle school and high school students? I've been working with ch...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Texas Graduation & College-Ready Rates 2013

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Today there was a very misleading article in the Dallas Morning News: 1 in 4 Texas high school grads ready for college, ACT results show .  ...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

A Letter to Your Child

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The struggle against poverty and for justice and equality starts at home. Too few public school parents understand the power of education...
Friday, June 21, 2013

DISD Middle Schools: 65 teachers lost in budget!

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In the currently planned 2013/14 budget for Dallas ISD 65 teachers will be cut from middle schools! One more student is added to the avera...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Time-Capsules installed, or moved, to date in 2013

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The year 2013 has already been the most active year for vault installations, and it's not over yet! For the first time a vault had to be...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Dallas ISD Discipline Reports by Middle School 2012-13

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From 2005/06 to 2012/13 the percentage of all discipline referrals within DISD that were made against middle school students grew from about...
Monday, June 10, 2013

DISD Budget & Middle School Chaos

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The current version of the 2013/14 Dallas ISD budget is adding one student per teacher at the middle school level.  That is an idea th...