Showing posts with label Seyward Darby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seyward Darby. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Something else that shouldn't surprise people but probably will

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I suspect Seyward Darby spoke for a lot of people on the left when she admitted growing disenchanted with Michelle Rhee (despite Rhee's...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Having made fun of Paul Krugman's puns, there's no way I can use the title "Darby's Rhee Lapse"

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From the New Republic's Seyward Darby : The mantra goes, “You either love or hate Michelle Rhee.” In the education world, there is no fi...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Credit where credit is due

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Seyward Darby has a thoughtful and balanced piece on education in today's New Republic. Here's the conclusion: But, even when bette...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

Education Reform

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I want to very quickly return to first principles. When Mark and I began discussing tenure reform , it was in the context of a "crisis...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Was I too tough on Seyward Darby?

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We've recently had a huge uptick in viewers. This is great (and I'm tremendously appreciative), but I do have to remind myself most ...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Does Seyward Darby think Seyward Darby should be fired?

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I don't. I have always believed that firing is a last resort, but Darby has certainly gone on the record as being for firing incompetent...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

"We've made huge advances in what they're called" -- New Republic edition

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This post by Joseph got me thinking. Charter schools are private contractors providing services that were previously provided by the govern...

Implications of the DC primary on education

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Mark and I have been talking a lot about education. Today Seyward Darby has an article on the implications of Michelle Rhee leaving. What...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Seyward Darby -- now not even pretending to think things through

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The idea that the proposed educational reforms will magically fix everything has become so ingrained in Darby's thinking she has started...
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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Thinking about teacher layoffs -- the logistics of staffing

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Regarding Seyward Darby's recent article on teacher layoffs, you can find posts on why she doesn't understand economics here and h...
Saturday, July 3, 2010

Wayward Seyward

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I mentioned in my previous post that when I saw Seyward Darby had written an article entitled " Obama: Don't Touch Education Reform...

Uh-oh

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Seyward Darby is writing about education reform again. This hardly ever ends well.
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Monday, June 7, 2010

Seyward Darby does not understand economics

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There are so many things wrong with Seyward Darby's New Republic piece and I have so much to do this week (finishing off big posts, li...