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A 21st Century Purpose for K-12 Education

March 6, 2011
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With so much talk and money thrown at school reform, we should heed the advice in Daniel Pink’s best selling book ,"Drive, the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us." According to Pink, "The secret to high performance and satisfaction—at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives,...

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California Needs a New Education Vision

January 23, 2011
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students-at-computer

The iconic Helen Keller once famously stated, “The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.” With respect to solving our education crisis, politicians and policy experts call for all sorts of accountability measures and rating metrics. But no one is asking the really big question, “What...

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Update from The Orange County Closing the Latino Achievement Gap Committee

May 30, 2010
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Update from The Orange County Closing the Latino Achievement Gap Committee

Over the last several months, the committee has focused on unintended consequences of federal and state accountability policies that rate schools on multiple choice/standardized tests heavily weighted toward Reading and Math. While useful in surfacing the disparities in performance of subgroups, alignment of practice to these high stakes metrics have too often narrowed the...

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The Importance of The Brown Act: An Elected Official’s Perspective

January 18, 2010
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The Importance of The Brown Act: An Elected Official’s Perspective

The fact that we are entering a period of limited government hopefully does not mean we are entering a period of limited oversight of governance. The recent walkout by Garden Grove Unified School District Trustee KimOanh Nguyen Lam over an alleged violation of the Brown Act by her fellow board members is a strong...

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Race to the Top-Buyers Beware

January 13, 2010
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Race to the Top-Buyers Beware

While our local districts are comprised of well intentioned, highly educated and reflective leaders who are doing their best to find resources to fill the budget shortfall, we are perplexed that some districts (60% state-wide) agreed to submit a “Memorandum Of Understanding” with the Governor’s Office to participate in California’s application for the federal...

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Patriotism from the School Cafeteria

February 8, 2009
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Patriotism from the School Cafeteria

My son, Ethan, attends Raymond Elementary in Fullerton and last night was “Movie Night.” It was raining very hard and I told him that there probably wouldn’t be anyone coming, but to my surprise and his delight, the cafeteria was packed. Kindergartners were huddled with their parents in sleeping bags and the big kids...

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What if the University of California shut down?

January 15, 2009
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What if the University of California shut down?

What would happen if the entire University of California shut down? There would be 262,845 students without a college to attend. That’s a quarter of a million students who no longer have the grasp of higher education within their reach. This number represents the amount of actual students that may be turned down by...

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