Stacy M. Thompson, who was appointed to the Dayton Board of Education in 2006 and got more votes than anyone else in…
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Dayton Public Schools
Pay for performance in public ed is here- for education mercenaries
Much is being debated about the metrics for “pay for performance” in public education. How much of the…
16 years of education, and not a single memorable worksheet
Tonight, Dayton has the opportunity to hear one of those “experts” come in and tell us the secret to…
Why our elementary education system is ineffective, inefficient and too damn expensive
I can read and write at a college level. I could do it in the eleventh grade, because of one teacher, David DiCarlo,…
Bringing your own technology to school
On Wednesday afternoon I was invited to a discussion at Dayton Public schools about the idea of letting students…
Who are school test scores for?
We picked up our kids’ OAA test scores at our school the day they came out. The news wasn’t so good. Our…
Dayton Public Schools reconfiguration challenges
When I grew up in Cleveland Heights, we had elementary schools from k-6, junior high for 7-9 and high school from…
The return of David Lawrence to Dayton Public Schools
I’ve written about David Lawrence before. First as the new principal at Thurgood Marshall High School where he…
New seating arrangement at Dayton Board of Education
A quick note- I didn’t see it in the Dayton Daily News today. The new President of the Dayton Board of Education…
The Dayton (s)election on Tuesday
I’m not going to tell you how to vote. That would be pompous and very Dayton Daily News like (although rumor had…
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