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April 9, 2013
Two Dallas Teachers Needed Money for a College Tour, so the Internet Hooked Them Up
Sometimes the Internet is excessively dumb, like yesterday when half of Twitter was announcing #NowThatchersDead and the other half was heartbroken because they thought it was #NowThatChersDead. And other times the Internet can be pretty heartwarming. A good example of the heartwarming Internet is ... More >>
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May 30, 2012
Miles Hires Five to DISD Administrative Team
A week after making one of his bigger hires in Teach for America's Charles Glover, incoming Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles continues to fill out his administrative team. Tuesday, the district announced that it has hired the first five of an eventual 20 executive direct ... More >>
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May 22, 2012
Mike Miles Taps Teach for America's DFW Director as DISD's New Chief Talent Officer
Teach for America, the elite student-teacher pipeline founded by Highland Parker Wendy Kopp, is often tossed into the bucket with the rest of the tools in the reform movement's toolbox, from charter schools to performance-based pay and the like. For that, and for its place outside the labor movement ... More >>
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May 14, 2012
In Dallas Independent School District, It's the Best School Board Money Can (and Did) Buy
Oh. Right. That. After all the candidate forums and the radio debates and the mayor-izen endorsements, it turned out that the roughly 117 people who care about the politics of Dallas Independent School District were just extras in the occasional stage play put on by the North Dallas elite, who thi ... More >>
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March 13, 2012
Dallas ISD is Firing More "Bad" Teachers Than It Has In Years, and the Axe is Still Swinging
With a lingering budget crisis and shrinking enrollment, the Dallas Independent School District has eliminated hundreds of teaching jobs in recent years, and this year will be no different. But in a sharp departure from years past, the district is preparing to part ways with hundreds more teachers f ... More >>
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March 7, 2012
In Dallas ISD, Algebra for (Almost) Everyone on the Bridge Over the Opportunity Gap
Make no mistake: The achievement gap is still a seemingly uncrossable gorge, and minority students in Dallas and across the country are still pretty much hosed. But in a few key areas at least, black and Latino students are slightly less hosed here than they are in other large, urban school district ... More >>
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February 3, 2012
Some Good News For DISD as Marsh Middle School's ROTC Program Saluted in PBS Series
One week ago tonight I was at Thomas C. Marsh Middle School for my son's elementary-school talent show; those kids play the big room. We're in the Matadors' feeder pattern, and plenty of neighbors and friends send their kids to Marsh, which has made significant strides in recent years -- in large ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
Before DISD Trustees Vote To Close 11 Schools, Carla Ranger Urges Parents to Speak Out
Click to expand the list prepared for tomorrow's DISD school board meeting. The docs from which this comes are below.Tomorrow is C-Day, the day we find out if the Dallas Independent School District will consolidate nine elementary schools and two middle schools in order to grapple with its lo ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
DISD's Department of Uselessness
In the ever-lasting debate over whether and how and how well our teachers are living up to their charge -- that charge, of course, being simply to save their country from a slow, seamless descent into collective idiocy -- a lot of buzzwords get buzzed: evaluations, testing, metrics, merit pay, longe ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
There Are Two Dallas ISD Trustees Who Won't Let TFA Deal Sail Through Without a Fight
On the eve of the final school board meeting of the year, I had a long talk with Dallas Independent School District board president Lew Blackburn, who expects tonight's adios to 2011 will be a lengthy one: "We've got a long list of people who want to speak about the possible school closings," he ... More >>
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December 2, 2011
From the Comments: DISD Trustee Flores Chimes in on Teach for America's Success
Below, Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores hopped in the comments to underscore something he said during yesterday's discussion concerning Teach for America. Said the trustee yesterday, TFA corps members in the district "outperform two-thirds of all our teachers in math and sc ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
DISD Trustees Introduced to SaveBonham.org
The Dallas Independent School District board has yet to get down to business; at the moment it's behind closed doors in executive session. But moments ago it heard from a parade of public speakers, all of whom were awfully well behaved and used their three minutes wisely as they spoke about the i ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Dallas ISD Trustees, Principals Express Their Deep and Profound Love for Teach for America
Three hours after their start time, the Dallas ISD board finally got around to discussing whether or not to extend the district's contract with Teach for America -- which would seem like a no-brainer after you read this 2010 Atlantic piece about TFA or this January 2011 study by the University of ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Before DISD Board Discusses Closing Campuses, a Petition to Save Bonham Elementary
Interesting: I see the Dallas Independent School District has yanked from its Thursday agenda that STAAR End of Course Policy Impact briefing we posted yesterday. Also gone: the supporting docs for the Teach for America review, which we posted last week. At least they haven't pulled this (yet): D ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
As Dallas ISD Looks to Renew Teach for America Contract, District Offers Numbers in Support
One week from tomorrow, the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees will settle in for what's sure to be a calm, reasonable and thoroughly thoughtful discussion about extending the district's contract with Teach for America through the 2017 school year. The cost of the new deal: $3 ... More >>
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November 16, 2011
The Brief and Wondrous Lives of Teach for America Teachers in DISD
Woodrow principal Kyle Richardson lost four TFA-trained teachers -- and went and hired three more.Teach for America, the nonprofit teacher pipeline founded by Park Cities native Wendy Kopp, has made a couple of appearances in the Morning News lately, first in a news story and then an editoria ... More >>
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May 6, 2011
Say, Matthew McConaughey, You Got a Rangers Jersey? It'd Be a Lot Cooler If You Did.
Photos by Patrick MichelsTurns out, Matthew McConaughey's got a pretty good arm.If you'd been in one particular basement in Arlington a little more than an hour ago, you would've stood square in the middle of a fairly strange scene: Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa standing around, cheerfu ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
Teach For America's Miguel Solis Talks to D.C. Crowd About Experience at T.C. Marsh
What you see above is a video presently making the rounds amongst those of us who live in the T.C. Marsh-W.T. White feeder pattern: Marsh eighth-grade U.S. history teacher Miguel Solis speaking a few days ago at Teach for America's 20th Anniversary Summit in Washington, D.C. And when I say speaking, ... More >>
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December 21, 2010
In DISD and Across Local Charter Schools, Teach for America's Growing Next Year
While they were busy voting not to extend their term lengths last Thursday, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees also made the call to extend the district's partnership with Teach for America, on the heels of the glowing review they heard of TFA's first year-and-a-half here so ... More >>
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November 24, 2010
Dallas ISD's Board of Trustees Set to Receive Glowing Update on Teach for America in Dallas
Teach for America founder (and HPHS's own) Wendy KoppFour months back, Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger directed our attention to a a study by UT-Austin Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Planning Julian Vasquez Heilig that questioned whether Highland Park High S ... More >>
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October 22, 2010
The Bush Institute Wants to Train Half the Country's Principals. D.C. Schools' Ex-Supe Kerri Briggs Tells Us How They'll Do It.
Kerri Briggs Speaking of the Bush Institute ...Its new director for education reform, Kerri Briggs, has been on the job for about two weeks now, after abruptly leaving her old job as D.C.'s state superintendent of education -- jumping ship from lame-duck mayor Adrian Fenty's administration almost a ... More >>
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July 11, 2010
DISD Trustee Carla Ranger Directs Our Attention to a New Study Critical of Teach for America
Teach for America founder Wendy KoppIn May 2009, Highland Park High School grad Wendy Kopp's Teach for America -- which gives recent college grads a five-week crash course in teaching before dropping them in low-income urban and rural schools -- sent close to 100 rookies to Dallas. DISD Superinte ... More >>
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July 22, 1999
Flunking Out
Charter school scandals are teaching Texas a tough lesson -- one the state should have known four years and $77 million ago.

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