tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21843852.post2122239909671185270..comments2024-01-04T05:57:26.735-06:00Comments on Education Policy Blog: Hosted by the Forum on the Future of Public Education: How Should School Principals Be Selected in Chicago?Craig A. Cunninghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18160288758906798678noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21843852.post-12498623732101768762011-02-23T22:38:43.750-06:002011-02-23T22:38:43.750-06:00Chicago-area folks might be interested in this upc...Chicago-area folks might be interested in this upcoming event on charter school research. <br />http://forum.illinois.edu/events/symposium-charter-school-experimentUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238931861441750104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21843852.post-40634183097762286362010-03-10T13:04:16.349-06:002010-03-10T13:04:16.349-06:00How, if at all, does the recent controversy about ...How, if at all, does the recent controversy about inflated grading at Hyde Park Academy affect your stance on the school board or school leadership?<br /><br />http://www.windycitizen.com/chicago/schools/2010/03/10/hyde-park-academy-grading-mess-complete-blanket-as-massive-grade-changesDawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18389567410898754911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21843852.post-41296456879453294082010-03-02T10:51:09.491-06:002010-03-02T10:51:09.491-06:00I think this it’s not a bad idea, the board will p...I think this it’s not a bad idea, the board will pick the candidates to be principal and the students will select a principal by vote after all we are a demarcate country. <a href="http://www.aot.edu.au/responsible-service-of-alcohol.html" rel="nofollow"> RSA </a>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12180938373224746268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21843852.post-17970718831803771532010-02-18T14:24:21.603-06:002010-02-18T14:24:21.603-06:00Nicely said. I would add that the fact of being e...Nicely said. I would add that the fact of being elected does not make one the "representative" of a "community". Community in America, even in fairly wealthy areas, is something that must be created to be said to exist in any substantive sense (I won't get into what this means). It doesn't "exist." People who are elected are individuals. So even those LSCs that work well may not be serving any particularly democratic purpose, depending on how you define this.<br /><br />In an article I wrote <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Frer.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F76%2F4%2F691&ei=3aB9S8_4Bpqutge6l_i-BQ&usg=AFQjCNFQIY0MdocnM8bl1S8IaMh980-_0g&sig2=6Exxtlqr1mSLsr7Jl3eC2w" rel="nofollow">about School-Community Relations</a> I noted (with data that is now a half a decade old) that:<br /><br />"Bryk, Bebring, Kerbow, Rollow,& Easton (1998) examined the workings of Chicago's Local School Councils (LSCs)in their first 5 years and found that, in part because the councils were empowered to hire and fire principals, many were deeply involved in school policy and programs. However, a recent review of the evidence on these councils indicates potential problems of skewed participation. Although only 11% of the students are White, 40% of the elected parent/community council members are White. Council members are much better educated than the average parent or community members in many schools, and have much more time to volunteer (Designs for Change, 2002). Positions on the councils initially were fought for, but, more recently, few parents or community members seemed interested (Reid, 2004)."<br /><br />As I note in this article, Local school councils, however empowered, are unlikely to make much of a democratic difference unless we develop more coherent forms of collective voice and community power in the "community" outside schools.Aaron Schutzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10667097977144954236noreply@blogger.com