Comments on: Toch Finds the Sensible Center http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/06/18/toch-finds-the-sensible-center/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:55:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Eric http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/06/18/toch-finds-the-sensible-center/#comment-4160 Eric Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:18:56 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=511#comment-4160 When we aren't leveraging resources as suggested in Dr. Ladd's <i>Making Money Matter</i>, it's hard to argue the Feds should be calling more of the shots. Maybe when the feds demonstrate that ESEA, NSF (systemic initiative), and head start dollars are being used well, they will have credibility to leverage TANF dollars for education. In the mean time, capacity building through professional development (and curriculum improvements) as Dr. Ladd suggested nine years ago is our only hope. I thought we knew what we were doing until the manifestos came out. Now we know whose oars weren't pulling. When we aren’t leveraging resources as suggested in Dr. Ladd’s Making Money Matter, it’s hard to argue the Feds should be calling more of the shots.

Maybe when the feds demonstrate that ESEA, NSF (systemic initiative), and head start dollars are being used well, they will have credibility to leverage TANF dollars for education. In the mean time, capacity building through professional development (and curriculum improvements) as Dr. Ladd suggested nine years ago is our only hope.

I thought we knew what we were doing until the manifestos came out. Now we know whose oars weren’t pulling.

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