Quotable:
"After all, we wouldn't ask air traffic controllers to land planes with radars that shut down at 10,000 feet. We wouldn't let surgeons operate if they could only guess at how previous patients had done...And yet at the moment we are asking high schools to deliver students who can perform in college without giving schools the tools to know whether or how their current efforts are paying off."
-The Promise of Proficiency, a new report from Center for American Progress
"High Schools Flying Blind Without College Data, Report Says," High School Connections (EdWeek Blog)
Notable:
9:
Hours Denver's school board and superintendent spent in a group session with a psychologist on Thursday.?? The board had become increasingly at odds over several new reform proposals passed earlier in the week.?? The Denver Post reports that "The word ???Kumbaya' was, indeed, uttered" at the session.
"DPS board, superintendent get coaching on making up," Denver Post