{"id":587,"date":"2010-09-29T09:41:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T13:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=587"},"modified":"2010-09-29T09:41:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T13:41:40","slug":"brockton-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Brockton High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/28\/education\/28school.html?_r=1&#038;sq=brockton&#038;st=cse&#038;scp=1&#038;pagewanted=print\">article on Brockton High<\/a> and its turnaround.  Three things:<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe article is built around a Harvard Report, <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/Pc3x\">here<\/a>, and the lead researcher is quoted saying, &#8220;A<strong>chievement rose when leadership teams focused thoughtfully and relentlessly on improving the quality of instruction<\/strong>.\u201d  Nothing outrageous here &#8212; focus on instruction and have a single objective (in Brockton&#8217;s case, a focus on reading and writing in every class) &#8212; but what seems to set this school apart is that they had not only a competent administrator who actually understood what good instruction looks and feels like, but who also could make changes within the contract.  <strong>Respecting a collective bargaining agreement while empowering teachers?<\/strong> I hope this example gets the press it deserves, especially as pundits and politicos continue to scapegoat unions as the sole issue stopping school reform.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this article on Brockton High and its turnaround. Three things: The article is built around a Harvard Report, here, and the lead researcher is quoted saying, &#8220;Achievement rose when leadership teams focused thoughtfully and relentlessly on improving the quality of instruction.\u201d Nothing outrageous here &#8212; focus on instruction and have a single objective &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=587\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brockton High School<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-9t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}