Dr. Thomas Sobol

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  www.elfrank.com/UFT/Articles/SchoolsOut.mht - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/9/2007    Last Visited: 12/3/2007  

  Thomas Sobol, the former New York State education commissioner, = believes the=20 battle lines have been drawn between democracy and corporatization."The = arrogance, my God, of saying because we know how to run Kmart, we know = how to=20 educate children," said Sobol, professor emeritus at Columbia = University's=20 Teachers College.
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  "This administration is = preparing=20 children to do these small tasks, stripping education down to its = parched=20 bones," said Tom Sobol.

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  www.aclu-sc.org/releases/view/100056 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/10/2002    Last Visited: 9/23/2008  

  The reports were prepared by the leading national experts in the field of education, including Professor Jeannie Oakes of UCLA, Professor Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford University, former New York Commissioner of Education Thomas Sobol, Professor Michelle Fine of the City University of New York and others.
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  In his expert testimony, former New York Commissioner of Education, Thomas Sobol makes clear that qualified teachers, appropriate instructional materials, and adequate facilities are required for educational opportunity.
  
  "Asking children to attend school in insulting environments where the plaster is crumbling, the roof is leaking, and classes are being held in unlikely places because of overcrowded conditions has an ongoing, repetitive undercutting effect, sending a message of diminished value to the children," Sobol stated.

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  Back on July 17, 2003, I was in the School Law Institute at Teachers College, Columbia, and Thomas Sobol came and spoke about NCLB.He was kind enough to share his speech with me via email afterward (and I was lucky enough to take a ton of courses with him during my administrative certification process), and his words are more powerful and eloquent than mine could ever be.Sadly, his notes merely reference / mention the case study he spoke about that day, but the rest of his words are here below.Enjoy.
  
  Remarks to the School Law Institute -- July 17, 2003 -- Thomas Sobol, Former New York State Education Commissioner and Christian A. Johnson Professor Of Outstanding Educational Practice

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  Published on: 3/24/2002    Last Visited: 7/8/2004  

  Thomas SobolProfessor of Education, Teachers College

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  Published on: 3/8/2007    Last Visited: 3/8/2007  

  It was not strong enough, however, for a task force on minorities appointed by Thomas Sobol, the state education commissioner, in 1989.
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  In response to public outcry Sobol appointed a new commission to review the social studies curriculum.
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  If Tom Sobol seems to be playing to a political constituency, isn't that a very ordinary thing for an ambitious political appointee to do?

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  Published on: 10/5/2009    Last Visited: 10/5/2009  

  On Thursday, October 14, 2004, CFE presented testimony from expert witness Dr. Thomas Sobol. Dr. Sobol was Commissioner of Education for the state of New York from 1987 to 1995 and, since then, has been a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. In his testimony Dr. Sobol was asked to compare the educational accountability proposals put before the special masters panel by plaintiffs and defendants. Dr. Sobol characterized CFE's Sound Basic Education Task Force accountability proposal as "comprehensive and systemic, while he referred to the Zarb Commission's accountability recommendations, which the governor has endorsed, as "scattershot."
  
  Dr. Sobol particularly praised CFE for its inclusiveness-both in the collaborative process by which it gathered expertise to develop the proposal and in the proposal itself, which calls for the meaningful engagement of parents, teachers, and others in citywide and school-level planning and decision making. Dr. Sobol further testified that CFE's accountability proposal is an important complement to the state's current system, which is based on the Regents Learning Standards and the federal No Child Left Behind Act, because the proposal creates state and district accountability for the resources and the climate for learning that students need to succeed.
  
  Finally, Dr. Sobol strongly denounced the governor's proposal for an "independent" office of educational accountability, saying that setting up another level of educational bureaucracy would "create confusion and invite mischief. If the governor wants more political control over educational operations in the state, Dr. Sobol said, then he should seek it through legitimate means and with appropriate public debate of the issue-not through the "back door" in the remedy of a school-funding case.

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  I once had the good fortune to take a class with Thomas Sobol, the former New York State Commissioner of Education.

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  Published on: 6/15/2005    Last Visited: 9/1/2009  

  In the mid-1990's, the former education commissioner, Thomas Sobol, granted these 28 consortium schools (serving 16,000 students, about 1 percent of New York's high school population) an exemption from most state tests.

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  Published on: 4/26/2007    Last Visited: 4/26/2007  

  Like many of the law's critics, members of PSFT--led by Columbia Teachers College President Tom Sobol--say NCLB places too great an emphasis on standardized testing, while doing little to measure students' progress effectively over time.

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  Last Visited: 10/5/2009  

  A source who spoke on the condition of anonymity in May said CFE was considering Cuomo, former state Education Commissioner Thomas Sobol and former New York City mayoral candidate and Public Advocate Mark Green.
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  "We considered those," CFE Executive Director Michael Rebell said of Cuomo, Sobol and Green.

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