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Stephen Sawchuk Stephen Sawchuk, a former federal education beat writer, turns his inner policy geek to digging around in the weeds of the teaching profession. Join him as he explicates the polic...
Keeping Special Ed in Proportion Experts say improvements in school instructional cultures can keep some struggling minority kids out of special education. http://www.edweek.org/tsb/article...
http://educationontheplate.com/2012/04/17/what-would-gandhi-do/ In its infinite wisdom, the New York State Education Department has increased the length of the state ELA and math tests by 50% this...
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/04/18/should-teachers-and-students-be-facebook-friends/ Should teachers and students be Facebook friends? Several years after Facebook expanded from a college social...
Over thirty years of investment in improving science education, and this is where we are. If you do the same thing over and over, why do you expect a different result? It's time for real change.
******************************** From Education Week [American Education's Newspaper of Record], Tuesday, March 27, 2012. See http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/ ------------------...
By Valerie Strauss This was written by John Jackson, president of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, and Pedro Noguera, the Peter L. Agnew professor of education at New York University. ...
December 2, 2011 Today, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice have issued long-awaited policy guidance to K-12 schools and colleges and universities across the U.S., about the ways in whi...
By Valerie Strauss http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/hawaii-teachers-reject-contract-in-blow-to-race-to-the-top/2012/01/20/gIQA2KHCGQ_blog.html Public school teachers in Hawa...
****************************** From The Los Angeles Times, Saturday, February 4, 2012. See http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120205,0,639053.column .. Our appreciation to Monty Neil, ...
Michelle Rhee's empty claims about her D.C. schools record http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/michelle-rhees-empty-claims-about-her-dc-schools-record/2012/01/30/gIQAATFjdQ_blo...
http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditoCommon Core Mathematics Standards and Implementing Digital Technologies 9 Editors: Drew Polly, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Call f...
America's Next Educational Crisis Posted: 07/ 1/11 11:51 AM ET http://www.huffingtonpost.com/franklin-schargel/americas-next-educational_b_883381.html High-quality teachers are critical to acc...
By Alyson Klein A long-stalled, bipartisan rewrite of the widely-disparaged No Child Left Behind Act approved by the Senate education committee on Thursday faces steep political hurdles, with opp...
http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16561 Just Schools: Pursuing Equality in Societies of Difference reviewed by Sherick Hughes - October 14, 2011 Title: Just Schools: Pursuing Equality...
National Cyber Security Alliance Announces New Agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, NIST and National Cybersecurity Education Council to Promote Formal Cyber Security Education Programs...
FCC Chairman, Experts, Discuss Driving Broadband Adoption and Effects on Economy at Joint Center by TIFFANY BAIN on OCTOBER 3, 2012 Although it had only been in its new office location for less th...
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/04/13/education-groups-weigh-in-on-digital-media-use-policies/2/? A new report from a number of prominent education groups aims to guide school leaders as they rev...
By Valerie Strauss This is the text of an open letter written to President Obama by Mary Broderick, president of the Arlington, Va.,-based National Schools Boards Association, a not-for-profit or...
