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By Valerie Strauss -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/advice-to-education-dept-on-newest-race-to-the-top/2011/07/20/gIQA9n8tQI_blog.html This was written by Monty Neill,...
Posted at 02:00 PM ET, 07/29/2011 Kohn: Why we have to save our schools By Valerie Strauss http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/kohn-why-we-have-to-save-our-schools/2011/07/29...
View slide show on original site. | View on Flickr on original site. Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/jamming-the-system-standardized-t...
I have recently been researching the use of Web 2.0 technologies and Social Networking as a tool for Assessment for Learning. Thanks to all who responded via Twitter especially @nick_chater @57maso...
Teach for America: Liberal mission helps conservative agenda http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/teach-for-america-liberal-mission-helps-conservative-agenda/2011/12/25/gIQApoVZHP...
Making Progress: Rethinking State and School District Policies Concerning Mobile Technologies and Social Media pdf http://www.cosn.org/Default.aspx?TabId=12543 BACKGROUND It is...
Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning PLAYBACK: News on Teens and Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and Google+, And Schools That Don't Allow Them Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:22 PM PST In this week's PLAY...
******************************** From Education Week [American Education's Newspaper of Record], Tuesday, March 27, 2012. See http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/ ------------------...
Electronic Teaming for Singletons in a PLC One of the questions that I'm asked all the time as an advocate for both professional learning communities and teaching with technology is, "How can ...
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...
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...
A few clippings. The Save Our Schools March http://www.washingtonpost.com/local By Valerie Strauss "I don't know where I would be today if my teachers' job security was based on how I performed o...
By Valerie Strauss http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-facts-that-school-reformers-ignore/2012/01/23/gIQABWQRMQ_blog.html This was written by Richard Rothstein, a research...
A state that just says 'no' to charters, other reforms By Valerie Strauss This was written by Melissa Westbrook, a public education activist and co-writer of the Seattle Schools Community Forum...
What teachers don't need (but are getting anyway) By Valerie Strauss This was written by Paul Thomas, an associate professor of education at Furman University in South Carolina. A version of th...
By Valerie Strauss Here are questions that education historian Diane Ravitch posed to politicans who make education policy. Ravitch, a research professor at New York University, is the author of nu...
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/using-technology-to-check-understanding-mary-beth-hertz?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_content=blog&utm_campaign=techtoolstimelyfeedback
Guest post: An 'Arab Spring' of free online higher education By Daniel de Vise http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/guest-post-an-arab-spring-of-free-online-higher-education/201...
Subject: Teacher Depreciation Week | NationofChange Date: May 13, 2012 10:05:09 AM EDT http://www.nationofchange.org/teacher-depreciation-week-1336829721 Sent from my iPad Teacher Depreciation ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-war-on-teachers-why-the-public-is-watching-it-happen/2012/03/11/gIQAD3XH6R_blog.html The war on teachers: Why the public is watching it hap...
