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URLs: quoted article: http://www.educationnews.org/ednews_today/159157.html originally published in http://npe.educationnews.org/Review/Essays/v7n7.htm (with appendices containing many further links)
Education and the income gap: Darling-Hammond http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/education-and-the-income-gap-darling-hammond/2012/04/26/gIQAHn0LkT_blog.html By Valerie Strau...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-ironies-of-teacher-appreciation-week/2012/05/09/gIQAjkjTEU_blog.html The ironies of Teacher Appreciation Week By Valerie Strauss Last Fri...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/ravitch-the-toll-of-school-reform-on-public-education/2012/03/27/gIQADjVEfS_blog.html
Telecompetitor.com By Joan Engebretson The NTCA, OPASTCO and the Western Telecommunications Alliance have joined forces once again, jointly sending a letter last week to Agriculture Secretary Tho...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/dear-michelle-rhee-about-that-teacher-evaluation-study/2012/01/20/gIQA0iVSGQ_blog.html Dear Michelle Rhee: About that teacher evaluation study...
The Real Lessons of PISA By Diane Ravitch on December 14, 2010 9:13 AM Dear Deborah, When the results of the latest international assessment-the Program for International Student Assessment, or P...
I agree ~ and the lessons and sharp reminders in the article are not just for K-12
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...
Connect To Compete Overview http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/featured-news/broadband-adoption-key-to-jobs-and-education.html Washington, DC - Last week, Chairman Genachowski unveiled his pr...
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...
The 2012 Brown Center Report on American Education View online: http://www.brookings.edu/newsletters/browncenter/2012/0216.aspx ► Brookings.edu February 16, 2012 Brown Center on Education Poli...
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...
Technology Cannot Disrupt Education From The Top Down Patrick Gibbon Education http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/18/education-technology-disrupt/ Editor's note: Guest contributor Patrick Gibbo...
The Value of Teachers By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: January 11, 2012 Suppose your child is about to enter the fourth grade and has been assigned to an excellent teacher. Then the teac...
Permalink to the article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/president-obamas-unusual-education-roundtable/2011/07/18/gIQAf3UJMI_blog.html (odd that the Diigo software didn't inc...
by larrycuban The untimely loss of 56 year-old Steve Jobs and the obituaries that followed reminded me of what he told interviewers about technology and school reform. Jobs recorded these inter...
Broadband, Genachoswki, Rural , telco companies favored vs Cable, Bypassed by Broadband.
Welcome to CCK12 Stephen Downes: 'Connectivism' and Connective Knowledge January 14, 2012 . ... On Jan. 17 George Siemens and I will launch the third offering of our online course called 'Connect...
Microsoft Groundbreaking Speech and Report on CS Education http://blog.acm.org/archives/csta/2012/09/microsoft_relea.html Today Microsoft's General Counsel Brad Smith spoke at the Brookings In...
