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Ravitch: What Scrooge might think of modern school reform By Valerie Strauss This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Debor...
An unintended consequence of value-added teacher evaluation By Valerie Strauss A high school teacher in New York sent me the following e-mail, which discusses a most unfortunate unintended conseque...
We can lower that cost per trained science teacher as well as retrain existing teachers using new technology.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2012 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Information Technology and Innovation Foundation 1101 K Street NW (Suite 610A) Washington, DC 20005 President Obama recently an...
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ScienceDaily (May 9, 2011) - Online social networking sites, such as Facebook, can help students become academically and socially integrated as well as improving learning outcomes, according to a s...
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/physicsanimation.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51 Miles O'Brien, Science Nation Correspondent Ann Kellan, Science Nation Producer The best animators k...
Video: DreamWorks Uses Animated Penguins to Explain Importance of High Performance Computing DreamWorks, in partnership with the Council on Competitiveness, produced an animated short explaining ...
Web News Briefs 1. My ISTE 2011: Takeaways from a conference To me, ISTE - with some 13,000 attendees from 68 countries having converged on Philadelphia this week - is like looking out the window...
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Posted: 01/25/2012 2012 Professor Diane Ravitch is a big voice in education policy and a huge critic of No Child Left Behind. Yet, as former Assistant Secretary of Education under Preside...
The True Cost of High School Dropouts By HENRY M. LEVIN and CECILIA E. ROUSE Published: January 25, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/opinion/the-true-cost-of-high-school-dropouts.html ...
Guiding Principles [Translate] For the future of our children, we demand: http://www.saveourschoolsmarch.org/about/guiding-principles/ Equitable funding for all public school commun...
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.
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The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles (CRP) announces the release of a new report by Daniel Losen, director of the new Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the CRP and one of the nati...
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011-Horizon-Report-K12.pdf
Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank unveiled findings from the Economics and Statistics Administration's (ESA) third and final report on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jo...
