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Nick Siewert

Parents still angry even after Palm Beach County makes concessions on testing for high-... - 0 views

  • But at Tuesday's meeting, parents were too angry to acknowledge that Hernandez had made his first major concession since they began organizing on Facebook
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      Does this mean Facebook is so, like, yesterday?
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    Facebook as a tool for social protest. Just as soon as schools get their heads around student use of Facebook, here come the parents.
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    Facebook as a tool for social protest. Just as soon as schools get their heads around student use of Facebook, here come the parents.
Eric Kattwinkel

Robert J. Samuelson commentary: Student motivation is at root of educational woe | The ... - 2 views

  • "Reforms" have disappointed for two reasons. First, no one has yet discovered transformative changes in curriculum or pedagogy, especially for inner-city schools, that are "scalable"
  • The larger cause of failure is almost unmentionable: shrunken student motivation.
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    "Motivation is weak because more students don't like school, don't work hard and don't do well." Also see Tom Friedman in the NYTimes referring to this article and concluding that "right now the Hindus and Confucians have more Protestant ethics than we do, and as long as that is the case we'll be No. 11!"
Amanda Bowen

BBC News - Harvard website hacked by Syria protesters - 3 views

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    I didn't hear about this - did you? Why did a foreign group attack our country though an educational institution and its technology?
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