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Education Week: Let's Abolish High School - 0 views
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The first compulsory education law in the United States wasn’t enacted until 1852. This Massachusetts law required that all young people between the ages of 8 and 14 attend school three months a year—unless, that is, they could demonstrate that they already knew the material; in other words, this law was competency-based. It took 15 years before any other states followed Massachusetts’ lead and 66 years before all states did. Along the way, some powerful segments of society staunchly opposed the mandatory education trend. In 1892, for example, the Democratic Party stated as part of its national platform, “We are opposed to state interference with parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children.”
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It wasn’t until the late 1800s that laws restricting the work opportunities of young people began to take hold. Those laws, too, were fiercely opposed, and in fact the first federal laws restricting youth labor—enacted in 1916, 1918, and 1933—were all swiftly struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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the idea that there should be limits on youth labor, or that young people shouldn’t be allowed to do any work, seemed outrageous to many people.
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Teacher Talk: It's the Teachers, Stupid. - 0 views
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We are all students, we are all teachers.
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doing them well means having a sensitivity to making that process whole, rich and meaningful, never reaching an end
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Home Schoolers Content to Take Children's Lead - New York Times - 0 views
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Hayden Billings, 4, put a box over his head and had fun marching into things. His sister Gaby, 9, told stories about medieval warrior women, while Sydney, 6, drank hot chocolate and played with Dylan, the baby of the family. In a traditional school setting, such free time would probably be called recess. But for Juli Walter, the children’s mother, it is “child-led learning,” something she considers the best in home schooling. “I learned early on that when I do things I’m interested in,” Ms. Walter said, “I learn so much more.” As the number of children who are home-schooled grows — an estimated 1.1 million nationwide — some parents like Ms. Walter are opting for what is perhaps the most extreme application of the movement’s ideas.
Small-town Minnesota school is big on the Web - 0 views
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"Clearly, we have not been in a mode of reducing staff and cutting expenditures, like most districts have. That pressure has been relieved."
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Although interest in online education is growing, it's unlikely to replace traditional learning, said Minnesota Education Commissioner Alice Seagren.
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That could help retain students who might look elsewhere under the state's open-enrollment system -- a crucial issue, because state money follows the student.
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Ed Week News - 0 views
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A subscription site with enough free info on Index page to both intrigue and give a sense of what's happening at a national level in education. The tech savvy will search outside of www.edweek.org for the details, avoiding any need to pay fees.
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The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com - 0 views
Open Source games for Windows! - 0 views
As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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At Empire High School in Vail, Ariz., students use computers provided by the school to get their lessons, do their homework and hear podcasts of their teachers' science lectures. Down the road, at Cienega High School, students who own laptops can register for "digital sections" of several English, history and science classes. And throughout the district, a Beyond Textbooks initiative encourages teachers to create - and share - lessons that incorporate their own PowerPoint presentations, along with videos and research materials they find by sifting through reliable Internet sites.
n2teaching: Professional Opportunities in Times of Uncertainty - 0 views
Conversation Agent: Da Vinci was a Change Agent, Are You? - 0 views
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