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Very interesting article about Judge Sotomayor's Princeton education. I appreciate her hard work.
Very interesting article about Judge Sotomayor's Princeton education. I appreciate her hard work.
According to the good folks at Ed Week, there are some interesting happenings on the Hill today. The House subcommittee in charge of education appropriations decided to provide a big boost to the Teacher Incentive Fund (a program that supports innovative teacher compensation systems).
When I read this appropriations article earlier, I assumed that the number listed at the bottom for the federal charter schools program was a typo. But maybe not. I'm hearing the????same thing from other sources: an approximately $100 million reduction for charters.
Barrett Karr has been named staff director to the new GOP leader of the Labor/Ed committee.
Gadfly is here and it's great! First, Checker considers the speech topics of Secretary Duncan.
A plan unveiled today in Australia tackles a popular suggestion that's been thrown around in the US: putting "super teachers" (as the Aussies call them) in the worst schools, and compensating them with higher pay, a smaller class load, and the opportunity to mentor other teachers.
Find out in this NYT interview with the founder of TFA: "Corner Office: Charisma? To Her, It's Overrated."
Overheard in DC is a feature of DCist.com, a blog about all things happening in our nation's capital. Each week, readers email in snippets of funny conversations they "overheard in DC" and every Friday, DCist picks a few they think take the cake. Take a look at one of this week's winning entries:
Enjoy the first video in our summer "Fun Fact Friday!" series. Each week we'll present an interesting education fact in a fun visual format. This one takes on the myth that class size is inversely related to student achievement.