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Stop the presses! Bloomberg wanted Canada?
Do we care? The New York Times is reporting that Mayor Mike asked Harlem education guru Geoffrey Canada to be his Chancellor?before he picked publishing executive Cathie Black.
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Grading Gotham Teachers ? Two More
It wouldn't be New York if it weren't a bit of a media slugfest.?
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Grading Gotham's Teachers ? No Ruling Yet
In a case the NY Times said would ?propel New York City to the center of a national debate about how student test scores should be used to evaluate teachers,?
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On Purpose: How Great School Cultures Form Strong Character
Front line lessons on character and education
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A First Look at the Common Core and College and Career Readiness
Barely one third of students are prepared for what's next
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Education News Nuggets
Think your privacy is secure in public schools? You may want to think again. And it looks like money isn't always going to the right places in New York.
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Quotable & Notable
?The most successful charters [are] protective of the keys to their success because they [are] competing with other charter networks for new contracts.'' * ?Luis Huerta, Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy at Teachers College at Columbia University
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Finn on BBC
As a footnote to the earlier NBC post,?Checker also was?interviewed by the BBC about the PISA results and Shanghai's dominance.
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Finn on NBC
Yesterday, NBC Nightly News featured a segment about the newly-released PISA results, which, as you probably know by
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Relax
Reading Checker's piece in today's Wall Street Journal sent Terry into a brief fit of arrhythmia and anxiety.
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A Rubber Room by any other name ? is still a rubber room?
According to today's NY Times, the city's infamous ?rubber rooms? ? made more infamous by last year's Steven Brill New Yorker article ?
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Education facing demands at a time of leaner rations
Checker's WSJ piece on the recent ???Sputnik moment??? for American education sent my mind reeling and my heart racing.
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Education News Nuggets
Teacher training is all about the technology lately?coaching via earpieces and
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Quotable & Notable
?We are trying to shift the balance of power in the education landscape away from the powerful groups who want to keep the status quo. We are going to be the group that is advocating on behalf of kids.? Michelle Rhee, Former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools
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Sputnik for the 21st century
This piece originally appeared in today's Wall Street Journal (login required).
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Taking off the gloves
By happenstance, the same day that Michelle Rhee announced formation of her new education-reform advocacy group, Students First, a committee of our own board okayed a staff (and attorney)?recommendation that we engage in what the IRS calls a ?501 (h)?
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The war is implied
Frederick M. Hess of the American Enterprise Institute tells the Christian Science Monitor that former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee ?very explicitly is setting out to be a political answer to the unions.?
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Try again
Edward L. Glaeser, a Harvard economics professor, presents today on the New York Times Economix blog some ways in which Republicans in Washington might improve education. Alas, his ideas are not new.
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Behind the numbers
Checker is among those educators ?stunned,? as he told the New York Times, by China's performance in what the Times noted was the nation's ?debut in international standardized testing.? And stunned he, and we all, should be.
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50/50 Race to the Top split isn't unusual
Despite the fact that the Race to the Top program disappeared from the news several months ago (winnings for the last round were announced in late August), there have been lingering questions and issues with the program.
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Like batting averages? You'll love VAM
Review: Evaluating Teachers: The Important Role of Value-Added