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The illuminative Colbert King
Whitney Tilson, a hedge fund manager who writes a widely read education blog, and Kevin Carey, the policy director at Education Sector, have both eviscerated Washington Post columnist Colbert King for his recent piece, ?Time for Rhee to go.?
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Austan Who?
The headline in the Washington Post was ?Austan Goolsbee: triathlete, improv comedian, economist.? Given the state of the economy, Obama's new Chairman of the Council on Economic Advisers might need the improv comedian talents?more than anything.
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Houston, we have a pony
As a child, my parents would threaten: If your toys are on the floor, they end up in the trash bin.
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Education News Nuggets
With the President interrupting class time next week, and students becoming more and more distracted, how can we expect students to take advantage of the little time they do have i
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Quotable & Notable
?It may sound nuts to talk about fixing school finance systems when districts are struggling to make payroll, but actually, a tough recession may be the only opportunity to do it.'' ?Jacob E. Adams Jr., Professor at the Claremont Graduate University
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Whither 21st century skills?
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (known as P-21) announced the other day that it has entered into a ?strategic management agreement? with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) under which the chiefs will house the P-21 team and provide them with diverse management services.
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A Misplaced Race Card
My jaw did the proverbial drop when I read this opening sentence in a front page story in Sunday's Albany Times Union: Albany's charter schools have created a second school system that is almost entirely segregated.
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Quotable & Notable
?When it comes to reforming a failed school system, you either go monomaniacal or go home.'' ?WashingtonCityPaper.com Editorial Board, with HT to Linda Perlstein
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Five Miles Away, a World Apart
Urban and suburban students must learn together to close the achievement gap
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Adding value to value-added: Getting more out of the data we have
Since our special Ohio Education Gadfly last month about changes to Ohio’s value-added analysis methodology, we’ve received
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Education News Nuggets
How to study effectively? Maybe we could pick up a tip or two from the Russians. But careful ?
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Quotable and Notable
?Will making the teachers better and giving them more support do the trick? Or should we focus on improving the students' attitudes and habits before they ever get to school, by giving their families more support?'' ?Jay Mathews, Columnist at the Washington Post
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Debating the Common Core standards
That's right. As more states across the country adopt the Common Core education standards (it's up to about 37 now), the conversation continues.
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Instructional radio
They were talking education (Race to the Top, evaluating teachers) this morning on the Diane Rehm Show. The U.S.
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Universal preschool by stealth
In the name of boosting academic performance and giving struggling kids a better shot at succeeding in first grade, California appears to be headed down the slippery slope to universal preschool, never mind that state voters rejected such a plan when Rob Reiner got it onto the ballot in 2006.
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School Finance, Governance
Stretching the School Dollar: How Schools and Districts Can Save Money While Serving Students Best
In this volume, a diverse group of experts—scholars, educators, journalists, and entrepreneurs—offer wisdom and advice on how schools and districts can cut costs, eliminate inefficient spending, and better manage their funds in order to free up resources to drive school reform.
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Slay the Shibboleths: Down with Learning Styles and Up with Testing
Today's?NYT has a great story in the Science section, Forget What You Know About Studying, confirming what many of us have suspected ? and people like Daniel Willingham have known ?
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Context Counts
Sipping my morning coffee, feeling guilty about criticizing Pedro Noguera, I see Albert Einstein staring at me from the Liberty Science Center coffee mug. It is coated with a substance that comes to life when heated and out pops, of course, ?EMC2? and this:
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Education News Nuggets
Its back-to-school time again (lesson plans from the New York Times available here), and this year some local students will have the opportunity to
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Quotable and Notable
?Instead of schools as tools of liberation, we have made them into great houses of mirrors, reflecting back on students the environment they come from.'' ?Peter Meyer, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute
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Stretching the School Dollar
We're thrilled that today Harvard Education Press has released Stretching the School Dollar: How Schools and Districts Can Save Money While Serving Students Best.
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A college list to skip
Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, authors of the new-ish book Higher Education?, ?identify and briefly describe on the Washington Post's Political Boo