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Ed on K-12 ed
The Heritage Foundation's Ed Feulner is a heckuva smart guy and he's usually right (as well as Right). His take on A Nation at Risk, and the country's response to it, however, is only half right.
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Reclassify this
The Sacramento Bee's editorial page weighs in on the racial remix controversy at Will C. Wood Middle School, coming to the defense of the school's principal:
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Reid on Reading First
Reid Lyon, the Godfather of Scientifically Based Reading Instruction (so says Eduflack), provides a ton of important insights into RF's interim evaluation study in this
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"Disruptive innovation" comes to education
Clay Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma and a Harvard business professor, is coming out with a new book that's sure to create a buzz in the K-12 space, Disrupting Class:
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In Sunday's New York Times
The Styles section features a piece about online services that let parents track their kids' grades in real time.
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The Empire City teachers union strikes back
Looks like the United Federation of Teachers is not going to back down on the Absent Teacher Reserve issue.
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Sidwell Friends School goes green
The Washington Post reports that the Institute of Architects has recognized a new building on the campus of the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., "as one of the 'top ten green projects' of 2007":
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A special education issue
This month's issue of The New Criterion is all about education. There's lots on the value of the classics/liberal education/learning for learning's sake from smart folks like Roger Kimball, Victor Davis Hanson, and James Piereson.
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Thanks, Susan Zelman
After months of jockeying with control-freak governor Ted Strickland, Ohio state education superintendent Susan Tave Zelman is on her way out, perhaps to the University of Oregon as ed school dean.