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From one Ed Week blogger to another
A post from guest blogger and Fordham board member Diane Ravitch.
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Does calling Bill Ayers a "terrorist" make me a "McCarthyite"?
Dean Millot at Edbizbuzz seems to think so.
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And does advocating for teaching American history make me "reactionary" and "anti-world"?
Corey Bower seems to think so.
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It's just silly
Clearly blogging is having a dumbing-down effect on my punditry. Though it is silly ("unwise"? "counter-productive"?
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Sol Stern's latest target: Russ Whitehurst
Now that Sol Stern has completely ruffled the feathers of the "whatever wo
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New from Nintendo
Video games supposedly made America's youth lazy and fat; maybe video games can make them active and lean.
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The British on race in America
Yesterday's Sunday Times (UK) featured a piece on New York City's student pay-for-performance plan, spearheaded by Harvard ec
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AP and IB stealing market share
Washington Post reporter Daniel de Vise writes today that high schools are scaling back "honors" courses as they boost their AP and IB offerings.
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More on Ayers
Nothing is more emblematic of the rampant intellectual incoherence and moral equivalence of our age than the current debate about whether Bill Ayers is a "terrorist." Dean Millot at Edbizbuzz calls Mike a "McCarthyite"--one of the most vicious slanders in the po