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Finn 2.0
Checker talks about his new book, Troublemaker, in a very chic-looking, new media-ish video interview.
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Where's the beef?
Doesn't appear that student performance is a part of this new proposed pay structure by the teachers' union in Australia. A hundred indicators and not a one on how the students are performing?
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Quality versus quantity
This would-be second-career teacher in California says that proving "highly-qualified" status is a hoop-jumping endeavor: "The standards to which I'm being held here are no
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Rudy and the crew
Quite the fight going on right now in Miami, as the Miami-Dade school board weighs the fate of superintendent Rudy Crew.?? Some board members are trying to oust him with accusations of gross negligence, incompetence, and the like.??
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Resentment
The Washington Post believes that D.C. officials resent charter schools, and it tells them: "Get over it."
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Is education, like politics, a "devalued category"?
I was reading the Washington Post on Saturday when I came across this little piece by Democratic strategist Carter Eskew about the presidential campaign and its suddenly negative to
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Intern at Fordham
Fordham is seeking a fall intern. What's it like to spend a semester with us? Our summer intern, Amy, has approved the following message, which I wrote:
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Washington's most influential school reform advocate
No, it's not Kati Haycock or George Miller or even Margaret Spellings. It's Jo-Ann Armao, the education writer for the Washington Post editorial page.
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Reaping what we sow
The archaic agrarian school calendar is just one more reminder of how education is not keeping up with the times, argues Arthur Rothkopf.