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Quotable and notable
?Right now, the standard is that you haven't been fired by your principal.? ?Timothy Daly, president of the New Teacher Project, on teacher tenure standards
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Massachusetts and Race to the Top
In yesterday's Boston Globe, I wrote about what Massachusetts needs to do to win in the second round of Race to the Top.
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Massachusetts and Race to the Top
In yesterday's Boston Globe, I wrote about what Massachusetts needs to do to win in the second round of Race to the Top.
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Blogging ?Teach Like a Champion??Part I
I downloaded Teach Like Champion 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College by Doug Lemov this weekend, and have scarcely been able to put it down.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Blogging "Teach Like a Champion"
I downloaded Teach Like Champion 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College by Doug Lemov this weekend, and have scarcely been able to put it down.
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Quotable and notable
"It was like the Olympic Games, and we were an American skater with a Soviet judge in the 1980s." ??? Governor Bill Ritter, Jr., Colorado, on Race to the Top scoring
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Quotable and notable
?It was like the Olympic Games, and we were an American skater with a Soviet judge in the 1980s.? ? Governor Bill Ritter, Jr., Colorado, on Race to the Top scoring
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Very interesting RTT ripples
Per this post from yesterday, Kentucky moves half-heartedly toward a charter law Great article on Delaware, unions, & RTT with valuable thoughts from Hess
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How Louisiana can win
Possibly the biggest surprise of RTT scoring was that Louisiana came in 11th place (out of 16 finalists). I had them in second.
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How Louisiana can win
Possibly the biggest surprise of RTT scoring was that Louisiana came in 11th place (out of 16 finalists). I had them in second.
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Quotable and notable
???We're not fixated on how many charter schools we have open.?? What we're fixated on is the result we get from the charter schools that are open.??? ???Deborah Fallin, spokesperson for the Colorado Education Association
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Quotable and notable
?We're not fixated on how many charter schools we have open.? What we're fixated on is the result we get from the charter schools that are open.? ?Deborah Fallin, spokesperson for the Colorado Education Association
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Charters, post-RTT I
Leaders in both West Virginia and Kentucky are admitting that they suffered in RTT scoring because they still lack charter laws.
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The consequence of 16 finalists
When I registered exasperation with the Department for choosing 16 RTT finalists, lots of people emailed me in protest. The large number of finalists, they said, was no big deal.
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How Florida can win
Yesterday, I wrote that states could win RTT grants in round two without sacrificing their bold reforms in order to garner stakeholder support. Florida is a good example.
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How Florida can win
Yesterday, I wrote that states could win RTT grants in round two without sacrificing their bold reforms in order to garner stakeholder support. Florida is a good example.
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The consequence of 16 finalists
When I registered exasperation with the Department for choosing 16 RTT finalists, lots of people emailed me in protest. The large number of finalists, they said, was no big deal.
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It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools
Conventional wisdom in many education circles (see here) tells us that multiple choice tests are the enemy of critical thinking and deep content mastery. Such tests, we're told, can't really assess student learning. What's worse, they ???encourage???
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It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools
Conventional wisdom in many education circles (see here) tells us that multiple choice tests are the enemy of critical thinking and deep content mastery. Such tests, we're told, can't really assess student learning. What's worse, they ?encourage?
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Education news nuggets
It's not a joke -- New York's RTT application requested money for office furniture.
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Education news nuggets
It's not a joke ? New York's RTT application requested money for office furniture.
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This week's Education Gladfly: Arne tells Rahm the truth about RTTT I
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down from the Thomas B. Boredom Finnstitute.
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This week's Education Gladfly: Arne tells Rahm the truth about RTTT I
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down from the Thomas B. Boredom Finnstitute.
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Quotable and notable
???I think there needs to be an explanation from the systems that choose not to do it.?? I think they owe their taxpaying constituents in those districts an explanation as to why they wouldn't choose to participate, quite frankly.??? ???Ted Strickland, Governor of Ohio
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?I think there needs to be an explanation from the systems that choose not to do it.? I think they owe their taxpaying constituents in those districts an explanation as to why they wouldn't choose to participate, quite frankly.? ?Ted Strickland, Governor of Ohio