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The nation's education secretary has lately been ventilating his thoughts on local issues.
The nation's education secretary has lately been ventilating his thoughts on local issues.
The Atlantic's Derek Thompson spoke with Jonah Edelman, co-founder and CEO of Stand for Children, about the prospects for a 2011 No Child Left Behind rewrite. Is Edelman optimistic that 2011 is the year? ?I am,?
RiShawn Biddle appreciates measured analysis but thinks?the K-12 realm?could also stand some ?bomb-throwing, bombast, even plain and blunt talk.? I agree, which is why every week I try to toss at least few grenades into the ed-policy echo chamber. But I am a writer, not a public official.
School Controversies abound. From challenging school plays to removing ?college' from school discourse, no one seems to agree.
During Ohio's gubernatorial race former Governor Ted Strickland's campaign placed Race to the Top funding in the spotlight.? Strickland asserted that Ohio's $400 million in RttT winnings could fall into jeopardy if John Kasich scrapped the ?evidence-based? model of school funding.
?They need the arts.?When I hear music called an ?extracurricular activity,' it makes me cringe because it's part of becoming a well-rounded human being.''* ?Condoleezza Rice, Former U.S. Secretary of State
Our next event will quite appropriately take place on Groundhog Day and it's getting some buzz out there in the blogosphere this week.