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Reading is not fundamental. What you read is.
John Merrow, the sage PBS education commentator (and one of the founding fathers of the modern charter school movement [see here]), has a new blog essay devoted to what several of his readers said about a previous postof his on early reading.
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Why do students have greater free-speech rights than teachers?
The Supreme Court's near-unanimous decision allowing protests at military funerals is getting a lot of attention this week, raising questions about the limits of free speech.
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Quotable & notable
?Indeed, there are virtually no documented instances of troubled schools being turned around without intervention by a powerful leader.'' * -Kenneth Leithwood, Professor, University of Toronto