Commentary
Commentary
3.4.2011
Reading is not fundamental. What you read is.
Peter MeyerJohn 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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3.4.2011
Why do students have greater free-speech rights than teachers?
Michael J. PetrilliThe 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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3.4.2011
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