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Turn the government shutdown into a boon for DC-area schools
It's looking increasingly likely that large swaths of the federal government will shutter its doors come Friday at midnight.
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A more accurate "TFA teachers are like untrained doctors" analogy
Today's Columbus Dispatch features an anti-Teach For America op-ed by an OSU ed professor (Thomas Stephens). He says nothing surprising to any of us who've heard ed schools' views of alternative teacher preparation before.
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Doing more with less...professional development
?Good teaching cannot fall victim to budget cuts,? a post on Ed Week's ?PD Watch? blog implored last week.
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Online learning: The train is leaving the station
Will you get on or not?? This is the question posed by this morning's page one New York Times story by Trip Gabriel:? More Pupils Are Learning Online, Fueling Debate on Quality.?
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Quit while you're ahead, Trip
Peter has already covered Trip Gabriel's NYT piece on digital learning this morning (and done, as always, a mighty fine job).
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Falling off the funding cliff
Districts in many states are spending the last of their federal stimulus dollars, and their strategy for dealing with the resulting fiscal pressure is: freak out and fire people.
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Curriculum & Instruction
A quandary resolved or restated?
The humanities are under attack, writes Nicholas Dames in the latest N+1.
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Curriculum & Instruction
No love-in for Finland here
Rick Hess strongly implies that I'm a Finland lover just because I signed the AFT plea for better curricular materials for teachers to use in connection
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Education news nuggets
?The prevailing sentiment that anyone can do the job of a teacher, or that anyone can direct teachers how to do their job, is ill-considered: Many have tried, and many have failed.'' *