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Winerip: Another missed diss
The New York Times' education columnist Michael Winerip spoils another good story today.?
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Charter Schools
Forget Finland: What Ontario can teach us about good governance
Though American education has taken few actual steps to pattern itself on other countries, in recent years we've displayed a near-obsessive interest in how we're doing in relation to them (e.g. on TIMSS and PISA results), and in what they're doing and how they do it.
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The qualities of a good teacher: A student's perspective
The following blog post was written by Penelope Placide, a ninth grader who works for Fordham one day a week through her school's Corporate Work Study Program. Not only is Penelope a wonderful asset on a daily basis, she possesses invaluable insider knowledge as a current student immersed in the everyday realities of American schooling.
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Quotable & notable
?I can honestly say my high school didn't prepare me for college. I was getting my butt kicked in college. I didn't have a proper background.'' ?Richard Mohammed, Recent Graduate of Bucks County Community College