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Curriculum & Instruction
Summer Learning Loss -- Is It Any Worse in the Winter?
Jeff Smink's New York Times essay, ?This is Your Brain on Summer,? about summer learning loss, makes me think of my childhood summers in Oregon's fertile Willamette Valley, where I am now vacationing.
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What does it mean to 'fix the system'?
David Cohen of the University of Michigan complains at the Shanker Institute blog that "niche reforms" like DC's (substantial) overhaul of its teacher evaluation and retention practices under Michelle Rhee are a distraction. Cohen dismisses IMPACT and similar reforms, saying we need to "fix the system" and build "infrastructure" instead.
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Five Ideas for Quality Control in K-12 Digital Learning
The following is a guest post from Bill Tucker. Bill regularly blogs at The Quick and The Ed and is the managing director of Ed Sector.
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Quotable & notable
?We're kind of building the airplane as we fly because we know we need to get something done and turned into the state?*
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NEW Podcast: The bro-mance continues
After his podcast sabbatical, Rick Hess is back?and he doesn't disappoint. After explaining his new Fordham paper on digital learning, he and Mike discuss the charter-voucher rivalry and what the debt ceiling means for education.