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?It is fundamentally wrong to divide students up according to their racial group and teach them separately.'' ?Tom Hone, Arizona superintendent of public instruction
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Instead of facing up to the budget crisis, the unions and their friends change the subject
The New Year is shaping up just as I predicted, with Diane Ravitch and the teachers unions criticizing budget-cutting proposals but offering no real alternatives of their own.
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A whole new world
From the Core Knowledge blog we learn that ?purists? are ?predictably crying censorship and political correctness?
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Pearls before swine
Every so often some people get the idea that a masterpiece could use a bit of, well, changing, just tweaking, really, and just here and there, and so they go off and make the changes and then claim that what they've really done is made the masterpiece more ?accessible? and so have actually, in changing it, shown it the respect it of course deserves.
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Fordham-sponsored KIPP Journey Academy making gains
In 2008 with Fordham as its authorizer, Ohio's first and only KIPP School moved into ?Linden Park, one of Columbus' poorest neighborhoods. The school had high hopes of providing area fifth and sixth graders with an excellent education.?
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?[The charter school] approach could decimate our school system and use our diversity against us.'' ? Gene Maeroff, President of Edison, New Jersey's School Board
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Checker weighs in on tax break for home schoolers
Today's NY Times Room for Debate poses the question, Do Home Schoolers Deserve a Tax Break? The question explores one of the proposals of the new Republicans in Congress ?
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In case you missed it: 7 for '11
Note: This piece originally appeared in the December 22nd Education Gadfly. Love what you see? Sign up to receive the Gadfly in your inbox.
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Unions on the run?
The New Jersey teacher whose public confrontation with the Garden State's Governor in September has become ?a YouTube classic?
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Dear Cathy:
?Monday is Cathleen P. Black's first day of school??so begins a provocative story by Elissa Gootman in the NY Times.?The Times asked some of New York City's ?most respected principals? to give the new Gotham schools Chancellor ?some advice.?