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First Bell: 12-10-12
A first look at education news from this weekend and today: Thirty-three NY schools may lack basic resources, Randi Weingarten promotes a bar exam for teachers, and more
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First Bell: 12-7-12
A first look at today's education news: American students bomb the vocabulary section of a national reading exam, the U.S. Dept of Ed announces the winners of the latest early-childhood Race to the Top grants, and more
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Bar Exam for Teachers?
The AFT's new and much-ballyhooed proposal, contained in a report titled Raising the Bar, revives the Shanker-era idea of a “bar exam” for entering teachers
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College Board snags Gates veteran Stefanie Sanford
Veteran Gates "advocacy" chief Stefanie Sanford will join David Coleman as the College Board's new head of policy, advocacy, and government relations
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First Bell: 12-5-12
A first look at today's education news: Common Core pilot in Chicago school is successful, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation awards $25 million for fostering collaboration between charter schools and traditional public schools, and more
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Charter Schools
Thank you, Diane Ravitch, but…
If Ms. Ravitch herself aimed to be self-critical and honest in the matter of the best interest of students, she would need to examine the public school model that she has, of late, been trumpeting
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First Bell: 12-4-12
A first look at today's education news: Report finds that nearly 6.5 million U.S. teens and young adults are neither working nor in school, English Common Core State Standards spark debate over fiction and nonfiction, and more
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Curriculum & Instruction
Solipsism generation
It isn't going to be easy for David Coleman and his fellow authors of the Common Core English/Language Arts standards to wean U.S. students off writing about themselves.
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First Bell: 12-3-12
A first look at education news from this weekend and today: Five states to add 300 hours of learning time to some school calendars, state judge shoots down Louisiana's school-voucher program, and more
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Charter Schools
"Common Ground," the DIY-version
Guest-blogger Paul Basken's take on the Diverse Schools Dilemma
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Curriculum & Instruction
Salman Khan, Luddites, Bill Buckley, and online content
The middle path to technology in education
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Charter Schools
Map: Charter-school penetration by city
A picture is worth a thousand words--the bigger the dot, the bigger the charter-school market share
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First Bell: 11-30-12
A first look at today's most important education news: Louisiana rejects all math and reading textbooks that do not comply with Common Core (which is all of them), study says that states' inability to share data hampers education, and more
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First Bell: 11-29-12
A first look at today's most important education news: Group threatens to sue New York State for $5 billion in owed funding to districts, Illinois to extend school-closing deadline, and more
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First Bell: 11-28-12
A first look at today's most important education news: a highly-regarded Stanford study finds NJ charter-school students perform better than their peers in traditional public schools, Thomas Friedman supports Arne Duncan for Secretary of State, and more
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Charter Schools
The grand slam for New Jersey charter schools
CREDO, a Stanford-based research center, concluded that New Jersey charter schools are among the highest-performing studied to date
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First Bell: 11-27-12
A first look at today's most important education news: The U.S. Department of Education announces the Race to the Top 2012 district finalists, the feds bust a teacher-certification cheating ring, and more
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Charter Schools
Catching up from the break
Andy Smarick's pick of education news from over the Thanksgiving holiday
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First Bell: 11-26-12
A first look at the most important education news from Thanksgiving weekend and this morning: D.C. school boundaries to change, Mississippi's pre-k fight, and more
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First bell: 11-21-12
A first look at this morning's most important education news: financial woes in New York, a court case over vouchers proceeds in Indiana, and more
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First bell: 11-20-12
A first look at today's top education news: tying up loose ends, cutting online course requirements, and more
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Curriculum & Instruction
Social studies follies
The cumbersome, inscrutable title is the first clue that something is not right: “Vision for the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3): Framework for Inquiry in Social Studies State Standards.”
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The disappointing but completely predictable results from SIG
The U.S. Department of Education’s quiet release of results from the first year of the massive School Improvement Grant (SIG) program spells trouble