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12.22.2011

ABCTE is hiring

The American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence is looking for a Teach & Inspire Program Coordinator. Everything you want to know about it can be found here.

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12.22.2011

Abracadabra!

Rick relocates to snowy locales, while Andy sits in. This week, he and Mike discuss Fordham’s new paper on “private public schools,” Obama’s announcement to tie Title I to “career-and college-ready” standards, and Tim Pawlenty’s metaphorical use of the nine-iron, all while listening to Nico Petrilli (that’s Mike’s son) rap.

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12.22.2011

A "common core" curriculum

As explained in our review of state standards and the Common Core, standards are just the “cookbook” not the “dish.” Enter Common Core (no relation to the standards), which has gone grocery shopping and spent some prep time in the kitchen.

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12.22.2011

AEI and Fordham talk Shanker

If you're in town on October 3, and you're not at the American Enterprise Institute at 9 a.m. for a book forum and panel discussion about Albert Shanker, to include Senator Lamar Alexander, John Podesta, John Cole, and Checker Finn--then, well, we hope your wedding was lovely.

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12.22.2011

AEI at the altar

Don't forget to RSVP for AEI's "Left at the Altar" event. At this provocative session, one will be treated to a discussion of whether or not the Bush Administration sacrificed its conservative principles in compromising over No Child Left Behind. It will take place on February 5, 2009 from 1:00-2:30 pm.

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12.22.2011

AEI: creating a teaching army

Join a panel of spectacular speakers on March 24 for "An Army of Great Teachers?" The discussion will take place from 3:30-5:00 pm at the American Enterprise Institute and contemplate how to replicate the overworked and overdedicated teachers found at charter powerhouses KIPP and Achievement First, for example.