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Turn the government shutdown into a boon for DC-area schools
It's looking increasingly likely that large swaths of the federal government will shutter its doors come Friday at midnight.
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A more accurate "TFA teachers are like untrained doctors" analogy
Today's Columbus Dispatch features an anti-Teach For America op-ed by an OSU ed professor (Thomas Stephens). He says nothing surprising to any of us who've heard ed schools' views of alternative teacher preparation before.
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Doing more with less...professional development
?Good teaching cannot fall victim to budget cuts,? a post on Ed Week's ?PD Watch? blog implored last week.
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Online learning: The train is leaving the station
Will you get on or not?? This is the question posed by this morning's page one New York Times story by Trip Gabriel:? More Pupils Are Learning Online, Fueling Debate on Quality.?
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Quit while you're ahead, Trip
Peter has already covered Trip Gabriel's NYT piece on digital learning this morning (and done, as always, a mighty fine job).
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Falling off the funding cliff
Districts in many states are spending the last of their federal stimulus dollars, and their strategy for dealing with the resulting fiscal pressure is: freak out and fire people.
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Curriculum & Instruction
A quandary resolved or restated?
The humanities are under attack, writes Nicholas Dames in the latest N+1.
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Education news nuggets
?The prevailing sentiment that anyone can do the job of a teacher, or that anyone can direct teachers how to do their job, is ill-considered: Many have tried, and many have failed.'' *
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No love-in for Finland here
Rick Hess strongly implies that I'm a Finland lover just because I signed the AFT plea for better curricular materials for teachers to use in connection
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Report "released," but it's nowhere to be found***
This is either a cautionary tale about trusting education bureaucracies, a lesson in Internet lethargy, or simply the complaint of a crochety (former) journalist.
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Assigning $$$ to teaching
One of the nation's leading education economists, Eric Hanushek has a must-read story in Education Next, just released today, ?Valuing Teachers: How much is a good teacher worth???
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Professor X: A hack writer and teacher?
Eric Felten, perhaps best known for his writings on music and drinking, was in the pages of the Wall Street Journal last week, reviewing the new book In the Basement of the Ivory Tower, which is an expansion of an essay of the same name that ran in the Atlantic
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Quotable & notable
?Since many of the practices, values, and terminology?of the new reformers have been borrowed from the business world, it's also important to remember that what corporate CEOs celebrate as innovative isn't necessarily fair or just.'' *
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Education news nuggets
Get excited?it's Squirrel Week! Now you can be less upset about missing International Pillow Fight Day!
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Curriculum & Instruction
Field notes: Saving song and dance
I cried. It was only Babes in Arms, but the kids sang and danced as if on Broadway?and some of them actually had Broadway genes in their vocal chords and gambly arms and legs.? A lazy Sunday afternoon and I caught the last performance of the high school play.?
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Why the GOP budget plan might be good for education
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Quotable & notable
?Private school vouchers are not an effective way to improve student achievement. The Administration opposes targeting resources to help a small number of individuals attend private schools rather than creating access to great public schools for every child.'' *
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Education news nuggets
It's time to hand over the big tools to the little hands (even if they don't write in cursive anymore).
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Quotable & notable
?What has increasingly been the case is so many people get pink slips, no one knows who or how many will get laid off. ?Its usefulness to teachers has diminished.'' *
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PODCAST: Leaving a scorched earth of nicknames behind
From the vault: The best of the podcast bloopers.[powerpress]
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The most recent Gates gaffe
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Robots: Just plain smarter than people
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Stretching the think tank dollar
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I totally won that Twitter war
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Mad about Mad Libs
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Arne Duncan's next move
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Let us explain
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The voodoo queen has spoken
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