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Father Coughlin, Huey Long, and me?
Today we live in a different country than we did even 10 days ago. Back then we were partaken with partisanship and infected with invectiveness.
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Arne Duncan, Jim Hunt break away from the pack
It's Day Two of Fordham's pick-the-next-secretary-of-education daily tracking poll (
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A few good pointers for Obama
Mike Feinberg, co-founder of KIPP and current KIPP superintendent in Houston, gives Obama a few words of advice in the Houston Chronicle . Obama should:
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Union official says Obama owes unions
Responding to Checker's and my argument that the NEA and AFT were not essential to Obama's sweeping victory,
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Please please, pretty please, pick Georgetown Day!
This Jay Mathews article and this Valerie Strauss post both indicate that the Georgetown Day School is the leading contender for the
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Diane Ravitch for Secretary of Education?
Perhaps David Brooks wants to get in on Mike's parlor game, guessing the next Secretary. From David's column today, about his dream Obama administration:
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The Obama puppy
Lord knows the Obama girls deserve a puppy, maybe a whole litter, as their reward for enduring the miseries of
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Getcha some 'Fly
It's here and it's hot. Leading off this week is Ascend Learning President and Ed Sector Senior Fellow??Steven Wilson. What's he musing over?
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We hear Judith Winston's been tapped to lead Obama education transition team
We heard from a reliable little bird that Judith Winston, the Department of Education's former General Counsel and Under Secretary under Clinton, has been tapped to lead Obama's education transition team. Ms.
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Mike's "Loose Lips"
DC media speculation has begun in earnest regarding where Sasha and Malia will attend school and Mike is getting in on the action, recently quoted in DC City Paper's Loose Lips blog .
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Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Results from the First Year of a Randomized Controlled Study
Steven Glazerman, Sarah Dolfin, Martha Bleeker, Amy Johnson, Eric Isenberg, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Mary Grider, and Edward BrittonMathematica Policy ResearchOctober 2008
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A Commitment to Quality: National Charter School Policy Forum Report
U.S. Department of EducationOffice of Innovation and ImprovementOctober 2008
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Achieving Teacher and Principal Excellence: A Guidebook for Donors
Andrew J. RotherhamPhilanthropy RoundtableSeptember 2008
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Charter schools and the limits of human capital
KIPP KEY Academy in Washington, DC. North Star Academy in Newark. Roxbury Prep in Boston. Amistad Academy in New Haven. These, and perhaps 200 other high-performing schools nationwide, are the bright lights of the charter movement.
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Game day
Pity the school-loving geek in Clarke County, Ga. In a classic case of adults setting a Good Example, the school district cancelled classes last Friday for the Florida-Georgia football game, anticipating empty classrooms.
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Grading glee
Washington election junkies surely aren't the only ones going through withdrawal as the political season comes to a close, but at least parents in the D.C. area have an outlet for their obsessive-compulsive nature.
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Election reflection
How should serious education reformers view the results of Tuesday's election? We find five causes for optimism and an equal number of worries.Reasons for Cheer
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Perturbing progress
It feels as though every few weeks another disturbing development limps out of the sink of inefficiency and poor decisions that is the Wake County (NC) Public Schools. The topic of today's episode?
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Sleepless in New York
The city that never sleeps has once again borne out this moniker. Who's reaching for the Ambien? Parents. At fault is a salmagundi of complaints about the City's year-old entrance policy for its gifted programs.
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What the election results portend for education reform: Cheers and Frets
By Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Michael J. Petrilli Reasons for Cheer
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Reader contest: Name the next secretary of education!
After two years of campaigning and endless punditry and prognosticating, we finally know that Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States.
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School boards must be better stewards of hard-earned urban tax dollars
Passage of all the school levies on the ballot in Dayton, Columbus, Toledo, and Youngstown is a good sign of increasing support for education where it's needed most. The Gadfly knows that school districts don't always spend wisely or frugally but we also know that, in Ohio's largest and most economically depressed urban areas, public schools are getting hammered financially.
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You 'bet'ter vote!
As the country decides who'll be the next president, Marylanders may take a gamble for even more ???change??? ??? quite literally. They're deciding whether to legalize slot machines!
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Another way to know that Democrats are ascendant
...is that Andy Rotherham is giving advice to Republicans.