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"We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control," Pink Floyd sang. But to become functional humans, all children have to learn something, somehow.

What bloggers really don't agree on is how. There's a strong blogging community around homeschooling, but also strong defenders of state education in many countries. Other bloggers are just concerned about how to find the best private school.

In many parts of the world, meanwhile, parents and children are struggling to work out how to get any education at all. And then there's the whole debate about what children should be taught: from matters of sex to evolution, and much more...

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  • Ex-Shen Teacher Loses Molestation Appeal


    North Country Gazette — Authority Authority: 531
    CLIFTON PARK—The former Shenendehowa elementary teacher who was convicted in November 2008 of sexually abusing eight of his first grade male students has lost his appeal bid.Christopher Culver, 34, of Clifton Park, formerly of Chestertown, had pleaded guilty to all 49 counts of the indictment against him just as his ...
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  • QUICK Hits


    The Quick and the Ed — Authority Authority: 513
    The winner of tonight’s BCS game is not yet known, but could all the rest of us be the big losers? (Houston Chronicle) What’s it really like to be a substitute teacher? Warning: This story is not for the faint of heart. (New York Times) Will New Jersey’s Ed Commish win over skeptics and make big ...
    2 hours ago

  • Bangor Township Schools agrees to "unnerving" Race to the Top


    Detroit Business News — Authority Authority: 828
    The Bangor Township Public Schools Board of Education voted to agree to terms with the federal Race to the Top initiative. By agreeing, the district hopes to receive funds from the competitive grant program that is designed to reform education...
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  • New Report: JISC SIS Landscape Study: A Survey of the Use of Web 2.0 Tools and Services in the UK HE Sector


    ResourceShelf — Authority Authority: 624
    by Rosemary Russell and Ann Chapman Shared Infrastructure Services Landscape Study: A survey of the use of Web 2.0 tools and services in the UK HE sector Access the Complete Report (36 pages; PDF) From the Executive Summary: Active use of Web 2.0 appears to still be largely centred on early adopters. ...
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  • A Spanish morning


    Later On — Authority Authority: 155
    I spent the entire morning working on Spanish and have now completed three lessons at LiveMocha, which seems to have become my default study program. I am, however, augmenting it with other study. My pronunciation needs a lot of work, not only on "r" and "rr" but also "ll". This is according to feedback from LiveMocha ...
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  • Classics in America: Against Yale


    Classics in Contemporary Culture — Authority Authority:
    James Fenimore Coopers [justly?] neglected novel, Satanstoe , contains a picture of Colonial-era life in the area of New York...quite interesting, actually.  In the early chapters it gives an account of the celebration of the Pinkster festival , which Cooper refers to as a kind of "black Saturnalia."  ...
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  • The most sobering sentence I’ve read this week


    Andrew Leigh — Authority Authority: 121
    From the NYT : “We’ve got to figure out how to break the cycle of poverty, and the way we’re doing it now isn’t working,” said Hank M. Bounds, the Mississippi commissioner of higher education and, until recently, the state superintendent of schools. “An affluent 5-year-old has about the same vocabulary ...
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  • What Were Reading...


    Economix — Authority Authority: 686
    Grading President Obama, and other economics links from around the Web.
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  • Victory: Self-Advocate Desegregates University Housing


    JFActivist — Authority Authority: 126
    From the JFAModerator: Hooray! Micah Fialka-Feldman won the right to live in university housing.  For JFA Readers who have been following this story and supporting Micahs fight since it was first posted in November of 2008 it is a long awaited and very sweet victory. >>> To read the original post ...
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  • Preparations underway for The Britannia Tour


    River Country Journal — Authority Authority: 148
    Jeanne Reed, Professor of Sociology at Glen Oaks Community College, has announced plans for “The Britannia,” a 14-day tour to the British Isles in May. She’s shown here during an earlier tour of London. Jeanne Reed, a professor of sociology at Glen Oaks Community College, has announced a 14-day trip in May to ...
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  • Nominados y prenominados a los BAFTA


    micropsia — Authority Authority: 148
    The nominations for the Film Not in the English Language Award, to be presented at the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2010, were announced today. The Film Not in the English Language nominees are announced today ahead of the ...
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  • Georgia Board of Education Adopts Non-Discrimination Language from NWLC


    Womenstake — Authority Authority: 509
    by Lara S. Kaufmann , Senior Counsel,  National Women’s Law Center  The Georgia Board of Education has corrected a rule that discriminatorily restricted pregnant students from eligibility for hospital/homebound instruction. Prior to this change, Georgia schools treated pregnant students as ineligible for ...
    3 hours ago

  • A “Virtual Reference Librarian” for OER


    Open Education News — Authority Authority: 139
    Scott Leslie has a new post discussing the need for a type of virtual reference librarian. This role would mean helping people find OER to meet their needs. From the post: I suppose this is often the role for instructional designers, but in my experience not every faculty developing a course gets the chance to work ...
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  • The Chronicle Welcomes Michael Ruse


    This Side of the Pond — Authority Authority: 420
    Science and Religion expert Michael Ruse is one of our favorite Cambridge authors. He’s nuanced, compelling, and unwilling to settle for simple, doctrinal arguments on either side of the creationism debate. The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Brainstorm blog recently added him as a writer, where “[y]ou ...
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  • Lott on Openness


    Open Education News — Authority Authority: 139
    Chris Lott has posted his thoughts on the ongoing openness debate. From the post: And make no mistake: there are no guarantees that open education and open teaching & learning will take significant root. It’s mindboggling to me that—assuming one has taken a cursory glance at the history of revolution and ...
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  • Theory that Can Inform Open Education Curriculum


    Open Education News — Authority Authority: 139
    Graham Atwell has a new post on how to use “frame’ open education curricula. From the post: …participating in a community of practice, particularly a dispersed community using technologies for communication, does not necessarily provide access to the support learners’ may need.
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  • OCWC Global to Be Held in Vietnam


    Open Education News — Authority Authority: 139
    Meena Hwang is announcing that the OpenCourseWare Consortium is now accepting proposals for OCWC Global. The conference is to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam during May 5-7. From the post: The conference will also feature extraordinary keynote speakers from around the world who will speak on education. OpenCourseWare, ...
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  • Google Book Settlement News 1/7/2010


    Open Education News — Authority Authority: 139
    The Open Book Alliance has a new post indicating opposition to the revised Google Book settlement. From the post: The National Writers Union, the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the Science Fiction Writers of America today reached out to fellow authors in the U.S. Congress to highlight the flaws of ...
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  • Building a College “From Scratch”


    Open Education News — Authority Authority: 139
    Vladimir A. Frolov has tweeted about a wiki page dedicated to thinking what a college might look like if it were conceptually built “from scratch.” The project appears to have been initiated by Clay Shirky.
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  • MIT OCW Statistics for 2009


    Open Education News — Authority Authority: 139
    Steve Carson has a brief post listing some salient statistics about MIT OCW.
    3 hours ago

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