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• Dodd and Duncan Stump on ESEA in Connecticut

  
  Politics K-12 — Authority: 571
  Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will up in the Nutmeg State this week talking about the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—and hanging out with Sen. Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, who has a top spot on the Senate education committee. (He actually passed up a chance to become chairman earlier this ...
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• Department Circulates ESEA PowerPoint on the Hill

  
  Kentucky School News and Commentary — Authority: 429
  This from Politics K-12 : The U.S. Department of Education is shopping this Elementary and Secondary Education Act PowerPoint presentation to congressional aides this week, meant to lay out broad principles for renewing the law, now known as the No Child Left Behind Act. And if you take a look at the ...
  1 week ago

• Does Size Really Matter?

  
  THE SAME ROWDY CROWD — Authority: 124
  Danielle Steele’s novels are automatically superior to Leo Tolstoy’s novels, right? That’s must be the conclusion if you adopt the logic of a common contemporary Republican talking point: Big documents are automatically inferior to short documents. Increasingly, it seems Republican pols and pundits love to ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Will Happen to The No Child Left Behind Act in The Next Presidential Term?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 576
  What will Happen to the No Child Left Behind ACT in the Next Presidential Term? “No Child Left Behind was a good beginning. We know, after a number of years of examination and practice with it, know there’s some things that badly needs fixing.”1 states former Senator John McCain recently when asked his opinion ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Really Matters, Celebrity or Real World?

  
  Education and Technology — Authority: 417
  I am tired of celebrities taking the limelight from real life concerns. Yesterday Tiger Woods had an accident, in the process he received minor injuries. All day and into this morning all the major networks have called in their lawyers, analysts or in one case Mark Furman from the OJ trial to talk about it. WHY? It ...
  2 weeks ago

• Memphis City School Receive $90 Million Grant

  
  Clif's Notes — Authority: 117
  “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [yesterday] announced that it will invest $335 million to support effective teaching as a means to ensure all students receive the education they need to succeed in high school and beyond. [The] announcement includes $290 million in grants to support four Intensive ...
  2 weeks ago

• Governor restates opposition to national education standards

  
  THE EDUCATION FRONT — Authority: 414
  Gov. Rick Perry still wants no part of a move to establish national standards for English and math instruction in public schools. Texas education officials - with Perrys backing - told the U.S. Department of Education in June that Texas would not participate with most other states in developing the standards, spelling ...
  3 weeks ago

• No child left behind abandons everyone

  
  Solo Mother — Authority: 126
  multiple choice A Facebook poll got me thinking about the whole mess that No Child Left Behind has created in our schools. Teachers are teaching to the test. Enrichment programs like art, music, sports are being cut so kids have more time to learn the test materials. Hell, some schools don’t even have recess ...
  3 weeks ago

• Get Mad!

  
  kavips — Authority: 122
  There were seven fights today at Shue-Medill Middle School on Kirkwood Highway. The Christina School District is responsible for that location… Due to privacy restrictions details are sketchy, but this is what we do know… Seven Fights in one school of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders… Why? Report cards went out ...
  3 weeks ago

• Race to the Top fails to redirect stream of bad teachers sent to low-income schools

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 641
  A recent New York Times editorial points out that Race to the Top — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s $4.3 billion tool for reform—has failed to address one key reform area:  a longstanding practice of allowing school districts to shunt inexperienced, unqualified teachers to low-income schools in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Conservatives Should Applaud Obama’s Efforts at Education Reform

  
  Pajamas Media — Authority: 816
  The president deserves support because he’s making all the right enemies.
  4 weeks ago

• What do Oregon Educators Want?

  
  PPS Equity — Authority: 454
  Susan Nielsen had a pretty decent article in today’s Oregonian (even a blind squirrel stumbles upon a nut!). Teachers, Nielsen finally realized, aren’t a bunch of lazy, incompetent, know-nothing idiots – they’re actually hard workers, pretty sharp, and — get this — really like kids! What did these ...
  4 weeks ago

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