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• 2010: The Year of the Tiger, and the Year of the Reauthorization?

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 602
  Conventional wisdom around Washington says that the No Child Left Behind act (oops, I mean the Elementary and Secondary Education act) won’t be reauthorized again next year. (Its update has been overdue since 2007.) That’s for several reasons. First, the political parties are at each other’s necks, thanks to ...
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• Today’s Quotable and Notable

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 602
  Quotable: “Chicago is nowhere near the head of the pack in urban school improvement, even though Duncan often cites the successes of his tenure as he crusades to fix public education.” -Nick Anderson, Washington Post Staff Writer “ Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s legacy as Chicago schools chief ...
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• The Education Wars: More and More Paperwork

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  Teachers in Baltimore County are now being inundated with even more paperwork to "prove" their students are learning "skills" as a new grading system has been implemented : Baltimore County school administrators have ordered all teachers to begin using a grading system next month that will require them to judge ...
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• The Education Wars: The Media

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  The spin on Michelle Rhees reign of terror in D.C.s public schools is sickening to say the least : When it comes to writing about D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee and reforming D.C. public education, major newspapers appear only willing to focus on advancing Chancellor Rhee as an innovator who can by ...
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• Debating AP

  
  AssortedStuff — Authority: 116
  The Room for Debate section* of the New York Times web site notes that Advanced Placement programs in US high schools have “grown enormously in the past decade” and ask a couple of good questions . Does the growth in Advanced Placement courses serve students or schools well? Are there downsides to pushing many ...
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• "If you’ve ever sat through a teaching seminar, you’ve probably heard a lecture about ‘learning..."

  
  Conserva tive Radical — Authority: 139
  “If you’ve ever sat through a teaching seminar, you’ve probably heard a lecture about ‘learning styles.’ Perhaps you were told that some students are visual learners, some are auditory learners, and others are kinesthetic learners. Or maybe you were given one of the dozens of other learning-style taxonomies ...
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• Detroit’s new teacher contract

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 602
  I wondered in October whether Robert Bobb, Detroit Public School’s Emergency Financial Manager, would be able to deliver on this goals for a transformative new union contract, in which the problems with tenure and teacher seniority are addressed. Well, this was a busy weekend in Michigan— Bobb lost his bid to ...
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• The Education Wars: More Bad News About RTTT

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  Tennessee is about to join far too many states in gutting teacher protections in order to receive Arne Duncans blackmail money : Bredesen’s high-pressure gambit — giving lawmakers one week to act, with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line — puts the statewide teachers’ union, the Tennessee Education ...
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• ‘Teach Naked’ and complacency natives

  
  Generation YES Blog — Authority: 123
  ‘Teach Naked’ Effort Strips Computers From Classrooms – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education . This is one of the stories where you have to actually read the whole thing. At first you think, “Terrific, another educator who hates technology and refuses to join the 21st century.” College leaders ...
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• Education data in 2025

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 602
  The latest Education Next includes a shortened version of a chapter Checker wrote last year for Fordham’s A Byte at the Apple: Rethinking Education Data for the Post-NCLB Era . It’s a creative piece about the progress schooling could make over the coming 15 years or so in remaking itself into a modern ...
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• Don’t trust the regents

  
  E3 (Excellent Education for Everyone) — Authority: 126
  December 15, 2009The New York PostTime will tell whether the seemingly sweeping school-improvement program adopted by the state Board of Regents yesterday will do the job.But there’s room for doubt.To be sure, the plan looks good on paper — as Tom Carroll of the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability ...
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• What is the Tatweer program in Saudi Ara…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 500
  What is the Tatweer program in Saudi Arabia? Asma Uddin has an article at AltMuslim about Saudi Arabia’s new King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) that provides some fascinating background information about the Tatweer program that I thought should be highlighted. …King Abdullah launched ...
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• Programming – not just for nerds

  
  Generation YES Blog — Authority: 123
  Today, introductory courses in computer science are too often focused merely on teaching students to use software like word processing and spreadsheet programs, said Janice C. Cuny, a program director at the National Science Foundation. The Advanced Placement curriculum, she added, concentrates narrowly on ...
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• A revolutionary plan for NY schools

  
  E3 (Excellent Education for Everyone) — Authority: 126
  December 15, 2009By THOMAS W. CARROLThe New York PostIn a marathon meeting, the state Board of Regents approved dozens of education-reform measures. It adds up to a sweeping plan to put New York in shape to score big in the $4 billion federal Race to the Top competition.Yes, some of the key reforms require legislative ...
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• Teachers’ Unions Are Washington’s Fat Cats

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  We know how liberals, particularly those in the education establishment, like to say that Corporate America dictates public policy through campaign contributions. A new report , prepared by the Center for Responsive Politics and the National Institute on Money in State Politics, does a good job of dispelling that ...
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• Where are all those bad teachers? We’re not finding them

  
  debralegg.com — Authority: 132
  We got a call yesterday morning, just hours before the start of winter break, from Big Guys teacher. Shed wanted to know if hed been sick the past two days - he had - and if I knew hed made a present for us at school - I hadnt. If I could come by and pick up the gift, shed be there until around 1. When I arrived, ...
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• A New Group of Emerging Leaders

  
  E3 (Excellent Education for Everyone) — Authority: 126
  By Derrell BradfordDeputy Director of Excellent Education for Everyone.The School Choice AdvocateI was in a cab taking the long ride out to Northwest D.C. The sun glistened off the window and reminded me of one of my favorite Philip Larkin poems, and the drone of the street massaged the air around me. I went to [...]
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• QUICK Hits

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 571
  Who owns what is taught in college and university classrooms?  Steven Pinker and Greg Mankiw butt heads. (The Boston Globe) What does Joel Klein think about Michelle Rhee and assigning letter grades to public schools? (The Washington Post) Where can you find the ULTIMATE Quick Hit?  Here are 50 education ...
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• Where’s the game plan?

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 602
  We’ve expended many words  on this blog and  other forums on the role of philanthropies in education. Especially now that they tend to have very specific and well-honed visions for reform that inform their giving strategies, evaluating just how much or how little influence they exercise over the various levels ...
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• The Low Rhetoric of High Expectations

  
  The Core Knowledge Blog — Authority: 132
  At Public School Insights, Claud Von Zastrow calls out the casual use of the phrase “high expectations.”    It’s de riguer for education reformers to claim high expectations for schools and children.  “But scratch the surface of their rhetoric,” Claus writes, “and you’ll find that some of them have ...
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