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• Bauer, Bosma, Long and Simpson Set the Stage

  
  Building A Better Indiana — Authority: 131
  The 2010 legislative session might officially begin Tuesday with Organization Day. The discussion started today, however, at the Indiana Chamber’s Central Indiana Legislative Preview. The four caucus leaders had plenty to say during an hour-plus dialogue. Just a few of the highlights: Plenty of debate and ...
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• Charter Schools No Oasis In Arizona Desert

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  No state has done more to support the proliferation of charter schools than Arizona, reports the Washington Post’s Nick Anderson. And, according to at least one study, it’s not working : Under a 1994 law that strongly favors charter schools, 500 of them operate in this state, teaching more than 100,000 ...
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• Teaching English in Chile

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 596
  Guest blogger Katie Wilczak is a former Fordham intern.  She is now teaching teaching English at a rural municipal high school in Chile through a program launched in 2003 by the Chilean Ministry of Education and the United Nations Development Programme called English Opens Doors . These are her observations and ...
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• The Education Wars

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  The Three Stooges, meaning Sharpton, Gingrich, and Duncan, are going all over the country preaching the gospel of education "reform," which translated means the wholesale destruction of public schools in the United States. Meet the Press focused on education today. Here is the transcript of the show . Video is ...
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• Midday Coffee Break

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 140
  Whats up? The Colorado parents of "balloon boy" will plead guilty to charges related to the hoax, according to the Associated Press . Richard Heene will plead guilty to attempting to influence a public servant, which is a felony. His wife, Mayumi Heene, will plead guilty for making a false report to authorities, a ...
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• Should Students Have Homework in the Summer?

  
  JerseySmarts.com — Authority: 428
  Just to show you the lengths that I go to in order to cover certain topics on this blog, about two and a half months ago I bookmarked a page on the New York Times because I wanted to write about the topic. The topic, whether or not students should have homework in the summertime , poses an interesting set of ...
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• Florida to judge "effectiveness" of teacher preparation programs, report results, Chancellor says

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 440
  Florida already grades its public schools and rates in pre-K programs. Now its looking to judge the performance of its teacher preparation programs and publicly report that "effectiveness data," said Chancellor Frances Haithcock, speaking at this afternoons State Board of...
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• Aiming for Top of the Class

  
  Bahraini.TV — Authority: 113
  Bahrain has embarked on major educational reform, tailoring the system to meet the needs of the Kingdom’s people and the nation’s economy, seeking to learn from past mistakes and the success of others.The Kingdom has placed great importance on developing a knowledge-based economy, with education being one of the ...
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• 33 Posts On America’s Education System

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — Authority: 115
  While writing the previous post , I went searching in the archives for relevant previous posts. I found entirely too many to tack onto the end of an already-lengthy post. Here they are, including some Education Reform posts proving I’m not always in disagreement with President Obama. Teaching and Teachers: ...
  6 days ago

• Cool map, interesting report: How educationally innovative is your state?

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 596
  This cool, interactive map grades all 50 states plus the District of Columbia on educational innovation and accompanies the just-released report Leaders and Laggards: A State by State Report Card on Educational Innovation? . However, the results of the report—which was compiled by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , ...
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• Send…More…Money

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — Authority: 115
  I’m running out of productive things to say about the education system in the U.S. Mostly I just want to slap everyone involved and ask them what the f**k is going on. Is the answer to why our public schools are struggling so hard to put out decently educated students so obvious that no one can see it? It’s ...
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• 45 Years Later, Same Ole’ Same Ole’

  
  East Bay Homework Blog — Authority: 103
  I just finished The Underachieving School by John Holt. It’s a collection of essays about education written by Holt in the 1960s, but it could have been written today.About the author: John Holt was born in 1923 in New York City and raised in New England. He went to private schools, but he chose not to reveal the ...
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• Today’s Quotable and Notable

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 596
  Quotable : “Crisis has a way of galvanizing folks around the need to act. I think the ‘freeze’ in education funds to public charter schools this year was a wake up call to schools to make sure something like this does not happen again.” -Jeff Maclin, vice president for school advocacy at the New York ...
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• postmodern McDonalds

  
  John Spencer's Blog — Authority: 430
  About six months ago, they razed an older McDonalds near our neighborhood.  In Phoenix, the term "old" can be applied to any building over twenty years.  My guess is they had built the plastic wonderland in the early eighties.  A few weeks later, they posted a sign reading "Coming Soon: McDonalds." The new ...
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• Meeting the School Turnaround Challenge

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 607
  In recent months, the federal government has made it perfectly clear that one of its key education reform goals is to turn around the nation’s chronically underperforming schools. In fact, President Obama pledged to devote billions of dollars to fund a federal school turnaround program which would close 5,000 of ...
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• Today’s Quotable and Notable

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 596
  Quotable: “I would just hope administrators, as they’re looking at the budget, would look first to areas that don’t impact student learning.” -Kerry Birmingham, media relations specialist for the Michigan Education Association “ Classroom spending pays off for schools ,” Detroit Free Press ...
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• Today’s Quotable and Notable

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 596
  Quotable : “[For-profit companies] see public education as a windfall for their bottom line, and they are taking what is an education crisis in Georgia and the nation and trying to make a buck.  They see children as profit margins.” -Jeff Hubbard, President of the Georgia Association of Educators Florida ...
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• Education Week on Fordham’s standards event...

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 596
  Great discussion yesterday at our national standards event. Here’s an article in Education Week that highlights some of it. Much interest in what was said by panelist Dane Linn of the National Governors Association (a group that is, of course, helping to spearhead the Common Core State Standards Initiative ). ...
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• Seychelles Government Holding Meetings to Discuss Reforms in the Education Sector

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  The Seychelles ministry of Education is carrying out a series of meetings to explain the educational reforms that the government intends to carry out in the sector next year. Addressing the staff of the ministry and the National institute of Education (NIE), the Principal Education Secretary Jeanne Simeon declared ...
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• The Education Wars II

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  As mentioned in an earlier post, education secretary Arne Duncan, the rebel without a clue, has focused some of his ire against public education on colleges of education . You know, they are supposed to be shitty because they attract all of these morons who end up being shitty teachers, and of course, in this ...
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