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• "If you’ve ever sat through a teaching seminar, you’ve probably heard a lecture about ‘learning..."

  
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  “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

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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  ‘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

  
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  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

  
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  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…

  
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  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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• A revolutionary plan for NY schools

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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  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?

  
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  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

  
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  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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• Stand up for good history in Texas

  
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  Here’s an education and Texas issue I’ve not done justice to:  The Texas State Board of Education is working to gut social studies curricula in Texas, with a special vent on history, which they appear to think is not fundamentalist Christian enough, and economics, where they think “capitalism” is, somehow, a ...
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• The Education Wars II: Race to the Top aka Race to Nowhere

  
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  Diane Ravitch hits it out of the park, as always on this topic : Today, with the proliferation of charter schools, we may be seeing a resurgence of the historic pattern as public schools are privatized and taken over by very rich men (and women) who see themselves as saviors of the children of the poor. Naturally, ...
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• The End of the Education Debate

  
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  “The education-reform debate as we have known it for a generation is creaking to a halt.” So begins a compelling  article by Checker in National Affairs . It’s far too in-depth of a piece to summarize adequately here, but I will try nonetheless. Checker argues that the ideas behind the current wave of ...
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• Lobbying group opens an outpost in Michigan

  
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  The lobbying group Democrats for Education Reform got its start in New York, but is spreading fast . Its latest branch is in Michigan, where it’s going by MDFER (a bit of a mouthful). With chapters in five states, the organization is halfway to its goal of being in 10 states by 2011. DEMOCRATS FOR EDUCATION ...
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• Rotherhams Shop Sanitizes Commissioned Charter Report That Challenges Party Line

  
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  The gossip on Ed Sectors censoring of the Thomas Tochs research has been cresting. Here is a clip from the latest at Ed Week on the controversy : “Toch presents a compelling indictment of the ‘new philanthropy’s’ primary investment strategy for education reform. His arguments should be available to all and ...
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• Fear and loathing over what’s up in school

  
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  T HE Government is holding its ground on controversial national standards for primary schools, and on the first day of school next year the rules will be put into action. The NewsWire IN DEPTH team of Fetu Tamapeau, Jess Jones, Vaughan Elder, Reuben McDougall and Bonnie Tai looks at why teachers and ...
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