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• Thanks Father Barnabas (Tough Love Is Underrated)

  
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  Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!  ES Senior Fellow Peter Cookson remembers his “mentor from the old school.” April 1961. I am about to graduate from Saint Mary’s High School on the south side of Phoenix, Ariz. I am a fair student at best, only functionally literate, vaguely interested in history, a bit of a ...
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• How to Avoid Sounding Stupid on the Louisiana Voucher Ruling

  
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  On Tuesday, the Louisiana Supreme Court issued its decision on the state’s private school voucher program, enacted last year with support from Gov. Bobby Jindal. I’m probably one of the few people in education policy who don’t have strong views either way about vouchers.* In general, I see far greater ...
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• Thanks Miss Ono

  
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  Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! Here’s ES Senior Fellow Ben Wildavsky on one of his crushes  favorite teachers… I remember quite a bit about first grade at John Muir Elementary School in Berkeley, California, circa 1971-1972. Our portable classroom stood apart from the main school building, next to a small ...
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• Thanks, Mrs. Dreistadt!

  
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  Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! From all of us here at Education Sector, thank you, teachers, for doing the amazing work you do! Tune in all week as we remember teachers who inspire us to do the work we do. To this day, I still backspace when I type “there is” or “there are.” My high school journalism ...
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• School Culture and Safety

  
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  In my last blog , I examined the alarming statistics on school-based violence and asked whether turning schools into armed camps was the solution. While access to weapons, gang activity, and bullying present real threats that need to be realistically addressed, I am convinced that much of school-based violence and ...
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• Teacher Appreciation 2013

  
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  Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! From all of us here at Education Sector, thank you, teachers, for doing the amazing work you do! Tune in all week as we remember teachers who inspire us to do the work we do. Policy Analyst Connie Clark starts us off: I’ll never forget my high school principal. The year I graduated ...
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• NIMH Drops DSM

  
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  NIMH DROPS DSM NIMH Will Drop Widely Used Psychiatry Manual NIMH director says the DSM lacks biological validity in its diagnoses: “Patients with mental disorders deserve better.” Just weeks before the American Psychiatric Association is expected to publish its new … Continue reading → go to the ...
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• Educational Technology: Current Trends and Future Directions

  
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  I am excited to be today’s keynote speaker at the LearnIT Conference at Northern Illinois University . I’ve enjoyed spending the past several days visiting innovative schools in the greater Chicago area. The classroom visits and conversations with the students, faculty, and administrators have been enjoyable ...
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• On Pre-K, Something Remarkable is Happening in D.C.

  
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  I’m at an age when a lot of my friends are trying to figure out where to send their children to preschool. Because of what I do for a living, and because I serve on a board that oversees charter schools in the District, some of my friends ask me for advice about preschool options. More often, they simply want to ...
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• ACRL 2013 Conference Notes: Geoffrey Canada Opening Keynote

  
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  ACRL Opening Keynote Speaker: Geoffrey Canada , President and CEO Harlem Childrens Zone. Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 4:00pm Opens the keynote by pointing out that President Obama is asking for funding to replicate his work and that of the HCZ.  Librarians control knowledge of the world. Librarians ...
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• NEW SERVICE SPOTLIGHT: Energy Assessments by Carrier

  
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  Carrier has introduced Energy Assessment Programs aimed at two facility types—K-12 education and small- to mid-size commercial. While each program is tailored to address the needs of those specific organizational types, the aim is similar no matter which type of facility—to identify and remediate sources of ...
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• Memo to U.S. News & World Report’s Robert Morse

  
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  Someone needs to tell U.S. News & World Report ‘s Robert Morse that data he says he wants to include in his magazine’s high school rankings are already available. In a short interview with the Education Writers Association’s Emily Richmond, Morse said: The rankings don’t tell us how students do once ...
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• Rumble in the Rose Garden

  
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  As part of Jeff Charbonneau’s victory lap as National Teacher of the Year, he met with President Obama this week at the White House. There was a little kerfuffle because Charbonneau does not share the president’s views regarding teacher evaluation. Like the majority of teachers , Charbonneau opposes linking ...
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