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• Quick Hits (5.20.13)

  
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  You owe it to the Chinese. Stephen Colbert gives the  2013 Valedictory Address at the University of Virginia and tells students they don’t owe the previous generation anything and to choose the hard path in life. “While traditional paths may seem harder to find, that also means that you may learn sooner than ...
  4 days ago

• Short-Sighted: NCLB Taking Students In Wrong Direction By Cutting Recess, PE

  
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  Brynn Ford walks on the treadmill while listening to a class lesson at her West St. Paul, Minn., school. (Photo/Trisha Marczak) Fourth-grade student Kevin Killion listens attentively to his daily class lesson, all the while walking at a moderate pace on a classroom treadmill. “It gets oxygen in your brain,” ...
  4 days ago

• Whats In a Name? Only Jeb! Bush Knows.

  
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  By Duke Hanna Skandera is now the head chief of Jeb Bush!’s reformy group, Chiefs For Change. And she’s decided to celeberate by snatching up a title that was not conferred on her by law : Hanna Skandera, one of most controversial figures in state government, has given herself a new title. ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Forgotten Five CCSD Schools: Just a Statistic

  
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  Justice delayed is justice denied, as the Federal Office of Civil Rights sits on the complaint filed for Charleston County School Districts closing of five schools in 2009. More than a thousand elementary and middle-school students were uprooted from their neighborhood schools while Superintendent McGinley promised ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Tale of Two Schools: A Boy Learns to Love Reading

  
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  My son and media specialist Ms. Reeding (yes that is her real name) Becoming a mom, I was excited when each of my children entered school. If I loved learning and school, they would too, right? In Kindergarten and first grade my son had fantastic teachers. They both told us what a good student he was, he was ...
  3 weeks ago

• Update: Duncan Endorses Parent Trigger -- Sort Of

  
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  At an education conference in Burlingame earlier today, Obama education secretary Arne Duncan gave a muddled semi-endorsement of the controversial parent trigger law in California. Specifically, Duncan described the trigger as "an important tool" for parent involvement -- but not the only or even the most important ...
  3 weeks ago

• Afternoon Announcements: MRIs Can Predict Student Receptiveness to Math Tutoring, Study Finds

  
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  Indiana’s NCLB waiver eligibility is under question now that is has announced a ‘pause’ on implementing the Common Core State Standards. The state filed for its waiver saying it had adopted the Standards and joined a consortium developing aligned assessments. Politics K-12 The newest group of critics ...
  3 weeks ago

• Common Core Kept in Place

  
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  House Bill 1427 preserves the state’s Common Core academic standards and allows for continued implementation. The Indiana General Assembly rejected the attacks on Common Core and allowed the standards, which the State Board of Education adopted in August 2010, to continue to be implemented. (Only the elements of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Afternoon Announcements: Chicago Students Boycott State Exam

  
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  A number of Chicago high school students plan to boycott a state exam, saying that it’s unfair that their results will be used to judge the quality of their school. Two student-led groups have organized the protest – Voices of Youth in Chicago Education and Chicago Students Organizing to Save Our Schools. WBEZ ...
  4 weeks ago

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