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• Does Size Really Matter?

  
  THE SAME ROWDY CROWD — Authority: 127
  Danielle Steele’s novels are automatically superior to Leo Tolstoy’s novels, right? That’s must be the conclusion if you adopt the logic of a common contemporary Republican talking point: Big documents are automatically inferior to short documents. Increasingly, it seems Republican pols and pundits love to ...
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• What Will Happen to The No Child Left Behind Act in The Next Presidential Term?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 506
  What will Happen to the No Child Left Behind ACT in the Next Presidential Term? “No Child Left Behind was a good beginning. We know, after a number of years of examination and practice with it, know there’s some things that badly needs fixing.”1 states former Senator John McCain recently when asked his opinion ...
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• What Really Matters, Celebrity or Real World?

  
  Education and Technology — Authority: 418
  I am tired of celebrities taking the limelight from real life concerns. Yesterday Tiger Woods had an accident, in the process he received minor injuries. All day and into this morning all the major networks have called in their lawyers, analysts or in one case Mark Furman from the OJ trial to talk about it. WHY? It ...
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• Memphis City School Receive $90 Million Grant

  
  Clif's Notes — Authority: 119
  “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [yesterday] announced that it will invest $335 million to support effective teaching as a means to ensure all students receive the education they need to succeed in high school and beyond. [The] announcement includes $290 million in grants to support four Intensive ...
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• Governor restates opposition to national education standards

  
  THE EDUCATION FRONT — Authority: 416
  Gov. Rick Perry still wants no part of a move to establish national standards for English and math instruction in public schools. Texas education officials - with Perrys backing - told the U.S. Department of Education in June that Texas would not participate with most other states in developing the standards, spelling ...
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• No child left behind abandons everyone

  
  Solo Mother — Authority: 128
  multiple choice A Facebook poll got me thinking about the whole mess that No Child Left Behind has created in our schools. Teachers are teaching to the test. Enrichment programs like art, music, sports are being cut so kids have more time to learn the test materials. Hell, some schools don’t even have recess ...
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• Get Mad!

  
  kavips — Authority: 123
  There were seven fights today at Shue-Medill Middle School on Kirkwood Highway. The Christina School District is responsible for that location… Due to privacy restrictions details are sketchy, but this is what we do know… Seven Fights in one school of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders… Why? Report cards went out ...
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• Race to the Top fails to redirect stream of bad teachers sent to low-income schools

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 644
  A recent New York Times editorial points out that Race to the Top — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s $4.3 billion tool for reform—has failed to address one key reform area:  a longstanding practice of allowing school districts to shunt inexperienced, unqualified teachers to low-income schools in ...
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• Why Conservatives Should Applaud Obama’s Efforts at Education Reform

  
  Pajamas Media — Authority: 815
  The president deserves support because he’s making all the right enemies.
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• What do Oregon Educators Want?

  
  PPS Equity — Authority: 418
  Susan Nielsen had a pretty decent article in today’s Oregonian (even a blind squirrel stumbles upon a nut!). Teachers, Nielsen finally realized, aren’t a bunch of lazy, incompetent, know-nothing idiots – they’re actually hard workers, pretty sharp, and — get this — really like kids! What did these ...
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• Julia Bernath: What do school boards do?

  
  NSBA BoardBuzz — Authority: 420
  What do school boards do? According to Julia Bernath, board vice president of Fulton County Schools, GA, and President of the Georgia School Boards Association, they set the vision for a school district. Hear Julia’s thoughts on governance and how NCLB has impacted student achievement in her district in this video ...
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• Dude and Dude: Dumbing and Dumber

  
  O'Ceallaigh & The Quill — Authority: 127
  “Hey, dude!” “Who you calling a scarecrow , dude?” “You’d rather I called you a stuffed shirt ?” “ Sure , dude. That way, when I’m feeling insufficiently padded, I can fix it by knocking the stuffing out of you .” “ Hey!! “ “No, dude, that belly’s foam padding. Lot better than ...
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• Online education makes house calls to Clark County students

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  Eleven-year-old Alicia Ross practices gymnastics about 25 hours a week, but she doesn’t need to do back flips to get to school on time. For her, the classroom is as close as her home computer. Ross, a sixth-grader, is enrolled at Nevada Connections Academy, an online charter school.She and numerous other ...
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• Weekend Links

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  The Democrats’ ingenious plan to disguise the true cost of their health care bills. The health care legislation moving through Congress could increase young adults’ premiums by 100 percent. Why raising taxes won’t fix the deficit . Just look at California. And Rhode Island. And New York. “What ...
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• The Cost of Commitment

  
  AMPS — Authority: 410
  President Obama gave a speech at Wright Middle School in Madison today ( text here ) outlining his education reform initiative for the nation’s schools, called “Race to the Top,” sometimes referred to by some of his critics as the “Race off the Cliff.” As Thomas Mertz has pointed out earlier , the amount ...
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• Another Part Of The Reagan Revolution

  
  Blackinformant.com - African-American culture, news commentary, politics — Authority: 605
  About the author of this following excerpt~ “Charlotte Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major ...
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• Way To Go (Almost All the Way), Jay!

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  This morning Washington Post education columnist — and terrific Cato forum panelist – Jay Mathews called for abolition of the office of the U.S. Secretary of Education ! Why? Because it has proven itself worthless, that’s why: The president, I suspect, thought that Duncan, the former chief of the Chicago ...
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• Tech school plan attacks math and reading deficiencies

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 523
  An intensive reading initiative and an inclusive mathematics program will help improve student achievement at Bucks County Technical High School, the school principal said. The comprehensive tech school landed in School Improvement I status after not enough juniors scored at or above their grade level on the ...
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• Theobald on Returning Rural Values to Education

  
  Homeschooling Research Notes — Authority: 110
  This post reviews Paul Theobald, Education Now: How Rethinking America’s Past Can Change Its Future (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2009).  [An article that summarizes many of the points made in the book is available here ] Theobald, Woods-Beals Chair of Urban and Rural Education at Buffalo State College ...
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• Lying to Our Children

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 707
  Education Secretary Arne Duncan feels that “we’re lying to our children” when we accept low student achievement standards, a policy that sees many states promoting children to the next grade despite being inept at reading and math. Also, Santa isn’t real. —JCL The Associated Press: Many states set ...
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