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• Who Will Teach? Student Voices

  
  President's Blog — Authority: 413
  Many great comments continue to come in on my original blog in this series Who Will Teach? Students in Early Childhood Education offer these thoughts on the discussion: Makai Kellogg writes: "Yesterday after leaving my preschool to go to Trinity for class, I came across a bumper sticker that read "Its too bad ...
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• Meeting the School Turnaround Challenge

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  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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• We can get you that number

  
  edspresso — Authority: 416
  Q: And how many charter schools are there in the country about? SECRETARY DUNCAN: I don’t have a hard number for you. We can get you that number. Q: Thousands? SECRETARY DUNCAN: Yes, thousands, thousands. Yes. ( Press gaggle aboard Air Force One en route to Madison, WI - 11/4 ) 4,578. That’s the answer ...
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• Who Will Teach? Faculty Respond

  
  President's Blog — Authority: 413
  The faculty in Trinitys School of Education have responded collectively and individually to my previous blog on the state of teacher education and Secretary Duncans remarks .   While they posted their response on the "comments" section of the last blog, I think what they have to say is so important that Im ...
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• The New Haven Teacher Contract: A Closer Look

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  All eyes were on New Haven, Conn. last week when the teachers’ union, in a 21-1 vote , overwhelmingly approved a new contract to go into effect next year. The contract, which includes changes typically eschewed by unions such as performance pay for teachers and the option to shut down and reorganize failing ...
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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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• Will More Early-Childhood Education Funding Improve Young People’s Fitness for Military?

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 566
  Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Not surprising because he’s a liberal, Arne Duncan believes throwing more money at early-childhood education programs will ensure that a more-qualified pool of applicants will be available for future military service. On Thursday, according to a media advisory , the former head ...
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• Who Will Teach?

  
  President's Blog — Authority: 413
  Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave a provocative address on the future of teacher education when he appeared at Columbia Teachers College on October 22.   Everyone involved in Trinitys School of Education — all faculty and students here, our graduates and partners in the field, our colleagues who take ...
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• Federal Education Results Prove the Framers Right

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Yesterday, I offered the Fordham Foundation’s Andy Smarick an answer to a burning question : What is the proper federal role in education? It was a question prompted by repeatedly mixed signals coming from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan about whether Washington will be a tough guy, coddler, or something ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Constitution? Not That Old Thing!

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Over at Flypaper , Andy Smarick can’t figure out what the Obama administration thinks is the proper federal role in education. A couple of weeks ago, commenting on a speech by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Smarick couldn’t tell whether Duncan was advocating that the feds be friendly Helpy ...
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• Community Colleges: Disappearing Shop Classes and Green Technology

  
  Green Options — Authority: 146
  In my last post, “Soulcraft and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The Demise of Shop Classes,” I discussed Matthew B. Crawford’s recent book, Shop Class as Soulcraft , in which he examines the consequences of the disappearance of high school shop. Crawford acknowledges that community colleges to some ...
  3 weeks ago

• Education sec spoke at event with Ayers (Where does it end ? Where ?)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  JERUSALEM – Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Undersecretary Martha Kanter keynoted an education reform seminar where William Ayers was a major speaker and participant, WND has learned. Earlier this month, Duncan and Kanter discussed their education initiatives at a convention for the Renaissance Group, which ...
  4 weeks ago

• Race to the Top = Klondike Bar

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Remember the ads in which actors…er, people…would enthusiastically do demeaning things for Klondike Bars? You know, ads like this one , in which Shakespeare stoops to writing a TV sitcom in exchange for one of those chocolate-encrusted ice cream blocks? The message, of course, was that the Bard and all ...
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