Apprenticeships, Not Summer School

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Lucy N.Friedman is the founding president of the After-School Corporation, a nonprofit organization.

Look to the Charter Schools

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Pedro Noguera, a sociologist, is the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University. He is also executive director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and serves on the State University of New York…

Field Trips, Not Classrooms

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Roger Prosise is superintendent of the Diamond Lake School District in suburban Chicago.

Break With Tradition

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Paul Thomas is an associate professor of education at Furman University in Greenville, S.C. He is writing a book on poverty in the United States. You can follow his work at Radical Scholarship and on Twitter as …

Summer School Triage

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Patrick Welsh teaches English at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va. He writes often about education.

Don't Make the Wrong Cuts

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Geoffrey Canada is president and chief executive officer of the Harlem Children’s Zone and president of the Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy Charter Schools.

Eliminate Summer Vacation

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Kathleen Porter-Magee is the senior director of the High Quality Standards Project at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Previously, she was a middle and high school teacher and the senior curriculum and professional development director for …

Eliminate Summer Vacation

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Kathleen Porter-Magee is the senior director of the High Quality Standards Project at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Previously, she was a middle and high school teacher and the senior curriculum and professional development director for …

Lisa Nielsen and I co-wrote and cross posted this post.

When it comes to upgrading education to the 21st Century, those who are less supportive of change, often hide behind, or are frightened of acronyms likeFERPA, CIPA, COPPA. This is sometimes done intentionally for convenience, or unwittingly out of ignorance. Of course in a litigious society such as ours has become, law suits are foremost in the minds of administrators. It is for…

For the last four days I have been experiencing a great learning conference for educators. The International Society for Technology in Education Conference, ISTE, is held once a year. This year some 22,000 educators and 5,000 exhibitors came together in Philadelphia at The Pennsylvania Convention Center. I experienced this conference as a social media educator. This does not make me a better educator, but it does give me a unique perspective amongst educators. Social media has added a new…

After a wonderful experience at the ISTE11 Conference in Philadelphia, I finally made the decision to get away from any computer and get myself to the beach for a week to decompress. Of course, I have my Droid, so I am still somewhat connected, but frustratingly so. A mobile device doesn’t yet fully replace the speed and convenience of a loaded laptop or desktop. Yet, it is that very inconvenience with only a mobile phone at the beach that enables me to say to my family that I am, for the…

Let's Aim Beyond Standards

By Yuhang Rong

Raised by my grandparents, I grew up in China. After every major exam, my school ranked every student. No matter how well I did, I was never the No. 1 kid in the class, and my grandmother never seemed satisfied. One day after she scolded me again for only scoring 96 on a math test instead of a perfect 100, I resentfully asked her, “Why can’t everyone be number one?” She looked at me with an all-knowing…

Leveling the Playing Field: How to Make Standardized Test Preparation Accessible to All Students

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Edutopia

Andrea Alexander

Andrea Alexander is a former attorney and a current graduate student at the University of Michigan School of Information, where she is studying library and information services and information…

How Social Media made me a better Administrator…

Smells Like School Spirit

By DAVID BROOKS