Rick Hess: Extending The School Year For Everybody 'A Really Bad Idea'

For educators who have been connected since the early days of social media, it is difficult to understand the reason people would ask, “What is #Edchat?” We must remember that many educators using social media for professional reasons have joined only recently. The idea of using social media for professional reasons is a relatively new concept. One would hope that it is having a positive effect because the Department of Education declared August Connected Educators Month. In our…

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by Bill Ferriter

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What Higher Education Will Look Like In 2020

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Parent Trigger Laws: What Leading Thinkers Have To Say

A short time ago I attended a meeting where members of a college English department were doing a presentation to the faculty about their writing program. As I listened to about a 30-minute presentation of the types of writing required by this program, it became obvious to me that two words in this presentation of a college writing program were never uttered. They were two words that as an educator I come in contact with almost every day. Two words that have changed the way information is…

Putting schools on a diet: The public speaks

By Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Amber M. Winkler/ August 2, 2012

In November 2010, Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered a widely noted address about the tough economic times facing American K-12 education. “I am here,” he said, “to talk today about what has been called the New Normal. For the next several years,…