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Reply to Nancy Flanagan's 'Shutting Teachers Up'

The article was in EdWeek but the first two paragraphs were posted here on 2.0, however, you could only reply to Nancy Flanagan if you subscribed to EdWeek. So here is a sample of my column on Education:

I disagree with Ravitch’s understanding. Many charter schools here in NYS are Public Charter Schools which means, primarily, that the teachers are not members of the Union. The Union (UFT) has a strange relationship to teachers and administrators in terms of its effect on…

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Added by Fred Welfare on July 27, 2014 at 4:29pm — No Comments

Why Do Americans Stink at Math? By ELIZABETH GREEN



Why Do Americans Stink at Math?

By ELIZABETH GREEN

NY Times

JULY 23, 2014



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Added by Michael Keany on July 27, 2014 at 9:10am — No Comments

Kinesthetic Learning: Moving Toward a New Model for Education by Kirin Sinha



Kinesthetic Learning: Moving Toward a New Model for Education

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Added by Michael Keany on July 27, 2014 at 9:04am — No Comments

Leadership Lesson from Band of Brothers by Bill Ferriter

Leadership Lesson from Band of Brothers



Posted by Bill Ferriter on Wednesday, 07/16/2014

Center for Teacher Quality

One of my favorite moments in Band of Brothers -- the nothing-short-of-amazing HBO series…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 26, 2014 at 8:58am — No Comments

Is Your School or District in the Business of Suppressing Creativity and Genius? from The 21st Century Principal by J. Robinson

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Added by Michael Keany on July 26, 2014 at 8:53am — No Comments

Does Group Work ... Work? By Peter DeWitt

Does Group Work ... Work?

By Peter DeWitt on July 20, 2014
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Added by Michael Keany on July 26, 2014 at 8:48am — No Comments

Teacher Pay Starts Low, Grows Slowly, Is Generally Awful, Report Says By Ross Brenneman

Teacher Pay Starts Low, Grows Slowly, Is Generally Awful, Report Says

By Ross Brenneman on July 23, 2014 Ed Week…
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Added by Michael Keany on July 25, 2014 at 11:44am — No Comments

Evidence, Brown, and the Civil Rights Act by Robert Slavin



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Director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University

Evidence, Brown, and…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 25, 2014 at 11:41am — No Comments

Scams and Sabotage in Teaching

It’s a common feature throughout public school education: methods that not only don’t work but seem designed not to work.

This is so puzzling that when you first encounter the possibility, your mind rejects it. Why would people in education design methods that defeat education?

 I think New Math was a glaring example. Reform Math continues the same tradition. The Internet is full of videos of children crying because they cannot understand the…

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Added by Bruce Deitrick Price on July 24, 2014 at 4:01pm — No Comments

Poems about Teaching from Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

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Added by Michael Keany on July 24, 2014 at 12:16pm — No Comments

School Climate: The Issue May Be You By Peter DeWitt

School Climate: The Issue May Be You

By Peter DeWitt on July 24, 2014 7:39 AM
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Added by Michael Keany on July 24, 2014 at 12:12pm — No Comments

People need people to learn (unless you're Bill Gates) by Annie Murphy Paul

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Added by Michael Keany on July 23, 2014 at 11:16am — No Comments

Tackling Challenges of Education and Health Together by Linda P. Fried



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Dean and DeLamar Professor of Public Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 23, 2014 at 9:40am — No Comments

Leaders And Integrity

These turbulent times offer invitation.  Leaders can seize the moment and lead. Many others want someone to do that. Within the pubic there is a growing sentiment that educators are overpaid workers whose ranks are filled with incompetents who enjoy unprecedented job security, over-test children and fail to educate our youth successfully. Within education, there are those who believe teachers are underpaid, under inordinate pressure, challenged to do more with less, and facing…

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Added by Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers on July 23, 2014 at 6:31am — No Comments

Are First-Year Teachers Ever Proficient? By Nancy Flanagan

Are First-Year Teachers Ever Proficient?

By Nancy Flanagan on July 21, 2014 
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Added by Michael Keany on July 22, 2014 at 11:48am — No Comments

A Teacher’s Appreciation For Her Principal by Ann Staley from Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

A Teacher’s Appreciation For Her Principal (Ann Staley)…
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Added by Michael Keany on July 22, 2014 at 11:31am — No Comments

What Happens to the Kids Who Ruled Middle School? By Sarah D. Sparks

What Happens to the Kids Who Ruled Middle School?

By Sarah D. Sparks on July 18, 2014 …
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Added by Michael Keany on July 22, 2014 at 9:01am — No Comments

Year-Round Schooling: Why It's Time to Change By Matthew Lynch

Year-Round Schooling: Why It's Time to Change

By Matthew Lynch on July 18, 2014 
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Added by Michael Keany on July 22, 2014 at 8:58am — No Comments

Seeing what is invisible to others… by Dennis Sparks

Seeing what is invisible to others…

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Published June 25, 2014  

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Added by Michael Keany on July 21, 2014 at 10:36am — No Comments

Retreating to the Chesapeake Bay by Christopher Wooleyhand, Ph.D.

“A kid today can likely tell you about the Amazon rain forest- but not about the last time he or she explored the woods in solitude, or lay in a field listening to the wind and watching the clouds move.”

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Last Child in the Woods





I had the pleasure of spending three days last week enjoying a principals’ retreat sponsored by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. We gathered at Somers Cove Marina in Crisfield, Maryland for introductions and orientation prior to… Continue

Added by Debbie Wooleyhand on July 20, 2014 at 2:35pm — No Comments

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