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6 wild ideas for ideal schools By Jay Mathews

6 wild ideas for ideal schools

A month ago, I suggested that readers stop asking me…

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Added by Michael Keany on September 27, 2011 at 11:54am — No Comments

How to fix the mess we call middle school By Valerie Strauss

How to fix the mess we call middle school

Elementary schools and high schools are tough enough to run, but middle schools are a problem unto themselves. Nobody quite knows what to do with students who are of age to be in…

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Added by Michael Keany on September 27, 2011 at 11:51am — No Comments

Conversations with Arne Duncan - Offering advice on educator evaluations By Carol Corbett Burris and Kevin G. Welner

Conversations with Arne Duncan

Offering advice on educator evaluations

The national push for new teacher evaluations is real; educators should not miss this opportunity to influence policy makers with solid evidence.

By Carol Corbett Burris and Kevin G. Welner

 

38 Kappan October 2011



We can’t say how many high school principals get calls from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, particularly when he knows he’ll be speaking…

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Added by Michael Keany on September 27, 2011 at 11:31am — No Comments

Let Teachers Teach by Vern Williams

Should the School Day Be Longer?

While more time in the classroom may benefit children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is it right for everyone?

Let Teachers Teach

September 26, 2011

NHY Times…

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Added by Michael Keany on September 27, 2011 at 7:31am — No Comments

A Teacher's Worst Nightmare By Walt Gardner

A Teacher's Worst Nightmare

The abrupt request for a…

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Added by Michael Keany on September 27, 2011 at 7:16am — No Comments

Educating The Social Network Generation By Peter DeWitt

Educating The Social Network Generation

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Added by Michael Keany on September 27, 2011 at 7:15am — No Comments

Delay Kindergarten at Your Child’s Peril By SAM WANG and SANDRA AAMODT

September 24, 2011

Delay Kindergarten at Your Child’s Peril



NY Times



Sam Wang is an associate professor of molecular biology and neuroscience at Princeton. Sandra Aamodt is a former editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience. They are the authors of “Welcome to Your Child’s Brain: How the Mind Grows From Conception to…

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Added by Michael Keany on September 27, 2011 at 7:15am — No Comments

The Secrets of a Principal Who Makes Things Work By MICHAEL WINERIP

The Secrets of a Principal Who Makes Things Work





NY Times

One…

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Added by Michael Keany on September 26, 2011 at 7:05pm — No Comments

It's All in the Design by Eric Sheninger

It's All in the Design

by Eric Sheninger Sep 25, 2011 9:59 AM - Show original…

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Added by Michael Keany on September 26, 2011 at 7:27am — No Comments

NY Times Editorial: New Haven’s Teacher Improvement Plan

September 25, 2011

New Haven’s Teacher Improvement Plan

NY Times Editorial



Like most school systems that serve disadvantaged children, New Haven, an urban district with a high poverty rate, has faced enormous challenges in improving the quality of instruction. But its political leaders and teachers’ union took a bold step last year in agreeing to a new teacher evaluation system that aims to…

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Added by Michael Keany on September 26, 2011 at 7:00am — No Comments

Texting in the Classroom: Not Just a Distraction By Audrey Watters

Texting in the Classroom: Not Just a Distraction

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Added by Michael Keany on September 23, 2011 at 1:12pm — No Comments

Response: Reasons For The "Downgrade" In Respect For Teachers By Larry Ferlazzo

Response: Reasons For The "Downgrade" In Respect For Teachers

Gail Kochon …

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Added by Michael Keany on September 22, 2011 at 10:28am — No Comments

21 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 2020 By Tina Barseghian

21 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 2020

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Flickr:Robert S. Donovan

Inspired by…

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Added by Michael Keany on September 21, 2011 at 3:12pm — 1 Comment

Does Innovation Have a DNA? Education Applications... by Stephanie Sandifer

Does Innovation Have a DNA? Education Applications...

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Added by Michael Keany on September 21, 2011 at 8:01am — No Comments

Ways to Prevent Cheating -- NY Times Editorial

Ways to Prevent Cheating

NY Times Editorial



The Board of Regents took an important step this month when it directed the New York State Education Department to develop a plan for eliminating glaring weaknesses in the state testing system. As a first move, the Regents voted to require that state tests for third through eighth grades be…

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Added by Michael Keany on September 21, 2011 at 7:56am — No Comments

No Defending Illiterate Educators

I was always intrigued by the saying, “I taught him everything he knows, but not everything that I know!” I always thought that was a pretty clever saying. It was also true of educators in years gone by. They were the content experts. If you wanted knowledge, these experts had it. People paid good money to travel to the places where these content experts delivered their wares, universities, colleges and monasteries. Knowledge was a commodity and, if the expert held anything back, a student’s…

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Added by Tom Whitby on September 20, 2011 at 6:38pm — No Comments

Do Schools Matter? by Whitney Tilson

Do Schools Matter?

by Whitney Tilson
Board member of KIPP charter schools in NYC, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and Democrats for Education Reform…


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Added by Michael Keany on September 19, 2011 at 10:32am — No Comments

The School Reform Equivalent Of Playing “Mary Had A Little Lamb” With A Stradivarius by Larry Ferlazzo

The School Reform Equivalent Of Playing “Mary Had A Little Lamb” With A Stradivarius

by Larry Ferlazzo

I read something truly awful today in The New York Times Magazine article, What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?

But before I share what it was, I’d like to preface it by…

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Added by Michael Keany on September 16, 2011 at 4:53pm — No Comments

Are We Expecting Too Much of Teacher Evaluation Systems? By Justin Baeder

Are We Expecting Too Much of Teacher Evaluation Systems?

I pay a lot of attention to teacher evaluation in this country, and it seems that the issue grows…

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Added by Michael Keany on September 16, 2011 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Getting teacher evaluation right By Valerie Strauss

Getting teacher evaluation right

Here is an edited version of a briefing on the right way to evaluate teachers that Stanford University Professor Linda Darling-Hammond and…

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Added by Michael Keany on September 16, 2011 at 11:35am — 1 Comment

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