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Here’s how different the US education system is vs. other nations by Jenn Hatfield

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Added by Michael Keany on February 24, 2015 at 2:02pm — No Comments

Here Comes The Classroom Observation and My Slim Chances of Being Rated a Top Teacher by Becca Leech

Here Comes The Classroom Observation and My Slim Chances of Being Rated a Top Teacher (Becca Leech) Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice by larrycuban / 7h // keep unread // hide // preview Tennessee teacher Becca Leech has been, in her words, “a special educator since 1991, with experience teaching infants to young adults in rural, suburban and urban communities, and in both private and non-profit school settings. I currently coordinate an alternative graduation program for…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 23, 2015 at 10:12am — No Comments

Letting Parents in on the Secret of School By Peter DeWitt

Letting Parents in on the Secret of School

By Peter DeWitt on February 22, 2015 7:40 AM

Let's get two of the most common obstacles out of the way first.

Some parents don't want to engage - Perhaps they had a tough school experience when they were growing up. Maybe, they feel intimidated that we engage in educational talk and they don't always know the acronyms. What if we tried just one more conversation? What if we channeled Covey and tried to understand a little bit…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 23, 2015 at 9:47am — No Comments

Don’t Give Up the Gains in Education By THE EDITORIAL BOARD of the NY Times



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Added by Michael Keany on February 22, 2015 at 9:12am — No Comments

How Many Years of Teaching Experience Should a Principal Have? By Peter DeWitt

How Many Years of Teaching Experience Should a Principal Have?

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Added by Michael Keany on February 20, 2015 at 10:08am — No Comments

Balefire Labs Announces Best Educational Apps of 2014

Balefire Labs Announces Best Educational Apps of 2014



It's been a big year for us and for apps! We reviewed more than 2,000 apps in 2014 and the 18 apps that have won our Best of 2014 award really stood out from the rest of the crowd!

Best Educational App of 2014 Our method of selecting winners for this award was simple...we just picked the apps that had the best scores according to our…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 18, 2015 at 10:13am — No Comments

Data... the Hard & Soft of It By Peter DeWitt

Data... the Hard & Soft of It

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Added by Michael Keany on February 16, 2015 at 9:34am — No Comments

ALLIANCE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION: CUOMO’S SCHOOL PLAN BASED ON FLIMSY EVIDENCE

ALLIANCE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION: CUOMO’S SCHOOL PLAN BASED ON FLIMSY EVIDENCE

Long Island Press Releases

Governor’s Plan to Appoint School Czars to Takeover Struggling Schools and Districts is Based upon Flimsy Evidence and Represents Unprecedented State Overreach

(Long Island, NY) Today Governor Cuomo sent a letter to Chancellor of the Board of Regents Meryl…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 14, 2015 at 9:04am — No Comments

Is Common Core too hard for kindergarten? by Robert Pondiscio

Is Common Core too hard for kindergarten?

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Added by Michael Keany on February 12, 2015 at 4:22pm — No Comments

Demographic truths about Latino attainment

Demographic truths about Latino attainment

U.S. population growth is now driven by Hispanics: No other group is replenishing itself through births or immigration to reverse overall population decline, writes Tim Henderson for Stateline. In 25 states, however, whites are twice as likely as Hispanics to have college degrees, a serious problem in an economy that generates more jobs for the educated. Rising Latino dropout rates and falling family incomes will put…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 11, 2015 at 4:42pm — No Comments

Our Boys Need Us: The Power of Mentoring by BRIAN SZTABNIK



Our Boys Need Us: The Power of Mentoring

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Added by Michael Keany on February 11, 2015 at 4:25pm — No Comments

Admins: A Plan to Consider by Tom Whitby

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4 Lessons Learned From Differentiating Leadership by PJ Caposey

4 Lessons Learned From Differentiating Leadership

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Added by Michael Keany on February 11, 2015 at 4:20pm — No Comments

Thomas Guskey on Overcoming Obstacles to Better Grading

Thomas Guskey on Overcoming Obstacles to Better Grading

“Five Obstacles to Grading Reform” by Thomas Guskey in Educational Leadership, November 2011 (Vol. 69, #3, p. 16-21), http://www.ascd.org; Guskey can be reached at…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 11, 2015 at 3:55pm — No Comments

Just do it… by Dennis Sparks

Just do it…

by Dennis Sparks

Dennis Sparks

School communities, like all organizations and individuals,…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 11, 2015 at 8:13am — No Comments

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