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The problem with 'grit'

The problem with 'grit'
The "new character education" has thousands of administrators, teachers, and parents convinced that qualities such as perseverance, discipline, and self-control trump IQ in determining academic success, writes Jeffrey Aaron Snyder for The New Republic. Yet Snyder finds major problems with this premise. First, we don't know how to teach character. We have an increasingly cogent "science of character," but no "science of teaching…
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Falling short on our egalitarian system

Falling short on our egalitarian system

In the national mythology, few ideas are more revered than education's power to overcome entrenched inequality, writes Eduardo Porter in The New York Times. While often falling short of the ideal, the United States at one time aimed to provide universal, comprehensive education, an egalitarian system to put elite European systems to shame -- but no longer. Not only do American standards trail those of other industrial…
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Racism's compound interest

Racism's compound interest

The legacy of slavery and segregation in this country has benefitted many for years on a principle similar to compound interest, writes Ezra Klein for Vox. White America has, for centuries, used force, racist laws, biased courts, and housing segregation to build wealth, stealing the work of African Americans and then, when that became illegal, plundering their work and assets. And then it let compound interest work its magic. Today,…

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Should Teachers Stop Fighting for Tenure? by Matthew Lynch



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How we make progress by Annie Murphy Paul

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Should teen pregnancy be highlighted in yearbooks?

Should teen pregnancy be highlighted in yearbooks?
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The Case for the New Kindergarten: Challenging and Playful By Daphna Bassok, Amy Claessens, and Mimi Engel

The Case for the New Kindergarten: Challenging and Playful

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Kindergarten in the United States is not what it used to be. For one…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 3, 2014 at 7:13pm — No Comments

First lady: Arts education important to good schools

First lady: Arts education important to good schools

First lady Michelle Obama dances on stage with student performers as she and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) host the White House Talent Show in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, Tuesday, May 20, 2014 in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn…
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School evals face same problems as those in hospitals by Allie Gross

School evals face same problems as those in hospitals

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The altered trajectory of Michelle Robinson

The altered trajectory of Michelle Robinson

In 1975, under pressure from the Supreme Court decision desegregating public schools, Chicago opened a racially integrated high school for high achievers that changed young Michelle Robinson's life, writes Sheryl Gay Stolberg for The New York Times. Her now husband, Barack Obama, attended a prep school in multicultural Hawaii, but Mrs. Obama was raised in a one-bedroom apartment and later a house in South Shore, a…

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Lessons from Thoreau: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify! by Bruce Oliver



May 2014 Volume XI Issue IV

The namesake for the school where I was a principal for sixteen years was the poet and…

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Students need choice: ZIP codes shouldn’t predetermine students’ success by Lee Jackson

Students need choice: ZIP codes shouldn’t predetermine students’ success

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Work Less and Be More Productive by Annie Murphy Paul

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The question of experience—teaching made simple? by Barnett Berry





The question of experience—teaching made simple?



It’s a bad narrative. But it stays at the surface. It’s easy to message. It doesn’t require…

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How Transparency Can Transform School Culture by Katrina Schwartz

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Arne Duncan’s reaction to new research slamming teacher evaluation method he favors by Valerie Strauss

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