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A Sound Deal on Teacher Evaluations - NY Times Editorial

A Sound Deal on Teacher Evaluations

NY Times Editorial

Thanks to an agreement brokered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York has moved a step closer to carrying out the statewide teacher evaluation system it promised two years ago in return for $700 million from the federal Race…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 17, 2012 at 7:02am — No Comments

Common Core Sample: Plumbing the Dark Mysteries of National Standards BY GAETAN PAPPALARDO

Common Core Sample: Plumbing the Dark Mysteries of National Standards

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Added by Michael Keany on February 16, 2012 at 12:20pm — No Comments

What All Students Need from All Teachers

What All Students Need from All Teachers

(Originally titled “Teach Up for Excellence”)



Marshall Memo - 423



In this Educational Leadership article, differentiation guru Carol Ann Tomlinson (University of Virginia) and EDEquity founder Edwin Lou Javius note that until quite recently, U.S. schools were legally segregated and unequal based on race. Today, there is…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 16, 2012 at 11:18am — No Comments

Seven misconceptions about how students learn by Valerie Strauss

Seven misconceptions about how students learn

Will Rogers once said, “It isn’t what people don’t know that hurts them. It’s what they do know that just ain’t so.”

That’s the introduction to a…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 14, 2012 at 2:09pm — No Comments

Just Lin, Baby! 10 Lessons Jeremy Lin Can Teach Us Before We Go To Work Monday Morning

Just Lin, Baby! 10 Lessons Jeremy Lin Can Teach Us Before We Go To Work Monday Morning



Eric Jackson, Forbes…
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Added by Michael Keany on February 12, 2012 at 10:48am — No Comments

Reasonable doubt on teacher evaluation by Aaron Pallas

Reasonable doubt on teacher evaluation

My guest is Aaron Pallas, professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He writes the …

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Added by Michael Keany on February 9, 2012 at 7:05am — No Comments

Principals Matter: School Leaders Can Drive Student Learning by KARIN CHENOWETH

Karin Chenoweth

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Added by Michael Keany on February 6, 2012 at 1:43pm — No Comments

Cuomo and the schools by Fred LeBrun

Cuomo and the schools

Albany Times Union



Thanks to Carol Corbett-Burris for referring this commentary to us.

Published 08:32 p.m., Saturday, February 4, 2012…
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Make It Fair for All Kids by Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore

Make It Fair for All…
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Things That Were Once Amazing by David Pogue

February 2, 2012, 2:04 PM…
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New teacher decries lesson plan gap By Jay Mathews

New teacher decries lesson plan gap

Maybe Bruce Friedrich raised the lesson plan issue because he was so out of sync with the recent college graduates who were the other Teach for America instructors at his Baltimore high school. He was 40. He…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 2, 2012 at 9:05am — No Comments

John Kuhn: America, Stop Making Excuses for Inequality

John Kuhn: America, Stop Making Excuses for Inequality

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Added by Michael Keany on February 1, 2012 at 2:50pm — No Comments

Christa McAuliffe Day by John Martin

Christa McAuliffe Day
Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off on January 28, 1986.
January 27th, 2012
02:06 PM ET…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 1, 2012 at 2:26pm — No Comments

An L.A. teacher reviews her review

An L.A. teacher reviews her review

Evaluations don't take into account the real world of today's Los Angeles Unified School District classrooms.

Cleveland High School

Members of the Cleveland High School forensic team are seen enjoying a humorous monologue…

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Added by Michael Keany on February 1, 2012 at 2:23pm — No Comments

John Kuhn on Education Funding in Texas: There is a Hole in the Bucket

John Kuhn on Education Funding in Texas: There is a Hole in the Bucket

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Added by Michael Keany on January 30, 2012 at 2:15pm — No Comments

‘Shut up and teach’: The high stakes of teacher voice By Eric Shieh

‘Shut up and teach’: The high stakes of teacher voice

By Eric Shieh
Hechinger Report

I remember the…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 30, 2012 at 12:28pm — No Comments

How to grade a teacher

How to grade a teacher

LA Times Editorial

United Teachers Los Angeles and the school district should get behind a teacher-led evaluation system.

(Illustration by Anthony Russo / For The Times)

(Illustration by Anthony Russo / For The…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 30, 2012 at 12:26pm — No Comments

Ritalin Gone Wrong By L. ALAN SROUFE

January 28, 2012

Ritalin Gone Wrong

By L. ALAN SROUFE

NY Times

THREE million children in this country take drugs for problems in focusing. Toward the end of last year, many of their parents were deeply alarmed because there was a shortage of drugs like Ritalin and Adderall that they…

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Added by Michael Keany on January 29, 2012 at 11:03am — No Comments

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