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Do Multiple Choice Questions Pass the Test? By JASON KOEBLER

Do Multiple Choice Questions Pass the Test?

November 28, 2011 

Use a No. 2 pencil, fill out each circle completely, and don't make any stray marks—these are rules every child learns when taking standardized tests that are largely based on multiple choice. But are multiple choice exams the…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 29, 2011 at 2:54pm — No Comments

Why I Signed: Principals' Objections to the New Evaluation System

Why I Signed: Principals' Objections to the New Evaluation System

Nov. 28, 2011, 4:30 p.m.

Principals who object to the new state system to evaluate teachers and principals…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 29, 2011 at 2:38pm — 1 Comment

Middle Grades Matter by Geneviève DeBose and Kareen Borders

Middle Grades Matter

“You teach middle school? Why?! All those hormones and growth spurts and changes.How do you do it?”

These words are not uncommon…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 28, 2011 at 10:43am — No Comments

Five Big Changes to the Future of Teacher Education by Tina Barseghian

Five Big Changes to the Future of…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 25, 2011 at 9:52am — No Comments

Only Artists Can Make the Difference by John M. Eger

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Race to the Top Mandates Impossible to Implement by Alan Singer

Alan Singer

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Added by Michael Keany on November 23, 2011 at 11:25am — No Comments

The Global Search for Education: More on Arts by C.M. Rubin

C. M. Rubin

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Added by Michael Keany on November 22, 2011 at 2:12pm — No Comments

How About Better Parents? By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

How About Better Parents?

NY Times



IN recent years, we’ve been treated to reams of op-ed articles about how we need better teachers in our public schools and, if only the teachers’ unions would go…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 22, 2011 at 10:05am — No Comments

Cuts in Education: A Failing Choice by Marian Wright Edelman

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Giving Boys A Love Of Reading by Lisa Belkin



Giving Boys A Love Of Reading…
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Added by Michael Keany on November 21, 2011 at 11:00am — No Comments

Five Not-So-Obvious Propositions About Play by Alfie Kohn

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Added by Michael Keany on November 18, 2011 at 12:31pm — No Comments

Several Ways To Tell The Difference Between Good & Bad Education Research By Larry Ferlazzo

Several Ways To Tell The Difference Between Good & Bad Education Research

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Added by Michael Keany on November 17, 2011 at 3:18pm — No Comments

Penn State and the Perils of Loyalty By Jack Marshall

Penn State and the Perils of Loyalty

In central Pennsylvania today, an educational institution is reeling, its reputation shredded, its culture suspect. The root cause of the Pennsylvania State University tragedy is alleged sexual abuse of children. But, beyond that, school officials and observers are pondering a seeming breach of common standards of decency—a breach that, if real, can be traced to a disastrous,…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 16, 2011 at 1:22pm — No Comments

The Relationship Status of Teachers and Educational Technology: It's Complicated By Roxanna Elden

The Relationship Status of Teachers and Educational Technology: It's Complicated

Note: Roxanna Elden is the author of …

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What if We Taught at Hogwarts? By Peter DeWitt

What if We Taught at Hogwarts?



Every student should be able…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 15, 2011 at 2:54pm — No Comments

Why Be Apologetic About Helping the Gifted? By Walt Gardner

Why Be Apologetic About Helping the Gifted?

Only in the…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 14, 2011 at 2:19pm — No Comments

Paperwork burden plagues teachers By Robert McCartney

Paperwork burden plagues teachers

By Published: November 12

Regardless of whether you liked the results, the Fairfax school board …

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Added by Michael Keany on November 14, 2011 at 2:06pm — No Comments

Principals rebel against ‘value-added’ evaluation By Valerie Strauss - Principals' Letter to Bd. of Regents

Principals rebel against ‘value-added’ evaluation

Scores of public school principals in New York are fighting the state’s…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 14, 2011 at 11:09am — No Comments

Teacher Pay Study Asks the Wrong Question, Ignores Facts, Insults Teachers by Arne Duncan

Teacher Pay Study Asks the Wrong Question, Ignores Facts, Insults Teachers

Posted: 11/9/11 05:17 PM ET

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Added by Michael Keany on November 12, 2011 at 4:44pm — No Comments

Solving the Parent Involvement Puzzle: an interview with Anne T. Henderson

Solving the Parent Involvement Puzzle

September 1, 2011 

Anne T. Henderson is a Senior Consultant with the Annenberg Institute for School Reform and based in Washington D.C., where her…

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Added by Michael Keany on November 2, 2011 at 2:07pm — No Comments

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