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Eliminate Summer Vacation by Kathleen Porter-Magee

Eliminate Summer Vacation

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Kathleen Porter-Magee is the senior director of the High Quality Standards Project at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Previously, she was a middle and high school teacher and the senior curriculum and professional development director for …

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Added by Michael Keany on July 12, 2011 at 8:46am — No Comments

National Summit to Promote Role of Imagination in Schools By Erik Robelen

National Summit to Promote Role of Imagination in Schools

By Erik Robelen 

Albert Einstein once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Well, an upcoming…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 8, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Let's Aim Beyond Standards By Yuhang Rong

Let's Aim Beyond Standards

By Yuhang Rong

 

Raised by my grandparents, I grew up in China. After every major exam, my school ranked every student. No matter how well I did, I was never the No. 1 kid in the class, and my grandmother never seemed satisfied. One day after she scolded me again for only scoring 96 on a math test instead of a perfect 100, I resentfully asked her, “Why can’t everyone be number one?” She looked at me with an all-knowing…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 8, 2011 at 1:56pm — No Comments

Leveling the Playing Field: How to Make Standardized Test Preparation Accessible to All Students by Andrea Alexander

Leveling the Playing Field: How to Make Standardized Test Preparation Accessible to All Students

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Andrea Alexander
Andrea Alexander

Andrea Alexander is a former attorney and a current graduate student at the University of Michigan School of Information, where she is studying library and information services and information…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 8, 2011 at 1:35pm — No Comments

Have the teachers' unions come around? by William J. Bennett

Have the teachers' unions come around?

by William J. Bennett

(CNN) -- The vote to endorse President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012 by the nation's largest teachers' union, the National Education Association (NEA), was not exactly a surprise.

As Jonah Goldberg…
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Added by Michael Keany on July 8, 2011 at 8:57am — No Comments

Where Are Parents in the Education Partnership? By Walt Gardner

Where Are Parents in the Education Partnership?

By Walt Gardner on July 4, 2011 7:40 AM …
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Added by Michael Keany on July 6, 2011 at 10:08am — No Comments

Smells Like School Spirit By DAVID BROOKS

Smells Like School Spirit



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NY Times

Aspen, Colo.

Diane Ravitch is the nation’s most vocal educational historian. She once was one of the leading intellects behind the education reform movement — emphasizing…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 1, 2011 at 6:56am — No Comments

Experience counts for something by Randy Ross

Experience counts for something

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This was written by Randy Ross, who was a principal and teacher for over 43 years both in New York City and Great Neck, LI, as well as an assistant superintendent, professor at CCNY’s School of Education and director of…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 30, 2011 at 8:54am — No Comments

A Leadership Mistake by Ryan Bretag

A Leadership Mistake

by Ryan Bretag | @ryanbretag

How many teachers have you seen teach in your school?

I've seen every teacher teach during my building walks and instructional walks. I've visited a good…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 29, 2011 at 2:56pm — No Comments

The 3 most important questions in education by Sam Chaltain

The 3 most important questions in education

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This was written by Sam Chaltain, a D.C.-based writer, educator and strategist. He was the national director of the…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 28, 2011 at 3:35pm — No Comments

Why I Am Marching on July 30 By Diane Ravitch

Why I Am Marching on July 30

By Diane Ravitch 

Dear Deborah,

I will be marching with the Save Our Schools coalition of…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 28, 2011 at 11:05am — 1 Comment

Bad Teacher? A Breath of Fresh Air By Rick Hess

Bad Teacher? A Breath of Fresh Air

By Rick Hess 

On Friday, I finally walked out of an edu-movie without having to scrape off the sanctimony and treacle. Whether heartrending dramas or documentaries, edu-cinema has long gone for the mawkish…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 27, 2011 at 4:01pm — No Comments

Bad Teacher Movie Boasts Bad Taste by Scott Janssen

Bad Teacher Movie Boasts Bad Taste

by Scott Janssen
Posted: 06/26/11 01:48 PM ET…


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Added by Michael Keany on June 27, 2011 at 3:47pm — 1 Comment

The reform pretenders by Carol Corbett Burris, the principal of South Side High School - in Valerie Strauss's Blog

The reform pretenders

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This was written by Carol Corbett Burris, the principal of South Side High School in New York.  She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 27, 2011 at 8:20am — 1 Comment

Measuring a Teacher’s Effectiveness Goes Beyond Test Scores by Elena Aguilar

Measuring a Teacher’s Effectiveness Goes Beyond Test Scores

by Elena Aguilar

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At the end of a school year, there are so many measurements which could indicate that a teacher was “effective” -- graduation rates, grades, test scores -- quantifiable and ostensibly objective. Whether a teacher was effective must definitely be measured by how much his/her students’ learning increased over a period of time,…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 24, 2011 at 5:20pm — No Comments

What Should Evaluation Systems Accomplish? By Justin Baeder

What Should Evaluation Systems Accomplish?

By Justin Baeder 

@eduleadership

Since …

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Added by Michael Keany on June 24, 2011 at 5:07pm — No Comments

A Primer on Interactive Books

A Primer on Interactive Books

By Betty Ray

Edutopia

Editor's Note: Today's guest blogger is Laura Fleming, school librarian at Cherry Hill School in River Edge, NJ. Laura blogs at …

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Added by Michael Keany on June 23, 2011 at 1:53pm — No Comments

Small Changes, Huge Results by by Eric Sheninger

Small Changes, Huge Results

Cross-posted at the Huffington Post.



Last week my school was fortunate to have the NJ School Boards Association (NJSBA) visit to…
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Added by Michael Keany on June 21, 2011 at 10:54am — No Comments

Time to Toss Out Cell Phone Bans and SM Filters and Be True Technology Leaders by J. Robinson

Time to Toss Out Cell Phone Bans and SM Filters and Be True Technology Leaders

“It’s time to lift the cell phone bans, open the wireless for student personal devices, and stop filtering social technologies.” That seems to be the idea in a…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 21, 2011 at 10:50am — No Comments

Opinion: Arnius Duncanus? By Michael J. Petrilli

Opinion: Arnius Duncanus?

By Michael J. Petrilli

Much like …

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Added by Michael Keany on June 18, 2011 at 10:19pm — No Comments

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