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The Often Unrecognized Sign of an Effective Teacher By Zak Champagne

The Often Unrecognized Sign of an Effective Teacher

Note: Zak Champagne, an award-winning teacher in Jacksonville, Florida, is…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 14, 2011 at 4:43pm — No Comments

Signs of Passion By Nancy Flanagan

Signs of Passion

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Added by Michael Keany on July 14, 2011 at 10:03am — No Comments

Teachers Guilty By Association By Walt Gardner

Teachers Guilty By Association

The McCarthy era of the 1950's destroyed the careers of those who had associated in one way or another with…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 13, 2011 at 4:54pm — No Comments

Still teaching: Warren Bennis on leadership By John Baldoni

Still teaching: Warren Bennis on leadership

John Baldoni is an internationally recognized leadership development consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker. In…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 13, 2011 at 4:48pm — No Comments

Apprenticeships, Not Summer School by Lucy N.Friedman

Apprenticeships, Not Summer School

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Lucy N.Friedman is the founding president of the After-School Corporation, a nonprofit organization.

There’s no question that we can upgrade the appeal, attendance rate and effectiveness of summer school for elementary and middle school students. We can do it by pairing…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 12, 2011 at 9:14am — No Comments

Look to the Charter Schools by Pedro Noguera

Look to the Charter Schools

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Pedro Noguera, a sociologist, is the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University. He is also executive director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and serves on the State University of New York…

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Field Trips, Not Classrooms by Roger Prosise

Field Trips, Not Classrooms

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Roger Prosise is superintendent of the Diamond Lake School District in suburban Chicago.

Summer school is simply a way to provide students with more instructional time. The summer school program should be rigorous, high-interest and staffed with excellent teachers. But…

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Break With Tradition by Paul Thomas

Break With Tradition

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Paul Thomas is an associate professor of education at Furman University in Greenville, S.C. He is writing a book on poverty in the United States. You can follow his work at Radical Scholarship and on Twitter as …

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Summer School Triage by Patrick Welsh

Summer School Triage

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Patrick Welsh teaches English at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va. He writes often about education.

Whenever I would tell colleagues that I enjoyed teaching summer school, which I did for more than 20 summers, many would tell me I…

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Don't Make the Wrong Cuts by Geoffrey Canada

Don't Make the Wrong Cuts

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Geoffrey Canada is president and chief executive officer of the Harlem Children’s Zone and president of the Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy Charter Schools.

I have watched the budget debates across the country with a…

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Added by Michael Keany on July 12, 2011 at 9:03am — No Comments

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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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

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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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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Edutopia

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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?

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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





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

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