Michael Keany's Blog – April 2013 Archive (115)

Young People: Don't Be Afraid to Become a Teacher! by ELENA AGUILAR

Young People: Don't Be Afraid to Become a Teacher!

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Added by Michael Keany on April 17, 2013 at 5:36pm — 1 Comment

How Do You Evaluate Teachers Who Change Lives? By Lorraine Bellon Cella

How Do You Evaluate Teachers Who Change Lives?

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It was 1966 and my 9th grade year began in a suburban town in northern New Jersey. I strolled to school carrying my small assignment pad, which I needed for…

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Who Is the Real Secretary of Education? By Walt Gardner

Who Is the Real Secretary of Education?

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John Thompson: Did Duncan Load the Bullets into Michelle Rhee's Smoking Gun?

John Thompson: Did Duncan Load the Bullets into Michelle Rhee's Smoking Gun?

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Strapping Jet Engines to Stagecoaches; or iPads in Schools By Justin Reich

Strapping Jet Engines to Stagecoaches; or iPads in Schools

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Opinion: Schools have become triage centers for civilized conduct, which should have been taught at home by Frank Breslin

Opinion: Schools have become triage centers for civilized conduct, which should have been taught at home

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Times of Trenton guest opinion column By …
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Added by Michael Keany on April 17, 2013 at 1:12pm — 1 Comment

AASA: President’s Budget Proposal Relies Heavily on Competitive Funding

AASA: President’s Budget Proposal Relies Heavily on Competitive Funding

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Contact: Kitty Porterfield, kbporterfield@comcast.net, 703.774.6953

Federal Formula Programs Sacrificed

Alexandria, Va., April 12. 2013 – Daniel A. Domenech, executive director of the American Association of School Superintendents (AASA), today released AASA’s…

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A Progressive and a Conservative Find Common Ground Opposing the Common Core By Anthony Cody

A Progressive and a Conservative Find Common Ground Opposing the Common Core

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Added by Michael Keany on April 16, 2013 at 1:12pm — No Comments

Boston By Peter Gow

Boston



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Dear Parents: It's High-Stakes Testing Time By Peter DeWitt

Dear Parents: It's High-Stakes Testing Time

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Added by Michael Keany on April 15, 2013 at 11:05am — No Comments

Why Should Educators Pay Attention to the Bammy Awards? By Peter DeWitt

Why Should Educators Pay Attention to the Bammy Awards?

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Proceed With Caution When Closing Schools by Kate Shaw & Adam Schott

Proceed With Caution When Closing Schools

Districts must address school closures comprehensively

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Philadelphia's state-appointed School Reform Commission last month approved the closure of …

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Added by Michael Keany on April 15, 2013 at 10:48am — No Comments

How feeling powerful will make you think better by Annie Murphy Paul

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Added by Michael Keany on April 15, 2013 at 10:42am — No Comments

Are Online College Courses Widening the Achievement Gap?

Are Online College Courses Widening the Achievement Gap?

In this Chronicle of Higher Education article, Jake New reports on a Columbia University study of online courses taken by more than 40,000 community- and technical-college students in Washington state. The researchers found that students who struggled in traditional classrooms had even more difficulty in online courses. “We found that the gap is stronger in the underrepresented and…

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Added by Michael Keany on April 14, 2013 at 6:38pm — No Comments

Teachers: Will We Ever Learn

NY Times

April 12, 2013

Teachers: Will We Ever Learn?

By JAL MEHTA

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.



IN April 1983, a federal commission warned in a famous report, “A Nation at Risk,” that American education was a “rising tide of mediocrity.” The alarm it sounded about declining competitiveness touched off a tidal wave of reforms: state standards, charter schools, alternative teacher-certification programs, more money, more test-based “accountability” and, since 2001, two big… Continue

Added by Michael Keany on April 13, 2013 at 8:50am — No Comments

What teachers need and reformers ignore: time to collaborate By Linda Darling-Hammond



What teachers need and reformers ignore: time to collaborate



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Added by Michael Keany on April 12, 2013 at 1:20pm — No Comments

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