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NATIONAL OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN SUMMIT December 9, 2011 Diane Ravitch
My theme for today: Whose children have been left behind?
Let me tell you a little bit about myself. For many years, I was a strong advocate of testing, accountability, and choice. I worked in three conservative think tanks where these ideas were held sacred. In 1998, I went to Albany, New York, to testify on behalf of charter legislation. At the time I was connected to the conservative Manhattan…
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Class Matters. Why Won’t We Admit It?
By HELEN F. LADD and EDWARD B. FISKE
Durham, N.C.
NY Times
NO one seriously disputes the fact that students from disadvantaged households perform less well in school, on average, than their peers from more advantaged backgrounds. But rather than confront this fact of life head-on, our policy makers mistakenly continue to reason that, since they cannot change the…
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The Trouble With Homework
By ANNIE MURPHY PAUL
NY Times
Annie Murphy Paul is the author of “Origins" and is at work on a new book about the science of learning.
WHEN you think of America’s students, do you picture overworked, stressed-out children bent under backpacks stuffed with textbooks and worksheets? Or do you call to mind glassy-eyed, empty-headed teenagers sitting before computer screens,…
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More and more employers are using online social networking sites, such as…
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Ravitch: ‘Miracle schools’ not so miraculous after all
This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging…
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After the Garden Is Gone…
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What You Can Do To Support School Libraries In Crisis…
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Needs Improvement List in Serious Need of Improvement
David S. Feller North Merrick UFSD, Superintendent Nassau County Council of School Superintendents’ Special Education Committee, Chairperson November 18, 2011
I write in response to the recent coverage throughout the State regarding the large increase in schools that are on this year's Needs Improvement List. My reaction comes from the…
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How Nations Teach Global Skills
By Anthony Jackson on December 7, 2011
What can American school systems learn from academically high-achieving nations? My Asia Society colleague Heather Singmaster shares four case studies.
By Heather Singmaster
On Monday,…
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Are half of New York’s teachers really ‘not effective?’
By Valerie Strauss
Washington Post
This was written by Carol Corbett Burris, 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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To Boost Learning, Start With Emotional Health
—Steve Braden
By Jane Isaacs Lowe
Ask any teacher to identify these students: The child who should be focusing…
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What’s wrong with parents visiting a school?By Jay Mathews, …
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How to Rescue Education Reform
Gracía Lam
By FREDERICK M. HESS and LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND
Published: December 5, 2011
NY Times
Though the law was initiated and signed by a Republican president, presidential candidates like Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, who once supported…
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Cheating the Gifted?
By Nancy Flanagan on December 2, 2011
It's an argument that seems to bubble up cyclically. It doesn't matter what the hot policy idea du jour is, someone is bound to assert: What we're doing right now does not serve the needs of the gifted!
The question was raised in the…
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