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Why Great Teachers Aren't Enough (POLL)

In the early nineteen-sixties Herbert Kohl graduated from Harvard University and, in a fit of Kennedyesque idealism, became a sixth grade teacher in Harlem.   Not many years later he wrote about his...

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teaching, teaching educational leaders, leading school reform

I am considering a career change. I have been a college teacher in a business school for 15 years, and I am not convinced that I want to keep doing what I have been doing for the next 10, 15, or 25...

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An Open Letter to Governor Rendell

An open letter to Ed Rendell, Governor of Pennsylvania, originally posted on MonkeyPundit.com. This letter addresses the Pennsylvania Department of Education's difficulty with the timely processing of...

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Help First Book Spark a Child's Love of Reading

"It seems like a small act, placing a brand new book in the hands of a child," writes Kyle Zimmer, president and CEO of First Book.  "But we know that giving a book is just the beginning of the story."

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Hawaii parents sit-in becomes "the little protest heard round the world"

A tweet from parents sitting-in at Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle's inner sanctum reports that a deputy sheriff shares fries with the kids. Earlier, another deputy issued trespassing citations to seven...

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Obama's Race to the Top: Educational Inequity and Union-Busting, All in One...

If you are in New York,  California, Minnesota or any number of other states, you have been bombarded in recent months by a well-funded campaign against teachers’ unions, all in the name of grabbing a...

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Progressive School Board Candidate Proposes Charterization In SF Bay Area

Admist all of the national and state politics, there's a local California school board race with a twist on educational reform...I'm Rand Wrobel, a candidate for the Alameda, CA Board of Education, and...

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You Can Stop Waiting—I Am Superman!

          Last summer, my daughter and I went to a conference about science.  It was really interesting and we learned a lot.  We were trying to get a handle on the new science standards in Oregon,...

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Out of the Mouths of Babes

Dear Caden's Parents,Your son is a genius.  Yeah, I'm pretty sure they should give him a job at ODE or maybe as an adviser to Arne Duncan.  We're in class and I'm giving them a pep talk because over...

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Respect for teachers - Yes and No

is the title of this widely distributed blog post by Joe Nathan, Director of the Center for School Change at Macalaster College in St. Paul, MN.   He begins by writingI was stunned.  There were more...

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Do You Believe in Miracles?

No, I am not quoting Al Michaels at the end of the Lake Placid Gold Medal Hockey game.  Rather, I am quoting my friend Diane Ravitch, for the title of this important blog postOften we are in education...

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Try turning schools up-side-down

If the media are to be believed, just about everyone is unhappy with public schools as they are—school boards, principals, parents, and politicians. In the face of this disenchantment, there have been...

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CT Gov. Malloy like Gov. Walker

In forty years, since public employees won the right to collectively bargain, NO Connecticut governor has ever proposed banning collective bargaining for a group of public employees.  No Democrat or...

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Meet Missouri's newest education lobbyist- Michelle Rhee

One of the most pernicious lies being spread by those who are opposed to public education is that teachers are in it for themselves and really don't care about students.I have a hard time understanding...

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The Emotional Appeal for Blaming The Teachers

I was disheartened to hear Chris Hayes on C-SPAN say that the educational "reform" movement is "winning the argument." That's not to say they're winning on any factual level, Hayes meant that in terms...

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Rethinking the US Ed System

I was intrigued by the title of this blog piece, “It's Time to Re-Think the U.S. Education System”, by Tammy Erickson for the Harvard Business Review.  When it comes to our education system, I...

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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Obama Privatizes Public Schools: Out Of The Frying...

The battle to privatize education as part of the neoliberal shock doctrine is in full swing--on one side we have a rank and file movement of public school K-12 educators and parents mobilized by the...

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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Brave New World - High Stakes Testing or When a Test...

(This article was co-authored by Diana Zavala, a parent with a 9 year old child in New York City Public Schools who works with Change the Stakes and Geminijen, a member of the Anti-Capitalist Meet-up...

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Education Deform and Class Warfare

Mann, Jefferson, Dewey and others had a very simple view of public education.  To these men, public education in America would be the great equalizer.  It would create a common American culture and an...

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Principal warns parents: ‘Don’t buy the bunk’ about new Common Core tests

That is the title of this post at the Answer Sheet Blog of the Washington Post, run by Valerie Strauss.  The author is Carol Burris, an award-winning principal in Long Island who originally supported...

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