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An Interview with Jessie Poku: Nominee for Award Winning Honor

9.1.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Well, actually as I understand it, I am just a nominee at the current time, but it is an award for those athletes who involve themselves in their community. These are individuals who are putting their community before themselves. It is the Allstate AFCA Award.
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An Interview with Tom Watkins: Educating for a New World

8.27.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Chinese value education and are willing to work hard to obtain it! While we complain, Chinese parents send their children to after-school programs to practice the English they learn that day in class. ...
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An Interview with Larisa Shavinina: International Perspectives on Giftedness

Michael F. Shaughnessy - 11.29.09Senior Columnist EducationNews.orgI have always had an impression that the existing publications in the area did not cover all facets of giftedness and ...
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An Interview with Marybeth Kelly: NRCCUA

Michael F. Shaughnessy - 11.29.09Senior Columnist EducationNews.orgNRCCUA operates the nation’s largest college and career planning program, My College Options®.  NRCCUA is a non-profit educational research organization based ...
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An Interview with Rich Stokes: About AdGooroo

Michael F. Shaughnessy - 12.1.09Senior Columnist EducationNews.orgSEM Insight is a keyword tracking tool that gives you visibility into any advertiser’s search marketing campaign. ...
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An Interview with Heather Gilbert: Adult Literacy in the U.S.

Michael F. Shaughnessy - 12.1.09Senior Columnist EducationNews.orgPromoting students from grade to grade without requiring the standard achievements can certainly lead to a great number of functionally illiterate ...
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An Interview with Michael Norcia: Scholarship Winner

Michael F. Shaughnessy - 12.1.09Senior Columnist EducationNews.orgThe STEM competition is a test of knowledge in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Two tests are taken, which narrow the ...
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An Interview with H.K. Gilbert: Adult Literacy in the U.S.

Michael F. Shaughnessy - 12.1.09Senior Columnist EducationNews.orgPromoting students from grade to grade without requiring the standard achievements can certainly lead to a great number of functionally illiterate ...
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An Interview with Diana Sheets: On Kindle, The Cusp of Dreams, noteworthy fiction, and Sarah Palin, a.k.a. Lethal Weapon 2012

Michael F. Shaughnessy - 12.4.09Senior Columnist EducationNews.orgKindle is the most-widely used e-Book reader in the world. The Kindle store features more than 360,000 books, a number of ...
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An Interview with Graham Haydon: Faith in Education

Michael F. Shaughnessy - 12.7.09Senior Columnist EducationNews.orgSuch controversies are always liable to misunderstanding and confusion because people may use terms such as, ‘autonomy’, ‘indoctrination’ or ‘citizenship’ in ...
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An Interview with Tom Muccia: New HEOA Provisions

Michael F. Shaughnessy - 12.7.09Senior Columnist EducationNews.orgThere are a number of requirements in the new rules regarding emergency notification. ...
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An Interview with Lynda McDonnell: High School Graduation and Writing

Michael F. Shaughnessy - 12.7.09Senior Columnist EducationNews.orgThreeSixty trains teens, particularly low-income and minority teens, who want to learn the skills of journalism and explore this field as ...
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The Glut of Academic Publishing: A Call for a New Culture

8.24.10 - This article will appear in the forthcoming fall issue of Academic Questions (vol. 23, no. 3). A short version of this paper appeared under the title “We Must Stop the Avalanche of Low-Quality Research” in the June 13, 2010 Chronicle of Higher Education....
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An invitation to join Mathematics Education for Peace

8.23.10 - We are an international group of educationalists disturbed by the decline of actual mathematical and scientific understanding of young people, by their increasing acceptance of dishonesty in private and public life, by their lack of respect for each other and their teachers, and by their increasing tendency to support the use of violence to resolve disputes....
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Los Angeles Times Rates Teachers Using Value-Added System: Your Numbers Up

8.22.10 - Alan Haskvitz - One more nail in the coffin of traditional teacher assessment may have been hammered home by two reporters for the Los Angeles Times, Jason Felch and Jason Song. They used existing statistical information in the Los Angeles School District to construct a value-added type of rubric that is based on State standardized tests and how much students improve each year. ...
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Holding Students Accountable for Changing into Their Gym Clothes

8.20.10 - Marci Kanstoroom - Are traditional P.E. classes likely to be an effective tool in fighting obesity? What little research there is finds no association between PE and weight loss and obesity. ...
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'Coffee': challenging misconceptions of Muslims

8.18.10 - Luqman Ali - Negative perceptions of Islam and of Muslims are prevalent today, as reflected in almost all of the recent polls conducted in the UK exploring the relationship between Muslims and wider society. The impact of these perceptions is such that a number of my friends have either changed their names, or are seriously contemplating doing so in the near future. ...
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Too Clever by Half: The Economist Is Bullying Americans into Intellectual Submission

8.16.10 - Robert Oliphant - Our American virus of declining newspaper circulation seems to be sparing The Economist, an international British weekly filled with heavy duty stats and big words, whose American circulation of over a million now snubs the shrinking 600,000 readers of the Los Angeles Times....
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The Brain is NOT Hard-Wired for Speech

8.13.10 - Tom Sticht - As a nation we spend a lot of time and money trying to get children to grow up and become literate adults, but we spend a lot less time and money helping children develop their oral language skills. ...
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Bouthaïna Abdelwahed Abdelsalam - making dreams come true in award-winning rural Egyptian literacy scheme

8.12.10 - A 24-year-old mother of two, Bouthaïna Abdelwahed Abdelsalam is a development leader with the Females for Families programme in Abu-Ashur, Egypt. The Governorate of Ismailia, which runs the programme, has won the 2010 UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy for its individualized, needs-based approach to literacy and development. ...
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An Interview with J.B. Schramm: College Summit

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9.1.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - College Summit is the national organization that helps public schools raise their purpose from high school diplomas to college and career success. We collaborate with principals, teachers and the most influential seniors to put every student on the path to higher education.
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David D. Kirkpatrick image has previously served as President of the Pennsylvania State Education Association; Director of Policy and Legislation for the Association of Pennsylvania State Colleges and University Faculties; Senior Fellow for Teacher Choice at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution in Arlington, Virginia

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