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What to Expect from the "Common Core" Curriculum NPR talk show with Michael Cohen
8.30.10 - Students head back to class this fall with a fundamentally different, yet strikingly similar, curriculum. This summer, more than 30 states adopted the Common Core Standards, a set of academic requirements in English and math that experts say will prepare students better for college and careers. But questions remain about the quality of the curriculum. We explore the standards, and look at what changes parents and students can expect.
Books are better without pages
8.30.10 - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Kindle owners buy twice as many books as non-Kindle owners. Just one of the many signs that while the paper book is dead, the narrative will live on. ...
It’s Easier to Pick a Good Teacher than to Train One: Familiar and New Results on the Correlates of Teacher Effectiveness
8.29.10 - Neither holding a college major in education nor acquiring a master’s degree is correlated with elementary and middle school teaching effectiveness, regardless of the university at which the degree was earned. ...
Connecting Schools to the World of Work
8.28.10 - Martin Haberman - The media remind us daily that the fundamental source of terrorism and instability is high and continuous unemployment. We are bombarded with images of males of all ages engaged in demonstrations, protests and various forms of violence. ...
An Interview with Rae Pica: BAM!
8.27.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - BAM is an acronym for “body and mind.” It began as an abbreviation for my online radio program, “Body, Mind and Child” and has since become the name of our network. BAM Radio Network has grown from a single program to the world’s largest education radio network online....
Why Young Black Males Are Not Graduating High School
8.24.10 - Janice Shaw Crouse - A new report from the Schott Foundation reveals that only 47 percent of black male students earn a high school diploma on time. Ironically, this report came out shortly after Judge Vaughn Walker ruled regarding Proposition 8 in California. If the statements on which Judge Walker based his ruling are "facts," how do we explain what is happening educationally to boys in the black community where a large majority are growing up without fathers?...Recovery Act Recipient Reports Database
12.4.09 - The Recovery tab of FedSpending.org allows searching of over 160,000 reports from recipients of almost $159 billion in contracts, grants, and loans awarded ...
The Timing of the National Takeover of the Public Schools
12.5.09 - Donna Garner - In my mind, anyone who thinks the U. S. Dept. of Ed. Is not heavily guiding the development of the ...
Texas Education Law Earns D From National Reform Group
12.7.09 - WASHINGTON, DC - Texas’s charter school law is one of the nation's weakest, according to a study released today by the national nonprofit ...
EFCA: Keep Up the Fight
12.7.09 - Ron Isaac - If workers keep their mouths shut, their noses clean and stop busting chops and bucking their bosses, they will, if ...
Pride and Prejudice: Chesterfield County Public Schools Real Core
12.7.09 - Kandise Lucas, Ph.D. - Jane Austen’s epic novel, “Pride and Prejudice”, documents the conflicts regarding morality, equality, class, and educational opportunity as it relates ...
Pride and Prejudice: Chesterfield County Public School’s Real Core
12.7.09 - Kandise Lucas, Ph.D. - Jane Austen’s epic novel, “Pride and Prejudice”, documents the conflicts regarding morality, equality, class, and educational opportunity as it relates ...
Texas Education Law Earns D From National Reform Group
12.7.09 - WASHINGTON, DC - Texas’s charter school law is one of the nation's weakest, according to a study released today by the national nonprofit ...
Helping Mexico Help Itself
12.10.09 - Shepard Barbash - A more prosperous, democratic southern neighbor would reduce crime and illegal immigration. ...
College Students Who Cant Do Math Or Read Well
12.10.09 - By Sandra Stotsky and Ze'ev Wurman - Every year seems to produce a burst of attention to a particular crisis in education. In ...
FIRE Report: 88 Percent of Texas Colleges Restrict Free Speech
12.11.09 - PHILADELPHIA, December 10, 2009—Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) releases its 2010 report on campus speech codes, revealing that for ...
An Interview with Phil Mason: The Truth, the Whole Truth, and.....the Facts?
8.20.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Am I just trashing reputations, because it’s the fashionable thing to do? No, and I haven’t written this with that purpose in mind. I want people who read this to come away with a renewed interest in their history...
PSYCHIATRY’S CLAIM MENTAL ILLNESSES/DISEASES ARE REAL
8.17.10 - Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD - On a recent Charlie Rose show, The Mentally Ill Brain, June 22, 2010, Columbia University psychiatrist, Jeffrey Lieberman showed the public brain scans of a patient diagnosed “schizophrenic,” showing enlarged ventricles (spaces filled with cerebrospinal fluid within the brain), ...
Houston ISD Student Achievement Document
8.15.10 - This particular document has the ability to make it possible for Houston ISD to become the best School District in the U.S. ...
Alzheimer’s Families and Professional Caregivers — The Need for Confidence-Building
8.15.10 - Robert Oliphant - Can anyone deny that over half of our over-fifty Americans are right now worrying about a parent or grandparent who may need professional care as an Alzheimer’s dementia patient? ...- The Bill of Rights Institute Celebrates Constitution Day, September 17, 2010 with Free Resources for Teachers
- Education Reform: How Important Are Principals?
- Is Race to the Top Prompting a Rush to Judgment on Charter Schools?
- Autopsy of a Turnaround District
- Jeanne Allen: Los Angeles Times Report Confirms Need to Base Teacher Contracts, Pay on Performance
- TOP STUDENT ACHIEVERS DEFY “THE NORM” 20 Students Named 2010 Davidson Fellows and Receive $50,000, $25,000 and $10,000 Scholarships
- An Interview with Lea Hyvarinen: Conference in Dortmund, Germany
- National community groups critical of Obama education reforms, call for boosting parent involvement
- Steve Peha Offers An Alternate History on the Reading Crisis
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- How the U.S. News & World Report College Rankings Are Destroying Higher Education
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- Senators Exaggerate Number of Teachers’ Jobs in Jeopardy
- Lynne Cheney Group Gives UC Berkeley, Yale An 'F' In Education
- The New Orleans School Choice Experiment
- Administrative Bloat at American Universities: The Real Reason for High Costs in Higher Education
- The effect of testing on student achievement: Meta-analyses and summary of the research
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