Duncanisms
Reforming public education
Some form of higher education has to be the goal for every single one of our students....
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INDEX OF DUNCANISMS
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Gerald Bracey tributes
SALF-gate? 49,000 questions for Education Secretary Arne Duncan
The Cincinnati Beacon is the latest paper to pay tribute to Jerry Bracey--and reprint his last column, with full comment on the column and tribute to Bracey. As this wri...
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INDEX OF GERALD BRACEY TRIBUTES
RTTT & NCLB Outrages
Last Bell - Suspended in Seattle - We Stood Up to Unfair Testing
Ohanian Comment: Gee whiz, I don't want to sound bitter here, but the NEA steadfastly opposed the Educator Roundtable Petition to end NCLB. They even did this in print. ...
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INDEX OF RTTT & NCLB OUTRAGES
NCLB In Your Face
Oh, so now you see? Thanks a lot, Diane!
State School News Service School Policy Updates are provided in the interest of informing citizens who care about the Illinois education system on issues of school policy that ...
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Yahoo, Good News!
Never to Old to Raise a Little Hell.
Surely it's unusual to post an obituary as "good news," but this is in tribute to a life well lived. May we all be able to say Never to Old to Raise a Little Hell.
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INDEX OF YAHOO, GOOD NEWS!
Outrage of the Day
Neither Sleet Nor Hail Nor Vomit. . . .
by Tina
You know that you have trained your class to ignore distractions well when someone throws up DURING state testing and no one even flinches and continues with their test...
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INDEX OF OUTRAGES OF THE DAY
Commentaries
Data Warehousing Will Destroy Your Soul
from Our Schools/Our Selves, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Vol. 19, Number 2 (#98), Winter 2010...
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INDEX OF COMMENTARIES
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Quotes
"I bought the thing for a dollar at a stoop sale. It had a sign on it, 'This humidifier doesn't work.' Well, it did work. Only it wasn't a humidifier. It was a dehumidifier."
—Metropolitan Diary in the New York Times
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Outrages
Pink slips at Central Falls part of disturbing trend
Three cheers.
By Annie Winfield, Bruce Marlowe and Alan Canestrari
As Central Falls goes . . . so too do the hopes of our state's studen...
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INDEX OF FEATURED OUTRAGES
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Sarah's Notes
Baaaaccckkkk To School
Ohanian Comment: For a glorious combination of sound and sight and wonderful teaching, read A Day in the Life for Septemb...
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INDEX OF SARAH'S NOTES
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Stupid Test Items
California History-Social Science Standards Test
A student teacher comments: The correct answer was a). That the word relocated in a question could possibly be paired with an answer that has freedom in it is a...
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Research that Counts
The Keys to a Successful Education System
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<span class="red"><b>Mark Crockett Comment:</b>
Kevin Huffman won the <i>Post's</i> next great pundit contest. A pundit is an expert, a learned pe...
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INDEX OF RESEARCH THAT COUNTS
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The Eggplant
Sure-fire Budget fix
by Dan Bernstein
News Of The Near Future:
After months of delaying the inevitable, all Riverside County school districts have now closed their budget gaps by adoptin...
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WOO News
Congratulations, WOO!
Ohanian Comment: The hometown newspaper that has studiously ignored the WOO finally pays tribute to accomplishment. On July 29, The WOO held its 2006 GED Graduation & St...
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Cartoon
Ed Reform
By Dan Wasserman, March 8, 2010
INDEX OF CARTOONS
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NCLB Cartoon
It's me, Arne.
Hey there, Business Roundtable. Put away your big guns. It's me, Arne. I've given you everything you asked for.
INDEX OF NCLB CARTOONS
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