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Berkeley High School: New Principal sought to fill gap

Berkeley High School parents, teachers and community met recently to look to the future of Berkeley High as impacted by the choice of a new...
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Roald Dahl's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" a great read...share it in the classroom before the Movie Nov 13

Fantastic Mr. Fox was written by Roald Dahl in 1970, but its humor, charm and lessons are timeless. This is a fun read-aloud, full of surprises and...
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New Race to the Top Competition proposal to spend $350 million to process data

While the premise behind the No Child Left Behind Act is valid I’m not a big fan of the way it was drafted and implemented. I am not a big...
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Spooktacular classroom reading for Halloween: Cinderhazel by Deborah Nourse Lattimore

Great reading instruction is a combination of phonics/published series approach and literature based whole language instruction. Literature-based...
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Standards through literature: Louis Sachar "Dogs Don't Tell Jokes"

Teaching lessons through literature is an engaging way for students to learn important content standards while discovering the joy of reading....
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Website of Promising Practices released by Jack O'Connell to help close the Achievement Gap

The current push in California educational practices is to bridge what has been labeled as the Achievement Gap. The achievement gap is defined as...
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Hitler Finds Out Obama Will Address School Children

The Fuhrer is furious...
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The achievement gap has narrowed -- is that glass half-empty or half-full?

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows a long-term trend of significant narrowing of the achievement gap between white...
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No 'soft bigotry of low expectations' for dentists, doctors, police either

From The Eggplant: (on Susan Ohanian's blog)Obama Announces NTLB, NPLB, and NILB: Dentists, Doctors, and Policemen to be Held AccountableAnother...
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The heart of the education crisis: the 'incarcerated class'?

I’ve asked the inflammatory question before:Why are so many black boys disrupting class? The reason is not, of course, that African-American...
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