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SOTU and community colleges

A significant part of President Obama’s Second State of the Union (SOTU) address dealt with education. Already flagged as the &ldquo...
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Sunday, April 11 is Holocaust Remembrance Day: Links to Lessons and Classroom Activities

Sunday, April 11 marks the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. In Hebrew, Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom Hashoah. When the actual...
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New Name for No Child Left Behind but Will There Be a Difference

It appears the federal government will be re-branding the primary federal education funding source. No Child Left Behind (NCLB), a misnomer at best...
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Obama official agrees with criticism of Race to the Top

Chicago education activist/blogger Mike Klonsky alerts readers to an amazing-sounding broadcast discrediting the Race to the Top Obama...
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A sharp-eyed press view of Schwarzenegger and charter schools

This article is spreading around the blogosphere because it's such a striking departure from the usual trusting and unquestioning tone of the...
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State legislators' organization urges feds not to tie state aid to charter school policy

The Education Committee of the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has released a strong statement urging the Obama...
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Does Bay Area Rep. George Miller support harming Calif. schools? One blogger thinks so

The Fordham Institute, a right-leaning education think tank, claims that the Obama administration’s Race to the Top program for schools aims...
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Accelerated Reader intervention races to the forefront

On February 17, 2009 President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). This is attached to the Race to the...
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A Modest Proposal

  • teacher cerficiation
  • November 15, 2011
-By Johnathan Swift (as recorded by me)It is a pity that the outstandingcertification policyjust adopted by the RI Board of Regents does not fully...
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Dept of Education's No Child Left Behind Twitter Chat

  • No Child Left Behind Flexibility
  • September 30, 2011
A Twitter chat session will be hosted by the U.S. Department of Education's Carmel Martin on October 5, 2011 from 4-5 PM ET. In this chat...
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