Commentaries
Obligatory Cute Little Kids Reciting Poetry
I have some regrets that memorizing poems is a lost art, but seeing some of the YouTube performances below rather smothers that regret. ...
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Duncanisms
Education secretary Arne Duncan: headmaster of US school reform
I know what's possible. This isn't theory for me.... No one can tell me what kids can't do.
---Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 30...
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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
Teachers for Coverups
The Subhead here is: The Wall Street Journal applauds the L.A. Times's decision to publish evaluations of public school teachers.
I like this reader observat...
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INDEX OF RTTT & NCLB OUTRAGES
NCLB In Your Face
Ask About the Administration's Suggestions to Revise the ESEA
You can borrow Stephen Krashen's fine questions for the Administration. Send them in! Use them for newspaper op eds. Share them with your PTA.
by Kent Will...
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Yahoo, Good News!
Balloons Invade Berkeley for Oct. 7th Strike!
This agitation is good news.
Join.
Conduct a Freedom School on Oct. 7.
And get a good idea from the short video.
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INDEX OF YAHOO, GOOD NEWS!
Outrage of the Day
High Poverty Rates or Not, All School Districts in the Texas 28th Congressional District Lose Title I Funds to Number Weighting
If you can stand to read about more injustice dished out by the Feds--with OUR tax dollars--go to the Formula Fairness w...
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INDEX OF OUTRAGES OF THE DAY
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Quotes
"A fundamental aim of education is to organize schools, classrooms and our own performances as teachers in order to help children acquire the capacity for significant choice. Learning is really a process of choice. If children are deprived of significant choice in their daily activities in school, if all their choices are made for them, then the most important thing that education is concerned with is simply being bypassed."
—David Hawkins,
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Outrages
Declining Infrastructure, Declining Civilization
Our corporate politicos have money for bombs but not for bridges. We live in a war economy.
For their 10th-anniversary issue, Chronicle Review asked asked scholars a...
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INDEX OF FEATURED OUTRAGES
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Sarah's Notes
Mrs. Puglisi's 100 National Standards
by Sarah Puglisi
I just read a nice editorial about HOW RELIEVED a newspaper is if we have National Standards.
In the New York Times, you can read it
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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
Michigan neo-liberalism: creating the material conditions for privatization
I have had personal experience with the K-12 curriculum. Here is a list of topics for the K-12 history curriculu...
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INDEX OF RESEARCH THAT COUNTS
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The Eggplant
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Seeking Partnership with Twitter
Press Release
As a precursor to the launch of Tweet Tweet Publishing, Inc., the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has entered negotiations with Twitter to develop a new state-of...
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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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