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Tom Brady vs. Eli Manning: Who’s smarter?
February 05, 2012 10:15 
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Even NFL teams use a standardized test to assess whether athletes are smart enough to draft. And given that today is the Super Bowl pitting the New York Giants against the New England Patriots, did Pats quarterback Tom Brady or Giants quarterback...
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How real school reform should look (or explaining water to a fish)
February 04, 2012 09:00
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This was written by Marion Brady, veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum designer and author. This first appeared on truth-out.org . By Marion Brady Imagine the present corporately promoted education reform effort as a truck, its tires nearly...
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Criticizing (common criticisms of) praise
February 03, 2012 10:08
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This was written by Alfie Kohn, the author of 12 books about education and human behavior, including The Schools Our Children Deserve, The Homework Myth, and Feel-Bad Education . . . And Other Contrarian Essays on Children & Schooling. He lives...
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DCPS fires principal forced out of Dallas school (updated)
February 03, 2012 03:30
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Update: D.C. schools strengthening hiring process, more details D.C. school officials have now fired a principal they had...
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Value-added teacher evaluation goes on trial — literally
February 02, 2012 11:00
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This was written by David B. Cohen, who has been a teacher since 1993 and is in his 13th year of teaching in California public high schools. He is National Board Certified, and is associate director of the Accomplished California Teachers...
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Ellen DeGeneres: Public education’s new funding stream
February 02, 2012 04:11
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Ellen DeGeneres just hosted on her television show a teacher from a Pennsylvania public school district that ran out of money — prompting unionized teachers to vote to work without pay — and handed her a $100,000 check for her school. Read...
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Does merit pay really increase teacher retention?
February 01, 2012 11:30
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This was written by Eleanor Fulbeck, who has a doctorate in education policy from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Here she explains that the evidence on whether merit...
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New D.C. principal’s termination letter from Dallas
February 01, 2012 04:58
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A 2011 letter recommending the termination of a Dallas school principal who was recently hired by D.C. Public Schools accused her of “unethical and unlawful conduct.” It said that she directed some teachers not to teach science, music and...
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Does Obama understand Race to the Top? — Ravitch
January 31, 2012 10:24
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This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Deborah Meier on the Education Week website. Ravitch and Meier exchange letters about what matters most in education. Ravitch, a...
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College admits inflating SAT scores to boost ranking
January 31, 2012 05:07
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A California college has admitted that one of its officials inflated its SAT scores for six years to boost the school’s place in annual college rankings. The president of Claremont McKenna, a small private liberal arts school in Claremont,...
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