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Clifton Elementary closing, Fairfax parents organize bid for new charter school
June 19, 2011 06:10 
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With the clock ticking down to the last last day of school at Clifton Elementary on Tuesday, a group of community leaders is drawing up plans for what would be Fairfax County’s first charter school. Now that the Virginia Supreme Court has upheld...
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D.C. schools aim for selectivity by requiring teaching candidates to give tryout lessons
June 18, 2011 04:07
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Tereasa Sowers, a middle school math teacher for six years, knew the lesson cold. She’d walked hundreds of students through solving systems of linear equations. It was the 360-degree digital camera planted at the front of the classroom that she...
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And now a new standardized testing scandal
June 18, 2011 01:17
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I can’t get away from it. Even on vacation, on a small island off the west coast of Florida, the local news tells me about a cheating scandal on the state’s main standardized test. According to various Florida media outlets, 14 counties have...
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Homework: The useful and the useless
June 17, 2011 09:41
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We’ve come a long way from the 1930s, when the American Child Health Association put homework next to child labor as a leading cause of child deaths from tuberculosis and heart disease. Yet the value — or lack thereof — of homework never...
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College World Series fans adjust to sleek new stadium in Omaha
June 17, 2011 05:43
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OMAHA For more than 60 years, college baseball’s annual champion was decided in a folksy stadium in the south part of town. It’s a proudly blue-collar neighborhood, a place where residents charge 20...
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The 12 qualities great teachers share
June 17, 2011 03:00
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It’s the question of the year: What makes a great teacher? Here’s one effort to sort out the qualities that all great teachers have. I suspect that any effort to create a definitive list is doomed to fail because great teachers are as different...
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Kaya Henderson coasting to confirmation as D.C. schools chancellor
June 16, 2011 08:06
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Acting Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson coasted through her D.C. Council confirmation hearing Thursday, winning pledges of support that assure her appointment as leader of the city’s public schools. Seven of the council’s 13 members —...
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Joel Klein vs. those status quo apologists
June 16, 2011 05:00
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-- This was written by Aaron Pallas, professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. It appeared on the Sociological Eye on Education blog that he wrotes for The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, non-partisan...
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Academic skills: Important ‘only if they make us more human’
June 16, 2011 03:00
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This is a speech given by early childhood development expert Nancy Carlsson-Paige, a professor of education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Ma., when she won the Embracing the Legacy Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps for...
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Henderson witness list covers friend and foe
June 15, 2011 08:16
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The witness list for Acting Chancellor of D.C. Schools Kaya Henderson’s confirmation hearing Thursday is chock-a-block with friendlies and critics. Thirty-seven speakers are teed up to address a range of concerns beginning at 11 a.m., including...
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