October 2011
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Pizzas and Pessimism →
The disconnect between the seriousness of our angst and the silliness of our politics — between how big our problems are and how hopeless or just plain stuck the people who are supposed to address them seem — defies belief.
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Clearing Up Some Confusion About the New Federal... →
On Wednesday, President Obama introduced two changes to the federal student loan program that could affect several million borrowers. The broad outlines of his plans to encourage loanconsolidation and assist people who are struggling financially are reasonably clear.
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Critics See ‘Chilling Effect’ in Alabama... →
The champions of Alabama’s far-reaching immigration law have said that it is intended to drive illegal immigrants from the state by making every aspect of their life difficult. But they have taken a very different tone when it comes to the part of the law concerning schools.
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Opting out in protest →
angrylittledad:
A movement for students to opt out of standardized testing as a form of protest.
Very interesting.
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“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time...”
– Oscar Wilde
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What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? →
The most critical missing piece, Randolph explained as we sat in his office last fall, is character — those essential traits of mind and habit that were drilled into him at boarding school in England and that also have deep roots in American history. “Whether it’s the pioneer in the Conestoga wagon or someone coming here in the 1920s from southern Italy, there was this idea in America that if you...
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Senate Panel Approves Bill That Rewrites Education... →
Legislation rewriting the No Child Left Behind education law finally gained traction this week, and the Senate Democrat whose committee passed the bill said on Friday that progress became possible because lawmakers were irritated by the Obama administration’s offering states waivers to the law’s key provisions.
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How To Read Moby Dick →
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Unpaid student loans top $1 trillion →
infoneer-pulse:
Giving validation to Occupy Wall Street protests over the increasing burdens of student debt, a new report indicates that the total amount of outstanding student loans this year will exceed $1 trillion for the first time.
In addition, the amount of student loans taken out last year was greater than $100 billion, another new record, according to USA Today, citing the Federal...
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Currently Reading...
Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year by Esme Raji Codell
recommended by my school psychologist
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Letters to Wendy: Preservice Teachers React to...
Huffington Post March 7 , 2011
In the face of prevailing education reforms, is what I do important? Seriously. As a teacher educator, pre-service teachers spend their entire senior year with me. In addition to classes, they do two full days in an elementary school in the fall and then transition to five days, essentially full time, in another elementary school in the spring. They get roughly...
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Is the state of the literature world getting you... →
aquabooks: 52books:
Seriously, you can. He said so himself:
Nothing has changed! The written word—the love of it and the power of the written word—it hasn’t changed. It’s a matter of fostering it, fertilizing it, not giving up on it, and having faith. Don’t get down.
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PAY TEACHERS MORE. →
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In Honor of Teachers →
Since it’s back-to-school season across the country, I wanted to celebrate a group that is often maligned: teachers. Like so many others, it was a teacher who changed the direction of my life, and to whom I’m forever indebted.
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Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries: Talking with... →
A new documentary, narrated by Matt Damon and based on a book by Dave Eggers and Nínive Calegari, shows another facet of the troubles teachers in the US face.
Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don't get it →
(CNN) — Like the spokesmen for Arab dictators feigning bewilderment over protesters’ demands, mainstream television news reporters finally training their attention on the growing Occupy Wall Street protest movement seem determined to cast it as the random, silly blather of an ungrateful and lazy generation of weirdos. They couldn’t be more wrong and, as time will tell, may eventually be forced to...
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GOP Attacks on Education →
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Occupy Education →
closing the achievement gap where it counts - early education
