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Bush Announces "Good News," But Doesn't Mention Bad News The Hoff
What he didn't mention was Reading First.
Who Knew He Could Sing? Alyson Klein
For someone who just a few years ago seemed pretty skeptical of
multiple measures, Miller was enthusiastic, noting that colleges "are
asking for portfolios" from applicants, not just test scores.
A New Player Thomas Toch
To help frame the
conversation, the institute's Allison Armour-Garb compiled an array of
new ideas in a report titled "Intergovernmental Approaches for
Strengthening K-12 Accountability Systems."
Laptopmania Teaching Generation Z [NEW!]
Seeing
that we’ve had our twenty wireless laptops running for the whole eleven
week term in the four upper primary classrooms, it is a good time to
review the program and make some observations.
It's May Day: Do you know where your children are? School Me.
We
got a call at home last night from L.A. Unified Supt. David Brewer --
one of those messages that must have gone out to hundreds of thousands
of families. He called to talk about the possibility of students
"ditching."
It’s a landmark day. One year ago today this site launched, and one year ago today I wrote my first post for what was then known as the HeadFirst blog about a new report “depolarizing the teacher pay debate.”
Middle-class teens and Leopold II Joanne Jacobs
Middle-class teens may be rotten to their parents but not to other adults, notes Brian Micklethwait. Why? The difference in behavior is explained by the fact that the parents are defenseless against their own teenagers.
