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Education, Technology, and Growth Freakonomics Blog
Harvard
economists Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz have an excellent new book
entitled The Race Between Education and Technology.
What's Next? English-Only Commencement Speeches?
LTL
School
officials in Terrebonne Parish in Louisiana are considering barring
students from speaking a foreign language during commencement speeches.
LA Supt. Brewer: Please Let Me "Kick Some Ass" DFER
Add
Los Angeles Unified Superintendent David Brewer to the shockingly long
list of American school leaders who once believed that they were in
charge of their schools, only to have cold water/reality dumped on
their heads.
Should more students repeat a grade?
AJC
A
story in Sunday’s paper revealed few students were held back after
failing the parts of the Criterion- Referenced Competency Tests kids
must pass for promotion.
Teacher banned for using 'Freedom Writers' book Detention Slip
149 out of 150 parents signed a permission slip to have the book taught.
Federal Education Appropriations, Pending Ed Policy Watch
It's appropriations time on Capitol Hill.
The Amityville liberal Joanne Jacobs
A
second-grade white girl’s “N the N-word” T-shirt was a “distraction” at
her mostly nonwhite school, said the principal, who made Jaiden Haber
change.