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Prominent National Education Reformer Making a Home in Nashville | Missouri News Horizon

Prominent National Education Reformer Making a Home in Nashville | Missouri News Horizon

Prominent National Education Reformer Making a Home in Nashville

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One of Tennesssee’s newest residents, who happens to be a rock star of education reform, told an attentive group of southern legislators in Memphis Sunday it’s time to bring back a culture of competitiveness to the nation’s education system.

Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of Washington D.C. schools and founder of StudentsFirst, a

Dean E. Vogel | New CTA President - California Teachers Association

Dean E. Vogel | New CTA President - California Teachers Association

Dean E. Vogel became the new president of CTA on June 26, 2011. Dean has served as CTA's Vice-President and Secretary Treasurer.

TFA founder vs. Diane Ravitch at Aspen Ideas Festival | DeFENSE

TFA founder vs. Diane Ravitch at Aspen Ideas Festival | DeFENSE

TFA founder vs. Diane Ravitch at Aspen Ideas Festival

This is a very interesting discussion between Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System and education historian, and

Teacher cheating, student testing and the great education tradeoff - The Washington Post

Teacher cheating, student testing and the great education tradeoff - The Washington Post

Teacher cheating, student testing and the great education tradeoff

Education reform is a long battle that needs to be waged in the United States.

This piece is part of a leadership roundtable on the right way to approach teacher incentives — with opinion pieces by Duke University behavioral economics professor Dan Ariely, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Howard Gardner, and Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein.

Try this thought experiment. Imagine I told you there was a way to improve student performance on standardized tests by 15 percent over the course of a several years, but it came with the downside that every year a small percentage of students, teachers and principals would almost certainly try to game the system by cheating. Would you take th

Education Writers Association: EWA Research Brief: What Studies Say About Teacher Effectiveness

Education Writers Association: EWA Research Brief: What Studies Say About Teacher Effectiveness

EWA Research Brief: What Studies Say About Teacher Effectiveness

As policymakers and school leaders seek new ways to measure and improve teacher effectiveness, it’s important for journalists and others to understand what is known about the topic so far, and what remains unsettled or unknown. This research brief does not synthesize all the studies in this highly technical field. But it does aim to improve the accuracy and clarity of reporting by exploring what the research says about timely questions surrounding the complex topic of teacher effectiveness.

The brief is organized around several prevailing questions about teacher effectiveness in K-12 education. For each question, we’ve reviewed some of the most-important research, identifying key findings and tension points. (Citations in the text refer to a list of sources in the bibliography.) At the end of each section, we present a bottom-line summary of the research.

Nearly all of the studies cited here rely on the use of student test scores as a proxy for learning, a research practice that remains hotly

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Major execs invested in Hall

ajc.com - By Alan JuddThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionIn February 2010, some of Atlanta’s top business leaders realized they had a problem.For a decade, they had aligned themselves with Beverly Hall, the sup...
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Gates Foundation launching new CMS PR blitz

obsyourschools.blogspot.com - To those of you concerned about big-money foundations and their influence on local schools, hold onto your hats: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today is announcing a new public relations cam...
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The Washington Teacher: The Controversy of IMPACT

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Washington Teacher: The Controversy of IMPACTThe Controversy of IMPACTby Candi PetersonWritten by Candi Peterson, WTU General Vice PresidentDC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson issued “Y...
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Why I’m Marching Forward [It's The Only Direction]

thejosevilson.com - You’ve got to be wondering what a teacher like me is doing marching against the “reform” trends. For those of you unfamiliar with my background, I graduated with a degree in Computer Science from S...
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Obama, CEOs to Discuss Education

online.wsj.com - BY STEPHANIE BANCHERO President Barack Obama will meet with some of the nation's top CEOs Monday to prod them to invest more heavily in education initiatives, especially those he champions, such as...
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Stand for Children Leader Catches Heat - State EdWatch

blogs.edweek.org - Jonah Edelman, the leader of an emergent education advocacy organization, has apologized for recent remarks in which he brought the behind-the-scenes political activity leading up to the passage of...
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British Police Arrest Rebekah Brooks in Phone Hacking

nytimes.com - LONDON — The British police on Sunday arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s media operations in Britain, according to a former associate at News International, the newspaper ...
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Herman Cain: Communities Should Be Able to Ban Mosques

colorlines.com - Presidential candidate Herman Cain continues to scapegoat Muslims in his bid to become the nation’s second black president. The Tea Party-backed conservative appeared on Fox News Sunday and said th...
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Last Stand for Children First: Why I Won't Be Marching

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Last Stand for Children First: Why I Won't Be MarchingWhy I Won't Be Marchingby Last Stand for ChildrenBy: Monica CaldwellIn May, I was appointed as Last Stand for Children First's East Coast Direc...
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School Tech Connect: Sick of Begging

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Sick of BeggingSick of Beggingby effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)Go read this.I'll be in Washington for S.O.S. because I'm sick of begging members of the Senate, even those amon...
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Alas, Betty White declines invitation to Marine Corps ball

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Two Hollywood stars --Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake -- have accepted invitations to attend one of the Marine Corps birthday balls in November. But Betty White, 89, although flattered, says she c...
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What Are You Reading?

lorijablonski.blogspot.com - The best thing I've read all year is Just Kids, rocker legend Patti Smith's lovely memoir of her deep friendship with iconic and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The two met in New...
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Troubles That Money Can’t Dispel

nytimes.com - “Bury your mistakes,” Rupert Murdoch is fond of saying. But some mistakes don’t stay buried, no matter how much money you throw at them. Time and again in the United States and elsewher...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release July 18, 2011 This afternoon, President Obama held a roundtable discussion on the implementation of financial reform. The Preside...
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