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read and discuss
1) Those in Virginia who receive religious exemptions from enrolling their children in school (public or private) are unique among families in the U.S., in that they do not have to provide any proof...
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trust but verify
An important book on education policy came out earlier this year: When Can You Trust the Experts? How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education by Dan Willingham. This is an important book not for any...
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tricks and treats
1) According to a report issued by the New America Foundation less than two weeks ago, the recent changes to the Income-Based Repayment program for federal student loans will ultimately benefit upper-...
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the invisible straw man
A few weeks ago, I wrote about media coverage of Paul Harris’ recent book Trusting What You’re Told: How Children Learn from Others and the false opposition between social interaction and scientific...
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shaky footing
The evidence from the conventions and the debates is that the Republican education platform is comprised of many proposals and policies that are not supported by empirical evidence, as The Hechinger...
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before you vote
Read this article from NYC Public School Parents. If you’re from Washington State, California, Tennessee, Georgia, Idaho, Arizona, New Jersey, New Orleans, or Bridgeport, CT, read it several times....
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conflicts of pressing interest
1) The Nation reports that, in the most recent and large-scale example of a national trend, wealthy out-of-state donors are sending huge amounts of money to Louisiana for local and state school board...
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title ix, money, and the humane disciplines
Apparently, support for women’s co-curricular sports under Title IX is just a way to take funding away from the hardworking (men’s) sports that actually make a profit and put it toward those (women’s...
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good reads come in threes
1) Cedar Reiner at Cedar’s Digest connects the dots between Barack Obama’s “well-meaning but ultimately naive” service as a Chicago community organizer and his administration’s well-meant but...
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sorry, britain
You’ve leapfrogged yourself to the top of the pile for the worst application of slapdash neoliberal education reform strategies with this report from The Independent. Converting schools with proven...
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stereotype threat and teachers
Stereotype threat was back in the news recently, this time in the context of gender and pursuits in the sciences and math. Research and reporting for the past several decades has consistently uncovered...
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multiple-choice fun
The Progressive posted this multiple-choice quiz by education journalist Susan Ohanian and education professor Stephen Krashen on their site over the weekend. Take it — it’s short. At about the same...
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this week’s reads
are from all over the map, literally and in terms of topic: 1) Rachel Levy at All Things Education weighs in on all the various pieces of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s “education agenda”, including...
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yes. yes. yes.
“A child-care facility that charges market rates that allow workers with unconventional schedules to perform the demanding, round-the-clock tasks of caring for the region’s ill, injured or elderly...
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