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Teacher Ed Makes a Difference 22 Jul 2010 | 04:19 am
I've been away for a month or so but I thought this item was a good one to come back with. It's from Education Week: Study: Teaching Credentials Still Matter By Debra Viadero --> --> If you liste...
Tests, Arizona, and IFTE 24 Jun 2010 | 04:06 pm
Three items today: There's a frightening post today on Diane Ravitch's Education Week blog. Apparently the view inside the Obama administration is that we need even more tests. NCTE has published a ...
Testing Teachers and National Standards 3 Jun 2010 | 06:23 am
CEE member Peter Smagorinsky has a piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about using test scores to judge teachers. Also, the final draft of the Common Core Standards is now available.
April in Auckland 28 May 2010 | 08:50 am
As some of you know, the CEE Executive Committee has been working over the past couple of years to forge new and better connections to the International Federation for the Teaching of English. No doub...
If Only Every School was a Charter School . . . 25 May 2010 | 04:44 am
The cover article in the Sunday NY Times Magazine continues the media's fixation on charter schools as the solution to everything. Of course they're only following Secretary Duncan's lead. Good rejoin...
Speechless 19 May 2010 | 02:00 am
Here's an alarming piece from The Guardian about what the Texas textbook revisers want to put in and take out. Slavery, for example, is out.
Good News, Bad News 15 May 2010 | 03:22 am
In Idaho, the International Baccalaureate program is being called "anti-American." In Arizona, ethnic studies courses are being banned and state superintendent of public instruction Tom Horne says he...
Massive Boycott of Tests! 11 May 2010 | 03:03 pm
In England.
That Old Detroit Perfume 8 May 2010 | 01:38 am
Nancy Flanagan writes about Detroit, lay-offs, and Teach for America on her blog at Education Week. Scene: Last fall, at the MI Association of Public School Academies conference. A panel featuring an...
More on Charters 4 May 2010 | 02:07 am
The big front-page story in the NY Times about charter schools gets more things right than most stories about charters, but they completely buy in to the idea that a "rigidly structured environment" i...
