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Whose Fault???
10 hours ago ago from Take CARE! Productions blog
Having been a teacher, blame placed on teacher's unions that view reforms more for how they affect pay and job security than whether they improve student learning is unfair and inflammatory. The accusation by David Davenport in the article Value-added education in the race to the top San Francisco Chronicle , November 29, 2009, is based on the country-wide dispute about using data to help students learn, rather than to evaluate teachers. ...
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16 hours ago ago from EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL
Black Education by Walter E. Williams Detroit's (predominantly black) public schools are the worst in the nation and it takes some doing to be worse than Washington, D.C. Only 3 percent of Detroit's fourth-graders scored proficient on the most recent National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test, sometimes called "The Nation's Report Card." Twenty-eight percent scored basic and 69 percent below basic. "Below basic" is the NAEP ...
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13 hours ago ago from Isle of Beta
Many people, including President Obama, laud South Korea's education system. The people who do are usually looking at results of test scores rather than the experience being had by students. In South Korea, education is not only a business, it is big business. And this business caters to parents. Call it Confucian ideals, call it respect for elders, but many Korean students labor under the thumbs of good ol' mom and pop, driven to ...
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16 hours ago ago from The Frustrated Teacher
Over the Top Six Tips for Winning 'Race to the Top' Money By Yong Zhao I have been reading through the voluminous document published in the Nov. 18, 2009, Federal RegisterRequires Adobe Acrobat Reader, giving the final versions of application guidelines, selection criteria, and priorities for $4 billion in competitive grants under the Race to the Top Fund, the largest education grant program in U.S. history. From news reports, op-ed ...
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12 hours ago ago from Colorado Independent
A December report from the Brookings Institution decries the lack of education coverage in today’s media. According to the report, only 1.4 percent of media coverage in the first nine months of 2009 dealt with education. Moreover, notes the report, reporters are often drawn to the low-hanging fruit, leaving readers with little information about the really key issues, like what or how students should be learning: Of the ...
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