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Educational Budget Cuts: Unconscionable -- and Unconstitutional
2.9.10 - Michael Rebell - Children's constitutional right to education is not negotiable. Belts can be tightened in hard times, but only in ways that ensure all children are prepared to work, vote and live in our modern society. ...

Inequality is not a social illness to be 'cured'
2.9.10 - Their case is not evidence-based, but evidence-decorated. It starts with the unargued assumption that inequality is the cause of almost every misery, and then seeks, often interestingly but certainly not scientifically, to illustrate its point.

Why Do Supporters of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Insist Only They Are Right?
The history of mathematics education in the United States is a complex one, with long-running philosophical conflicts among various groups.

Hidden (and Not-So-Hidden) New Threats to Faculty Governance
2..7.10 - Jan H. Blits - Faculty governance has been under serious attack across the country in recent years. Some of the threats are obvious; others are not.

Future of Public Universities
There are ample reasons to be concerned about the adequacy of future funding for public research universities....

Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education
2.7.10 - Brookings - Education choice exercises a powerful pull on parents of school children: Twenty-four percent report that they moved to their current neighborhood so their children could attend their current school;

New Research Report on Learning Progressions in Science
The Center on Continuous Instructional Improvement (CCII) is currently assessing, synthesizing and disseminating findings from research on learning progressions in science, mathematics, and literacy, and promoting and supporting further...

Federal Control of Education On Steroids
2.7.10 - Karen R. Effrem, MD - Without the slightest bit of legislative discussion in either chamber, the Obama administration quietly slipped $4.35 billion of education funding into the stimulus

Are the Right People Becoming Teachers? The Implications of Teacher Surveys
2.5.10 - Martin Haberman - The criteria for deciding whether a job of work is a profession are not all met by

 

 

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Today's EducationNews 2.9.10

National  

Q&A: College gender gap has far-reaching consequences
2.9.10 - Mary Beth Marklein - As colleges nationwide review freshman applications over the next several weeks, many will...

Study: One in three Colorado graduates lag in college
2.9.10 - About one in three first-year college students needs remedial help in at least one core subject, according to an...

CAIR: Injured Texas Muslim Student Says He Did Report Bullying
2.9.10 - Muslim civil rights group calls for probe of school's actions prior to assault...

Testing teachers
Whether teachers should earn their paychecks based on student test scores, popularity or their college degree and years of experience is drawing heated debate between lawmakers and educators. ...

Autism odds rise with older moms
A woman's chance of having a child with autism increases substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested,... ...

'Gays' pledge to 'pursue every method' of protesting flyers for school students
A campaign has been launched in Montgomery County, Md., to classify the speech of advocates for people...

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Blogs

Twenty [Unrelated] Questions
2.8.10 - Sonam Shahani - I hear that new teachers consistently get sick during their first experience in the classroom. Interesting - can teaching literally make you sick?

Building on Rapport in High School
2.8.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D. - A high school teacher had improved his students’ promptness by applying a consequence for being late....

A Second-Grader’s Emotional Needs
2.6.10. - John Jensen, Ph.D. - A second grade teacher has had ongoing challenges with a bright, energetic, wilful, and occasionally defiant girl who sometimes doesn’t get along with other students. Following was my note to her

 

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International

 

Christian teacher 'forced out' after complaining Muslim pupils praised 9/11 hijackers 'as heroes'
A Christian teacher yesterday claimed he was forced out of his job after complaining that Muslim pupils as young as eight hailed the September 11 hijackers as heroes....

Schoolgirls aged just ten falling pregnant as underage pregnancies continue to rise
Girls as young as ten are falling pregnant, shocking new figures have revealed.

 

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Environmental News

Climate makes money move in mysterious ways
2.7.10 - The British Government has been pouring millions of pounds into 'climate-related' projects all over the world, says Christopher Booker.

Global warming con artists
The most severe snowstorm in history blowing through Washington D.C. is nature's last laugh at Al Gore's global warming hoax.

Climate science: Truth and tribalism
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It is the mantra of the courtroom, but it is also the motivating ideal of good science

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Commentaries

An Interview with Shoshana Milgram Knapp: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand Lives On.
2.9.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - The seminar examines the development of her philosophy through the course of her colorful and heroic life, including a Russian childhood blighted by the Bolshevik Revolution; her experiences as a Broadway playwright
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An Interview with Paul Kimmelman: The School Leadership Triangle
2.9.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Paul, in your book, you discuss the thinking of these policy makers in Washington and at the state level

An Interview with Neeru Khosla of CK-12 Digital Textbooks
2.9.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - CK-12 Foundation provides free, standards-aligned, digital content for viewing and sharing online and print to K-12 teachers and their students in the U.S. and around the world.

An Interview with Jackson Toby: Is everyone ENTITLED to a College Degree or Loan?
2.8.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Professor Toby, in your recent book, you seem to indicate that the college degree is being lowered in value due to several factors.

TribBlog: States Echoing Texas on National Standards
2.6.10 - Not long after Texas turned down between $350 to $700 million in federal Race to the Top education grants

AN INTERVIEW WITH JAY P. GREENE: So Much for the Evidence
2.5.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - It's strange that President Obama and Secretary of Education Duncan are urging that we set much higher (but ill-defined) standards, while calling for the elimination of the goal of the lower standard of basic proficiency by 2014.

An Interview with Mark Goulston: Just Listen
2.5.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - More people talk than listen and I wrote the book because I also noticed a deep ache in people when they're talking to not be tuned out, to not be figured out (unless they're asking for advice), but to be understood and when possible to "feel felt." ...

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Breaking @ Business @ Political News

Disgraced former Obama czar reemerges
1.30.10 - Van Jones, President Obama's controversial former "green jobs" czar, is slated to address a major environmental forum next week alongside speakers from such major corporations as Microsoft

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China and Google: searching for trouble - part II
Jeffrey Garten - Google’s threat to withdraw from China, on grounds that it has been the object of cyber attacks and censorship, is not the opening salvo in a battle between the future and the past. Rather, it is a battle between two equally plausible visions of the future with initial advantage on the side of China.

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The Great Unemployment Mysterymore
Peter Stern - Apparently it is a mystery that only a Sherlock Holmes or Charlie Chan can solve because President Barack Obama has not fought significantly to bring jobs to hardly-working Americans despite his promises to the American people.

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When Teachers Face Themselves
8.24.09 - Martin Haberman - Teaching is a difficult, complex activity and it is to be expected that reasonable people will be assailed by feelings of  self doubt. "Why am I emotionally drained and physically exhausted?" "Can I really keep doing this?"

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