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Michael F. Shaughnessy - May 28, 2009
Senior Columnist EducationNews.org
John H. Jackson is President and CEO of The Schott Foundation for Public Education. In this interview he responds to questions about “Lost Opportunity: a 50 state Report on the Opportunity to Learn in America”.

Michael F. Shaughnessy - May 26, 2009
Senior Columnist EducationNews.org
Joe, I understand that you have just finished a book about your recent head injury. How did this come about? That is true Michael, and I hope my next statement might give you an idea as to the answer to the question, "how did this come about".

Michael F. Shaughnessy - May 26, 2009
Senior Columnist EducationNews.org
We see mobile learning as a huge and exciting opportunity for educators in the K-12 space and as a result we’ve made significant investments in our R&D to develop an online education platform for mobile devices that allows learning to take place anytime, anywhere.  

Michael F. Shaughnessy - May 21, 2009
Senior Columnist EducationNews.org
Joe, you have just written a super book- "Blue Collar And Proud of it". What prompted you to write this book? Thank you so much, Michael. I decided to write the book because I hope that it will help teens and students out there. I struggled a lot as a student and in high school I felt worthless because I didn’t want to go to college.

Michael F. Shaughnessy - May 21, 2009
Senior Columnist EducationNews.org

Robbie, you recently wrote a book about children with handicaps/exceptionalities/disabilities. First of all, what term do YOU prefer and why? What I wrote about are disorders -- physical, developmental, neurobiological and psychological disorders. The terms you used describe the manifestations of these disordersare exceptional abilities.

Michael F. Shaughnessy - May 20, 2008
Senior Columnist EducationNews.org
In this interview, he responds to some critical questions about Response to Intervention and the difficulties in implementation.

Michael F. Shaughnessy - May 20, 2009
Senior Columnist EducationNews.org
Why write a book of this nature? We wrote “Unlock Your Educational Potential” to help students succeed to their fullest potential in the educational system. Students are continually struggling in school--they are haphazardly going through it without a road map.

Michael F. Shaughnessy - May 20, 2008
Senior Columnist EducationNews.org
Jeff, there has been a lot of talk about “response to intervention” or “response to instruction” as some call it. When, and where did this start and how did it come about?Response to Intervention (RTI) came about initially in response to the over-identification of special education students

Michael F. Shaughnessy - May 19, 2008
Senior Columnist EducationNews.org
We are aggressively transforming how we recruit, train, and deploy language within the Department.  Being able to operate in foreign lands is essential to our mission—not just in military operations, but for humanitarian missions, building alliances with partners, and interacting with foreign leaders.  

Michael F. Shaughnessy - May 19, 2009
Senior Columnist EducationNews.org

Nile Stanley and Brett Dillingham are the authors of Performance Literacy through Storytelling published this year (2009) in Gainesville, Florida from Maupin House Publishing. In this interview they respond to questions about their book and their methods.