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About the Things a Teacher Will Not Tell You
Back in September The Reader's Digest magazine interviewed educators in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota, New York and Texas to get a first approach of what a teacher wouldn't tell you. The article has generated almost 2 hundred comm...
A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Innovation
A recent report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Center for American Progress identifies what it describes as “leaders and laggards” in efforts to reinvent our nation’s public schools. As a backdrop to the federal government’s $4 bil...
The Challenge of Using \'Merit Pay\' to Reward Teachers
I have been reading Barnett Berry latest article. He is the President and CEO of the Center for Teaching Quality and his opinion about merit pay is worth sharing with you folks. Berry refers to Whitmire & Rotherham Teacher Unions commentary on The WS...
An End to Education Reform? by Michael S. Greve
Conservatives were reluctant to trigger a public spat over education with a new administration, but their failure to offer criticism and insist on choice was a mistake.The education "reform" about to emerge from Congress is a perfect disaster. Conser...
The Need for a Moratorium on High-stakes Testing
There is a growing movement in the U.S. to abandon high-stakes tests because they don’t work as anticipated and are costly. I agree, but hope that we don’t throw out the need for accountability along with the high-stakes bathwater.Before No Child...
The "Culture of Poverty" Theory, Applied to the American Education
Lorettaacook's BlogThe role that the education system should be in the game which people live, is to educate them to be aware, critically thinking people know not to accept passively, but the question of knowing how it is taught. Education should be ...
The So Expected Change in the New School Year
I was inspired by this post written by a Philly Teacher, Mary Beth Hertz. School year just started and all Summer fun we had is vanishing to embrace a new collective of new faces, challenges and work. All that time we've spent on Twitter, learning an...
Top 10 N.J. High Schools - Newsweek
In New Jersey the back-to-school day is tomorrow and while I am helping my wife to set up everything around our 7th grader, I though it is a great opportunity to remember what are the choices parents have to enroll their sons in a High School, this y...
Learning Isn't For Nine Months; It's Forever
Jay Mathews of The Washington Post writes "he liked showing up the first day of school with a fresh binder and newly sharpened pencils." as much as today's kids love it, but Mathews also rise concerns: "How would school have turned out for me if I ha...
The Education Unfinished Business Left By Sen. Ted Kennedy
Education WeekSen Edward M. Kennedy, who died Aug. 25 after nearly 47 years in the Senate, left a lot of unfinished business at the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, which he chaired. Though the committee worked on legislation ...
Schools' Overworked IT Staff, Are Seen Unfriendly to Teachers
Jim Moulton has some insights about the internal relationship among school, ITs, teachers and students. In a reflexive post, he quotes three posts where the experiences and data about interaction is evident. The first one is from eSchools News, other...
"Students Who Took All or Part of Their Class Online Performed Better," Says a Study
It's Sunday and Education & Tech usually gets updated on weekdays. But what we have to say today is something we had to postpone for two or three days, given that our schedule was tight, so barely we were able to read feeds and update Twitter.Someone...
Are Obama’s ‘Race to the Top’ Requirements Fair?
National Journal is an online magazine which runs its own Education Blog funded --in part, by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the purpose of creating an educational forum for sharing research, ideas and opinions regarding issues related to c...
Boudreaux: "Merit Pay for Teachers Will Not Result in Better Teaching"
The prospect of higher pay will not prompt teachers to perform better in the classroom, was part of what Economics Prof. Donald J. Boudreaux, wrote to Kathy L. Smith, Chairman of Fairfax County Public Schools, in response to a an article in The Wash...
Why Teach for America and The New Teacher Project Exist
The Quick and the EDIf you stop and think about it, Teach for America (TFA) and The New Teacher Project (TNTP) are well-functioning, non-profit, national human resource departments for schools. They recruit, screen, and hire candidates, all functions...
How to Build a First-Class Educational System for the U.S. History
We always focus on the process of education, talk a lot about technology in and out the classroom but very few times an educator or journalist has the courage to voice his/her concerns about the color of skin or race of children attending American sc...
Duncan Has to Explain Why He Did Hype Inflated Test Scores
The Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago, a supporter of Duncan, revealed its research (pdf doc) results which has key findings about contradictory Chicago schools reports issued by Obama and Duncan. The report's findings are "reminiscen...
White House CTO: Uses of Technology in Pedagogy at Heart of Education Reform
The Journal:"Technology is core and essential to the strategies we are using to reform education." That was the message from both Jim Shelton, assistant deputy secretary for innovation and improvement at the United States Department of Education, and...
Washington: After the First Day on NECC09
As a preamble to what is coming, yesterday started the EdubloggerCon. This unique experience has been organized by Steve Hargadon. The EduBlogger Conference is the 3rd time has been organized for free, and Dr Leigh Zeitz thinks there were 200 attend...
How Technology is Transforming Public Schools
Interesting how Hon. George Miller and The House Education and Labor Committee will be holding a hearing tomorrow, Tuesday, June 16 to examine how technology and innovative education tools are transforming and improving education in America.Full Comm...
Duncan: Teachers Should Be Judged on Student Performance
It has been said that Secretary Duncan was successful with implementation of merit pay in Chicago. However, I would like to ask the Secretary what it should be done with those students who simply don't want to be at school. Teachers and parents both ...
Time to Kill 'No Child Left Behind'
It is too late to tweak NCLB. Seven years after it was signed into law, it is clear that the program deserves to be buried.Diane Ravitch of Education Week wrote a great piece about the No Child Left Behind policy, and how in the long run no even ti...
Impacts of a 2008-2010 Recession in Children's Well Being
The Early Ed Watch Blog:A report released this morning, shows that children's well-being started to decline last year and is expected to dip to its lowest point in 2010, when many economists believe the full impact of the recession will be felt.It pr...
Teachers Afford to Work for Less Money in Exchange of Better Working Conditions
If teachers are so important, why do we treat them like widgets? Public school teachers burn out because of poor working conditions, writes Greg Forster of the Friedman Foundation on Pajamas Media.The study found that public school teachers have -som...
Obama Administration to Cut Funding for the Enhancing Education Through Technology
EETT funds under Economic Recovery Act will flow by July, 2009 and this has many educators disappointed. ETAN is updating on this matter. They belong to the Consortium for School Networking and the International Society for Technology in Education:E...
Sotomayor: From the Projects to the Ivy League
FlypaperPresident Obama has selected federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the Supreme Court. Education Week’s School Law blog has a nice quick summary of her background. My first reaction is, “wow, another Catholic.” She wou...
Duncan Announces His Senior Staff Appoinments
U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan today announced the following nine appointments to his senior staff. Get to know them:Margot Rogers, Chief of StaffMargot Rogers comes to the Department of Education from the Bill and Melinda Gates F...
Food for Thought: The Quality of Education for Low-income Families
Why should we expect education markets to succeed in bringing higher quality schools to low-income communities?We really got stunned by this sentence: "It costs money to be poor." That's how begins a post on The Quick and the Ed, his editor Erin Dill...
MiFi to Replace Costly Cell Phone Plans
Is Verizon rolling out the thing that could kill the cell phone?From The Atlantic:Finally, there's a product that puts a wireless hotspot in your pocket: the MiFi, a battery-powered device the size of a thick business card that provides its own pas...
Fundamentalist Baptist School Asks Student to Skip Prom
The Courier.comA senior at Heritage Christian School will be suspended Monday for attending Findlay High School's prom because the event involves dancing and rock music.A Heritage School committee decided Wednesday that Tyler Frost, 17, will be suspe...
