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Quote of the Day
I saw this quote mentioned on Forham's Flypaper. I think it does a great job describing where we stand on teacher evaluation. “The underlying problem for all of this is: We don’t measure this stuff. Think of Major League Baseball where nobody tr...
Deloitte\'s High School Disconnect
EdWeek had a very interesting story on this Deloitte Report which among its findings identified a significant disconnect between teachers and low-income parents and students over the "most important purpose" of high school. In a survey of 401 high sc...
Avoid the Black Friday Madness
Tired of the Black Friday rush? Amazon has their Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals all on a single page. Check it out: ...
More bureaucracy will reduce costs?
I noticed this item from the California GOP web site. Apparently, someone in the House Republic Conference went through Speaker Pelosi's health care bill H.3962, to identify all of the new government boards, bureaucracies, commissions and programs ...
Uh-oh, this could be bad for Al Gore
Uh-oh. Not a good day if you're a global warming believer. This Wall Street Journal piece, along with a lot of other stories discuss a hacking of the Climate Research Center at University of East Anglia. Apparently some of the stuff that the hacke...
Florida\'s evaluation of teacher education programs
Say what you want about the Bush family, but Jeb Bush did some good work in Florida in education reform and even those Jeb is gone, good things are still happening. I found this St. Petersburg Times story to be very interesting. Out of the blue, the...
