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The Education Optimists

http://eduoptimists.blogspot.com/

Through our twin perspectives as a professor of education and a director of education policy, we seek to draw attention to the power of society, schools, colleges and educators to empower individuals, further learning, and reduce inequities ... and have a little fun along the way.

• Added on: May 28th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Liam Goldrick
• Listed in: Education and Training Higher
• Tags: education College student University policy teacher

Recent Posts

• I'm All Hot About: Jill Biden

  Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 12:06 in community college, delaware, jill biden, professor

  I'm tired of hearing Jill Biden called a 'teacher.' Really--no knocks to teachers, but Jill Biden isn't teaching children. Ms. Biden is a professor of English at Delaware Technical and Community College. That's right-- she's one of the "honored ...

• EduProfs in the 21st Century

  Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 11:57 in aaron pallas, blog, College, Columbia University, faculty, skoolboy

  Edu-Academia is taking giant leaps forward (in my opinion) with the willingness of faculty (and future faculty) to get out there in the blogosphere and talk with the commoners. If we only hear the thoughts of our colleagues when they appear in peer-...

• Mentoring Science Teachers

  Posted on Monday August 25th, 2008 at 17:29 in induction, mentoring, new teacher center, oakland, teamscience

  I thought I'd share this post from teacher leader Anthony Cody's blog Living in Dialogue. He discusses an initiative called TeamScience, a project to support new science teachers in Oakland (California) Unified School District.Science teachers, in ad...

• Cool People You Should Know: eduwonkette

  Posted on Sunday August 24th, 2008 at 21:36 in blog, eduwonkette, sociology of education

  Imagine my tremendous surprise and the look of sheer "duh" on my face when I learned this evening that graduate student extraordanaire, Jennifer Jennings is none other than my favorite super-eduresearcher, "eduwonkette!"It's like that old econ joke '...

• What Do New York City and Madison, Wisconsin Have In Common?

  Posted on Saturday August 23rd, 2008 at 14:36 in early childhood, four-year-old kindergarten, madison, New York City, wisconsin

  Read here (New York Times, 8/23/2008) and here (WISC-TV, 7/15/2008)....

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