I arrived so early to the newly released and highly touted documentary “Waiting for Superman” the ushers asked me to wait outside the theater so they could clean up from the previous show.
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IOZ snarks at the education worry-warts:
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Rick Hess is back from a tour de force of the Georgian school system which, he notes, has fully embraced school choice:
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The sky may not be falling on American public schools, but their roofs are certainly about to collapse. The situation is “an emergency,” according to Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, Representative George Miller (D-CA), and Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, David Obey (D-WI). Secretary of Education Arne Duncan calls it a “catastrophe.”
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How self-esteem based learning now buries parents in metrics and edu-jargonI had to laugh this week when my husband expressed his dismay at being completely confounded by my son’s first grade report card. As a teacher with a master’s degree, an education policy wonk, and daughter of a retired elementary school teacher, I found it to be equally mystifying.Bear with me here...
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