The Answer Sheet: August, 2011
Imagine a $500,000 Gates Foundation grant to Harvard
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07:30 AM ET, 08/31/2011 |
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A different kind of parent involvement — in school policy
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04:00 AM ET, 08/31/2011 |
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Cold showers at college
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03:10 PM ET, 08/30/2011 |
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The plight of great teachers
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05:00 AM ET, 08/30/2011 |
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Why U. of Texas academics blasted Gov. Rick Perry
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02:44 PM ET, 08/29/2011 |
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Warring learning theories: Choose yours
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04:00 AM ET, 08/29/2011 |
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What’s really wrong with ‘parent trigger’ laws
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03:00 AM ET, 08/29/2011 |
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International rankings reformers like to ignore
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03:56 PM ET, 08/27/2011 |
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Understanding hurricanes: Facts and resources
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03:25 PM ET, 08/26/2011 |
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Teacher turnover in charter, traditional public schools
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06:00 AM ET, 08/26/2011 |
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Matthew Di Carlo
Teacher: How to address bullying school — and how not to
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04:00 AM ET, 08/26/2011 |
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No Child Left Behind on steroids
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01:24 PM ET, 08/25/2011 |
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The problem school boards have with the public
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08:00 AM ET, 08/25/2011 |
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How badly did Arne Duncan want to talk to Matt Damon?
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02:08 PM ET, 08/24/2011 |
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Why great teachers aren’t enough to make schools work
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04:00 AM ET, 08/24/2011 |
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How the world looks to today’s college freshmen
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02:00 AM ET, 08/24/2011 |
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What all East Coast schools should do now
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10:47 PM ET, 08/23/2011 |
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Rhee’s quake tweet
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05:34 PM ET, 08/23/2011 |
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Earthquake resources to educate your kids (and yourself)
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04:06 PM ET, 08/23/2011 |
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New principal development effort launched
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11:30 AM ET, 08/23/2011 |
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School rules in 1911: What do you recognize?
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06:30 AM ET, 08/23/2011 |
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Rethinking a flawed education agenda
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04:00 AM ET, 08/23/2011 |
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Philadelphia pushes out schools chief Arlene Ackerman
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04:09 PM ET, 08/22/2011 |
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Back-to-school facts: $7 billion-plus in shopping and everything else
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01:36 PM ET, 08/22/2011 |
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A tale of two schools: Who’s to blame for the differences?
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10:30 AM ET, 08/22/2011 |
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Why parents should leave their kids alone at college
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06:30 AM ET, 08/22/2011 |
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The Texas Charter Schools Visa® Platinum Card (for real)
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04:01 AM ET, 08/22/2011 |
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Charter schools
Students: the Achilles heel of test-based teacher evaluation?
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10:22 AM ET, 08/21/2011 |
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Teacher assessment
There are more successful schools than you think (see for yourself)
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07:00 AM ET, 08/20/2011 |
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What to do when your child leaves for college
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11:00 AM ET, 08/19/2011 |
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D.C.’s move toward charter-centric school system
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05:00 AM ET, 08/19/2011 |
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D.C. Schools,
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The right way to lengthen the school year
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04:00 AM ET, 08/19/2011 |
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Arne Duncan blasts Rick Perry and Texas schools
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06:44 PM ET, 08/18/2011 |
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Education Secretary Duncan
What we don’t know about new teacher evaluation systems (and why it’s a problem)
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12:00 PM ET, 08/18/2011 |
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Matthew Di Carlo
How shaky is President Obama’s support among teachers?
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06:00 AM ET, 08/18/2011 |
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Anthony Cody
What’s the link between time in school and achievement?
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04:00 AM ET, 08/18/2011 |
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Virginia ACT test takers top Maryland, D.C. students
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02:03 PM ET, 08/17/2011 |
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SAT and ACT
Should children have to compete for their education?
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08:30 AM ET, 08/17/2011 |
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Race to the Top,
Education Secretary Duncan
2011 ACT scores show problems with college readiness
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03:00 AM ET, 08/17/2011 |
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SAT and ACT
Sherlock Holmes book removed from school reading list for being anti-Mormon
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05:03 PM ET, 08/16/2011 |
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Reading
Could D.C. special ed bus program be more incompetent?
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09:47 AM ET, 08/16/2011 |
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D.C. Schools,
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D.C. Schools
D.C. teacher tells chancellor why IMPACT evaluation is unfair
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07:00 AM ET, 08/16/2011 |
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D.C. Schools,
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The ‘absurd’ debate about length of school year
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05:00 AM ET, 08/16/2011 |
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Mark Phillips
The corporate lobby and public education
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02:04 PM ET, 08/15/2011 |
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The wrong — and right way — to manage a school district
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04:00 AM ET, 08/15/2011 |
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George Wood
The Perry-Obama education fight
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11:48 AM ET, 08/14/2011 |
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Race to the Top
To students, it’s all about the (boring) content
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11:47 AM ET, 08/14/2011 |
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Curriculum
Virginia and the NCLB mess Congress left behind
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11:22 AM ET, 08/13/2011 |
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The Answer Sheet,
No Child Left Behind
How Duncan’s NCLB waivers could look in 2013 (to Ed Sec Bachmann)
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11:43 AM ET, 08/12/2011 |
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No Child Left Behind
Are 21st century 5-year-olds cognitively ready to read?
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07:00 AM ET, 08/12/2011 |
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Reading
How much do some private school heads earn? A bundle
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04:00 AM ET, 08/12/2011 |
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Back to School important phone numbers and dates for D.C., Va. and Md.
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04:20 PM ET, 08/11/2011 |
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The Answer Sheet
The link between ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ and testing
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05:00 AM ET, 08/11/2011 |
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Standardized Tests
Teaching strategies that work! But for what?
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02:08 PM ET, 08/10/2011 |
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Alfie Kohn
Are school boards part of the problem or the solution?
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05:00 AM ET, 08/10/2011 |
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Where is Barack Obama the teacher?
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07:00 AM ET, 08/09/2011 |
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Mike Rose
Why states should refuse Duncan’s NCLB waivers
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04:00 AM ET, 08/09/2011 |
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No Child Left Behind
Obama administration’s NCLB waivers and strong-arm tactics
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04:14 PM ET, 08/08/2011 |
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No Child Left Behind
Delusions of adequacy in D.C. reform effort
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05:00 AM ET, 08/08/2011 |
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Achievement gap
How many testing scandals do we need as a wake-up call?
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11:28 AM ET, 08/07/2011 |
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A conversation: Kopp, West, Smiley on Teach for America
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11:30 PM ET, 08/04/2011 |
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The concerns of a first-year teacher
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04:00 AM ET, 08/04/2011 |
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How to improve teacher education now (and why Teach for America isn’t the answer)
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07:00 AM ET, 08/03/2011 |
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Guest Bloggers
A missed opportunity for the White House
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05:00 AM ET, 08/03/2011 |
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Darling-Hammond: The mess we are in
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07:30 PM ET, 08/01/2011 |
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Teacher: What Save Our Schools march accomplished — and didn’t
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06:30 AM ET, 08/01/2011 |
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Anthony Cody,
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