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Classroom-Based Assessment Should Replace ‘No Child’, Experts Say
By Laura McMullen – President Barack Obama announced last week that 10 states will be exempt from the requirements of the highly-criticized No Child Left Behind legislation. In exchange, those… Read more
Pitfalls in selecting gifted students
Dick Kantenberger – Here is the fourth segment of the third hour-long interview on International (Chinese) TV 55.5 KTBU-Houston. It is in English and Chinese.I have edited out all the… Read more
Small Company Has a Big Heart
by Dana Woldow – So many of the recent stories about the American food system are depressing, from the elected officials who think schools shouldn’t offer free lunches to needy… Read more
The Global Search for Education: A Life of Learning
Professor Sir David Watson (MA University of Cambridge, PhD University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of Higher Education and Principal of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, England. Sir David began… Read more
Are Some Faculty Members Really Serfs?
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — Full-time non-tenure track faculty at colleges and universities lack a professional identity and a sense of self worth, according to interviews with these faculty members that… Read more
LATEST MICHIGAN POLLS & SEVERELY CONSERVATIVE ROMNEY SEEMS DESPERATE
American Research Group – conducted Feb. 11 – 12 – 600 likely Michigan primary voters questioned by telephone http://americanresearchgroup.com/ MICHIGAN – POLL OF LIKELY REPUBLICAN VOTERS Santorum… Read more
Activists press council to ease truancy fines
The two groups of high school protesters — one dressed as graduates with caps and gowns, the other donning orange jail jumpsuits — huddled together outside Van Nuys City Hall… Read more
Charter-school group seeks legislative changes to ease replication, ensure accountability
You know what Shannon Blankenship hates about running a pair of odds-beating urban schools? Choosing next year’s entering classes at the two Hiawatha Academies, Minneapolis charter schools where he is… Read more
Special Report: The Vanishing West
Western Civilization courses have virtually disappeared from the American university curriculum. The Vanishing West 1964-2010
SD Unified wants teacher concessions
The pink slips are set to arrive by St. Patrick’s Day. Class size caps have been pushed to new limits. Music and art offerings are up in the air. The… Read more
