Next time you see an article with a negative title about teachers and their education schools, skim through the report and see if you can spot the corporate fingerprints.
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Pennsylvania's legislature is currently having Version 2,433,672,127 of the same argument that emerges every five minutes in the places where charter schools and public schools bump up against each other.
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So here I sit again, writing over and over that the media are getting reading wrong, that scapegoating teacher education is missing the real problem. How many years will it take until I see articles “discovering” these facts as if no one with experience and expertise ever raised the issue?
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Rotterdam and New York are global pioneers in urban climate adaption, but mainstreaming their sustainability strategies remains a struggle.
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The College Board recently revealed a new “adversity score” that it plans to use as part of the SAT in order to reflect students’ social and economic background. The mere fact that the College Board sees a need for an “adversity score” is a tacit admission that the SAT isn’t fair for all students.
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Many studies have shown that when newspapers suffer, we all do. When newspaper staffs shrink, fewer people run for mayor. When papers close, voter turnout falls and cities and counties spend more to borrow money. In other words, local news helps communities function better for everyone – not just subscribers.
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Given all the political interest in vouchers, it pays to revisit how there came to be such as disconnect between what the research shows about the negative impacts of vouchers and their popularity with policymakers.
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Humans are amazingly good at dealing with variations in language. We are so good, in fact, that we really take note when things occasionally break down.
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The program includes 13 key program components designed to provide academic, social and professional support to equip students for STEM graduate programs. These components include advising and counseling, tutoring, quality research experience and mentorship.
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It’s time we stopped making excuses for failing policies and got back to the best thing that works. People.
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The Sure Start programme was introduced in England in 1999 with the aim of improving the life chances of children living in poverty. Five years later, it became a service for all children.
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The Reading Crisis and the science of reading are far more complicated than being presented by much of the media, dyslexia advocates, and political leaders.
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Schools must provide adequate reading programs and reading remediation for students who need more assistance. But the recent report on dyslexia recommending intensive phonics for all children by the PBS News Hour, through Education Week, is irresponsible, short on facts, and presents biased reporting.
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In one of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s most troubling responses of both days of testimony, she responded to an inquiry by Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) about this nation’s crumbling school infrastructure.
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First, teaching any student to write, for me, is grounded in fostering some important foundational concepts about them as student-writers and developing scholars—how to represent themselves as purposeful writers and thinkers while establishing their authority and credibility.
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New Jersey has done little to assess the additional costs imposed by charters on school districts, and the state is not alone. We need to be much more clear about how "choice" is affecting the entire school funding system.
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Across the nation, educators have awakened to the reality that charter schools are a threat to the health and even survival of public schools. For that reason, charters have become a major point of contention in teacher strikes, from Oakland to Los Angeles, and even in West Virginia.
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