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Monthly Archives: June 2009

It’s bricks all the way down

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Nonsense from our national school policy leadership is just so much noise – whether naive or disingenuous, I don’t know. It may be both. Tom Hoffman is right – Arne Duncan will learn some hard lessons of his own before this is all over. In the meantime, it hurts my brain to listen to him [...]

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The Global Talent Pool

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Yet another dire warning about the need for workers who can “thrive in the global economy:” [T]he Commission concludes that reform in mathematics and science will be possible only if we “do school differently” in ways that emphasize the centrality of math and science to educational improvement and innovation…. As a society, we must commit [...]

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Notes from the Margin

Sunday, June 7, 2009

It is no surprise that Gov. Palin wants to sit out the plan to write new national common core education standards. After all, she also wants to turn down $28.6 million in stimulus money for energy cost relief because taking it would require us to adopt energy-efficient building codes, which she says should be a [...]

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