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April 6, 2010

All Wired Up: Six Questions Technology in the Classroom Raises

Jessica Custer

Does using technology in the classroom advance or hinder the academic pursuit of truth?

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April 5, 2010

Ravitch Book Review by Peter Wood

Ashley Thorne

NAS president Peter Wood has published a review of Diane Ravitch's new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education. The book ou......

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April 5, 2010

Race to the Bottom in MA

Candace de Russy

Massachusetts, where education reformers spent years creating strong academic-content-based standards and high-stakes testing for students and teachers, got zilch in the first round of the O......

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April 5, 2010

Why We Are Where We Are

Candace de Russy

Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s blog, Standing on My Head -- new to me -- is a find: wise, deep and funny. In “Stupidity and Tyranny,” recently posted and headlined by Winfield Myers......

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April 5, 2010

Stay...Just a Little Bit Longer

David Clemens

1:00 p.m.  While students wander in, I fire up my iPhone for some “bumper music.”  Jackson Browne croons “Stay” but Devin asks, “Who did the original?" &ldquo......

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