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"Students Who Took All or Part of Their Class Online Performed Better," Says a Study
It's Sunday and Education & Tech usually gets updated on weekdays. But what we have to say today is something we had to postpone for two or t…
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Are Obama’s ‘Race to the Top’ Requirements Fair?
National Journal is an online magazine that runs its own Education Blog funded --in part, by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the purpos…
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Boudreaux: "Merit Pay for Teachers Will Not Result in Better Teaching"
The prospect of higher pay will not prompt teachers to perform better in the classroom, was part of what Economics Prof. Donald J. Boudreaux, wrote …
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Why Teach for America and The New Teacher Project Exist
The Quick and the ED If you stop and think about it, Teach for America (TFA) and The New Teacher Project (TNTP) are well-functioning, non-profit, …
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How to Build a First-Class Educational System for the U.S. History
We always focus on the process of education, talk a lot about technology in and out of the classroom but very few times an educator or journalist has…
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Duncan Has to Explain Why He Did Hype Inflated Test Scores
The Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago, a supporter of Duncan, revealed its research (pdf doc) results which have key findings of con…
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White House CTO: Uses of Technology in Pedagogy at Heart of Education Reform
The Journal: "Technology is core and essential to the strategies we are using to reform education." That was the message from both Jim Sh…
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Washington: After the First Day on NECC09
As a preamble to what is coming, yesterday started the EdubloggerCon. This unique experience has been organized by Steve Hargadon. The EduBlogger Co…
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How Technology is Transforming Public Schools
It is interesting how Hon. George Miller and The House Education and Labor Committee will be holding a hearing tomorrow, Tuesday, June 16 to examine …
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Duncan: Teachers Should Be Judged on Student Performance
It has been said that Secretary Duncan was successful with implementation of merit pay in Chicago. However, I would like to ask the Secretary what it…
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Time to Kill 'No Child Left Behind'
It is too late to tweak NCLB. Seven years after it was signed into law, it is clear that the program deserves to be buried. Diane Ravitch of Educa…
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Impacts of a 2008-2010 Recession in Children's Well Being
The Early Ed Watch Blog: A report released this morning shows that children's well-being started to decline last year and is expected to dip …
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Teachers Afford to Work for Less Money in Exchange of Better Working Conditions
If teachers are so important, why do we treat them like widgets? Public school teachers burn out because of poor working conditions, writes Greg F…
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Obama Admin. to Cut Funding for the Enhancing Education Through Technology
EETT funds under the Economic Recovery Act will flow by July 2009 and this has many educators disappointed. ETAN is updating on this matter. They be…
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Sotomayor: From the Projects to the Ivy League
Flypaper President Obama has selected federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the Supreme Court. Education Week’s School Law Blog …
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Duncan Announces His Senior Staff Appointments
U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan today announced the following nine appointments to his senior staff. Get to know them: Margot R…
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Food for Thought: The Quality of Education for Low-income Families
Why should we expect education markets to succeed in bringing higher quality schools to low-income communities? We really got stunned by this sente…
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MiFi to Replace Costly Cell Phone Plans
Is Verizon rolling out the thing that could kill the cell phone? From The Atlantic: Finally, there's a product that puts a wireless hotspot …
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Fundamentalist Baptist School Asks Student to Skip Prom
The Courier.com A senior at Heritage Christian School will be suspended Monday for attending Findlay High School's prom because the event invol…
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100 Days Are Down With Obama
President Obama has been in office for 100 days now and Andrew Rotherham of Eduwonk posted on this matter a paragraph we need to share: Over at N…
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