Education

One Scattered Nation: A Pathway To Common Standards

Marc Lampkin | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Strong American Schools, Education, Naep, Standards, Public Schools, Standardized Testing, Globalization, Timss, Public Education, Politics News
Marc Lampkin

America needs a national effort to raise education standards in every state. Not dictate what should be done in the classroom -- but states are not, competing individually in the global economy.

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The Endless Potential of the Labor Movement and a Strong President to Revive America's Economy and Its Middle Class

Randi Weingarten | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Uft, Aft, Education, Randi Weingarten, Barack Obama, Politics News
Randi Weingarten

Those who care about our economy and the conditions under which many children are being raised in our country today need to be reminded that when unions are strong, the country thrives.

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The Washington Post Pimps an Ad

Gerald Bracey | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Science, Internnational Comparisons, Education, Tests, Technology, Presidential Campaign, Rand, Home News
Gerald Bracey

The Washington Post pimping for an ad. Can you believe it? The pimpiness appeared Sunday, July 13. Who put them up to that? The ad in question is ...

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The Anxiety Business

Eliot Schrefer | Posted 07.12.2008 | Living

Read More: College Admissions, Education, Sat Prep, College Board Sat, College Board, College, Cost of Higher Education, SAT Testing, College Admissions Craze, Sat Tutors, Higher Education, SAT's, Living News
Eliot Schrefer

The College Board is both in the business of test administration and test prep. If this feels inherently unfair, it should -- it's like a doctor whacking your knee with a sledgehammer and then offering to patch you up.

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A Roundtable Discussion about Education

Charlie Rose | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Teachers, School, Teacher, No Child Left Behind, National Teacher of the Year, Charlie Rose, Politics News
Charlie Rose

The American public school system has long been under scrutiny and in crisis. However, there is growing sentiment that large scale reform could be po...

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Charter Schools Get the Test Scores Up

Tom Lowry | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: New York City Schools, Urban Schools, Jeffrey Bewkes, Education, Herb Allen, Charter Schools, Sun Valley, Richard Parsons, Deborah Kenny, Jeff Bewkes, Politics News
Tom Lowry

Unlike most of her audience of media moguls, charter school impresario Deborah Kenny has some positive results to brag about. Test scores have improved dramatically at her schools in just five years.

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Convene, Connect, Transform: Teachers on Roll to Transform Schools

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business

Read More: NETS.T, Education Software, Brainpop, Education, Technology in Education, Knezek, Necc, Teachers, Teaching, Google, Business News
Esther Wojcicki

Anyone in San Antonio, Texas last week would have thought that American education had entered a new digital age.

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Seth Colter Walls

McCain Avoids Immigration In Speech To Latino Voters

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, John McCain, Latino Voters, Immigration, Teachers, Barack Obama, Lulac, Politics News

John McCain's speechwriters must have done some homework on reaching out to Latino voters. In his speech before the League of United Latin American Ci...

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My Conversation with Wendy Kopp

Charlie Rose | Posted 07.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Tfa, Education, Charlie Rose, Wendy Kopp, Teachers, Teaching, School, Teach, Entertainment News
Charlie Rose

One of the key challenges that America faces is how to improve our educational system. I have recently begun a series of conversations, underwritten ...

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How to Help College Students Do Better

Rob Stafford | Posted 07.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Goals in Action, Dr. Daniel Singley, Teaching, Education, College Students, College, Ucsd, Sdsu, Living News
Rob Stafford

give students the (simple, practical, common sense) tools that their successful peers learned from their parents or their friends years before, sit back, and watch them suddenly start to gain ground.

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Dem "Strategists": Use These 8 Points and Learn How to Discuss Taxes or Don't Go on TV

Paul Abrams | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Education, Treasury Secretary Paulson, Veterans Benefits, Healthcare, Democrats, Revenues, Economy, Strategists, Politics News
Paul Abrams

The Republicans will lie -- they will claim that Obama is going to raise everyone's taxes. Today, I heard several people on TV dubbed "Democratic strategists" just fall for it.

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Education Voters

Ben Terris | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Young Voters, Education, Travel, Youth Vote, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina, Divide, Home News
Ben Terris

Talking politics with young people across the country has meant talking about education. "What works," says one, "is retaining teachers and recruiting volunteers, people to push the kids hard at school."

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Light a Fire Under Your Principal This Summer

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: NETS.T, Superintendents, Education, School Boards, National Education Computing Conference, Technology, Iste, Knezek, Necc, Politics News
Esther Wojcicki

Everyday during the school year, 2,500 students drop out of high school in the U.S. -- We need to get our school principals hopping mad about this.

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Awakener; My Occupation. And yours?

Rob Kall | Posted 06.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Change, Education, Work, Occupation, Activism, Awaken, Activist, Teaching, Wake Up, Living News
Rob Kall

Today, when filling in a registration form on a website, I realized I had a new occupation to list, that encompassed many of the others I've listed in...

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Joining GOP's Bold March Backwards, Bobby Jindal and Louisiana Democrats Pass "Stealth Creationism" Education Bill

Bruce Wilson | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Intelligent Design, Louisiana, Creationism, Democrats, Bobby Jindal, Politics News
Bruce Wilson

Jindal has joined the GOP in its bold march backwards towards the days of when Medieval concepts such as Geocentrism, phlogistan and the "Four Humors" held sway.

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On the Brink of History

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warner, Education, Troops, Iava, 21st Century GI Bill, Hagel, Iraq, Afghanistan, Webb, Veterans, Lautenberg, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

With the 92-6 victory in the Senate last night, the new GI Bill will now make its way to the president's desk for his signature. Here are some of the responses from veterans around the country.

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Are Cuba's Schools Better than Ours?

Martin Carnoy | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Test Scores, Schools, Cuba, Politics News
Martin Carnoy

Maybe we could learn something from the Cubans about the rights we deny many of our children -- a safe environment, decent health care, and schools that guarantee them high levels of learning

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Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie Donate $1 Million For Education Of War-Impacted Kids

AP | Posted 06.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Iraq War, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie, Iraq, Brad Pitt, Education, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's love for children is by no means limited to their own: The couple has donated $1 million to help ki...

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What Sort of "Objectivity" in the Classroom?

Mark Kleiman | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Academic Freedom, Stanley Fish, Liberal Bias, Education, Teachers, Teaching, Politics News
Mark Kleiman

A faculty with a particular political "tilt" needs to make conscious efforts to police itself in order to protect the intellectual freedom of its students.

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Two Million Minutes Takes a Lifetime to Endure

Gerald Bracey | Posted 06.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Change, India, Education, Schools, Education Reform, China, Entertainment News
Gerald Bracey

Toward the end, when the Indian or Chinese kids were on the screen, I wanted to yell at it: "Get a Life!" Not as a put-down, but as a wake up call.

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An Elegant Solution: Act III: Interrupting Generations of Poverty, Abuse and Neglect with Education

David Ambroz | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Foster Care, California, Abuse, Poverty, Higher Education, Community College, Politics News
David Ambroz

We are blessed with a plethora of affordable open admission community colleges, and these treasures should be leveraged to assist in the empowerment effort for foster youth.

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Major Victory for Vets: Bush Withdraws Veto Threat Over New GI Bill

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Iraq, White House, President Bush, Iava, Afghanistan, 21st Century GI Bill, Veterans, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

The Bush administration withdrew their long-held objections to a new GI Bill that would fully fund the cost of a public college education for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

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In Favor of Plan B, IUD's and the Freedom of Choice

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 06.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Health, Plan B, Iud, Feminism, Canada, Healthcare, Sexuality, Education, Sex, News, Living News
Danielle Cavallucci

Why is it that Canadians have such an evolved take on sexuality and are so much less taboo driven and abstinence promoting?

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Greening the School House

A. Siegel | Posted 06.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Green, Energy, Public Schools, Politics, Infrastructure, Energy Efficiency, Education, Green News
A. Siegel

Taking aggressive action to green schools is one of the smartest steps the nation can take.

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We're All Populists Now; That's Unfortunate

Rick Shenkman | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Public Opinion, Education, Stupidity, School, Polls, Populism, Iraq, Politics News
Rick Shenkman

Today almost no one wants to get caught openly acknowledging the limits of public opinion. We are all populists now. The voice of The People is our voice of God.

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