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Theobald on Returning Rural Values to Education
This post reviews Paul Theobald, Education Now: How Rethinking America’s Past Can Change Its Future (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2009). [An article that summarizes many of the points made in … more →
Homeschooling Research Notes
Amanda Davenport wrote 1 day ago: The National Commission on Excellence in Education’s A Nation at Risk has arguably had more influenc … more →
Can Critical Thinking be Taught?
Katie Read wrote 4 weeks ago: I came across an interesting article authored by Daniel Willingham entitled “Critical Thinking … more →
Theobald on Returning Rural Values to Education
Milton Gaither wrote 1 month ago: This post reviews Paul Theobald, Education Now: How Rethinking America’s Past Can Change Its F … more →
Marines vs. Schools and Culture
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matthewladner wrote 4 months ago: (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Today is the 26th anniversary of the publication of the report A Mili … more →
Bill Romond
transformvermont wrote 6 months ago: We sat down with Deputy Commissioner for Transformation, Bill Romond, and talked Transformation: Ch … more →
Useless Education Reform
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Dwight Furrow wrote 7 months ago: In 1983, educational reformers published research that garnered national attention. Entitled A Natio … more →
Smaller is Better when it comes to Running Our Schools
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stephencoffin wrote 10 months ago: Since the publication of A Nation at Risk, there have been numerous efforts to try to find the right … more →
Davies on Government Regulation of Schools
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Milton Gaither wrote 1 year ago: This post reviews Gareth Davies, See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan(U Pr … more →
"Don't Know Much About History"
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Jon Taplin wrote 1 year ago: Twenty-five years ago Education Secretary T. H. Bell presented to his boss, President Reagan the rep … more →
Why Gifted Students Still Hate School, Part II
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adsoofmelk wrote 1 year ago: I posted last time about my theory about why gifted students hate school (short answer: scary teache … more →
Need to brush up on your education trivia?
readinggal wrote 1 year ago: What is A Nation at Risk? What does FAFSA stand for? Who is Wendy Kopp? Find answer to these questio … more →
