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Stop the National Standards Train12 comments

Jay P. Greene wrote 1 week ago: As I’ve said before (here, here, and elsewhere), I can’t understand the enthusiasm of ed … more →

Tags: instructional reform, school accountability, City Journal, Jay Greene, Jay P. Greene, Sandra Stotsky

Keeping their legacy Pt 2: A national review1 comment

hubinfo wrote 1 week ago: Few are still with us who led the campaign for our school libraries in the 60s and 70s.  There are n … more →

Tags: National Review, Petition, Staffing, teacher librarians, TL training, Lobbying

All About Widgets.1 comment

snyderdd2 wrote 2 weeks ago: More discovery on the use of this systemfjiabfdsabfsdabfdskfbkasbfkasd … more →

Tags: Physical Education, Standards

Open Letter to President Obama

Ronda Gupton-Pruett wrote 3 weeks ago: I found this letter and agree with the problems it addresses with Obama’s idea of education re … more →

Tags: Education, Teaching High School, Barack Obama, Education, Merit pay, NCLB, open letter, Race to the Top, Standardized Testing, teacher

CHEATING OUR KIDS3 comments

Kevin W. Riley wrote 3 weeks ago: This past week the National Center for Education Statistics released a report that may have been a s … more →

Tags: Charter Schools, Public Education, School Reform, Standardized Testing, Cheating kids, NCLB

Quotation for Today, Tuesday October 27

adamsmith1922 wrote 1 month ago: Teachers are public servants and that means they must follow the policies put in place by those who … more →

Tags: Quotations, Education, Dominion Post, Editorial

Assumptions

carajane wrote 1 month ago: There’s a lot of discussion around the implementation of National Standards in NZ at present. … more →

Tags: Education, nz

Get On With Your Work Lazy Children

boonman wrote 1 month ago: Good morning/afternoon/evening/witching hour to you, I have been silent for too long. You tend to do … more →

Tags: Education, Future, Government, John Key, National, New Zealand, political parties, politicians, Politics

Sign our petition now1 comment

hubinfo wrote 1 month ago: Sign our petition now According to a recent survey of Australian school libraries, 35% of Australian … more →

Tags: lobbying, Petition, Lobbying, Staffing

National Education Standards? Can You Say Big Brother?

worddreams wrote 2 months ago: Big Brother or Saving Grace One size fits all in the education field? Since when did all Americans a … more →

Tags: Homeschool, Problem-solving, regulations, Local Governance, National Education Standards, One size fits all, Teach to the Test

Common Core State Standards Available For Comment

mkbnl wrote 2 months ago: This was posted to one of the iNACOL forums earlier this week.  I asked about this issue a few weeks … more →

Tags: High School, Education, CYBER SCHOOL, virtual school, Standards, Council of Chief State School Officers, national governors association, Center for Best Practices, iNACOL

National Standards

thereadingzone wrote 2 months ago: The Common Core State Standards Initiative released its first draft of college and career readiness … more →

Tags: Standards, Common Core State Standards Initiative

The Need for National Standards in Schools

Daniel Ensign wrote 2 months ago: As I talked about in an earlier post, there are numerous changes needed to the public school system. … more →

Tags: Education, reform, No Child Left Behind

Worth reading beginning to end...

Bill wrote 4 months ago: …including the comments…if you care deeply about topics such as curriculum and standards … more →

Tags: Education

A RACE TO THE TOP1 comment

Kevin W. Riley wrote 4 months ago: After the 10th stage of the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong sits in third place.  Amazing.  What an … more →

Tags: Charter Schools, California charter schools, President Obama, Public Education, Standardized Testing, School Reform, California Budget, Barack Obama, Race to the Top Fund

Union backs plan to raise bar in childcare sector

gerrytreuren wrote 4 months ago: Posted Fri Jul 3, 2009 12:44am AEST The union representing childcare workers, the Liquor Hospitality … more →

Tags: ACTU and unions, LHMU, Sue Lines, childcare

46 states agree to work for common education standards -- Texas left out1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 5 months ago: (This issue has moved a bit since I first drafted this post — watch for updates.) Ain’t … more →

Tags: Education, TEKS, TAKS, Education reform, Testing, Education assessment, Texas Citizens for Science, Texas

Talk of National Standards1 comment

Bill wrote 5 months ago: It’s time for the latest round of national standards development. Yippee! I truly wish the gro … more →

Tags: abcte

Reminder: iNACOL Quality Standards for Online Programs Feedback Surveys Due

mkbnl wrote 5 months ago: Another reminder about this survey that showed up in my inbox. Dear Online K-12 Professionals, The I … more →

Tags: High School, Education, CYBER SCHOOL, virtual school, NACOL, Standards, Surveys, online programs, iNACOL