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The Samuel Clemens Education Blog

There's a blog I'd read every day, but, until he comes back from the dead and stoops to blog, his novels make pretty good reading, too.  I'm rereading A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's...

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Teacher Absenteeism and Top Chef

I’ve been reading some studies about the effects of teacher absenteeism on student learning, and of course we had a little back and forth here once before about teachers having chronically...

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Congratulations

To Sherman Dorn, AFT member/AFT leader/historian/author/blogger. He's added a new title.... (...)

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The First Shot in Reading War II?

I get to pretend to be smart on the days I read Alexander Russo's "Around the Blogs" and "Big Stories of the Day" posts. His blog is the place I go when I need a...

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Do You Have Excess Brain Cells?

If so, watch the video below click here* for the CNBC video of a debate between WaPo columnist/editorialist Jay Mathews and filmmaker/entrepreneur Bob Compton. The subject is how children are...

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Good news: The AFT on CEP

Below is the AFT statement on yesterday's CEP report showing rising math and reading scores since 2002:CEP’s report is good news for America’s students, parents and teachers. It...

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Teachers Give Charter Schools Some Love

(And Some Paint)From WGNO-TV in New Orleans, where the AFT has a large contingent of teachers, many from out of town, attending the National Charter School Conference.Volunteers helped touch up a New...

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For Fordham, Everything Proves... Privatization Works

When bad news about privatization is reported in the news, privatizers fight back. Then, if they have to concede, they use the "failure= success" argument. Fordham coughs up this...

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Event Could Further Delay Reauthorization

Slate and the New York Times have reported that the scheduled startup in August of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland could end the world. Really.Such an event likely would create additional...

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A Testing Concern

Skoolboy has an interesting post on testing this week.  He draws on Dan Koresh’s latest work to highlight the problems in tests that draw on a narrow number of domains, and thus...

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