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What do you care to know about the world?


26 July 12 10:13 AM
Teaching matters. We owe it to our children to get it right. What do you care to know about the world? There's a place for what used to be called boredom, for empty spaces to slide into your mind. It's not particularly unpleasant, but it lacks the dopamine Read More...
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What we risk losing


20 May 12 09:21 AM
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best Read More...
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Et tu, College Board?


18 May 12 09:32 PM
"The College Board was founded with a deep commitment to equity and must play a critical role in helping all students achieve high academic standards to thrive intellectually and to compete in a global economy." David Coleman, new CEO for the College Read More...
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I've been slimed


08 May 12 06:11 PM
Every day I am asked what the secret is to ensuring every child in New Jersey graduates from high school ready for college and career, and I always have one simple response – outstanding teachers. I do not doubt that you have "one simple response"--I Read More...
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Clamming: a 21st century skill


08 January 12 09:57 AM
19th century version: Yesterday I headed for one of my favorite places with one of my favorite people to do one of my favorite things--clamming. The moon is waxing and near full, so I knew low tide would fall in the early afternoon. COST: months of intermittent Read More...
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Clam up, Arne


26 December 11 12:04 PM
Tomorrow I am going on an adventure! Despite predictions of a 30 knot breeze with rain tossed in, I plan to grab my rake and wander out to a mudflat to grab a handful of clams for tomorrow's dinner, and when I'm done, I'll be glad I did. I have yet to Read More...
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Mr. Cerf's Christmas List


18 December 11 06:59 AM
An old-fashioned gum eraser ($0.45) New Jersey, like several other states, has an eraser problem--children in some districts have a bad habit of changing just about all their wrong answers into right ones. We're just clumsy that way. Mr. Cerf understands Read More...
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Top four gifts for your favorite science teacher


17 December 11 10:43 AM
Here are a few inexpensive "toys" that can make your favorite biology teacher a hero in her classroom! Crookes radiometer (~$8): Mesmerizing, and the science is just incomplete enough to keep everyone guessing how it works. Turns out it won't work in Read More...
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"We Can Do Better" propaganda than you


12 November 11 08:19 AM
Update: turns one co-founder is Christine Healey DeVaull; her Dad, Bob Healey, made a fortune selling luxury boats , and now shares some of it through the Healey Philanthropic Group, whose Executive Director is ~ta da~ Christine. She also was the ED International Read More...
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Scorecard


31 October 11 09:02 AM
Rajeev Bajaj runs Global Education Advisors , originally a "one person" company with grammar issues founded using Chris Cerf's home address . Hey, Steve Jobs started in his own garage, why not? GEA has gotten (so far) almost $2 million dollars of the Read More...
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Zuckerberg Friends Cerf


30 October 11 08:11 PM
Mark Zuckerberg donated a huge chunk of money, $100 million, to Newark, to help education. A few other people kicked in $48 million more. According to the Star-Ledger , ~$11,700,000 has been spent so far. Less than 65% of that money has gone to "school-based Read More...
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"Not even a real degree"


10 April 11 06:38 PM
Cerf said that only 22 percent of incoming high school freshmen in Newark ever graduate with a diploma, and even then "it's not even a real degree." Central High School, 2008--Bill Cosby spoke We have a problem. Newark has a long, proud, and complicated Read More...
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Embedding digital tech makes our children scientifically illiterate


19 December 10 05:27 AM
A Crooke's radiometer measures sunlight intensity, which sounds all scary and scientificy, until you see one in action. It's simpler than a Talking Elmo . The more intense the light, the faster the radiometer's vanes spin inside its glass bulb. It looks Read More...
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Uh-oh


18 December 10 08:06 AM
Turns out Sue Ohanian beat me to the punch in her Outrages blog. N.J. education czar nominee appeals to union, Dems "...and is already being praised by educators." The Star-Ledger , front page today I'm a registered Democrat. I'm a card-carrying member Read More...
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