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''Through this plan we are setting an ambitious goal: All students should graduate from high school prepared for college and a career – no matter who you are or where you come from.'' President Obama, March 13, 2010 Mr. President, can we cut through the crap? I'm a retired pediatrician. A lot of children are damaged--some by bad luck, ...

We're testing this week, and I'm cranky. Correlation? We also believe that if we want to improve student outcomes, especially in high-poverty schools, nothing is more important than ensuring that there are effective teachers in every classroom and effective leaders in every school. Arne the Scarecrow, March 3, 2010 House Committee on Education ...

Like many teachers, for the past week I have been thinking about the Rhode Island high school that fired all of its teachers because the school repeatedly failed to reach NCLB standards. I don’t know much about the school, but I suspect I can guess what kind of school it is. I suspect it’s in [...]

I am reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee for the second time. I read The Mayor of Casterbridge for the last (in this lifetime, anyway--we're finite, you know) last week. Should I live another decade or two, Bury My Heart will be read again. Conquered cultures have few options--fight and be killed, or acquiesce, and lose your identity. The end ...

''This is the biggest erasure problem I've ever seen.'' Professor Gregory J. Cizek University of North Carolina Cheating Expert The poor have been accused of a lot of things, but this one takes Marie Antoinette's bakery to a whole new level. Georgia has an erasure problem--a closer look at Atlanta's results in Georgia's version of state testing ...

OK, this is a long one, mostly scattered thoughts written on a snow day, after reading The Mayor of Casterbridge for the last time. It's mostly for me. If you want to come along for the ride, bring a steaming Thermos of coffee. People degrade themselves all the time in order to make machines seem smart. Before the 2008 stock-market crash, ...

Vision: A quality science education fosters a population that...applies scientific knowledge and skills to increase economic productivity. 2009 NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards I am a science teacher, and occasionally a good one. I am certified by the state of New Jersey (Liberty and Prosperity), and paid by the Township of Bloomfield, ...

Poor little rich kid. Mr. Duncan is going to take a lot of flak for his Katrina komment, joining the Brownie School of Fixing by Diaspora, but he's already getting blog-flogged for that. No, I'm more interested in the psychology of Duncan Dogooder, trying to anticipate how much damage this poor little rich kid is going to inflict on public ...

Big news around here is that our school met the state's requirements for NCLB this year. Unless brain surgery becomes more advanced, though, we're doomed by 2014, as are all schools. We got the expected slew of emails: ''commitment'' led to ''lofty dividends,'' we have ''pride'' and ''satisfaction,'' and for the administration, this must be one ...

And so we're told this is the golden age And gold is the reason for the wars we wage Though I want to be with you Be with you night and day Nothing changes On New Year's Day U2, New Year's Day Leslie and I went for a long beach walk on New Year's, as we have for years, and as we will, God willing. I liked the first walk so much I went for another ...