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Charters: The Art Of Manipulating Oversight Boards
This Week In Education | 23 hours 49 minutes ago
"Without you saying anything to them, they will believe that they are responsible for making big decisions about budget matters, school policies, hiring of the principal and dozens of other matters." Imagine charter schools CEO Dennis Bakke in a recently revealed email about how to pick and manipulate charter boards. (Pick your board members carefully)
Blogs: Time To Get Out Of The School Reform Bubble
This Week In Education | 23 hours 49 minutes ago
Those inside the school reform bubble are pretty much solely focused on things like Race to the Top, mayoral control, and the like. But everybody else out there -- teachers, principals, parents -- is probably focusing on more mundane (immediate) issues like H1N1 and the gang rape of a teenage girl in Richmond, California. In Richmond Rape, One Teen Did The Right Thing Jezebel "I'm like 'We should call the cops because that's the right thing to do.' I didn't think about it twice." Richmond rap...
Duncan's Weekly Media Schedule: Let It Be Your Guide.
This Week In Education | 23 hours 49 minutes ago
Here's Duncan's media schedule for the week. Plan your days around it. Let it be your guide. It is the center of the education universe. There is nothing about it that is stale, empty, or without news value. What Duncan says and where he says it is vastly more important (and easier to cover) than anything going on in a real school, district, or statehouse. Ignore all other temptations. PUBLIC SCHEDULE OF U.S. EDUCATION SECRETARY ARNE DUNCAN THE WEEK AHEAD: Monday-Friday, Nov. 9-13, 2009 (All ...
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PBS Teachers Learning.now
PBS Teachers - The Learning.now weblog devles into the way educators teach and students learn is influenced by new technology and Internet culture. Technologies covered include: wikis, blogs, vlogs, RSS, podcasts, social networking sites and the Internet.
BoardBuzz blog
The BoardBuzz is a National School Boards Association weblog focusing on American education, and more specifically on important issues to school board members and to other public education advocates.
Are we doing anything today?
Word Girl is a blog where teachers provide other teachers advice, insights and recommendations.
EdWeek.org Blogboard
Teacher Magazine's look at what's new and noteworthy in educator blogs.
This Week In Education
A Scholastic blog with blogger Alexander Russo covering education politics, policy and trends.
Eduwonk.com
Eduwonk is a blog written by Andrew Rotherham, co-founder and co-director of Education Sector, an independent research and analysis organization.