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Should California Ax its New Transitional Kindergarten Program?
Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times / February 7, 2012 Updated 3/16/12 The state giveth, and the state taketh away. Or at least Gov. Jerry Brown is suggesting California taketh away its new...
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Preventing summer lapses in learning. A small Alabama district, now part of the national League of Innovative Schools, plans to send laptops home with students during the summer this year, in hopes of...
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We Don’t Judge Teachers by Numbers Alone – The Same Should Go for (Some?)...
In the Huffington Post yesterday, Fordham’s Mike Petrilli throws his support behind adding a UK-esque school inspectorate system into school accountability – a topic Craig Jerald explored in Education...
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“Truly satisfying.” Students talk about how they completed their prior-learning assessments, or PLAs. (Inside Higher Ed) Surprise degrees. An Ohio community college is calling former students who...
View ArticleQuick Hits: Valentine’s Day Edition
Higher ed, we only say this because we love you: Here are 100 ways you can be better. (National Association of Scholars) In search of the other half. myEdmatch is an online matching service that seeks...
View ArticleFunding Early Childhood Learning With ‘Stone Soup’
Working on early childhood education policy these days is exciting and frustrating. Exciting because research continues to document both the tremendous learning potential in young children and the ways...
View ArticleGoing for ‘Gold’ Can Set The Pre-K Bar Too High
Yesterday I wrote about the “Stone Soup” phenomenon in early childhood education—the pressure on many early childhood organizations to try to produce something out of nothing. But there’s an equally...
View ArticleBeyond ‘Stone’ and ‘Gold’ in Early Ed
Last week, I wrote about two frustrating lines of thinking in early childhood education: “Stone Soup“—the pressure for early childhood advocates to stretch limited resources so thin it undermines their...
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You’re not a princess. An all-female college prep academy in Kentucky has created an advertisement campaign that encourages girls to prepare for real life. The ads tell students that they are not...
View ArticleThe New First Grade: Kindergarten
Remember kindergarten? Remember the sand table where you poured and measured? The dress-up corner where you pretended to be a “community helper?” The science center where you explored with magnets and...
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