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I was reading Nancy Flanagan's blog, Teacher in a Strange Land, for theTeacher Leaders Network.  Apparently, her hometown paper reprinted a recent article she wrote for her blog some time ago.  The letters mailed in reaction to her opinions about competition in ...

 Well, CSTs are around the corner.  You can hear them coming from a mile away, huffing and puffing like an overweight uncle trying to keep up at a family picnic.  They burst onto the scene with great academic hysterics. We ...

Today's Sacramento Bee is reporting a new movement to promote fitness. For 500,000 unfortunate students out there in many districts, the new rule is: if you fail 5 out of 6 PE standards in 9th grade, you have to re-take PE in ...

In today's LA Times article, "California Public Schools Seek Private Money Just to Cover the Basics," the paper reported that many families are being asked to dip into their pockets to cover the fundamental supplies and necessities for their child's education. ...

I just read Joanne Jacobs article, "Odd Ducks" that very wisely asked the question: "Is there less room for odd ducks in today's schools?"  I believe that in the world of standardized testing, there cannot be recognition for true quirkiness, because "standardized," ...

The article, "Build Schools, Not Prisons,"  from the ASCD Community blog reports that the Brookings Institute has compiled a Top 5 list of interventions that impact "additional graduates," those strategies that seem to prove the most effective in lowering the drop-out rates ...

Student-made films are nothing new.  In 6th grade, I, for one, wrote, directed, and starred in a brilliant re-creation of the epic tale of the Greek myth of Narcissus complete with a leap into a very unheated pool at the ...

Today I found myself staring red-eared-angry at a survey from my school's Discipline Committee asking teachers what they believed to be the Top 5 crimes committed on campus and the varying degrees that they needed to be dealt with.  On ...

So, I commented on Dave Saba's American Board site but I wasn't sure if it posted so I thought I'd post it here.  In response to his article about the number of different jobs the average 18-40 will hold in a ...