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Thanks to the encouragement of my friend, David Cohen, I've joined the small and mighty Twitter nation.  I can't say I fully understand how to use it to its full advantage as of yet.  But I'm willing to give it ...

I commented recently on an article for The Core Knowledge Blog about bottom of the line grade inflation. They reported that one North Carolina district was in discussions to make 61% the lowest grade rather than 50%.  That is, in ...

Sometimes, if you're lucky, you get a student who gives you a mug at the end of the school year. Sometimes, you even get a letter of thanks on a Teacher Appreciation Day.  And then there are the times (maybe) ...

In Education Week's article, "Busywork 101," Jay Solomon writes that the credential programs of today are a "seemingly endless journey through the abstract and the ridiculous."  He also claims that these programs aren't a conspiracy of arbitrary tedium.  I beg ...

Check out this kinda frightening prediction from early Time Magazine sources.  It seems that there is an attempt to create blocks of media packages starting as early as 2012 or earlier.  That is, very much like TV cable packaging, the ...

Here is a short Oral Presentation Rubric that I developed for my Teach the Teacher unit.  Haven't used it yet, but the students have heard all the terms and definitions before. I'll hand one out to each of the students to ...

Joanne Jacobs made me aware of a post from the Education Gadfly about the six main afflictions of teachers.  In a nutshell, they are as follows: 1. "An antiquated compensation system" 2. "A personnel system designed for the 1930s" 3. "A dysfunctional training-and-licensure regimen" 4. ...

So I posted a comment off of a D-Ed Reckoning article today.  The original post suggested that education research is wasted money and cited Reading First as evidence.  I commented that it wasn't research that was the problem; it was ...

So my colleague who currently teaches 8th grade Language Arts tripped on a cord, flew to the corner of a table and was momentarily knocked unconscious behind her desk today.  It was during her Honors class.

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