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  Kelly Gallagher, educator and author of Teaching Adolescent Writers, came and spoke to the UCI Writing Project on Friday and his focus of the presentation was a Golden Line: The Goal in Education is "Everybody Improves."   Duh, you say, isn't ...

I've been reading a lot of headlines lately about NCLB leaving out the over-achievers and potential leaders in our schools.  Joanne Jacobs mentions it in her article, "What About the Smart Kids?" and the NYTimes and the Common Core blog ...

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 ...

Look, we all know the statistics.  Many of the hardest-to-teach classes are being taught by the least experienced teachers.  According to Education Week, a study was recently conducted in Philadeliphia evaluating 9th graders, "the make-or-break year for many students on ...

The New York Times (3/23) reported, “Connecticut Schools Confronting Proficiency Demands,” But I say this: “3 is a Magic Number.”  Our government cannot successfully run without the Judicial, Legislative, and Executive Branches and their success is definitely not 100%.  My health ...

Maybe it’s time that education outsourced our brainstorming.   Maybe it's time that we listen to people outside of education brainstorm what to do inside of education. Check out The Opinion page of USA Today for February 13.  In it, various authors ...