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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.

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 ...

This week I’m in Wickenburg, Arizona, a small western town I’ve been going to for quite some time with my family, and it got me thinking about an artifact I picked up a few years back at an estate sale ...

Well, Halleluah.  The Chicago Tribune reports that finally somebody thought long and hard to themselves about differentiating the NCLB-designated failing schools.  Good for them.  It's only been years that teachers have been chanting differentiation in the schools, and it's about time that ...