School Crossing: The Intersection of Education and Society

Provocative commentary on competing educational stakeholders and how their entrenched interests collide to obstruct the goal of world-class education in America. Includes teacher training and quality, curriculum design, teaching resources, Japanese education models, book reviews, practical teaching tips, more.

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Friday, July 30, 2010

Obama's Speech Riles Educators

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I read and listened to President Obama's speech to the Urban League defending RTTT. As "Master Educator" observed in the e...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Do Teaching Credentials Matter?

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EdWeek reported a recent study on the effectiveness of credentialed teachers which concluded that credentials do matter. Most of these ty...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Nothing Personal, Just Money and Politics

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In an article headlined, A Popular Principal, Wounded by Government’s Good Intentions, the New York Times tells the appalling story of a hi...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Yes, What About Student Accountability?

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Brian Toporek began by asking, “What About Student Accountability?” If college professors hold students 100 percent accountable ...
Friday, July 9, 2010

MacDuff: The New New Math

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ASUs Cognitive Instruction in Mathematical Modeling (CIMM), makes a huge claim: the ability to render “all the notoriously difficult” math...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Summer School: What's Old is New

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EdWeek is reporting that across the nation “dreaded summer school” is at risk. With summer having officially arrived this week, childre...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Storming Educational Barricades

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On June 22, 2010, the well-respected educator and sought-out Washington DC dinner party guest, Diane Ravitch, wrote, "Even privately m...
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