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|  02/07/10 President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan call their $4 billion program of education reform grants the Race to the Top. A more accurate title would be the Race to Washington, because their program culminates a stunning decade in which school policy... READ FULL SOURCE |
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Other news07/05/11 U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan suggested in an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell last week that one thing that separates schooling in the U.S. from the top-performing countries is while the U.S. has focused more on smaller class sizes, other countries have zeroed in on teacher quality. "We spent billions of dollars to reduce class size. As a parent, we all love small class size ...
07/08/11 The National Education Association's representative assembly passed the following resolution during the convention that ended in Chicago this week. Hat tip to Education Week reporter Stephen Sawchuck, who covered the convention and dubbed the item the "13 Things We Hate About Arne Duncan." (Sawchuk reports that delegates voted down another item that would have required the union to call for ...
07/15/11 One of the frustrating things about being a teacher is that the people who make the big policy decisions about education often don't have much, if any, classroom experience. Even our Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, was never a classroom teacher. But 12 of the 13 authors of a new education reform book, Teaching 2030 , are current classroom teachers, and the smart thinking they share is a ... Hot themes this week:
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