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Entries by Justin Snider from 10/2010

Newsflash: We Need Fewer, Not More, College Grads?

| Posted 10.15.2010 | College
Read More: Jay Mathews, Steven Levitt, Freakonomics, Stephen Dubner, Charles Murray, College Board, College, College News

One surefire way to get people's attention is to say the exact opposite of what everyone else is saying -- to claim that conventional wisdom is wrong. And sometimes, of course, conventional wisdom is wrong.

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Education Insiders: No Lasting Impact of "Waiting for 'Superman' "

| Posted 10.19.2010 | Huffington Post
Read More: Errol St. Clair Smith, Jay Mathews, BAM Radio Network, Waiting for Superman, Valerie Strauss, Arne Duncan, Charter Schools, Diane Ravitch, Davis Guggenheim, Harlem Children's Zone, Education Reform, Geoffrey Canada, Barack Obama, Huffington Post News

There's no silver bullet that will magically (and quickly) cure all of our educational woes. Real reform, which is to say meaningful and lasting reform, happens incrementally much of the time.

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Building Castles in the air: Visionary Leadership

| Posted 10.29.2010 | Impact
Read More: Vision, Leadership, BAM Radio Network, Dwight Eisenhower, School Leadership, Henry David Thoreau, Margie Carter, Holly Elissa Bruno, Valora Washington, Impact News

Why aren't there more visionary organizations and leaders? How can a leader find a clear, compelling vision?

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