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Blog Entries by Steve Nelson from 01/2011

Stop the Teacher Bashing Already!

| Posted 01.10.2011 | Huffington Post
Read More: Teachers' Unions, Assessment, National Assessment of Educational Progress, Teachers, Teacher Evaluation, Value Added Teachers, Huffington Post News

And we must reject the educational policies that tie teachers' hands and force them to treat their students like raw material on a production line.

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Keeping Our Children Silly -- A New Educational Mandate

| Posted 01.19.2011 | Huffington Post
Read More: Educational-Policy, Early Childhood Education, Grandparents, Play, Maturity, Ny Impact, Huffington Post News

As the head of a school in Manhattan I often speak to anxious parents seeking admission to pre-school. I often begin by asking them what qualities they most admire in others.

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Racing to the Top of the Cliff (and Beyond)

| Posted 01.28.2011 | College
Read More: Stress, Cognitive Science, The American Freshman: National Norms, Accountability, Neurobiology, Race to the Top, Cognitive Psychology, Obama Reform, High-Stakes Testing, Education Reform, College News

Will we ever learn? The latest evidence that the "Race to the Top" program leads over the edge of a cliff comes courtesy of the depressing results rep...

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