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Entries by Steve Nelson from 03/2011

Money Talks -- Too Much!

| Posted 03.08.2011 | Huffington Post
Read More: Class Size, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Met, Value-Added, A. Alfred Taubman, Teacher Assessment, Huffington Post News

The Gates group's approach to educational reform is nearly guaranteed to kill whatever good remnants of teaching and learning remain in America's beleaguered schools.

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Suing Preschool and Getting into Harvard -- Not

| Posted 03.21.2011 | Huffington Post
Read More: Sat, York Avenue Preschool Lawsuit, Suing Preschool, Education, College Boards, Nicole Imprescia, Huffington Post News

This is just one more example, albeit an entertaining one, of an educational world gone mad. And, I'm afraid to say, members of the Ivy League and other selective schools are to blame.

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Child Abuse Takes Many Forms

| Posted 03.31.2011 | Huffington Post
Read More: New York DOE, Longer School Year, KIPP Charter Schools, School Days, Central-Park-East-Schools, Huffington Post News

And so thousands and thousands of little kids will sacrifice huge chunks of childhood in service of this ill-considered nonsense. It is heartbreaking to think of what these policy-makers are doing to children.

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