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Shouldn't Every Child Have an Education Like the President's Daughters'?

Gerald Bracey | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Test-Prep, Education, Post-Modern, Sidwell, Duncan, Obama, Tests, Interdisciplinary Curriculum, Politics News
Gerald Bracey

The president sends Malia and Sasha to a post-modern school focused on the personalization of learning. Isn't it time that every family in the nation has the same opportunity?

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Breaking Free of the Urban Education Plantation

Gerald Bracey | Posted 09.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Harlem, Geoffrey Canada, Educational Reform, Bruce Smith, Richard Gibboney, Obama, Duncan, Politics News
Gerald Bracey

I don't think that Geoffrey Canada has found the "ideal intervention" for Harlem kids (he'd be on his way to Oslo to get that Nobel if he'd done that), but I think his model is the way to go.

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Obama and Duncan Champion Test Abuse

Gerald Bracey | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Testing, Test Abuse, Obama, Duncan, Politics News
Gerald Bracey

The President and his Secretary of Education want to use existing tests, willy-nilly, to evaluate teachers. They should both be ashamed.

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On Education, the Obama Administration Veers Off Course

Gerald Bracey | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Education, Obama, Statistics, Duncan, Assumptions, Data, Misinterpretation, US Education, Obama Education, Naep, Politics News
Gerald Bracey

How can the Obama administration get it right in education when its data are all wrong and its assumptions about its faulty data are flawed?

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A Solution to the Education Dilemma

Deborah Emin | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Teachers Union, Duncan, Education, Politics News
Deborah Emin

This solution, which is simple, cheap and easy to do in every school, will insult or anger many people. But, I can tell you that this will work and will solve more problems than it creates.

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Looking Deeper Into Obama Education Pick's Accomplishments

Alexander Russo | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Arne Duncan, Education, Obama, Teachers, Schools, Barack Obama, Obama's Cabinet, Department of Education, Rod Paige, Duncan, Chicago News
Alexander Russo

Like Bush's Education Secretary pick Rod Paige, Arne Duncan comes from a big city with a success story that the national press failed to figure out was mostly a mirage.

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