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September 11, 2009
Remainders: D.C. teachers’ union contract talks close to finished
- Teenagers who don’t remember 9/11 think of it like any other history lesson.
- Parents sound off on the value of preschool gifted and talented programs.
- Leonie Haimson elaborates on her call for the state to withhold funds until the city reduces class sizes.
- The Ford Foundation is supporting a new education coalition critical of standardized testing.
- Want higher reading test scores? Listening to music could help.
- A Maryland policy group recommends letting teachers contract individually with school districts.
- Washington, D.C.’s own teachers’ union contract negotiations may be near an end.
- California’s state budget cuts will trickle down into the curriculum.
- Checker Finn wonders if we should just give up on education reform altogether.
- And several L.A. preschool teachers accidentally got stoned at school.
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September 14th, 2009 10:32 am
re: parents sound off on g/t preschool:
The poll’s question “Since research shows…” is loaded and pretty crappy journalism. It’s one book, one excerpt, not all research. The way it’s worded, one would get the impression that it’s the definitive in research on gifted-and-talented programs.
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