Obama supports bill to avert teacher layoffs
The $23 billion package would help avert cuts at schools nationwide.
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Posted at 6:30 AM ET, 05/17/2010
Why Obama, Duncan should have kept quiet about Rhode Island teachers
Lo and behold, several months after every teacher at a low-performing Rhode Island high school was fired so the school could get a fresh start, and after Education Secretary Arne Duncan praised the firings as an act of “courage,” and after President Obama declared that the firings showed a “sense of accountability,” well, after all of that, the teachers have been rehired.
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Posted at 10:00 PM ET, 05/16/2010
Does denying dreams help kids learn?
Denying children cherished prizes is a controversial part of the No Excuses model. The idea is to build self-restraint. It has had an impact. Former KIPP students, now adults, tell me that losing a year-end trip was the most dramatic moment of their middle school years. They are still trying to measure its influence a decade later.
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