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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

School Tech Connect: "Almost Irrelevant"

School Tech Connect: "Almost Irrelevant"

"Almost Irrelevant"

--William J. Mathis, on the adoption of national standards.

Chester Finn is going to spend the rest of his career bemoaning how incompetently the standards are implemented by the states. And in the states that put on the best dog and pony, he's going to bemoan the way teachers are teaching the new curriculum in areas of high concentrations of

Judging The Kids

The one thing that has never been clear to me is whether or not Randi Weingarten gets it. Here she is in theTimes piece, apparently fretting over the recent Obey proposal:

Game Changer

I've decided that, moving forward, anyone who uses the phrase "game-changer" is a dunce.