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Joel Klein vs. those status quo apologists - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Joel Klein vs. those status quo apologists - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Joel Klein vs. those status quo apologists

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This was written by Aaron Pallas, professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. It appeared on the Sociological Eye on Education blog that he wrotes for The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, non-partisan education-news outlet affiliated with the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media. Pallas has also taught at Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Northwestern University, and served as a statistician at the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education.

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Academic skills: Important ‘only if they make us more human’

This is a speech given by early childhood development expert Nancy Carlsson-Paige, a professor of education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Ma., when she won the Embracing the Legacy Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps for work over several decades on behalf of children and families. Carlsson-Paige is author of “ Taking Back Childhoodand the mother of two artist sons, Matt and Kyle Damon.


Here’s Nancy Carlsson-Paige’s speech:

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