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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

This Week In Education: Thompson: Using Federal Education Funds To Bash Teachers

This Week In Education: Thompson: Using Federal Education Funds To Bash Teachers:

Thompson: Using Federal Education Funds To Bash Teachers

WhistleArne Duncan has remained silent as states like Tennessee, Florida, and Rhode Island promised collaboration with teachers and then launched assaults on the rights of teachers. Then Duncan supported Rahm Emanuel's use of taxpayers' money for the ultimate divide and conquer tactic of bribing "inviting" individual schools to break with the union there. Now, theCharlotte Observer reports that the Charlotte Mecklenburg schools have used


Quotes: Maybe It's Reformers Who Need Resilience Most

Quotes2Something] I’ve realized about recruiting really smart people [is] they've never truly struggled with anything... They’re used to working hard, and getting fairly immediate results and teaching doesn’t work like that. So it’s breaking them down mentally. - Max Bean


Video: PBS / POV Premiers "The Learning" Tonight

image from www.pov.orgIn addition to the Dan Rather Reports show on the testing industry tonight there's also going to be a PBS POV premier of a documentary called "The Learning" about four