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Newest Olympic sport: Teacher bashing? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Newest Olympic sport: Teacher bashing? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:


10 most inaccurate school reform axioms

Below Dov Rosenberg lists what he considers the 10 most inaccurate and damaging statements that some school reformers toss around. Rosenberg, who loves to help teachers use technology, has been serving North Carolina public school students and teachers for 11 years as a teacher and instructional technology facilitator.
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Newest Olympic sport: Teacher bashing?

You all know about Michelle Rhee’s anti-teachers union organizationStudentsFirst. But do you know about Students Last? It’s a new blog with this as its operating principle: If you care about education, we would like to encourage you to stop.
Here is a satirical post from Students Last that is funny enough to make you laugh but sad enough to make you cry.
Dateline London
Even before the games have ended, officials are debating what events to include at the 2016 Olympics to be held in Brazil.
Olympic spokesman Javier Grendalino offered the short list of potential events to reporters yesterday during a press conference in London