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The real wall of separation in public schools

by Valerie Strauss

Contentious battles about school prayer and how much religion should be a factor in what students learn in school are heating up across the country. These are important discussions, and here’s what’s going on in a post written by Adam Laats, who teaches in the Graduate School of Education at Binghamton University in Binghamton, N.Y., where he is an assistant professor of history and director of the university’s Center for the Teaching of American History.
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Bill Clinton’s ‘big ideas’ for education

By Valerie Strauss

Here’s a video of Bill Clinton talking about “big ideas” in education — here in the United States as well as internationally — at the Aspen Institute’s Idea’s Festival earlier this year.

Some of what he says may surprise people who think he would have taken a very different reform road from President Obama.

For example, Clinton notes that in the audience are billionaires Eli and Edy Broad, whose foundation has donated many millions of dollars to support the opening of charter schools. Clinton said that the “Broad Foundation has probably spent more money than anybody in America, maybe even including the Gates Foundation, trying to improve public education in America, so you ought to ask him what he thinks when I

A new Finnish lesson: Why gender equality matters in school reform

by Valerie Strauss

Finland’s Pasi Sahlberg is one of the world’s leading experts on school reform and the author of the best-selling“Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn About Educational Change in Finland?” He also write a provocativepost for this blog on what the United States can’t learn from Finland when it comes to school reform.
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