James Baldwin said it best:
"For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."
A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAP
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5/28/2014 – Education Accountability We Can Believe In
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5-28-14 The Whole Child Blog — Honoring Maya Angelou's Call To Be Somebody's Rainbow — Whole Child Education
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The Arts | Deborah Meier on Education
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John Thompson: What Will Zuckerberg Learn From Newark? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
John Thompson: What Will Zuckerberg Learn From Newark? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: John Thompson: What Will Zuckerberg Learn From Newark?By Anthony Cody on May 28, 2014 9:47 AMGuest post by John Thompson.Dale Russakoff's New Yorker profile "Schooled" is a wonderful account of Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million investment in Newark school reform, and how and why it failed.
Morning Wink 5-28-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
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We will miss you Maya Angelou | Cloaking Inequity
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 5-28-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Help Sponsor Researchers to Study Failure of Vouchers in ChileProfessor Julian Vasquez Heilig of the University of Texas is trying to raise funding to take a research team to Chile to study the failure of the voucher progr. He needs your help. Tickets cost either $1,000 round trip or 30,000-60,000 frequent flyer miles. Please consi
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The Answer Sheet 5-28-14
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5-28-14 @ The Chalk Face
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James Baldwin said it best: "For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAPPaul Tough Explains Why 'Rich Kids Graduate; Poor and Working-Class Kids Don't' | John ThompsonPaul Tough Explains Why 'Rich Kids Graduate; Poor and Working-Class Kids Don't' | John Thompson: Paul Tough Explains Why 'Rich Kids Graduate; Poor and
