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Sunday, August 10, 2014

8-10-14 Answer Sheet

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Arne Duncan’s new ‘top advisers’
Throughout the first Obama administration and well into the second, many teachers and principals said they could not get a word in edgewise to Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his advisers, who plowed ahead with education reforms that many educators said blamed teachers for things that weren’t their fault and set up standardized test-based “accountability” […]




All Week @ The Answer Sheet 8-9-14
The Answer Sheet:All Week @ The Answer SheetThe difference between ‘complex’ and ‘complicated’ — and why it matters in school reform“Complex” isn’t the same thing as “complicated” — and the difference matters.  In this post, Stanford University’s Larry Cuban explains why in the context of school reform. Cuban was a high school social studies teacher for 14 years, a district superintendent (seven y