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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 9-10-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Jersey Jazzman Corrects Pundit Jonathan AlterA few years ago, I “debated” Jonathan Alter on a Denver radio show but soon realized that I had entered a zone where facts were irrelevant because Alter’s mind was made up. He loves charter schools. He thinks testing and accountability are the answer to the deep problems of education. He

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9-10-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online: Norm Does Something Right in Hot YogaAfter 15 years I did something well enough, Anita Ruderman took my photo doing Camel. Actually, now that I look it is not really right, but I'll take it.By this time I've already lost about 5 pounds. Don't worry, they were back a few hours later.1 by ed notes online / 43min hide // saveGodspell Opens This Friday in RockawayWith a great cast,

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9-10-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: When Teachers Marry Police Officers- Reflections on Race and Neighborhood Culture

With A Brooklyn Accent: When Teachers Marry Police Officers- Reflections on Race and Neighborhood CultureDuring the controversy over the teachers who wore NYPD shirts to work in protest against their unions participation in the Staten Island March mourning the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, numerous commentators noted, correctly, that it is quite common in New York City for teachers to m

by mike simpson / 8min

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Chicago principals: If you want poor performing, filthy schools, privatize

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Chicago principals: If you want poor performing, filthy schools, privatize: Chicago principals: If you want poor performing, filthy schools, privatizeChicago principals don't think so.If you want schools that dominate the bottom quartile, privatize their management. And if you want dirty, filthy schools, privatize their custodial services. That seems to be what

by mike simpson / 10min

9-10-14 Jersey Jazzman - @BobBraunsLedger is Right About the Newark Teachers Union & One Newark

Jersey Jazzman: @BobBraunsLedger is Right About the Newark Teachers Union & One NewarkLet me start this piece by reiterating one of the primary missions of this blog: I am pro-teacher and pro-union. I believe this country was better off when we had more union membership, and I believe teachers are better positioned to advocate for themselves and their students when they form unions.I am also s

by mike simpson / 12min

9-10-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: On a shoestring Teachout gets 35% of the vote in NY. Good morning Rahm. In yesterday’s New York’s Democratic Party primary election for governor Zephyr Teachout received nearly 35 percent of the vote against the incumbent governor, Andrew Cuomo. For my Illinois friends, Zephyr Teachout was the progre

by mike simpson / 15min

The Whole Child Blog — Hope, Meaning, and Challenge: The Building Blocks of Motivation

The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education: Hope, Meaning, and Challenge: The Building Blocks of MotivationTeachers know that engaging and inspiring students initially requires building positive relationships and creating relevant learning experiences. Yet other key actions also matter: setting realistic expectations, creating a needs-satisfying classroom, and teaching students to self-evaluate

by mike simpson / 17min

NYC Educator: The Name Game

NYC Educator: The Name Game: The Name GameOn day one I had mixed results with a young woman who didn't belong in my class. On Friday my supervisor caught up with her and a few others, and had them placed in more appropriate classes. But I'm gonna miss her. One of the big challenges I face as an ESL teacher is learning names. These days, our largest group is from China, and despite years of experie

by mike simpson / 24min

9-10-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Interactive Map: “100 Years of Unrest”100 Years of Unrest is an interactive map that has: tried to gather information on social unrest throghout last century. Protests, uprisings, rebellions and revolts, civil wars, wars for independence, revolutions were mapped. Mapping events in time has enabled to follow hotspots or temp

by mike simpson / 25min

Cutting to the core of Jindal’s flip-flop on aligning schools with national standards | The Lens

Cutting to the core of Jindal’s flip-flop on aligning schools with national standards | The Lens: Cutting to the core of Jindal’s flip-flop on aligning schools with national standardsOPINION By C.W. Cannon, Contributing writer 22 MINS AGO PRINTDonKeyHotey/flickrGov. Jindal was all for the Common Core — before he was against it.Bobby Jindal came into office hoping to “go down in history

by mike simpson / 27min

9-10-14 Wait What? - Malloy’s Big Lie on Student Financial Aid

Wait What?: Malloy’s Big Lie on Student Financial AidYesterday, Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy traveled around the state to brag about his record and plans “to make higher education more affordable.” Malloy stopped at various colleges and universities to release his “three-point plan to help families afford a higher education.” Malloy’s press statement read; “At a series of events in New Britain, D

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9-10-14 Schools Matter All Week

Schools Matter: Outraged at the coreSent to the Washington Post, September 9, 2014The Post says that progressives are "uncomfortable with the role of the Gates foundation and new tests associated with the (Common Core) standards" ("Common Core 2.0: Common Core by another name," Sept. 10).Uncomfortable? More accurate would be "outraged." Outraged not only at Gates' rol

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9-10-14 @ The Chalk Face

@ THE CHALK FACE: About the radio showJoin Drs. Shaun Johnson and Tim Slekar LIVE Sundays at 6PM EST and Wednesdays at 7PM EST on Blog Talk Radio for progressive, pro-public education talk radio. Call in to speak live with Tim and Shaun during the show, (805) 727-7111. You can also listen to our Monday "Sunday-Replay" at 7PM EST, and re-broadcasts of the archives every Tuesday and Thursd

by mike simpson / 37min

9-10-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness

the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): Language Arts: Grading in a Perfect WorldLanguage Arts: Grading in a Perfect World September 2014 See p. 34 for my response1 by plthomasedd / 1h 9-9-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindnessthe becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the

by mike simpson / 39min

empathyeducates – ‘Chiraq’: Facts and Fictions – How These Affect Our Children

empathyeducates – ‘Chiraq’: Facts and Fictions – How These Affect Our Children: ‘Chiraq’: Facts and Fictions – How These Affect Our ChildrenDuring a memorial service on July 20 in Chicago, Audry Miller mourns granddaughter Shamiya Adams, 11, who was killed by a stray bullet. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Chicago’s ‘murder capital’ rep stretches the truth.By Salim Muwakkil | Originally Publis

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9-10-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: Cuomo Will Be Governor But He Will No Longer Be KingMatt Stoller on what the primary results mean for Cuomo:Andrew Cuomo will be Governor, but his career is over. Cuomo will win in November. He will govern for another four years, or until he is indicted. But he will not hold another elected office, because he has proven himself a very good machine boss but a very bad candida

by mike simpson / 42min

The First Step in Student Data Tracking. Your District’s Student Information System. | Missouri Education Watchdog

The First Step in Student Data Tracking. Your District’s Student Information System. | Missouri Education Watchdog: The First Step in Student Data Tracking. Your District’s Student Information System.inShareWe will be writing more in the next few weeks about the data gathering and tracking of children at school, how it is gathered and where it goes for ‘research’. The first gathering point of st

by mike simpson / 45min

Franklin Roosevelt on the Role of Government to Protect the Public | janresseger

Franklin Roosevelt on the Role of Government to Protect the Public | janresseger: Franklin Roosevelt on the Role of Government to Protect the PublicPosted on September 10, 2014 by janressegerDuring a recent driving trip across the country, my husband and I sometimes felt we were threading our way across a map of American consumerism: McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Subway, and even Pita Pit. It can be argued

by mike simpson / 47min

9-10-14 Hemlock on the Rocks

Hemlock on the Rocks: Los Angeles Unified School Districthttp://home.lausd.net/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=178743&type=d&pREC_ID=367410 Los Angeles Unified School District Dr. John E. Deasy's Bio Dr. John E. Deasy is the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest school district. In this role, Dr. Deasy leads the thousands of teachers, administr

by mike simpson / 49min

Lessons of 9/11: Closer to the Heart | WagTheDog

Lessons of 9/11: Closer to the Heart | WagTheDog: Lessons of 9/11: Closer to the HeartSchools should be in the “business” of creating diverse and stimulating learning environments and experiences where a child’s academic, athletic, artistic, social, and emotional skills and desires are free to flourish and thrive.We should prepare our children to be thoughtful, caring, resilient, and responsible l

by mike simpson / 51min

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: A real-estate and hedge-fund concern that happens to have a college attached

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: A real-estate and hedge-fund concern that happens to have a college attached: A real-estate and hedge-fund concern that happens to have a college attachedAnnie Lowrey writes in NY Mag:There's an old line about how the United States government is an insurance conglomerate protected by an army. Harvard is a real-estate and hedge-fund concern that happens to have a coll

by mike simpson / 8h

PARCC and SBAC States Agree to Deliver Student-level Data to USDOE | deutsch29

PARCC and SBAC States Agree to Deliver Student-level Data to USDOE | deutsch29: PARCC and SBAC States Agree to Deliver Student-level Data to USDOESeptember 9, 2014In September 2010, two assessment consortia “won” federal Race to the Top (RTTT) money for the “design, development, and evaluation of the assessment system” known as Race to the Top Assessment (RTTA): The Smarter Balanced Assessment Con

by mike simpson / 8h

Does Bill Gates Think Teachers are All Miss Trunchbulls?

Does Bill Gates Think Teachers are All Miss Trunchbulls?: Does Bill Gates Think Teachers are All Miss Trunchbulls?SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 BY NANCY BAILEY LEAVE A COMMENTAt school there’s Miss Trunchbull, two hundred menacing pounds of kid-hating headmistress. Get rid of the Trunchbull and Matilda would be a hero. But that would take a superhuman genius, wouldn’t it?From Matilda by Roald DahlDoes Bill Ga

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Pedagogy First (A Note on Elizabeth Green's Building A Better Teacher) | The Jose Vilson

Pedagogy First (A Note on Elizabeth Green's Building A Better Teacher) | The Jose Vilson: Pedagogy First (A Note on Elizabeth Green’s Building A Better Teacher) SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 JOSE LEAVE A COMMENT 19 0 0 19 0Every so often, I love reading other folks talk about standards without any current teachers present in their conversation. Even a cursory read of education history in this country sh

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Our leaders, the kids | Bob Braun's Ledger

Our leaders, the kids | Bob Braun's Ledger: Our leaders, the kidsStudents rally around the statue of Lincoln outside the Essex County CourthouseNewark’s political and organizational leaders will, I know, scoff at this but, right now, the leaders of the struggle against “One Newark” and the privatization of public education are the hundreds of high school students who early this morning marched fro

by mike simpson / 8h

Foundation still determined to eliminate future pension plans for Oklahoma teachers | Red Dirt Report

Foundation still determined to eliminate future pension plans for Oklahoma teachers | Red Dirt Report: Foundation still determined to eliminate future pension plans for Oklahoma teachersBrett Dickerson / Red Dirt ReportBobby Stem (at the end of the table) leads the conversation while struggling to gain support.BRETT DICKERSON | SEPTEMBER 9, 2014CATEGORY: RED DIRT NEWSOKLAHOMA CITY -- An informal m

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State Board of Education Appeals - Resources (CA Dept of Education)

State Board of Education Appeals - Resources (CA Dept of Education): State Board of Education AppealsResources for submitting an appeal to the California State Board of Education.If the governing board of a school district denies a petition for the establishment of a charter school, the petitioner may elect to submit the petition for the establishment of a charter school to the county board of edu

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Nite Cap 9-9-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT

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 CAP9-8-14 Wait What? - Governor Malloy’s record on state funding for public schoolsWait What?: Governor Malloy’s record on state funding for public schoolsA blog post that highlights the problem (see the Part I) and starts to lay out the solution (s

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9-8-14 Wait What? - Governor Malloy’s record on state funding for public schools

Wait What?: Governor Malloy’s record on state funding for public schoolsA blog post that highlights the problem (see the Part I) and starts to lay out the solution (see Part II.) PART I: The problem Malloy’s record on state funding of public schools. Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy likes to brag that he has increased funding for Connecticut schools. While he did raise taxes, in part […] The post Go

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9-9-14 LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD

LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District): Teachers union ups pressure on Deasy over technology, contractTeachers union ups pressure on Deasy over technology, contract President of UTLA, Alex Caputo-Pearl With a new contract on the line, the LA Unified teachers union, UTLA, is stepping up its attack on Superintendent John Deasy, blaming him for pr

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-9-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: CORRECTION: Credit where credit’s dueby smf In last Sunday’s 4LAKids newsletter I wrote: “Congressperson Maxine Waters argued that this moment demonstrates the victory of the Right Thing over Big Money ….and also the triumph of the collective/united “We” over the politics of “I". And, in a ‘Maxine really didn’t say that, did she?’ moment: ‘The fina

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9-9-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: What's Wrong With Minneapolis Schools

With A Brooklyn Accent: What's Wrong With Minneapolis SchoolsAs someone who has followed events in Minneapolis Schools for some time, I am not surprised by this author's comments. Well financed School Reformers who see Charter Schools and Teach for America as the path to educational equity have dominated school planning in Minneapolis. But having revolving door teaching staffs largely drawn from o

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9-9-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness

the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): Authoritarian v. Authoritative: “With great power comes great responsibility”The Peter Parker/Spider-Man myth—like most in the ever-reshaping and rebooting world of comic book super heroes—has spun a slightly inaccurate but powerful catch-phrase around Peter’s Uncle Ben:

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U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky: Proof that legislators exist who serve the needs of people (pro-education, pro-teacher, pro-senior issues, etc.) | Reclaim Reform

U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky: Proof that legislators exist who serve the needs of people (pro-education, pro-teacher, pro-senior issues, etc.) | Reclaim Reform: U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky: Proof that legislators exist who serve the needs of people (pro-education, pro-teacher, pro-senior issues, etc.)Posted on September 9, 2014by Ken PrevitiDuring this period of shock and awe attacks by legislators who s

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Educational mobility starts to slow in industrialised world, says OECD

Newsroom - OECD: Educational mobility starts to slow in industrialised world, says OECD09/09/2014 - Access to education continues to expand worldwide but the socio-economic divisions between tertiary-educated adults and the rest of society are growing. Governments must do more to ensure that everyone has the same opportunity to a good education early in life, according to a new OECD report.Educati

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NYU professor Dr. Diane Ravitch | Interviews | Tavis Smiley | PBS

NYU professor Dr. Diane Ravitch | Interviews | Tavis Smiley | PBS: NYU professor Dr. Diane RavitchThe former U.S. assistant secretary of education weighs in on how to reform the American public school system.Education historian and NYU professor Diane Ravitch is a prominent voice in education policy debates. She was appointed to office in the administrations of Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bil

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New guide to instruction in Common Core for ELs :: SI&A Cabinet Report

New guide to instruction in Common Core for ELs :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet: SEPTEMBER 09, 2014New guide to instruction in Common Core for ELsby Alisha Kirby(District of Columbia) English learners will better meet the rigorous outcomes set by the Common Core State Standards if language development and general education teachers work toge

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REPA III – Deprofessionalizing Education | Live Long and Prosper

REPA III – Deprofessionalizing Education | Live Long and Prosper: REPA III – Deprofessionalizing EducationON BEING A PROFESSIONALThis weekend Anthony Cody posted the following video on his new blog site…The three minute talk by Visiting Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at Howard University, Denisha Jones, speaks right to the heart of the matter of allowing (or encouraging) people t

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9-9-14 Hemlock on the Rocks

Hemlock on the Rocks: LAUSD Codes of Conduct WITH STUDENTS Explicatedby Rene Diedrich / 3min Ratliff Meets Ratliff in a Rare Look at Educratic Fashion Statements and the Political Trends Predicted for Next SeasonI hope Monica Ratliff is tenacious about the release of the report on iPad Ethics l she could shed a light in many things if she is thorough and earnest. If she can usher in true change

by mike simpson / 15h

Howard Fuller: A civil rights warrior or billionaire’s tool? - The Washington Post

Howard Fuller: A civil rights warrior or billionaire’s tool? - The Washington Post: Howard Fuller: A civil rights warrior or billionaire’s tool?Howard Fuller — seen here in 1970 at the Malcolm X Liberation University, which he founded — has had many roles in a lifetime of struggling for civil rights and to promote education. He has a new book about his life: “No Struggle, No Progress.” (Perry Ayco

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An F for Arkansas’ Plan to Grade Schools | EduSanity

An F for Arkansas’ Plan to Grade Schools | EduSanity: AN F FOR ARKANSAS’ PLAN TO GRADE SCHOOLSSEPTEMBER 9, 2014 CGOERING COMMENTSIn one of what is surely many of the education policy issues that has escaped my consciousness and cursor until recently is a plan to rank all schools in the state of Arkansas on an A to F rating system. I thought about this for approximately zero seconds before it rang

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Pearson Tests v. UT Austin’s Associate Professor Stroup |

Pearson Tests v. UT Austin’s Associate Professor Stroup |: Pearson Tests v. UT Austin’s Associate Professor Stroup Last week Jason Stanford of the Texas Observer wrote an article, titled “Mute the Messenger,” about University of Texas – Austin’s Associate Professor Walter Stroup, who publicly and quite visibly claimed that Texas’ standardized tests as supported by Pearson were ﬂawed, as per their

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Pearson Tests v. UT Austin’s Associate Professor Stroup |

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When Edu Sharks Attack! | EduShyster

When Edu Sharks Attack! | EduShyster: When Edu Sharks Attack! At the intersection of business and education policy lurk the *sharks*…Reader: have you ever found yourself binge watching Shark Tank and thinking that if anyone has the cure for our failed and failing public school it’s the sharks? Why, just the smoldering gaze of billionaire Mark Cuban is enough to spike achievement rates. And what if

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Student Voice in a Box: Week 5

Student Voice in a Box: Week 5: Student Voice in a Box: Week 5Setting up a Student Voice Friendly Classroom EnvironmentWhen setting up your classroom to be as conducive to student voices as possible, it’s good to set clear guidelines for what is expected of students and for teachers. Student Voice has put together an example set of guidelines — take a look and adapt these to your classrooms as you

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9-9-14 Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Pa. Republicans flog Corbett's Common Core call as politics, not policyWant to boil the blood of some Pennsylvania voters? Utter four words: "Common Core State Standards." For those leery of all things federal, all things Obama, the push to align academic expectations on a consistent, nationwide basis causes heart rates to rise exponentially. This wee

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Why do we do what we do? | My Island View

Why do we do what we do? | My Island View: Why do we do what we do?September 9, 2014 by Tom Whitby @tomwhitbyHow much of what we do as educators is done because that’s the way it’s always been done? I imagine that whenever these things, that we do out of a respect for history, were originally executed, there was probably a reason for it. My question is with our society and all of the systems withi

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America’s Unspoken Education Issue: Black Kids Need Black Teachers Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública

Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública: America’s Unspoken Education Issue: Black Kids Need Black TeachersA new historical account is just the latest reminder that relying on white teachers to save black students has never been enough.By: Melinda D. AndersonPosted: Sept. 9 2014 - theroot.com “Hiring more white teachers is not the best way to improve education for student

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9-8-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Tuesday Open Thread on WednesdayAck! Melissa usually does this. Sorry I muffed it.Here is your Tuesday open thread just one day late.Did anyone attend the Curriculum and Instruction Policy Committee meeting? Can we get a report? Has anyone seen the draft policy for Advanced Learning?What else is going on?by Charlie Mas / 1min 9-6-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

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Poems By and For Teachers: What Teachers Make (Taylor Mali) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Poems By and For Teachers: What Teachers Make (Taylor Mali) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Poems By and For Teachers: What Teachers Make (Taylor Mali)The following brief resume is taken from Taylor Mali’s website:Mali is a vocal advocate of teachers and the nobility of teaching, having himself spent nine years in the classroom teaching everything from English and history to

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Morning Wink 9-9-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTS9-9-14 Answer SheetAnswer Sheet: Strauss: Michelle Obama’s shout-out to Khan AcademyThe Obama administration keeps expressing its admiration for Khan Academy and its founder, Salman Khan. Last year, Khan, who started the now-famous Web site that offers thousands of free videos for students in a range of subjects, interviewed Education Secretary Arne Duncan

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