Education Week: Four Flawed Assumptions of School Reform:
"The good news: Despite the economic downturn, the U.S. Department of Education is stoking the development of a multitude of initiatives that might help improve schools. The bad news: Many of those initiatives still focus on the same flawed assumptions that have undermined education reform efforts for years. These assumptions reflect a simplistic view of what it takes to improve schools, and they contribute to the repeated failure to address the basic conditions needed to sustain long-lasting improvements in schooling."
Every Tech Tool in Classrooms Needs Ruthless Scrutiny (Jessica Grose)
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Just as school boards and administrators evaluate carefully every item
placed in classrooms from the size of windows to furniture to whiteboards
to textboo...
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