Wednesday, February 26, 2014

2-26-14 The Answer Sheet

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Chicago charter schools expel many more kids than district schools — new data
New data released by the Chicago Public School system reveals that the city’s public charter schools — whose expansion has been pushed by  Mayor Rahm Emanuel for several years — expelled about 12 times the number of students last year than did traditional public schools. The Chicago Tribune reported that in 2013,  charter schools with a total […]    


Education reform and the corrosion of community responsibility
The law of unintended consequences essentially states that individual and government actions always have some unintended consequences. In the following post, Arthur H. Camins writes about the unintended consequences of many education reform policies. Camins is the director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. […] 
They were once teachers
View Photo Gallery —The “Duck Dynasty’’ patriarch, Britain’s Princess Diana and Jon Hamm of “Mad Men” fame: These notables and others spent time leading a classroom.    
2-25-14 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: The forgotten factor in student achievement: the studentWill Fitzhugh is the founder and editor of The Concord Review, believed to be the world’s only English-language quarterly review for history academic papers by high school students. The Review, founded in Massachusetts in March 1978, comes out four times a year and has  published more than 1,000 history research papers — wit