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In a not-very-breaking story (far less shocking than the Al-Tipper split!), AP tells us that Maine applies for Race to Top school funds. They link to the MDOE’s Race to the Top website. There you’ll find the application ( 211 pages) and its appendix (386 pages). Of particular interest are application pages 34 to 37 (numbered 33- [...] We’re beginning with a new design this evening. This drops the “newsmagazine” format, which began to feel a bit cramped. and allows more space for the posts themselves. It’s slick, a little too slick, especially with the beautiful default pictures in the header, but over time we’ll make it a bit more homely! We’ve [...] Brian Hubbell at MDISchools.net has published Gordon Donaldson’s Report Card on School District Reorganization in Maine. Read it and weep! Juan Williams, a mild-mannered, slow-to-anger guy, gets angry about the hypocrisy of Obama and Duncan and Congress regarding the D.C. voucher program: This reckless dismantling of the D.C. voucher program does not bode well for arguments to come about standards in the effort to reauthorize No Child Left Behind. It does not speak well of the [...] The AP tells us that the White House reaches out to DC’s troubled schools Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the White House is reaching out to support the efforts of Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and schools superintendent Michelle Rhee, who are taking aggressive steps to turn around Washington’s struggling schools. “For far too long, D.C. schools have [...] There was a WW2-era (and later) catchphrase, common in my youth, but rarely heard today, “all quiet on the western front.” Yes I know the Remarque novel of WW1, a used-to-be high-school English standby; I’m speaking more of the phrase’s adoption in everyday speech. Here’s an extract from the Wikipedia article on the novel: The 1930 English [...] In Washington, there’s a new administration, an old bureaucracy, and pending legislation. There’s electricity in the air and, for some people, a thrill going up the leg. The former Secretary of Education offers some advice to the new guy in A Word to My Successor (WP, 1/13). It’s a little thick, if you ask me: I am so [...] |
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