The CEA Blog will continue to bring you edu-blogosphere news to interest, excite and amaze for the summer. In this edition, the United States Department of Education “flip-flops”, a Pennsylvania superintendent resigns for an unbeliveable reason, Teach For America fails to account for $775,000 in spent federal grant money, learn the 5 things you need to know about [...]
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Diplomas Count, an annual report produced in conjunction with Education Week and Editorial Projects in Education (EPE) was released today, measuring high school graduation rates across the nation. Additional information for each state and each U.S. congressional district was also included in the study. The class of 2005 was the most recent graduating class to [...]
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It’s not April 1st, nor has this site become affiliated with The Onion. Teachers in Zimbabwe were awarded over a 1,000% raise, bringing their lowest paid teachers’ salary up to $63 billion (Zimbabwe dollars) per month.
Keep in mind that inflation is raging in Zimbabwe at roughly 1.7 million percent (though the government estimates it’s currently at [...]
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Summer is a time for change for both teachers and students. The CEA Blog would like to wish the following teachers a fond farewell; they’re leaving their current teaching assignments behind, and leaving the profession temporarily, if not permanently.
Click on the jump below to learn more about them and to read excerpts of their farewell [...]
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Impeachment in Pennsylvania, recess tag reinstated, manipulated by manipulatives, a principal volunteering to work for $1 and benefits, the hammer as NCLB, DC directives and NCLB changed to NCCLU.
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Eduwonkette is the pseudonym for an as-yet unidentified education blogger who “takes a serious, if sometimes irreverent look at some of the most contentious education policy debates”. Eduwonkette posts on her eponymous blog at Education Week.
Over the past month, the education world has wrangled over the legacy of A Nation at Risk. Some love it. Others [...]
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Leo Casey is Vice President of Academic High Schools in United Federation of Teachers in New York City. He is a frequent contributor to Edwize, the UFT Blog.
Criticizing A Nation At Risk is akin to spearing fish in a barrel. A document filled with extravagant hyperbole and vast unsupported generalizations, it is a target rich [...]
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When you ask Ohio Governor Ted Strickland who has left an indelible mark on who he is today, he’s quick to answer.
“The most important influences in my life have been teachers.”
“Teachers have incredible power and monumental influence. What’s most important…is that (teachers) need to be respected by the government.”
Governor Strickland has begun to speak publicly [...]
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Ed Muir is Assistant Director of Research for the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and a frequent contributor to Let’s Get It Right, the AFT’s blog.
Fewer Talking Points, Less Accountability Run Amok, but Fewer Standards Too
What if a nation at Risk hadn’t happened? My first thought is that there would be hundreds fewer education reports and analyses [...]
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The blogosphere has been awash recently with posts about the 25th anniversary of “A Nation At Risk” (ANAR). For the uninitiated, ANAR was a report received by President Ronald Reagan that American schools were lacking compared to other nation’s educational systems. Without reform, the report said, American students would be in a race– for the [...]
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