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The debate over Education Secretary Arne Duncan's speech at AERA—and the protests it engendered—continues. […]

Researchers at the University of Minnesota are studying how to measure executive function as a foundation for early-school-readiness. […]

Think education research has a tendency to get politicized now? Congress is debating ways to increase its own control over the National Science Foundation's peer review process, a move that could put a serious chill on the study of controversial education and other public interest topics. […]

Educator and blogger Monica Burns gives a quick tour of her favorite iPad apps for integrating online content into her current events lessons. […]

From PBL to ZBL, Edutopia blogger Andrew Miller explores a new twist to project-based learning: the pedagogical benefits of Zombies! […]

Chris Park of the New York Life Foundation and Dr. David Schonfeld of the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement offer five tips to help teachers deal with grieving students. […]

By Allan Alach One of the zillions of overseas websites that I follow includes a weekly ‘Secret Teacher’ blog. It strikes me that there maybe many teachers out there who have very strong feelings about educational matters in their own country, but who are naturally afraid to speak out due to employment matters. Having been hit by the clobbering machine mysel […]

I am going to keep this posting simple.Pro Charter SchoolsThe Charter School movement is gathering momentum and schools need to be aware of the pros and cons - and to share this awareness with their Board of Trustees and their parents generally.First watch John Banks of New Zealand being positive about Charter Schools in this video clip.  ( 7 minutes)Then a […]

By Allan Alach One of today’s items discusses the myth of lagging US schools, and, as I noted in my introduction, this equally applies to schooling in other countries. This is no coincidence, and is consistent with the practice of disaster capitalism (Naomi Klein). This either takes advantage of various disasters in order to impose neo-liberal policies (blan […]