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This Is the Moment
by Karin Chenoweth on October 6, 2010
This is the moment when the education field can prove its mettle. Public interest in schools and the political will to improve them have never been higher. If we don't seriously increase the knowledge and competence of today's students, we may bequeath to our children and grandchildren a nation in decline.
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Bias in the SAT?
by HER Board on September 27, 2010
Seven years ago the Harvard Educational Review published an article that inspired great controversy, fiery rebuttals, and highly technical debates. What was the big deal? And why does it matter today?
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The Little Engine That Could
by Nancy Walser on September 15, 2010
When Helen Featherstone agreed in 1985 to be the editor of a new newsletter based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, there was no such thing as e-mail, listservs, Google, RSS feeds, or Twitter.
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If Schools Can’t Spend More, They Need to Spend Differently
by Nathan Levenson on September 13, 2010
The recent debate over the president's jobs bill centered on how many teachers would be rescued from layoffs. Little or no discussion was heard about which jobs mattered most. Could anyone have dared suggest adding new positions by cutting existing staff even deeper? This might be heresy, but it is necessity.
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The Media Savvy Educator: How to work with the press to educate the public about schools
by Nancy Walser on September 1, 2010
Former Washington Post reporter Linda Perlstein has written about education for 12 years. As the public editor for the Education Writers Association (EWA), she now advises journalists assigned to cover schools for local and national media outlets, and writes “The Educated Reporter” blog for EWA. She is the author of Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade and Not Much Just Chillin’: The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers. Perlstein talked to Harvard Education Letter editor Nancy Walser about how educators can work with journalists to improve coverage of schools.
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Not by “Value-Added” Alone
by Douglas N. Harris on August 25, 2010
Publicly reporting test scores for entire schools is one of the more positive and logical educational innovations in recent years. Perhaps this is why someone at the L.A. Times thought it might be a good idea to take this one step further and report scores for individual teachers. Or perhaps someone just wanted to make headlines. Did they succeed?
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The “Boy Crisis”: Beyond Reading to Relationships
by Dr. William S. Pollack on July 27, 2010
Michael Sadowski makes some extremely thoughtful points about what growing numbers of scholars and the popular press have come to refer to as a "crisis"in boys' ongoing academic failure in American public schools. Sadowski argues that we must go "beyond gender" to the highly potent embedded contexts of social class, ethnicity, and race.
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Can "Learning for Jobs" work in the U.S.?
by Nancy Hoffman on May 28, 2010
Across today's developed countries, educators, policymakers, and economists recognize that the new "knowledge economy" demands different, higher-level skills than the 20th-century high school or upper secondary school provided.
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Is Teach For America a Learning Organization?
by Marya R. Levenson on April 14, 2010
I applaud Dick Murnane's focus on how we can foster the growth of schools as learning organizations. Murnane reminds us that tackling the improvement of the K-12 education of America's most disadvantaged children will require that we see the multiple pieces of the puzzle. Instead of relying on one simple approach, we need to step back and frame some large research questions.
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Beyond the Bullies: Bystanders and Instigators Enable Aggression
by Denise Wolk on April 7, 2010
Bruce Springsteen refers to high school as the "glory days" in one of his popular songs, and he regrets that the high school years pass by so quickly. Yet the sad truth is that high school is a far cry from glorious for children and youth experiencing bullying and harassment.
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