I visit my local library every weekend to select a stack of books for my classroom students, and usually I can't help but slip in one or two for myself. This week one book caught my attention -- a shiny photo-journalistic book about the plight of migrant families.
November 13, 2010: Closing the talent gap: Oregon educators respond
The Oregonian asked six people around the state who are knowledgeable about teacher recruitment and training to read and react to the Paul Hihn-Matt Miller essay on the best-performing educational systems in the world. Their comments:
August 16, 2011: Rigor and individualism: Finding the path to academic success
Sometimes an issue resides at such an underlying, fundamental level that it manages to elude proper scrutiny. This is the case with the ubiquitous drive towards higher standards in our public schools, best encapsulated in the axiom, "If you present students with higher standards, they will rise to the challenge."
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