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Education Week Teacher: How Jay-Z Can Help Us Remix Education
Article in edweek about innovation (using rap music and Jay-z as the interesting backdrop) and wrapping up with a well needed discussion about teacherpreneurship.
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Teachers see change coming in Common Core State Standards | ajc.com
Article about Georgia Dept of Ed rollout of common core standards and their self admitted botched rollout of state standards several years back. The worst issue from my discussions with Georgia Public school teachers was the attempt at Math I, II, III, an attempt to combine Algebra, Geometry, Trig and Statistics. Not only did the teachers complain but so did parents. I know of several math teachers who quit over this. This is what happens in experiments like this. Standards sound great but who writes them? What happens when they are cumbersome? Look at technology standards which many (including me) think are way too heavily influenced by industry.
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Emory student charged in New York SAT test cheating case | ajc.com
How many schools would have the integrity to investigate discrepancies in the sat. An Emory University student flew home several times to take the SAT for six students who paid him more than $1k a piece to take the test, according to charges filed this week.
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This service is another that I am seeing people use to help manage overburdened email accounts or for people like me who teach all day.
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/29/2011
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