April 29th, 2011 by Imogen Radcliffe |
I’ll say at the outset that as an outsider to Colorado politics, I am not an expert on the candidates who are running to be the next mayor of Denver. But as a lifelong educator who has studied urban school issues for decades and helped create and implement successful reforms in Cincinnati and other cities, [...]
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April 28th, 2011 by Milla Rodgers | Tags: Workshop
International Falls school Superintendent Jeff Peura attended a grants workshop conducted by U.S. Sen. Al Franken’s office for education leaders in rural Minnesota April 20. The workshop, hosted in Mountain Iron by the Northeast Service Cooperative, was held to give educators insight into future federal, state and foundation grants opportunities and the grant-seeking process. “A [...]
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April 27th, 2011 by Milla Rodgers | Tags: Students Weigh, Weigh
In a letter to University of Texas System regents, student leaders from the systems flagship campus, UT Austin, weighed in on the recent political dustup over the direction of higher education in Texas. The students professed support for both technical and soft research, a declaration aimed at a cadre of reformers who believe research is overemphasized in academia, and that much [...]
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April 24th, 2011 by Imogen Radcliffe | Tags: Education Research, Research
Last month, Ednews editor Alan Gottlieb published a in which he shared a vision that can only be called bleak. In the piece, he describes a meeting where education researchers and policymakers sat down in an attempt to reconcile their differences – apparently to no avail. “Ultimately we will never have a system that approaches [...]
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