Do You Know What Textbooks Your Children Are Really Reading?
FOX News
September 4, 2009
Diane Ravitch is quoted in an article on the content of children’s textbooks.
Some Schools Will Block or Delay Obama’s Live Pep Talk for Students
Washington Post
By MICHAEL ALLISON CHANDLER AND MICHAEL D. SHEAR
September 4, 2009
Diane Ravitch is quoted in an article on President Obama’s back-to-school message to students.
The Schools Don’t Make the Grade
NBC
By GABE PRESSMAN
September 4, 2009
Diane Ravitch uses baseball terms to explain the dramatic improvements in New York City public schools’ progress report grades.
Critical Thinking? You Need Knowledge
Boston Globe
By Diane Ravitch
September 15, 2009
THE LATEST fad to sweep K-12 education is called “21st-Century Skills.’’ States - including Massachusetts - are adding them to their learning standards, with the expectation that students will master skills such as cooperative learning and critical thinking and therefore be better able to compete for jobs in the global economy. Inevitably, putting a priority on skills pushes other subjects, including history, literature, and the arts, to the margins. But skill-centered, knowledge-free education has never worked.
How to Build an MCM Award-Winning Website
Multichannel Merchant
September 17, 2009
Multichannel Merchant covers senior writer Tim Parry’s interview with Steve Spangler Science’s chief operating officer Jeff Brooks about what it takes to create an award-winning e-commerce site.
The Charter School Problem: Results are much less positive than a new study suggests
NY Daily News
September 27, 2009
Charter schools are not a panacea for our education problems. The recent study by Caroline Hoxby of Stanford University concludes that disadvantaged students who attended charter schools in New York City for nine years, from kindergarten through eighth grade, can close most of what she calls the “Scarsdale-Harlem achievement gap.” Hoxby does not say how many students completed nine years in a charter school - a key detail, as the city had only about a dozen small charters in 2000.
Bridging Differences
Education Week
Diane Ravitch
September 27, 2009
Diane Ravitch debates education policy with Deborah Meier in EdWeek blog posts.
Girardi promotes reading to NYC children: Yanks pair with PENCIL to support ‘Read-a-thon’
MLB.com
September 29, 2009
Michael Haberman, PENCIL’s President, is quoted in an article highlighting the Yankees’ new partnership with PENCIL to serve as literacy mentors for Public School 35 in New York City.
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