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New Science Standards: Bound for Glory, or Running Behind?
Policymakers must look forward in setting science education goals rather than obsess about content mastery and testing.
May 23, 2012 - Education Week
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Dear Data, Please Make Yourself More Useful
Teachers should be involved in the design of the data systems they will use, Brad Phillips and Jay Pfeiffer write.
May 22, 2012 - Education Week
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Use Technology to Upend Traditional Classrooms
Schools should use technology to rethink education, not simply speed up what they do now, Justin Reich says.
May 22, 2012 - Education Week
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Unlocking Literacy for Intellectual Growth
Teaching students how to understand complex texts is critical to their cognitive development, writes Anthony Palumbo.
May 22, 2012 - Education Week
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Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste
Eli Broad writes that tough times in American education needn't spell doom.
May 21, 2012 - Education Week
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Push Back High School Start Times
The high school day should start later for public health and learning reasons, Terra Ziporyn Snider says.
May 15, 2012 - Education Week
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The Legal Cost of Improper Internet Censorship
Schools cannot block access to nonpornographic websites that deal with homosexuality, the ACLU's Joshua Block writes.
May 15, 2012 - Education Week
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The Ed.D. Dilemma
Harvard's move to a Ph.D. in education holds implications for the field, Ted Purinton writes.
May 15, 2012 - Education Week
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States Lack Capacity for Reform
Michael D. Usdan and Arthur D. Sheekey write that state education agencies are ill-equipped to handle reform, but the process of reauthorizing the ESEA could change that.
May 14, 2012 - Education Week
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Education and the Path to a Sexually Healthy Nation
Options for federally funded sex education programs must expand, four advocates write.
May 8, 2012 - Education Week

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