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'Micro-Society' Schools Tackle Real-World Woes
As economists across the country discuss how to reduce the massive federal deficit, they might consider soliciting the advice of a growing number of young citizens whose daily lessons focus to a surprising degree on complex fiscal matters.
PAGE 18 - Commentary
Classroom Structures That Really Count
In order to get an emergency teaching license in New York City 25 years ago, I had to take an education-methods course in which the professor demonstrated how to pass out paper. At first I thought it was a joke. Not being experienced in educationese, I was not aware that professors of education did not kid around.
PAGE 28 - Commentary
Can We Make Light Bulbs From Candles?
For nearly a half century I have watched and participated as one school reform effort after another soared briefly over the horizon and then fell back to earth as awkwardly as a wounded sea gull. Little residue remains of those endeavors except that deposited upon the innovators and designers who conceived and profited from the idea.
FOUNDATION SUPPORT: Coverage of specific topics in Education Week is supported in part by grants from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the CME Group Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the NoVo Foundation, the Noyce Foundation, the Raikes Foundation, the Wallace Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation. The newspaper retains sole editorial control over the content of the articles that are underwritten by the foundations. Additional grants in support of Editorial Projects in Education’s data journalism and video capacity come from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and the Schott Foundation for Public Education. (Updated 1/1/2017)

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