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Monday, August 4, 2014

8-4-14 Answer Sheet

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It’s innovative, but is it really better?
The word “innovative” is invoked a lot to describe school reform policies that are alleged to be improvements over what existed before. But is innovative inherently better? Arthur H. Camins answers the question in the folowing post. Camins is the director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at the Stevens Institute of […]




8-3-14 Answer Sheet
Answer Sheet: Fact-checking Campbell Brown: What she said, what research really showsFormer CNN correspondent Campbell Brown appeared on The Colbert Report last week in her role as head of the new Partnership for Educational Justice, an advocacy organization that is supporting seven parents in a lawsuit against New York State’s teacher tenure laws. (Supporting may be underestimating what the group