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Thursday, August 7, 2014

8-7-14 Answer Sheet

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Ten ways to fix the mess that is kindergarten
I’ve posted a number of pieces recently about how kindergarten has been changing over the last decade or so. (See here, here, here and here.) Once a time for socialization and learning through play, school reformers have turned it into an academic exercise that, in some classrooms, leaves little or no time for play, recess […]


8-6-14 Answer Sheet
Answer Sheet: A lesson from South Korea: Student resistance to high-stakes testingEducation Secretary Arne Duncan has said repeatedly that the United States isn’t as serious about educating its young people as the South Koreans. It’s just one of the many things he has said in comparing the U.S. public education system with that of other countries. But is South Korea really the country we should be