Tuesday, October 23, 2007

From Scholarship to Public Policy at the American Studies Association

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The American Studies Association (Philadelphia, October 11-14) organized a session called Democratic Vistas: How Can American Studies Schola...
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Monday, October 15, 2007

Payday for NCLB?

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NCLB has entered its fifth year, the year that its draconian sanctions are scheduled to take effect. But almost all of the schools serving p...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007

The Pod People

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Schools are struggling with students who bring their iPods to school. But some schools are joining the iPod generation rather than fighting ...
Sunday, October 7, 2007

"Howl" too Hot to Handle: NPR Pulls Plug on Reading for Fear of FCC Smashdown

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"Fifty years ago today, a San Francisco Municipal Court judge ruled that Allen Ginsberg's Beat-era poem "Howl" was not ob...

Okinawans Protest Cover-up of Mass Murders and Suicides in History Textbooks

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Japan is revising its school social studies textbooks to cover up mass murders and suicides of Okinawans imposed by the Japanese military be...
Friday, October 5, 2007

Albert Shanker, The Little Rock Nine, and More

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Jennifer Jacobson, Assistant Editor of the American Educator, writes: I came across the blog of the Dewey Society's Commission on Social...

Five Rules For Bloggers

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The Primary Task of Social Issues is to encourage scholars and educators to communicate with concerned publics about social, cultural and e...

Frederick H. Burkhardt, 1912-2007

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Frederick H. Burkhardt, a pragmatist philosopher who served as the general editor of the collected works of William James and co-editor of T...
Thursday, October 4, 2007

The Memory Business

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"Bud the Teacher" is a wonderful and widely viewed education blog. http://budtheteacher.typepad.com/ Many teacher blogs link to i...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Diane Ravitch Urges Major Overhaul of NCLB

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Diance Ravitch has an op-ed article in the New York Times today urging major overhaul of NCLB. Her proposal is first, to abandon the silly r...
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