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It’s Good to Let Teachers Choose, Too: Because One Size Doesn’t Fit All 0
- December 4, 2014
We often talk about the value of educational choice for students and parents, and rightly so. Less frequently do we strike the theme of the importance of letting teachers choose. As I am fond of doing, a spate of recent stories today presents me with the opportunity to tie this theme together with a big […]
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Thankful Not to Have Unions’ Political Spending Record, Long-Term Prospects 0
- November 25, 2014
‘Tis the week of Thanksgiving, which allows me the chance to express my gratitude about many things. One of those is that I didn’t spend nearly $70 million on the 2014 elections and yet lose so badly, as the two national teachers unions did. The holidays are supposed to be a time of reflection. Yes, […]
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Buckle Up for the Ride, Colorado: The Testing Issue Isn’t Going Away Soon 0
- October 24, 2014
Tests in schools, tests in schools. Why do I have a strange sort of feeling this issue isn’t riding off quietly into the sunset any time soon? First, we’ve got the entire hot mess known as Common Core (or maybe we should just follow Governor Hickenlooper’s advice and rename it “Colorado Core”?) and the new […]
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More Research Could Highlight Real Promise of Blended Learning 0
- September 23, 2014
Today seemed like a good day to get out of the hot kitchen and look at a topic I haven’t addressed in awhile: blended learning. You know what I mean. According to the Clayton Christensen Institute, it’s: a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online learning, with some […]
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Empire Strikes Back against School Choice in Courts; Don’t Give Up!0
- September 11, 2014
A couple days ago I tossed out a Star Trek reference. Today, it’s going to be a Star Wars metaphor. I hope this doesn’t cause any sort of Sci-Fi universe catastrophes, including but not limited to wormholes, disturbances in the Force, or ripples in the space-time continuum. All that setup to talk about the Empire […]
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Michigan Judge Calls Out Union Opt-Out Policy as Unfair to Teachers 0
- September 5, 2014
My dad once told me a story about when he was a little kid, not much older than I am now. He saw one of the bigger kids on the school playground holding a few of the smaller kids’ lunch money hostage. This bully said he had taken their money for the privilege of being […]
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