Category Archives: policy

Coffee Stains: How to talk about Religion in a Public School

March 18, 2008 – 9:32 pm

Hint: It’s really simpler than you think.
Let me tell you a story:
It begins yesterday when I’m listening to simply the best version of “Mack the Knife” (Sinatra and Buffet) in my 1993 Ford Escort Wagon heading north on US 33 South toward school. If you remember this version (and probably like other versions) there’s [...]

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Coffee Stains: A Confession about my Lanyard

February 12, 2008 – 9:10 pm

It was given to me from a former colleague’s husband who worked in DC when the love-years of NoChildLeftBehind were being birthed in the aisles of Congress. NCLB was the thing to rally behind, leaving no one behind. And yet, even though some knew that the emphasis on high-stakes testing was bad, the idea of [...]

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Entrenched Engagement

October 16, 2007 – 11:04 pm

Dale Dougherty ,writing for O’Reilly, tries to tease out some of the questions in how today’s technology can affect what is happening in the classroom:
Is it possible for education to be transformed by Web 2.0 thinking, if not Web 2.0 technology? How could it disrupt the entrenched educational bureaucracy and offer new, potentially better, ways [...]

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Technology On Mission

September 18, 2007 – 11:39 pm

When starting a business or a new venture, the common practice calls for interested and invested parties to articulate what will happen in the business. In days of old, one might have an idea, sketch out an outline, and then start doing the business. Today, though, we’ve come a long ways: today, we subject all [...]

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