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Entries from August 2008

Help me build a new progressive educational resource (and sign up for my new mailing list)

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Dear readers,
After poring over the shelves at bookstores and searching online with little success for progressive educational activity books, I’ve decided I need to create some myself. I’ve been very disturbed by the way the No Child Left Behind legislation has gutted arts, music, science, history, and cultural studies teaching and learning in U.S. [...]

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Comparing the McCain and Obama education plans

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

You may or may not know that I’m one of two contributing editors for Research, Academia, and Education at BlogHer. Recently I posted two articles that may be of interest to U.S. voters:
McCain’s education plan: interesting ideas and tired rhetoric
and
Obama’s education plan: visionary or delusional?
I favor the Obama plan. Click through to each [...]

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