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Diane Ravitch Dares To Keep Thinking

The only humans that can claim open-mindedness are the ones that take in all available information, ponder the hell out of it, and then decide what their opinion is. [ READ MORE ]

25 Edu Blogs Worth Reading

Karen Schweitzer has a guest post up at Learn Me Good, one of my favorite education blogs. The post is a list of 25 Edu Blogs Worth Reading, and Educated Nation is included, which is lovely. Lovelier still is having a new list of education blogs to peruse (because I can’t seem to get enough). [ READ MORE ]

The Future Of Education

This week’s Teaching Carnival is hosted by AcademHack. The theme is The Future of Education and is worth a thorough perusal. The most intriguing string of thoughts were Jim Moulton’s post about technology in education and what he observed on a recent trip as to India’s attitudes toward education (they are not effing around), and [ READ MORE ]

Home-Schooling Grows

At one time in the not-so-distant past, home-schooling was an option chosen mostly by parents who wanted their kids out of the mainstream education system for religious or moral reasons. As either a sign that parents these days are much more involved with their kids’ education, or that the education system in this country is [ READ MORE ]

Snow Day Productivity

Sometimes you have to just give up on getting any real work done. This was excruciatingly true yesterday and today, when Seattle had some “snow days,” (I use the term loosely). Seattle is a city with little or no annual snowfall, which means there’s not much by way of snow removal equipment. Also, Seattle is [ READ MORE ]

I Know How To Spell The Next President’s Name

I totally do. I know that Mr. Obama was NOT named after the structures military personnel sleep in. Too bad for me, I had (had, until yesterday) my effing word processing program (Microsoft Word, if anyone’s keeping score) in its default auto-correct setting. I’ve always had it set there because it probably came set like [ READ MORE ]

Carnival of Education

Week 161 of The Carnival of Education is up today over yonder at The Education Wonks–many amazing writings on and about education from the EduSphere. Sam Jackson hosted #160 last week. That boy is off at Yale—how does he have time to host a blog carnival? He probably needs a nap. Posted by Alexa Harrington[ READ MORE ]

Is College Necessarily Necessary?

It may not be the best time of year to bring this up. It’s conceivable that it’s the worst time: any and all students (college or otherwise) are completely burnt out; winter is cold and therefore miserable and expensive; the school year started way back in the fall and summer vacation is still so very [ READ MORE ]

Nine Worst Colleges in America

Yes, it’s another college ranking list, but this snarky / cheeky one really stands out. Radar Magazine Online recently put together a “semi-scientific guide to the most substandard schools in America.” Using a wide variety of sources, Radar took up the challenge of choosing which accredited 4-year colleges with physical campuses made the “dishonor roll.” [ READ MORE ]