Monday, March 9, 2009

State's new math rules force textbook purchases

School districts throughout Michigan may see their costs multiplying after a recent decision by state education officials to standardize the math that students must learn.

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The long road back

The long road back
The English High School, a historic icon and once one of Boston's premier learning institutions, has become one of the city's worst schools. This year, it must improve or face closure. This story is the first of several about the students, teachers, and headmaster at English as they try to reverse the school's troubled course.

The Failure of Good Intentions

The Failure of Good Intentions
World Politics Review was kind enough to run a brief opinion piece on one of the many ways I see Afghanistan faltering under the U.S. military’s institutional rigidity. A snippet: Interviewing village and community elders in Central Afghanistan can reveal a tremendous amount about what Afghans believe are the country’s most urgent problems. Security is certainly among them. One of the few lessons from Iraq that is applicable to Afghanistan is the pressing need for more troop presence, off o

University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE

ZaidLearn provides another valuable update to his omnibus listing of free educational resources for higher education. ____JH

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"In short, this post is about smashing all free University learning related OCW and OER resources and collections discovered into an all-in-one (sounds like shampoo!) quick-to-access/find juicy compilation. Hopefully, it will satisfy my thirst for quick access to free University learning related content. Interestingly, this post will be a dynamic one, meaning that I will continue to update (and revamp!) it as I discover, or others share ideas and recommend new oceans of free knowledge."
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