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Newsweek’s “Best Schools” Propaganda Machine

by Professor Allen Quist Newsweek has once again released its “100 best high schools” feature article (May 26, 2008 issue). Newsweek has been highlighting similar stories on what it calls the “100 best” American high schools each spring since...

Education’s “Wag the Dog” Geniuses Lost

by Dick Kantenberger Guest Columnist EducationNews.org It is like someone shouted “FIRE” in a theater, but nobody moved. Is the theater empty? No, it’s full of people, but still nobody moved or even cared.We are losing hundreds of thousands, perhaps...

The Computer Delusion

There is no good evidence that most uses of computers significantly improve teaching and learning, yet school districts are cutting programs — music, art, physical education — that enrich children’s lives to make room for this dubious nostrum, and...

Becky Guinn’s Alabama Education Newsletter

What is the HOUSSE Model? The High Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation (HOUSSE) for Highly Qualified Teachers (HQT) is one method being offered to help Alabama teachers meet the HQT requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). Teachers who...