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Effective Leaders
Education Secretary Arne Duncan tells charter school advocates that they need to make sure poor performing schools close.
Effective Teachers
Chris Lehman from the public Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, lets his students talk about how they’re faring in “education 2.0″:

“Teachers in the age of Google have one thing left to teach, and that is wisdom.” […]

As you watch this talk by author Clay Shirky, consider what he is saying through an education lens. He’s talking about Twitter, media and China’s efforts to censor the Internet. But, think about “professionals” (teachers) and “amateurs” (students) and their relationship, then and now. Consider the following questions: What is the education […]

Since we missed last week, we’re publishing two this week.
Effective Leaders
Iowa State Professor Scott McLeod compiled this list of podcasts (audio and video) for school leaders. In the video below, David Warlick talks about moving from “education 1.0,” which prepared our students to work in straight rows, doing repetitive tasks under close […]

Effective Leaders
Rising Above IQ: NYTimes columnist Nicholas Kristof looks at success in three groups: Asian-Americans, Jews and West-Indian blacks:
What’s the policy lesson from these three success stories?
It’s that the most decisive weapons in the war on poverty aren’t transfer payments but education, education, education.
This Business Week article talks about moving beyond NCLB to […]