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Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
All too often these days, we hear certain buzz words: “personalized learning,” “individualized learning,” “customized learning.” Usually they are used all together, as in “personalized, individualized, customized learning.” Buyer beware! What these words…

Originally posted on WordPress.com Blog:
In our digital age, we interact with new technologies each day, yet some of us also pine for the past: we cherish handwritten things and value — even fetishize — physical objects. Posts like…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Sue Altman of the new and unaccredited EduShyster Academy notes the irony that Microsoft has finally abandoned its stack ranking system but the schools are stuck with it, thanks to the Gates Foundation…

Originally posted on Kimchi Latkes:
Dear Mouse, You went to a birthday party today and your father’s report was… well, not great.  It seems you spent most of the time being a barnacle on your daddy’s leg, despite the kind…

Originally posted on Dr. Rebecca Hains:
Boy with handbag: a menace to society? For several weeks, an eighth-grade boy outside of Kansas City has been expressing his individuality by carrying a floral-print Vera Bradley purse. But yesterday, his assistant principal…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Mercedes Schneider has identified 17 states where protests against Common Core standards are heating up, in some cases leading to a slowdown or cancellation of implementation. She writes: “Over one-third of the states…