Archive for the ‘Margaret Spellings’ Category
Monday, June 16th, 2008
Did you know that the Department of Education (ED) was started by President Carter in 1979? Before then it was part of the Department of Health and Human Services office. Almost immediately in the 80's President Reagan wanted to disband the new cabinet level department. He didn't, but when George ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Sen. Edward Kennedy has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Hopefully, he will fight it and beat it. Yesterday, Secretary of Eduation Margaret Spellings issued a statement on the situation:
"My friend Senator Ted Kennedy is a lionhearted champion for our nation’s schoolchildren. His decades of public service have inspired generations ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Did you know the Department of Education has a TV studio? No not PBS in the mornings, though many of those kids shows are funded in part by a U.S. Department of Education, No Child Left Behind grant. It isn't the Disney channel either, they don't need funding. They are ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
How far have we really come since we were told that our schools sucked? This is the question Margaret Spellings tries to answer in a press release this week (I don't think she put it in those words).
Have you ever actually read the article? The truth is I never read ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
I have to tell you I like the name of the Department of Education's recently launched web site, Doing What Works. Their recently added focus on Girls in Mathematics is not a bad place to start.
It is conventional wisdom that girls do better than boys in all areas up until ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
I don't know many teachers who support NCLB. Most good teachers assess their students informally everyday, with activities like warm-up, and class discussions. We then use formative testing in the form of quizzes or tests as often as every week. To have a year or more of education be crammed ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Not sure how I missed this. In any case, this serves as further proof that I am human. Hillary and I are part of the same species!
At a press conference this past Monday, US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced that the administration will move to a uniform graduation rate. ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Good Friday. Literally. Ever heard of a women by the name of Margaret Spellings? Don't worry. Neither did I. Until last night. I was in bed. Reading my US News Magazine. A much better read than this week's Star Magazine's cover story of "Stars without Makeup". Who needs makeup? I ...
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