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Advocating for All Children: An Interview with National PTA President Otha Thornton 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
When you think of the PTA, you might picture parents getting together to put on a fall carnival or bake cookies for teacher appreciation week. And while the National PTA does encourage teacher appreci...
Harnessing Public Opinion to Support the Common Core State Standards 22 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
By William Bushaw, Executive Director, PDK International Being a policy maker is a tough balancing act of both leading and listening. Get too far ahead of the public, and they won’t follow; listen to...
Changing Students' Lives Every Day Through Sport 21 Aug 2013 | 06:21 pm
By Brian Quinn, Manager of Youth Education & Unified Sports® for Special Olympics North America Project UNIFY Take a quick moment to think back to your high school experience. I did this recently, r....
A Search for Exemplar Schools 20 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
By Helen Soule, Executive Director, Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) Dana Elementary School is surrounded by apple orchards in the rural community of Hendersonville, North Carolina. Many of ...
Public Approval in the Face of Poverty 19 Aug 2013 | 06:38 pm
By Daniel A. Domenech, Executive Director, AASA: The Superintendents' Association A new school year is about to start. For the past five years, school systems have suffered the worst economic decline...
Will You Join the Supports-Based Education Movement? 15 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
By Joseph Bishop, Director of the National Opportunity to Learn Campaign and Executive Director of Opportunity Action Last week, New York education officials released scores from the first Common Cor...
Building a Strong Teacher Work Force 14 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
I recently attended an information-rich meeting sponsored by the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA), at which Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at the University of Londo...
The Class of 2030 13 Aug 2013 | 07:36 pm
By William D. Waidelich, Ed.D., Executive Director, Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) “I touch the future…I teach!” With these six words, Christa McAuliffe summed up a personal philosophy...
New ESEA Must Curb Federal Overreach 7 Aug 2013 | 02:25 pm
By Michael A. Resnick, Associate Executive Director for Federal Advocacy and Public Policy, National School Boards Association (NSBA) In the 12 years since the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was ena...
Why It Works: You Can’t Just “PBIS” Someone 5 Aug 2013 | 11:13 pm
You cannot just “PBIS” a child who happens to be misbehaving or acting out. That simple reality is probably one of the most important facts about Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS),...
