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Can schools be hard and equal? Marc Tucker with a global reality check: blogs.edweek.org/edweek/top_per… 7:01 AM May 23rd via TweetDeck
Nick Lemann says top-tier colleges are actually underpriced. Really? newyorker.com/talk/comment/2… 9:08 AM May 21st via TweetDeck
Morning coffee break: Mass H.S. teachers disco bomb their students! Hilarious. gawker.com/5910416/teache… 6:06 AM May 17th via TweetDeck
Who exhibited leadership & grace in a disaster in 2010-2011? Send nominations for RICK RESCORLA award to DHS by June 1 amandaripley.com/blog/call_for_… 1:03 PM May 11th via TweetDeck
NIce story on pernicious influence of sports in education. A huge difference btwn schools in US and smart-kid countries chronicle.com/article/In-Col… 3:55 PM May 9th via TweetDeck
"To learn French you must accept that you will be humiliated--you are helpless to stop it."--Ta-Nehisi Coates theatlantic.com/national/archi… 12:18 PM May 7th via TweetDeck
"Poor students have become more concentrated in schools with other poor students since 1998" Brookings study out today brookings.edu/papers/2012/04… 3:19 PM Apr 19th via TweetDeck
Titanic aside, it's better to be a man than a woman on a sinking ship. (But it's best of all to be a crew member.) amandaripley.com/blog/women_chi… 12:49 PM Apr 18th via TweetDeck
@DaniloBalu Fascinating! Thank you. Reading it now... 11:52 AM Apr 18th via TweetDeck in reply to DaniloBalu
"Until U.S. has improved teacher edu, its teachers cannot enjoy [Finnish-style] prestige, public confidence & autonomy" washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-s… 11:48 AM Apr 18th via TweetDeck
#Poland comes in No. 1 in girls' math Olympiad in Europe. Gratulacje! registration.egmo2012.org.uk/person?@template=scoreboard 1:11 PM Apr 16th via TweetDeck
Resilience is "ordinary magic." Alex Zautra @ NAF Defining #Resilience 10:20 AM Mar 23rd via txt
Come check out Liza Mundy's The Richer Sex on 3/20. What happens when women make all the money, honey? Sneak peek in DC newamerica.net/events/2012/th… 7:16 AM Mar 16th via TweetDeck
@mikko Kiitos, Mikko! Very kind of you. Hope all is well in Helsinki! 7:04 AM Mar 16th via TweetDeck in reply to mikko
OK, maybe French kids don't throw food. But how smart are they? Bringing Up Bebe revisited. amandaripley.com/blog/are_frenc… 11:18 AM Mar 6th via TweetDeck
Meet the characters from the book in living color. Documentary based on The Unthinkable airs on PBS this month. survivingdisaster.tv/air-dates/ 9:24 AM Mar 6th via TweetDeck
K8Nation @AmandaRipley KateNation is tracking food, clothing, shelters, and other resources to support #tornado victims. 1:37 PM Mar 3rd via web Retweeted by amandaripley
@theminglebbq Smart Kids out in Feb 2013. Sounds far away...but isn't! 9:17 AM Mar 6th via TweetDeck in reply to theminglebbq
U.S., Norway, Switzerland spend $100K/pupil from age 6-15; Hungary & Poland spend < half that amt, with same results oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.com/2012/02/all-th… 7:59 AM Feb 16th via TweetDeck
“[M]y American friends say, ‘The cafeteria is not nice.’ I don’t give a damn if the cafeteria is nice!” Great story... nytimes.com/2012/02/15/nyr… 7:38 AM Feb 16th via TweetDeck

Name Amanda Ripley
Location Washington, DC
Web http://www.Amanda...
Bio Time Mag, the Atlantic, New America. Author of The Unthinkable. Next book: Where the Smart Kids Are (2013)