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  1. RT @thelastpsych: The real significance of “Mad Men”: Draper's kids would be 56 today. Look around.
  2. D.Ravitch: “Obama ed. vision…is a business plan, designed by people who know 0 about schools and care 0 about evidence -http://bit.ly/17QJui
  3. Study: PowerPoint induces boredom (http://bit.ly/1TCikJ), maybe b/c it just tarts up lectures. Still transmitting info to passive recipients
  4. Have been searching – so far in vain – for any data to confirm conventional wisdom about “overparenting” being more common now than in past
  5. In 1 of his last arts., Bracey took 5 pars. to demolish the canard that stud test scores predict a nation’s eco health: http://bit.ly/2FRNhM
  6. We know it doesn't help learning, but here's more evid. that merit pay doesn't even raise test scores: http://ping.fm/jQafe (RT @stevekatz)
  7. My short published response to the school librarians’ assn’s “Standards for the 21st-Century Learner”: http://bit.ly/2JXC2y
  8. State NAEP scores unrelated to supposed quality of state standards or stringency of state tests: http://bit.ly/2GJiSG
  9. Making kids read x pgs, or for y mins, a night turns reading into a chore. Former book lovers now ask “How many more mins do I have to...?"
  10. We want toddlers to walk, use the potty, do more on their own. Yet we don’t push teens to grow up: C’mon! Start driving & have sex already!
  11. "Be patient": Interesting reflections on Maine’s repeal of a law saying everyone, not just straight people, can marry: http://bit.ly/4z6kLM
  12. The country that right wingers ‘want back’ is a white one where their exclusive entitlemt to the exercise of power is unchallenged –G Younge
  13. 11 states cutting open-response test Q’s to save $, adding more mult.choice while acknowledging its inadequacy –GAO via Ed Week
  14. From the archives: “Feel-Bad Education: The Cult of Rigor & the Loss of Joy” -- http://bit.ly/18CTh9
  15. Young women ask me how to balance work & family; we’ll have made progress when young *men* ask me –Gloria Steinem…in 1979
  16. Not just merit pay for tchrs: revw of 57 studies reveals failure of incentive-based compens throughout the publ sector: http://bit.ly/1o28ef
  17. Why do people think public ed is bad, but like THEIR kid’s schl? A. Duncan: b/c “too many don’t understand how bad their own schls are”!
  18. Onion headline: "Obama's Declaration of Swine Flu Emergency Prompts Pro-Swine-Flu Republican Response"
  19. What should high school be like? The wisdom of the late Ted Sizer in this 2000 podcast interview: http://bit.ly/3zqsx6
  20. Headline in Harvard Lampoon’s parody of USA Today: “Chromium Is Heaviest Metal, Poll Finds”