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Ready or Not, Here They Come: National Standards in Education

When I first heard rumblings about a possible move towards national K-12 education standards (made by Education Secretary Arne Duncan and AFT President Randi Weingarten), I was definitely in favor of the idea. The Fordham Institute had just released a study demonstrating the tremendous variance in academic standards between states, and I couldn’t believe that a student who, for example, got a top score on a standardized test in one state might not even be able to pass the equivalent test g

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This post was written by Career Training on September 25, 2009 Comments (0)

Michael Mulgrew is elected president of teachers union

(via GothamSchools Flickr) The executive board of New York City’s teachers union elected Michael Mulgrew its new president today, an event that has been widely expected since Randi Weingarten said she would resign to focus on national issues. Union members will get a chance to vote in a formal presidential election in 2010, when Mulgrew will run for the position he now holds. Weingarten nominated Mulgrew for the position and, with the backing of the union’s largest party, the Unity caucus

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This post was written by Career Training on July 29, 2009 Comments (0)