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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries

Dave Eggers offers simple and elegant advice for dealing with the decline in U.S. Education: make teaching a more attractive profession.

Stand and Deliver

More than 25 years after Jaime Escalante's Garfield H.S. students inspired a Hollywood script, Jay Matthews challenges teachers across the country to pick up where they left off, by encouraging all interested students to take AP exams.

Advanced Leadership Initiative

Harvard University's Third Stage education, taking adults at the top of their fields, and opening up its campus/resources to them as they develop a "social purpose project."

The Rubber Room

A 2009 New Yorker article discusses "the battle over New York City's worst teachers."

Performance, Feedback, Revision

Baba Brinkman performing an excerpt from "The Rap Guide to Evolution," live at the Hammersmith Apollo.

The Right Lesson About Trayvon

Lisa Armstrong, in the Atlantic, on the conversation all of us need to be having with the children in our lives.

Theatrevolution

Jaan Whitehead challenges us to explore new avenues in creating and funding theatre.