Education Writers Assocation Meets In Chicago This Week
Hundreds of education writers -- and the folks who try to get them to write their stories -- are going to be in Chicago this week for the Umpteenth Annual Education Writers conference. Speakers include Michelle Rhee, the new District of Columbia education
chancellor, and Steve James, director of the award-winning documentary,
Hoop Dreams. Sessions will look at pay-for-performance for teachers,
gender and brain research, the hidden costs of college, college sports,
and other topics. UFT
president Randi Weingarten, Chicago schools CEO Arne Duncan, researcher
Sabrina Laine and Denver teacher Margaret Bobb will explore
pay-for-performance and merit pay. Researcher Sandy Baum and US PIRG
higher ed expert Luke Swarthout will look at the hidden costs of
college. National
Association for Single Sex Public Education president Leonard Sax and
neuroscientist Lise Eliot will break down the issue of what brain
research says about gender and learning. Click ewa.org to get all the details.
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Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 8:34 AM
Education Writers Assocation Meets In Chicago This Week
So, what have the attendees been talking about at this conference? Anything interesting from Chicago media people?
Mon Apr 28, 2008 at 1:39 AM
Education Writers Assocation Meets In Chicago This Week
I got one of those national awards from Ed Writers more than 20 years ago, before the group became part of the cheerleading section for "standards and accountability" and high-stakes testing. Their annual meetings are briefings on how to praise privatization and attacks on public schools, and their writings today are filled with much of the most vile teacher bashing, while quoting every two-bit foundation sponsored "expert" and ignoring millions of American teachers.
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