One of our blog moderators, Steve Jones, has been featured in the New York Times, in the April 6, 2010 edition of classroom resources blog.  Steve had written in his response to an article about the use of coal in producing electricity (and the perceptions/misperceptions of his students). You can read about Steve and his great in class thinking/strategies here. Congrats to Steve and keep up the good work!  Follow Steve's tweets on twitter.

 Secretary Duncan release guidance for a 350 million competition to design and inplement new secondary school assessments. Here is the college linkage as reported by Education Week blogger Michele McNeil in her useful k-12 politics blog : According to the final regulations out today, a consortium, to be eligible for the awards, must be at least [...]

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