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<description>The Doyle Report is a weekly e-newsletter at the cross roads of education improvement and the technology revolution. The Doyle Report is published by SchoolNet, the nation's leading Instructional Management Solutions (IMS) provider, co-founded by Denis P. Doyle and Jonathan D. Harber. David DeSchryver is the Managing Editor.</description>
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<title><![CDATA[213 - Obama's speech]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama's recent speech on race - particularly his apt formulation of America's "original sin" -- brought back memories of an earlier time and place, the city of my birth, Chicago in the late 50's. I was working my way through college and had been lucky enough to land a high-paying job ($3.00/hour) as a hod-carrier (construction laborer) on what was then a fairly new technique: architectural concrete. The work was hard and repetitive but honorable and lucrative.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[212- Start Your Engines]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[So far as I'm concerned, the presidential campaign begins in earnest this week. Why? As of March 18, 2008 I'm officially a stakeholder. Not for one candidate but for all three. What is my stake in the race? Getting each candidate to declare him or her self - in a written essay - about education. What they propose to do (or not do, as the case may be), in twenty-five hundred words or less. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[210 - Single Sex Education and Other Miscellany]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Nearly two decades ago I was visiting Australia, interested in learning more about their burgeoning school choice system. (In Australia, school choice, including religious schools, was a "liberal" reform initiative, not a conservative initiative as it has become in the States.) To my surprise the strongest voice for choice (or so I was told) was for single-sex schools. To my utter surprise, the voice for choice was loudest for girls' schools - so much so that there was only weak interest (if at all) in boys' schools. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[209 - Lessons from the presidential primaries]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Each of us will have our take-aways from this frenetic primary season (which is still not over!). Not surprisingly, the take-away for me is literally a non-take-away, the deafening silence on K12 education. With the exception of the obligatory rhetorical obeisance to education as "important" there's been little said about it by any candidate. By way of illustration, Barack Obama spoke for forty-three minutes in Austin (delivering his WI victory speech which he had delivered a few days earlier in Madison) and he had one sentence about NCLB.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[208 - Rhee-form (with a vengeance)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Michelle A. Rhee (until recently CEO of the New Teacher Project), who I had the pleasure of interviewing last summer at EduStat 2007 (with her opposite number, Jonathan Schnur CEO of New Leaders for New Schools), knows how to keep a secret, a trait that will stand her in good stead in her incarnation as Chancellor of the DC school system. During a one hour presentation before nearly 200 education reformers Michelle said nary a word about her new job.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Medicaid's Critical Time in Congress]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The count down to June 30th continues. That is theday when the moratorium on the rules issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expires. Congress passed the moratorium last December as a part of the S. 2499 (now Public Law No: 110-173), the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007, and it prevents CMS from implementing regulations that would restrict payment under title XIX of the Social Security Act for rehabilitation services or school-based administration and school-based transportation. It reads:]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[207 - Launch]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[SchoolNet, Inc, the for-profit school reform company I co-founded with Jonathan Harber ten years ago, has just launched a new service, free for the asking: schoolnet.com. (You can find it for the next week at http://beta.schoolnet.com/. By the end of the month, it will be at its permanent address, http://www.schoolnet.com/.) Tempis fugit!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NCLB lawsuit is back!]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit kept the National Education Association's (NEA) lawsuit against the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) alive. By a two-to-one ruling, the court reversed the judgment of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and remanded the case, (U)School District of the City of Pontiac, et al. v. Secretary of the United States Dep't of Educ., No. 05-2708 (6th Cir. January 7, 2008), back to district court for further proceedings. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Federal Fiscal 2008 Now Complete]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The President has finally signed the fiscal year 2008 appropriations omnibus bill. The final version of the omnibus bill came in at about $566 billion for all non-defense domestic spending, bringing the total in FY08 discretionary spending down to near the $933 billion cap that the President requested.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[206 - WEB 2.1]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For seven years SchoolNet, Inc has provided a free e-newsletter as a public service. Complete editorial freedom was guaranteed. True, we hoped people would notice, but it was not SchoolNet flak. The Doyle Report billed itself as being at the intersection of education reform and technology and we tried hard to keep it that way. TDR reflected both the education reform ideas and the technology of the day with timely news reports and analysis as well as an opinion column,]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[205 - Backward Mapping]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[There are two basic ways to build a curriculum, forward mapping (from the ground up, from K to 12) and backward mapping (from the top down, from 12 to K). Both approaches can work, but backward mapping is the more powerful of the two, not least because of its novelty. Most of us have been schooled in forward mapping, laying one brick on top of the other; the approach is familiar and comfortable. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[204 - All Over But the Shouting]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The smart money inside the beltway is that NCLB (No Child Left Behind) will be changed, and may be changed significantly. But not soon. The early promise of reauthorization in 2007 is a fading memory; 2008, as an election year, is out leaving 2009 as the earliest possible date. Which leaves plenty of time to cogitate on what might be done to improve a well-intentioned but badly flawed piece of legislation. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[203 - Tough Liberal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Rick Kahlenberg's exhaustive new biography of Al Shanker (Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy, Columbia University Press, 2007) has been getting much deserved attention, bringing a uniquely American story out of the shadows. Shanker, who died in 1997 after a bout with cancer, was celebrated in death as he was rarely in life.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[201 Academic decathlons]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tony Carnevale's recent commentary piece on the back of ED Week (No Child Gets Ahead, September 26, 2007) reminded me of just how hard it is to hew to high standards for all including the slow, the average and the brightest students. How not to sink to a lowest common denominator -- given the wide range of student and teacher talent, temperament and capacities -- is a bit of a mystery.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[200 Once more once…]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[On the occasion of my 200th column for The Doyle Report I hope I will be forgiven for returning to an idée fixe, the relentlessly conservative, even reactionary, nature of elementary and secondary education across the globe. The sameness of schooling around the world is truly astonishing: East and West, public and private, religious and secular, old and new schools are more alike than different.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[199 Back to School]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As the nations 55 million K-12 students trudge back to school the nation's 535 Members of Congress are trudging back to Washington. Aside from the Iraq War which is on the front burner (along with ID Senator Larry Craig's fall from grace) no issue is more important than the impending re-authorization of NCLB.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Merit Pay...Once Again]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Washington education pundits continue to analyze Chairman Miller's National Press Club (NPC) speech on the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). There has been much discussion on multiple measures for the purposes of measuring adequately yearly progress (AYP). The debate is critical because the chosen measures will determine the law's academic rigor...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[196 - Teacher Shortages]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Nothing is more gratifying than having your prejudices confirmed. In my case, it was the recent announcement (in a report released by the National Center for Education Statistics) that "ninety-three percent of teachers reported satisfaction with their jobs 10 years after entering the field." (See Education Week, www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2007/08/01/45nces).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The New Superintendent Project]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Michelle A. Rhee (CEO of the New Teacher Project), who I had the pleasure of interviewing last week (with her opposite number, Jonathan Schnur CEO of New Leaders for New Schools), knows how to keep a secret, a trait that will stand her in good stead in her new incarnation as Chancellor of the DC school system. (During a one hour presentation before nearly 200 education reformers at EduStat 2007 Michelle said nary a word about her new job.)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NCLB and the Supreme Court]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Supreme Court issued an historic decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (551 U.S. ___ (2007)), and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was dragged into the fray between Chief Justice John Roberts, who authored the majority opinion, and dissenting Justice Stephen Breyers, who authored a scathing dissent. [....]]]></description>
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