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Jejak Panda Senantiasa Menyambut Kedatang Anda Untuk Membaca bandarqq Do you remember Schoolhouse Rock?   I can still sing along with “I’m Just a Bill.”   Remember the poor bill who had to sit there in committee waiting to become a law?   I loved those old commercials, but one thing I learned years ago was that prior to sitting in committee something that is “just an idea” can’t move along the legislative chain unless a bunch of senators and representatives endorse it by signing what’s called a Dear Colleague letter.   And that’s what I have been doing all day today.   I and well over a hundred other teachers from writing project sites from all over the country have been visiting our legislators, asking them to sign Dear Colleague letters that will allow the National Writing Project to continue to compete for funding from Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (otherwise currently known as the No Child Left Behind Act), which...

Jejak Panda Selamat Datang Kembali Di Blog Kesayangan Anda bandar ceme             Virginia Woolf famously wrote that “on or about December 1910, human character changed,” referring to the shift toward Modernism.             I’m not going to make nearly so grandiose a pronouncement, but we enter this new school year with many changes—some of them dramatic—to the educational landscape, especially here in Connecticut but also across the US.             For one thing, we have a new Commissioner of Education, Dianna Wentzell, who, although she served under Stefan Pryor in the Malloy administration, does have the advantage of having actually been an educator.   In fact, she spent more than a decade teaching, and even taught in an urban district.   It’s unfortunate that widely supported l...