Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Week 9 - TDH - Contemporary Blogs

II. http://www.ewa.org/desktopdefault.aspx?page_id=285

A. The American School Board's archived journal: http://www.asbj.com/archive.html

B. The NSBA's daily weblog: Board Buzz: http://boardbuzz.nsba.org/

C. Jay Mathews's Class Struggles - has a lot of 'advice' articles but also treats reform issues: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032400611.html

D. National Institute for Early Education Research's news archive: http://nieer.org/news/archive.php

E. Early Studies - Category columns to the left bring up different articles: http://www.earlyedcoverage.org/

F. Eduwonk (The Progressive Policy Institute) - http://www.eduwonk.com/ and some sites from the blogroll:
1. Barnett Berry's Building the Teaching Profession - focuses on improving teaching quality: http://teachingquality.typepad.com/building_the_profession/
2. Bill Jackson's Greatschools: http://billsblog.greatschools.net/
3. Class Context hasn't been updated in a while and has relatively few posts, but they're interesting: http://classcontext.blogdrive.com/
4. Erin O Connor's Critical Mass focuses on higher education and mostly reviews news articles/books/etc., but it might be useful: http://www.erinoconnor.org/
5. Fixourschools.net is pretty interesting.. it's quite literal, since it's a picture archive of physical things that need to be fixed in DC schools, but it's the most "on location" site I've seen out of the blogs so far. http://fixourschools.net/
6. The DC Education Blog corresponds nicely with the above website: http://dcedublog.blogspot.com/
7. Edspresso has an interesting "debate" section in this blog: http://www.edspresso.com/
8. Eduflack mostly provides commentary on politically-implemented educational programs: http://blog.eduflack.com/
9. Extra Credit has entry categories such as "Systems Reform" and "Teaching Quality": http://extracredit.wordpress.com/
10. Higher Ed Watch blog: http://www.newamerica.net/programs/education_policy/higher_ed_watch/blog/
11. Learning Alternatives blog - very progressive, focuses on remodeling school systems for various needs: http://www.learningalternatives.net/
12. NCLB Blog: http://www.letsgetitright.org/blog/
13. Running on Empty - The Education category has some of the most in-depth and thoughtful entries I've seen thusfar: http://www.philipwaring.us/running_on_empty/education/index.html
14. School Zone: An Education Notebook (different from the Houston School Zone below): http://blogs.jsonline.com/education/default.aspx
15. San Francisco Schools: http://sfschools.org/
16. Sherman Dorn has categories for Education Policy, Higher Education, Teaching, etc.: http://www.shermandorn.com/mt/
17. TLN Teacher Voices: http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/tln_teacher_voices/

G. Scott Elliott's Get on the Bus - focused in Dayton, OH.. a specific place, yay! Sorted by category in the right column: http://www.daytondailynews.com/o/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/urban_school_issues/

H. Bridget Gutierrez's Get Schooled - mostly focuses on issues in Georgia, but also incorporates national issues: http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/education/entries/

I. Homeroom - educational news in Texas: http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/education/index.html

J. School Zone: Staff of the Houston Chronicle comment on educational issues: http://blogs.chron.com/schoolzone/

K. Teacher Magazine's Web Watch: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/webwatch/

L. Florida education news in The Gradebook: http://blogs.tampabay.com/schools/

M. Education Week - more of a news archive than a blog, once again: http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html
---This Week in Education is a blog that stems off of edweek.org: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/thisweekineducation/

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1 comment:

Florist said...

Edspresso has now combined Debate and Commentary into "Cool Beans"

Check it out for the latest in REAL education reform.