By Sherman Dorn on August 7, 2007
The audio (mp3) of a discussion last Saturday among Nebraska Education Commissioner Doug Christensen, Maryland teacher Ken Bernstein, and me is now available online. The discussion was recorded at a session of YearlyKos in Chicago.
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By Sherman Dorn on August 7, 2007
As the Dayton Daily News observes, Believe it or not, school’s back in… in Ohio. Thanks to a state law, Florida public schools cannot open earlier than two weeks before Labor Day, a move to forestall the nutty shoving of the school calendar further back into the Sweaty Season to eke out a few more weeks before […]
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Florida no longer has the silliest school calendar
By Sherman Dorn on August 7, 2007
As the Dayton Daily News observes, Believe it or not, school’s back in… in Ohio. Thanks to a state law, Florida public schools cannot open earlier than two weeks before Labor Day, a move to forestall the nutty shoving of the school calendar further back into the Sweaty Season to eke out a few more weeks before […]
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