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Tom Whitby, whose blog I follow regularly, posted this account of a Twitter exchange he had with Arne Duncan about engaging 100 connected eductors with the Secretary. Whitby also provides his view of the education "reform" landscape, its influence on Duncan, hope for how the 100 connected educators might interact with Duncan, and a copy of his 100 list. It all makes for some interesting reading and for some interesting personal fantasies about what could come next from this. Way to go Tom. 
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by Mark Walsh Summary by Carnegie Perspectives "Harper's Magazine weighs in on the debate over expanding Algebra 2 to all high school students. "Wrong Answer: The case against Algebra II," by the novelist Nicholson Baker, argues that the course should not be forced on mathematics-hating students or required for college. Students, he writes in the September issue, "are forced, repeatedly, to stare at hairy, square-rooted, polynomialed horseradish clumps of mute symbology that irritates them, that stop them in their tracks, that they can't understand." "The homework is unrelenting, the algorithms get longer and trickier, the quizzes keep coming," Baker writes. "Sooner or later, many of them hit the wall. They fail the course and have to take it again. And then again." He examines the textbook Algebra 2 Common Core, from Pearson, and concludes it is "a highly efficient engine for the creation of math rage: a dead scrap heap of repellent terminology, a collection of spiky, decontextualized, multistep mathematical black-box techniques ..."
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