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washingtonpost.com - Jay Mathews: Class Struggle
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Perspective is needed on school budget-cut fears
You saw the big headline on the front of our Metro section recently: "Deep budget cuts approved for Prince George's schools." The news from Northern Virginia was much the same: "Fairfax County schools chief proposes dramatic budget cuts" and "Proposed Arlington schools budget cuts back in many areas."
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Jay Mathews: Nonfiction books for schools' consideration
Buried in the avalanche of e-mails and comments I received after my column that begged for more nonfiction books in school, I found a note from one of my favorite educators, Dan McMahon, principal of DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville. In an English class he teaches, McMahon had assigned "The Dragons of Eden" by Carl Sagan and "Black Boy" by Richard Wright, so I hoped for more good suggestions.
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Charles Sylvester dies at 75, American diplomat helped open relations with China
Charles Sylvester, 75, the fourth generation of an American family immersed in Chinese history and a key diplomat in Beijing after the death of Chairman Mao Zedong, died Feb. 7 at his home in Hereford, Ariz. He had lung cancer.
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Who's afraid of the big bad charter schools? Not St. Mary's.
Zina McGowan-Thomas, the energetic public information officer for St. Mary's County public schools, sends me many announcements and news releases that I am tempted to delete, as I do most e-mails from school districts. I know this is a bad idea, because sometimes you will find, in the smallest bulletin, something astonishing, such as the e-mail she sent me a few weeks ago about the Chesapeake Public Charter School.
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D.C. teacher evaluation system has its fans in classrooms
George Parker, president of the Washington Teachers Union, told me last year that the District's new evaluation program had no "appropriate system of support to improve instruction" and was "bad for kids." He suggested I contact more teachers to learn the many flaws of IMPACT, the program's name.
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