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What I've been reading lately:
- Building a Better Teacher -
NYTimes.com
- "Teachers working in the same building, teaching the same grade, produced very different outcomes. And the gaps were huge. Eric Hanushek, a Stanford economist, found that while the top 5 percent of teachers were able to impart a year …
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What I've been reading lately:
- Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion: A Talk With Jonathan Haidt - If I had a list of "people who I wish had blogs," Jonathan Haidt would top it. If you like this article, read his book The Happiness Hypothesis.
- Massachusetts: Dem attacks on Coakley …