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National Stage including "Race to the Top"

• How CEO's would Fix Education (WSJ: November 2009) 
• Race to the Top: An Executive Summary
• Teachers: "Seen and Not Heard" (Edweek.org: Teacher Magazine Jan 2010)
• DoEd releases National Education Technology Plan (Nov 2010)  NEW !!
• Waiting for Superman (NYT, Sep 2010)  
• Race to Nowhere (Washington Post, Oct 2010)  NEW !!
• Parent Trigger (Compton, CA; LA Weekly, Dec 2010) NEW !!

Politics & 2010 National Elections NEW!! 

• "Rethinking Schools" a post on Priorities at the National Level posted by Stephen Lazar
• Are National Edu issues now Non-Partisan? surfaced by Becky Ellis 
• Referenced S.Covey "Seek first to understand, then be understood"
• Referenced S.M.R.Covey "The speed of trust, it changes everything" >> FUTURE CHAT
• Discussed management v. leadership in schools, and roles of teachers & administrators. >> FUTURE CHAT
• Interest in hybrid learning, eg., NCVPS (North Carolina Virtual Public Schools) >> FUTURE BRIGHT SPOT
• Discussed need to drive more efficiency in face of limited budgets and spending cuts.  
• Discussed recruiting parents; mention of Citizen Schools (not discussed)
• Discussed downside of blame across ecosystem, and downside of blaming money. Quotable: "Give me a room and kids, I know plenty of teachers like that." David Timony 
• Additional reading: Would a Republican Congress be Good for Ed Reform? (not discussed)
• Additional reading: On Tea Parties & Community Colleges (not discussed)
• TRANSCRIPT 

State Programs

• Is Education a Business? Midwest Voices (Kansas City, KS: Oct 2009)