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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

To read the complete article, please click here. * * * What Michelle Rhee’s fans don’t get about education reform The national press and political class adore Michelle Rhee, who ran the D.C. public schools from 2007 until 2010. Kahlenberg for Slate magazine. She’s [.].

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

To read the complete article, please click here. * * * What Michelle Rhee’s fans don’t get about education reform The national press and political class adore Michelle Rhee, who ran the D.C. public schools from 2007 until 2010. Kahlenberg for Slate magazine. She’s [.].

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article that appeared in The Atlantic(January/February 2010) in which Amanda Ripley shares what she learned about recent efforts to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning in public schools.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2011

John Baldoni is an internationally recognized leadership consultant, coach, author and educator. He has taught what it means to inspire at the top of a mountain in the Canadian Rockies. At sea level in Orlando, Florida, he spoke to nearly one thousand USAF/JAG commissioned and non-commissioned officers on leadership and communication.

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JUNE 15, 2012

In an interview conducted by Brian Bolduc , featured in the Wall Street Journal (June 18, 2011), the award-winning historian, David McCullough, says textbooks have become “so politically correct as to be comic.”

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JULY 9, 2011

Here is a sequence of brief excerpts from an interview of David McCullough by Brian Bolduc, featured in The Wall Street Journal (June 18, 2011). To read the complete interview, please click here. * * * The popular historian David McCullough says textbooks have become “so politically correct as to be comic.” Meanwhile, the likes of [.].

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APRIL 17, 2011

Here is the latest post by Joseph A. Maciariello featured in the Joe’s Journal series at the Drucker Exchange (DX) sponsored by the Drucker Institute. The Drucker Exchange (the DX) is a platform for bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. It is produced by the Drucker Institute, a think tank and action tank [.].

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