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Opinion: Lessons for CT in book about education reform’s community disconnect
Sarah Darer Littman is an award-winning columnist and novelist of books for teens. A former securities analyst, she’s now an adjunct in the MFA program at WCSU, and enjoys helping young people discover the power of finding their voice as an instructor at the Writopia Lab. If you’re a legislator who votes on education issues…
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Opinion: New leadership needed to end educational malpractice across nation
Joseph A. Ricciotti, Ed.D, is a retired educator having served as an elementary school principal for 31 years with the Fairfield Public Schools. There is a test and punish fixation in public education today that is an outgrowth of the education policies of the present U.S. Education Secretary, Arne Duncan.
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BET needs to lead, educate Norwalk public officials
By Lisa Thomson REd APPLES of Norwalk NORWALK, Conn. — At a March BET meeting, I spoke as a fiscal conservative and education reformer but asked for a compromise to the pull back in the city’s $1.4M in the 2013-14 budget, when it thought the state was providing $1.7 in ECS funds. As of today, Norwalk…
