Institute for Education and the Arts: Improving Educational Legislation

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Improving Educational Legislation

The Institute for Education and the Arts is posting an educational column discussing ideas on how to improve educational legislation and enthusiasm.

Teachers, and a Law That Distrusts Them
Education is Not the Filling of a Pail, but the Lighting of a Fire.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006
New York Times
By MICHAEL WINERIP

Winerip writes, "This is my last education column after four years. What I will miss most is the free ticket it gave me into classrooms all over the country, where I watched and learned from teachers. "

Read the article in its entirety at: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/education/12education.html