A carnival of Olympic proportions at Joanne Jacobs this week. Check it out.

There are some great posts by Scheiss Weekly, where a surly Mamacita G is fuming about standardized tests and what isn’t measured.

We should be nurturing our young artists and musicians and scientists, not relegating them to the back of the room so we can look good on paper in the subjects that are easy to measure for a bunch of withered humorless twits with no balls and no guts and no gumption.

And…

Nancy Flanagan who writes:
John McCain doesn’t use them new-fangled computers. Does it matter if a president doesn’t surf or e-mail? Nancy Flanagan of Teacher in a Strange Land notices that McCain’s education platform includes “virtual schools.”

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