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Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

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Five online resources worth checking out…

“We need to be inspired. We need to be encouraged. We need to spend time doing things we love. We want to change the world. Is that too much to ask?“

Iowa schools are focusing on penmanship. Really. Penmanship.

Britt Watwood notes that “there was a note of fear that the ‘good old days’ were gone and that because of online learning, higher education was going to hell in a handbasket.” Be sure to also check out his white paper on online teaching.

Step 1: Play with this sortable table of beginning and average teacher salaries by state.

Step 2: Then get really depressed about teacher salaries by reading the PDF version of this book from the Economic Policy Institute.

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