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and Governor Palin had faked her own pregnancy to cover for the child. Next, the story has already been thoroughly and utterly and completely debunked. Further, the Weekly Standard's source was none other than that Bible of the educational industry, Education Week. Note that under Governor Palin's plan, Alaska not only "tidied up" their budgeting process by moving programs around so they made more logical sense to be together, but arranged for the state's spending on special needs students to go from $26,900 per

70 Districts Compare Practices on Collecting, Analyzing Data Studies of Popular Reading Texts Don't Meet Reviewers' Rigor Test I can, but I won't, middle school reading

All of the stories on Education Week are available to non-subscribers until through Sept. 7. This gives those of you who haven't yet committed to subscribing a chance to read all our stories about response to intervention, Reading First, the presidential campaign, and anything else that strikes your fancy. While I'm in promotion mode, let me also point out to fans of this blog that you can follow On Special Education in an RSS reader

lengthy blog post on that issue. For those of you who are visiting for the first time: feel free to check out the place and stay a while! And, in case you haven't already seen it, I also invite readers check out an article written by my colleagues Sean Cavanagh and Alyson Klein that delves more comprehensively into what we know about the governor's education record during her relatively brief time in office. (Education Week articles are generally available to

be making history: the Democrats would be able to claim the first African-American president, and the Republicans could have the first female vice president. Edweek's Campaign K-12 blog has a entry on Gov. Sarah Palin's education bonafides. UPDATE: Here's a link to Education Week's web story on the selection, which delves more deeply into her education record. Most intriguing for my professional interests is that Palin, a 44-year-old self-described "hockey mom," PTA leader-turned-mayor-turned-governor,

Edweek.org’s Campaign 2008 provides ‘coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign to learn more about where the major candidates stand on education.’ Their blog provides Campaign K-12 - “Your education road map to the 2008 state and national elections

also recaps the career paths of several reading experts who were hired by Best to design the program, then went on advise the Ed Department on Reading First implementation and to direct the Reading First technical assistance centers. Background is here and here. Lyon went to work for Best as a research director for a teacher education program, which, according to the article, has run into accreditation issues. Now on his own, Lyon shares some revelations about some of the decisions made under Reading