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01 Aug Should Art Teachers Get Paid the Same as High School Physics Teachers?

Posted at 00:17h in Education

While in a meeting with U.S. Department of Education’s Assistant Secretary Peter Cunningham, he posed this question to a group of teachers. I would like to answer this question by sharing a story about a former student of mine. Daniel is an African American 3rd grade...

30 Jul Duncan: Teacher Salaries Should Be $60,000 to $150,000

Posted at 18:29h in Education

In a speech to Nationally Board Certified teachers, Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, spoke about America’s need to attract and retain highly talented and capable individuals into the teaching profession. Secretary Duncan specifically pointed to how other countries incentivize the highest performing college graduates to...

25 Jul Size does matter…Class size that is

Posted at 18:27h in Education

How does class size affect the abilities of effective teachers? My first year of teaching I sat looking out in a sea of 35 third grade faces thinking to myself, “Where in my methods classes did they prepare us for this scenario?” I knew right then...

20 Jul Potential Cuts to Primary Care Training

Posted at 18:24h in Health

One of the pillars of Hope Street Group's strategic recommendations to reinvent primary care may have a harder time being realized based on recent events. Funding for Primary Care GME has become a potential target in the deficit reduction process. Hope Street Group believes that...

07 Jul Walmart — Sourcing Health Care Workers Locally

Posted at 18:21h in Health

Walmart changed the pharmaceutical retail industry forever by creating the $4 Prescription Program. In one fell swoop, a gargantuan company disrupted part of the health care ecosystem. Today it looks like they are taking a new angle on how to manage in store health clinics....

18 May The Real Scoop on The Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree

Posted at 18:40h in Health

The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report compiled by the Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) was released in October 2010. The report has generated lively discussions from multiple disciplines...