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When Should a Kid Start Kindergarten?

States want children to be a year older when they enter school. This could lead to better test scores — and more inequality.
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All My Children

Suddenly, everyone is talking about universal preschool. But talk is easy.
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The Littlest Test Takers

In this era of testing and accountability, preschool is the last frontier. Most preschool educators are coming to accept that with more states getting into the business of educating 3- and 4-year-olds, the political demands for accountability -- for showing that preschools and kindergartens work -- are inevitable.
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Educators and the States Try to Shape Preschool

For most of this country's history, parents were content to keep children at home playing in the kitchen until kindergarten or first grade. Most nursery schools were considered a luxury of the middle and upper classes.
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Time to regulate what charters are teaching

SF Chronicle - Education - March 19, 2010 - 12:00am
When writing about charter schools, journalists regularly include some variation of this sentence: "Charters are independently operated public schools that are exempt from some rules that govern traditional schools." One of those rules that some charters...


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American Indian students rise above expectation

SF Chronicle - Education - March 19, 2010 - 12:00am
As anyone who has visited our schools knows, our kids learn the values of capitalism through an educational model that rewards excellence and punishes laziness. Our students make no pledges and take no oaths. The American Indian Public Charter School in...


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SF Chronicle - Education - March 19, 2010 - 12:00am
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What Drives Your Leadership Strategy?

Center for Creative Leadership - March 18, 2010 - 4:01pm
How you lead is just as important as what you are doing. That underlying belief can make the difference between success and failure in a complex, changing world.
Categories: Leadership News

CCL Handbook: Learn, Grow, Change, Lead

Center for Creative Leadership - March 18, 2010 - 4:01pm
What does it take to be an effective leader? Can we learn to lead? What does it take to improve leadership in individuals and throughout organizations? These and other central questions of leadership are explored and explained in the new edition of The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development
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What Battle Are You Fighting?

Center for Creative Leadership - March 18, 2010 - 4:01pm
What does a single battle of the American Revolution have to do with organizational leadership today? If you were trudging through snow-covered fields with CCL a few weeks ago, that question was sure to be going through your mind.
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Take Part: Coaching Effectiveness

Center for Creative Leadership - March 18, 2010 - 4:01pm
More and more, managers are judged by their "Ability to Coach Others." But few managers are taught how to be effective coaches.
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Liberating Leadership: Give Up Control for a Better Business

Center for Creative Leadership - March 18, 2010 - 4:01pm
When journalist Brian Carney of the Wall Street Journal met business professor Isaac Getz, he knew Getz was on to something. "He was applying to business organizations something that I write about in the economic context," Carney recalls. "The same way that economic freedom creates growth and innovation and efficiency across an economy, freedom in organizations can have powerful benefits to businesses and employees."
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Know Your Skills Gap.

Center for Creative Leadership - March 18, 2010 - 4:01pm
With high unemployment rates, you'd think that filling critical jobs would be easy. Not so, according to Bridging the Skills Gap: New Factors Compound the Growing Skills Shortage in the February 2010 issue of T+D, a publication of ASTD.
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Evaluation Mindset Needed.

Center for Creative Leadership - March 18, 2010 - 4:01pm
Improve your effectiveness by using evaluation and learning as a natural part of the way work is done.
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Change and the Social Animal

Center for Creative Leadership - March 18, 2010 - 4:01pm
How about having participants in leadership development programs create social network maps to help them fulfill their goals and implement intended changes. See what CCL's Doug Riddle has to say about social networking and the learning experience.
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Third Edition of CCL's Handbook of Leadership Development Prepares Leaders to Manage Emerging Trends and Challenges

Center for Creative Leadership - March 18, 2010 - 4:01pm
Groundbreaking models for building organizational leadership capacity, developing globally responsible leadership and fostering strategic leadership are among the highlights of the third edition of The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development, a comprehensive resource that distills the best of CCL's recent research and practical experience.
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New Forbes.com Column from CCL: Why Leadership Strategy Matters

Center for Creative Leadership - March 18, 2010 - 4:01pm
CCL's Bill Pasmore explores four key questions for building a leadership strategy that aligns with business strategy.
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CCL's David Horth Explores the Keys to Leading Innovation

Center for Creative Leadership - March 18, 2010 - 4:01pm
Truly innovative leadership means fostering new thinking and collaboration that produces new business opportunities, says CCL senior faculty member David Horth.
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WashingtonPost.com Op-Ed: Bill Adams on Fostering Government Teamwork

Center for Creative Leadership - March 18, 2010 - 4:01pm
President Obama has called on federal agencies to prevent terrorist attacks by getting better at "connecting the dots." CCL senior faculty member Bill Adams discusses the leadership skills and training needed to make that happen.
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TrainingIndustry.com Ranks CCL in Top 20

Center for Creative Leadership - March 18, 2010 - 4:01pm
The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) placed among the Top 20 providers of leadership training in a survey released this month by TrainingIndustry.com, a leading portal worldwide for information about the industry.
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