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"These kids are thirsty, all you've got to do is let them drink," says Clyde McBride, an inspiring agricultural sciences teacher, and one of a new wave of Career and Technical teachers who are changing kids' lives.  Read about them in Joe Klein's "Learning that works" in Time magazine.  At ACE Leadership High School, Sizer Fellow Tony Monfilletto's students prepare for 21st century challenges through the lenses of architecture, construction and engineering.  Tony is slated to speak at TEDx Front Range:  Creative Potential May 10. 

Does the new U.S. Department of Education plan for vocational education focus "too much on post-high school occupational training, and not enough on introducing younger adolescents to the world of work outside the classroom?" Dana Goldstein analyzes the question in "The Future of Vocational Education" in The Nation. Read how Sizer Fellow Tony Monfiletto's ACE Leadership High School strives for excellent education through the lenses of architecture, construction and engineering in "Building With Rammed Earth."

Marc Tucker, president of the National Council on Education and the Economy and teacher Maryann Woods Murphy reflect on The 2012 International Summit on the Teaching Profession and Forum Convener Linda Darling-Hammond reports from the 2011 Summit in "The Global Appreciation of Teachers".

To shoot to the top of international assessments, China borrows and adjusts best practices--"taking the wheat and leaving the chaff"--from Switzerland and the U.S.A. China makes equity a top priority (with wealthier districts sharing funds with poorer ones) and puts excellent principals and educators in charge of more schools (without employing for-profit turnaround specialists).  Read "Borrowing Best Practices and Even Better Policy", Marc Tucker's Education Week blog from the 2012 International Summit on Teaching as a Profession.  Forum Convener Linda Darling-Hammond reports from the first International Summit on Teaching on "The Global Appreciation of Teachers".