Since I've been looking up news articles about education, I decided to see what other people are saying about the educational issues of today. Education Week seems to be a very political blog about the issues dealing with education today.
One of the really interesting sections of the site is the Campaign K-12. This section talks about how kids and teachers are dealing with the election. One entry that really fascinates me is "Obama Has the Kid Vote Locked Up". It talks about how if kids were to vote, Obama would be the winner. In the entry, it is stated that according to the Scholastic Presidential Election Poll for Kids Obama got 57% of the vote and McCain received 39%. The poll was done through schools I believe; maybe online as well. I think this is a very interesting entry.
Another section of the blog that could be interesting to look at is the Special Education section. I would be interested in looking at it because it has entries involving trying to get better teachers and entries about different programs for autism and more. The only thing is, though, is that you have to pay for it. I think that if someone is writing a blog and wants his or her thoughts to be heard they shouldn't make people pay to read it. It seems to me that the people writing this blog aren't proud enough of it so they try to make it hard for people to read it by making people pay.
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Merissa: It's great to see that you are focusing in on a topic for you to read and write about. There is certainly plenty out there on education. And in this election cycle, the future of our schools is also a hot topic.
Keep reading and writing about your reading and you will keep learning!
You may be interested in this site which contains lists of educators blogging about issues, day-to-day teaching etc.
http://supportblogging.com/Links+to+School+Bloggers
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