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• Portland Is Embracing Tiny Houses for the Homeless
• Common Core: Bobby Jindal says Obama forcing a national curriculum
• Is digital curriculum the future of education?

Portland Is Embracing Tiny Houses for the Homeless Posted: 27 Aug 2014 04:18 PM PDT Sure, Portland, Ore., has been the butt of countless Portlandia jokes about handlebar mustaches and hipsters who think they're living in the 1890s. Josh Alpert, the city's director of strategic initiatives, told the Portland Mercury that Mayor Charlie Hales has agreed to create a task force that will spearhead the construction of the small structures on unused government land. Alpert told the paper that the city plans to ask entities such as the Portland Public Schools and Multnomah County to locate appropriate property.  The tiny-house project is the brainchild of Portland housing advocate Mike Withey.

Common Core: Bobby Jindal says Obama forcing a national curriculum Posted: 27 Aug 2014 12:49 PM PDT Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) sued the US Department of Education Wednesday, accusing it of violating federal law and the US Constitution by strong-arming states into adopting the Common Core State Standards and assessments. "The federal government has hijacked and destroyed the Common Core initiative," Governor Jindal said, in a statement. "What started out as an innovative idea to create a set of base-line standards that could be 'voluntarily' used by the states has turned into a scheme by the federal government to nationalize curriculum." A onetime Common Core supporter, Jindal now claims that the federal government has overstepped its role in a whole host of areas, especially in education.

Is digital curriculum the future of education? Posted: 26 Aug 2014 10:11 PM PDT Former chancellor of New York City's Department of Education Joel Klein shares how data-driven instruction could provide insights in the classroom

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