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Readers will recall that I featured Bob Sprankle and his class in these pages back in May. Now they've hit the big time, being headlined in this New York Times article. To me, this is the essence of education: "I want to give these kids the tools to say, 'Hey, my voice is important in this world,' This blog helps me do that." Others, though, see value only in testing. "'If interactivity becomes the fundamental basis of the educational process, how do we judge merit?' asked Robbie McClintock, a learning technologies expert at Teachers College of Columbia University." Yeah, that's staying on top of priorities.

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