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Homeroom Period: Thursday’s latest education news and links

Good morning everyone, the week’s almost over, so let’s take a look at news and links on education from around the web.

• When your headline is “Is there as much to learn from Fallujah as Finland,” it’s going to turn some heads. The column is actually about what public schools can learn from the Marine Corps training regimen.
• The New York Times education writers took a concerted look at museums today with three articles about different ways they are changing.
  • Carol Vogel writes about how museums are focusing more on active teaching as opposed to passive presentation.
  Keith Schneider takes a look at some new interdisciplinary approaches being taken by college art museums. (An unrelated note, I’ve always been proud of my undergraduate college, La Salle University, for having a great art museum.)
• Robin Pogrebin highlights efforts at children’s museums’ efforts to combat child obesity.

The Washington Post was wondering why there isn’t a Yelp for doctors, which in turn got Alexander Russo to wonder why there isn’t a Yelp for teachers and schools.

A sad, but inspiring story out of Des Moines, where students raised $15,000 to help the family of an Iraqi student who died on a recent visit to his home country. The money is needed to transport the student’s body back to America.

That’s it for today. If you have an interesting link or blog you’d like to share with Homeroom Period, why not pass it along?