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Namesake of landmark McGirt ruling sent back to prison for probation violations - [image: McGirt prison sentence]MUSKOGEE — Citing a rules “misunderstanding” for his probation violation just three months after a 2024 release from feder...1 hour ago
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Trump claims he's engineered another ceasefire in Lebanon. But Israel keeps bombing. - Hegseth's warriors are holed up in hotels. Their bases have all been blown up.2 hours ago
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For immediate release: Parents, Teachers, Students and Advocates Rally at City Hall for a Moratorium on AI in NYC Schools - April 16, 2026 Media Contacts: Liat@climatefamiliesnyc.org, 917-930-2788 Kelly Clancy, parentsforAIcaution@gmail.com, 512.589.6302 We gathered, spoke and...4 hours ago
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FOUR DAYS TO FAILURE: HOW BILLIONAIRES ARE QUIETLY BUYING THE FUTURE — AND LEAVING YOUR KIDS OUT OF THE DEAL #MAYDAYSTRONG - A unflinching look at the slow-motion heist of American public education6 hours ago
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AI Has Turned Bluesky into a Blank Sky - As the vast majority of corporations are staying up late to figure out how soon AI will allow them to fire all their employees and, thus, reap a bonanza...6 hours ago
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Missouri's Parental Rights Bills: Treating Children as Property - The Show Me State's bills strip minors of the right to consent to their own personal care, and handing parents a private cause of action against the govern...7 hours ago
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Let’s Pay Teachers Overtime - The title of the article made me laugh out loud: Should Teachers Get Overtime? Subtitle: EdWeek Readers have some thoughts. I’ll bet they do. Fortunately, ...7 hours ago
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THE GOVERNANCE GAP: HOW THE COLLAPSE OF FEDERAL AI OVERSIGHT CREATED A TWO-TIER EDUCATION SYSTEM #MAYDAYSTRONG - THE GOVERNANCE GAP: HOW THE COLLAPSE OF FEDERAL AI OVERSIGHT CREATED A TWO-TIER EDUCATION SYSTEM *A clear-eyed dispatch from the frontier of American e...8 hours ago
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Schools' Unpaid Labor Pains - So this week, I was the asshat. A local school district shared a digital poster advertising some job openings. I shared it with a glib comment on Faceboo...8 hours ago
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At Substack: Reading Crisis and Legislation: April 2026 Updates - Reading Crisis and Legislation: April 2026 Updates9 hours ago
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Federal Judge Again Halts Trump’s Grand Ballroom - Federal Judge Richard Leon again halted work on Trump’s super-sized ballroom, which can hold as many as 1,000 people and would be twice as large as the Whi...10 hours ago
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Special education workforce crisis - The special education workforce in the United States has faced a persistent and worsening shortage of qualified professionals in recent years. A Univers...13 hours ago
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Building Furniture With Preschoolers - Several years ago, we purchased new tables, chairs, and stools for the playground. It all arrived in boxes, unassembled. We could have afforded to purch...13 hours ago
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BROOKLYN Book Launch May 18 - https://greenlightbookstore.com/event/2026-05-18/pre-release-book-launch-zayd-ayers-dohrn-jelani-cobb13 hours ago
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Reading Crisis and Legislation: April 2026 Updates - "[E]xperts say requiring those students to repeat grades creates short-term improvements and long-term negative effects that carry into adulthood." Alexia ...14 hours ago
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Trump Administration Persists in Multi-Pronged Attack on D.E. I. and Civil Rights - We have all watched the Trump administration turn the definition of civil rights protection on its head. President Trump’s Department of Education and Depa...15 hours ago
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Ohio taxpayers directly fund more private than public school districts - With 85% of private school students getting subsidies, Ohio now has created a second, taxpayer-funded private school system. Ohio's Constitution only allow...1 day ago
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Courage Isn’t Loud: A Conversation about Humanity, Risk, and Freedom - In 2026, a new podcast entered the conversation space with a powerful premise: our stories may feel personal, but they are rarely unique. My Story Is Not U...1 day ago
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The Houston Reading Study is one of the Four Cornerstones of the Science of Reading: A Conversation with AI About the Flaws in the HRS that Undermine the 43 State Reading Laws - Photo by Sasun Bughdaryan: Original in Color, Unsplash.com1 day ago
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10th Period: State Data: Ohio Spent More on School Privatization Last Year Than Public Schools in Many Communities - 10th Period: State Data: Ohio Spent More on School Privatization Last Year Than Public Schools in Many Communities This is getting ridiculous. Ohio lawma...1 day ago
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We need your help..please read - I am asking your assistance to help my Pastor. I live in the Adirondacks in New York State and there is a severe shortage of priests up here. So help on th...1 day ago
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Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Appears Ready to Resist Gov. Lee's Plan to Keep Tennessee Kids Hungry - Legislation would require state to participate in Sun Bucks program1 day ago
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When Implementing New Tech, Always Ask These Questions (Peter Greene)* - Installing new ed tech? Implementing new policies or procedures? I wish with all my heart that the People In Charge would ask a simple set of questions. Wh...1 day ago
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Stop the Charter School Cash Grab - NPE celebrates Women's History month by highlighting the accomplishments of 10 inspiring women from Jane Addams to Ida B. Wells to Christa McAuliffe. The...2 days ago
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Solving a Two-Fold Problem at Seattle Schools - As you may have heard, Anitra Jones, former principal at Rainier View Elementary School, is being assigned to Adams Elementary School because the current...3 days ago
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Trump is in Trouble - Heather Cox Richardson. Letter from an American. https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-10-2026?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email ...3 days ago
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Make your voice heard on AI, the capital plan and class size! - April 13, 2026 1. On Thursday April 16 at 4:00 PM, NYC parents, kids, teachers and advocates will be gathering in City Hall Park to call for a morato...3 days ago
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The Teacher Transfer Portal Is Now Open (not) - All five starters on this year’s University of Michigan’s NCAA champion men’s basketball team played for other colleges last year. You heard that right: a...3 days ago
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Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL - Eight years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that ...4 days ago
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SPI Celebrates California State Student Authors - State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond celebrates California state student authors.6 days ago
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Follow the Flow - “If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.” ― Geraldine Brooks I’ve picked up a new hobby recently. Adm...6 days ago
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Billionaire Thinking has Harmed Public Schools - By Thomas Ultican 4/10/2026 Trump’s billionaire education leader, Linda McMahon, claimed on Fox News, “We’re doing terribly, I mean, our education system’s...1 week ago
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Robert Sweet’s Early Influence on The Science of Reading - Today’s Science of Reading (SOR) was born of a right-wing conservative phonics focus. A Nation at Risk helped advance that messaging, and one of the mess...1 week ago
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Singing The Blues For A Better World At The Fort Wroth African American Music Festival - The Blue Tide performs at Fort Worth African American Music Festival (FWAAMFest)—tracing the music back to ancestral land, memory, and the unfinished strug...1 week ago
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Reflections on America, the world, and life - I acknowledge that I rarely post here anymore. Folks should remember that I am approaching my 80th birthday in less than 9 weeks, I am still teaching ful...1 week ago
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We can't afford day care when we have endless wars to fight. - Trump calls day care one of those "little scams".1 week ago
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Meta and Google Found Liable for Addictive Content Delivery - On March 25, 2026, mega tech companies Meta and Google were found liable for engineering the presentation of information on their platforms in such a way a...2 weeks ago
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PowerSchool/Naviance court settlement: your child may be eligible for a payment - April 2, 2026 It was recently announced that as part of a class action court settlement, the ed tech company PowerSchool and the Chicago Public Schools agr...2 weeks ago
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March’s Parent Engagement Resources - Better pay, more respect, clearer job description: Here’s what parent coordinators want Mamdani to know. is from Chalkbeat. Family Engagement Matters is fr...3 weeks ago
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On Dignity [On CEC3 And The Racial Justice Work Ahead Of Us] - A few weeks ago, I found myself underneath a dead whale. For New Yorkers, they know I’m talking about the American Museum of Natural History ... Read Mor...3 weeks ago
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Margie Lopez-Waite Out As CEO Of ASPIRA - In a letter sent to parents, students, and staff members, the board of Las Americas ASPIRA Academy announced that effective yesterday, 3/23/2026, Margie Lo...3 weeks ago
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Losing Time - Have you ever lost time? Wednesday was a good morning – school visit – nice conversation – and I got home, and the day slowed down. I had a list of things ...3 weeks ago
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El poder se construye una conversación a la vez - Ninguno de nosotros, por sà solo, puede detener la violencia ni construir un futuro mejor. Para lograrlo, nos necesitamos unos a otros. Para construir un p...3 weeks ago
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Peace Treaty: Why Schools Don’t Change (Even When Everyone Knows They Should) - People love to say “schools resist change.” It sounds like a personality flaw—lazy, stubborn, old-fashioned. But schools aren’t hard to change because educ...5 weeks ago
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Florida Once Rewarded Academic Success. Now It Prorates It. - After parents and students pushed back against proposed cuts to academic acceleration funding last year, Florida lawmakers promised...1 month ago
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Calling All Baseball Romance Readers... - Guess who has a new spicy book for you, just in time for Spring Training.1 month ago
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The Scat Report: Navy's largest warship sails into a shit storm in the Persian Gulf. - Weekend Quotables: There's poop in the Potomac and trench warfare at sea.1 month ago
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Florida School Finance Update: Here’s your manageable standard, now fund it! - I’ve had the pleasure of running some new models with updated data in the past few days. I recently produced a lengthy report on school funding in Florida....1 month ago
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Operation Mincemeat Compulsive Disorder - If you regularly read my blog, you’ll be expecting a charter school takedown, a TFA rant, or some other education policy analysis. But I’m doing something ...2 months ago
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Affordability Crisis Deniers Must Be Challenged by Workers’ Power - A nation that can feed its billionaires but not its children has an economic system built to protect cruelty.2 months ago
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The Problem with "the Science of Reading" - The problem with “the science of reading” is that it’s not new.2 months ago
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Donald Trump and the Triumph of Narcissism - Although I am neither an historian nor a psychologist, I know enough American history to know that Trump’s demand that Greenland capitulate to his desire...2 months ago
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Shutting Down The Site - Ten years ago, I ran for a seat on the LAUSD School Board of Education with the goal to *Change the LAUSD*. I am proud of the campaign we ran. We achieve...3 months ago
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A colleague looks back at 2025 - Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more I get knocked down But I get up again BETSY WOLF DEC 31READ IN APP I’ve been quiet for most of 2025. Much of ...3 months ago
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The Company You Keep - Even though the filing period for the 2026 elections isn't until April, let's all pay close attention. The candidates lining up to run will tell you more a...4 months ago
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like - The polls for Prop 50, CA’s ballot initiative that counters MAGA’s illegal gerry-mandering in Texas, opened Tuesday, November 4, 2025,… The post This Is ...5 months ago
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Dear NJ Teachers and Their Families: You MUST Not Vote For Jack Ciattarelli - To all NJ public school staff and their families: *You must not vote for Jack Ciattarelli. He will do serious, lasting damage to you personally, and the ...5 months ago
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Blogoversary #19 — Time to Move on - Times have changed. I had a nice long run here, but let’s face it, it ended a while ago. So I’ve moved. I’m not writing much any more, but when I do it wil...7 months ago
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McGrath and Kaminsky: Key Names in the School Policy Debate - The landscape of American school policy is no longer shaped only behind closed doors. It’s debated in town halls, on social media, and through public prote...10 months ago
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"Didn't do *that*," part 1: new Schofield case developments reveal crucial 10th Circuit/Ledger lie - The record is clear. Jeremy Scott confessed at least 40 times in a 2017 hearing. He never recanted. The Ledger must retract its lie to force Judge Kevin Ab...10 months ago
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Achieve 3000 Answers Key (Updated 2023) - Are you on the hunt for the most recent Achieve 3000 answers for the year 2023? Your search is over! ... Read more11 months ago
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Il Papa è Morto - Francis brought a distinct pastoral outlook to his papacy. A simple man, he lived in a small apartment in the guesthouse. He sought to make the church acce...11 months ago
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Mike Shulman the ARISE UFT Judenrat - I was surprised to learn that Mike Shulman has aligned himself with ARISE. I previously supported him, advocating that the Castle Doctrine could have bee...1 year ago
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How Do We Fight Trump? - Dear Friends, I don’t know when and why it hit me. But I suddenly realized how serious Trump is about changing the country into something that horrifies. I...1 year ago
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Can Students Expect a Relevant Education to be Delivered by Irrelevant Educators? - As a veteran teacher of forty years in the classroom, let me be clear, teachers are not completely at fault for becoming irrelevant in their profession. It...1 year ago
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The US Department of Education Should not be Eliminated. Still, it must be reformed. - If you don’t have an attention span that lasts long enough to learn what I’m teaching in this post, start with the conclusion first. Then if you want to re...1 year ago
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Malcolm & John David Washington Talk NFL, Christopher Nolan & ‘The Piano Lesson’ - 'The Washington brothers built their careers apart—until an irresistible project drew them together. In The *Piano Lesson*, they tackle a father’s thorny...1 year ago
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AIN’T IT AWFUL - As the terrible feelings of dread and angst spread across the world the great majority of the American people feel powerless before the onslaught of those ...1 year ago
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Did Darryl Willie lie or interfere in the whistleblower investgation? Why not both? - Willie said below to Action News Jax [image: image.png] It's troubling for quite a few reasons. First he is saying the board knew about the complaint an...1 year ago
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Could This Be Gadfly’s End? Top 12 Articles From 2023 Read By Fewer Than Ever - After 9 years of pounding my head against the wall - well, it seems like the wall is winning.2 years ago
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Redesigning School Governance: Beyond Mayoral Control - From time to time the legislature passes a bill with a sunset provision, unless the law is reauthorized by a specific date the law reverts to the law it re...2 years ago
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POSTPONED: Florida’s Impact on Social Studies - POSTPONED: discussion with Florida and DC educators and advocates on the impact of Florida's new laws Continue reading2 years ago
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Vote NO on the UFT Contract. Here is Why: - The best reason to vote no on this contract is this: UFT Unity* lied* to us in 2018. They misrepresented that contract. It was predicated on deals we wer...2 years ago
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Testimony to the CPS Truancy Task Force - I prepared testimony for one of two public hearings held by the Chicago Public Schools Truancy Task Force, a body mandated by state legislation. The meetin...3 years ago
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Tennis Memories from a Time When Racism and Anti-Semitism Still Prevailed - I learned tennis at a public park in Brooklyn- Lincoln Terrace- where the teaching pro was a mailman named Phil Rubell. Almost all the kids who took lesson...3 years ago
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There Is A Teacher Shortage.Not. - THERE IS A TEACHER SHORTAGE. And just to be sure you understand, it’s not that teachers don’t want to teach. It’s not that there aren’t enough teachers cer...3 years ago
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Want to know the condition of a Philly school building? New map to help. - [image: Two students walk by a Philadelphia school building.] Aging infrastructure has been an issue for Philadelphia schools for years. A new interactive...3 years ago
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STREET LIFE - My mom told me, “You should treat all people equally, but don’t bring a “colored” into the house.” I believed … Continue reading →4 years ago
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Schools Matter: Reflecting on Green Dot’s Disastrous Locke Takeover - *“Green Dot came and made it into more of a jail.” — Chris* My history of opposing the Green Dot Charter School Corporation back when I was an activist i...4 years ago
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Book Banning Turns to Dick and Jane - Breaking News: Dateline February 4, 2022 - Parents in Dimwitty, Alabama have asked the Dimwitty Board of Education to ban the children's primer *Fun with...4 years ago
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Have You Heard Has a New Website - TweetHave You Heard has a new website. Visit us at www.haveyouheardpodcast.com to find our latest episodes and our entire archive. And be sure to check out...4 years ago
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Follow me at Substack - I've moved. Follow me at Substack I'm now posting regularly at Substack. You can subscribe for free to my new Edu/Pol blog at michaelklonsky.substack.com ...4 years ago
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I’ve moved. - I’m on Substack now. You can continue to receive periodic posts for free. Or you can read every post and comment for $5 a month, $60 a year. fredklonsky.su...4 years ago
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Milwaukee Bradley Foundation at Center of Attacks on U.S. Voting Rights - The Big Money Behind the Big Lie Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win...4 years ago
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Milwaukee Bradley Foundation at Center of Attacks on U.S. Voting Rights - The Big Money Behind the Big Lie Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win...4 years ago
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Aspiring Teachers Get New Help Paying For College - [image: colorful classroom pattern] *; Credit: shuoshu/Getty Images* Cory Turner | NPR New rules kick in today that will help aspiring teachers pay for c...4 years ago
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Major victory over a corporate charter school chain and their trade association - Original post at Robert’s page on Medium. On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, I got my second big win in court against a charter school corporation. It was also a ...5 years ago
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Tips Akses Situs Judi Qq Tanpa Perlu Takut Nawala - Kegiatan berjudi slot melalui situs judi qq online, sekarang sudah dilakukan oleh banyak penjudi Indonesia. Tentu, Kamu yang sedang membaca artikel ini a...5 years ago
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The Threat of Integration - I have lived in the same house in the Miracle Mile section of Los Angeles for over 30 years, where up until now I have had little or no interaction with th...5 years ago
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New Teacher Evaluation Report Released by the Network for Public Education - A new report on current teacher evaluation systems throughout the US was just released by the Network for Public Education. The report is titled, “Teachers...5 years ago
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www.job-applications.com - https://www.job-applications.com/bed-bath-and-beyond-job-application/5 years ago
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Teacher Creates National Database Tracking COVID-19 Outbreaks in Schools - Kansas educator Alisha Morris's online coronavirus news-tracker goes viral, now hosted on a new NEA website.5 years ago
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Correction for July 10th Post on School District Audit - On July 10, 2020 we published a post “School District Caught Manipulating Attendance Records to Get More Money” which incorrectly cited Valley Park School ...5 years ago
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We fight for a democracy worthy of us all! - The nation stands at a crossroads, said NEA President Lily Eskelsen GarcÃa in her final keynote address to the 2020 NEA Representative Assembly and it’s up...5 years ago
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Giving Private Schools Federal Emergency Funds Slated for Low-income Students Will Shortchange At-risk Kids - Low-income Seattle students began to pick up bagged lunches in March after their school closed. Karen Ducey/Getty Images Derek W. Black, University of Sout...5 years ago
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The Passing Of Chaz 1951-2020 Age 69 - I am the son of Chaz and like to inform you that he passed away this afternoon from the COVID virus. My father passed in peace beside his loved ones. We ar...5 years ago
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Let The Next Round Of Anti-Semitic Ads Begin - All four pro-public education candidates came in first in their LAUSD school board elections, but two will face run-offs in November.6 years ago
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The Fight For Our Children - *The number of suicides among people ages 10 to 24 nationally increased by 56 percent between 2007 and 2017, according to a new federal report showing the ...6 years ago
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Love Grow Your Own (but not without the actual growth part) - The Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, recently announced a grow-your-own type of program for teachers. According to this piece: On Monday, Governor Ral...6 years ago
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Another attempted cash grab by the corporate ed crowd in Washington State: House Bill 2788 - The League of Women Voters has opposed charter schools because they don’t have boards elected by the voters but instead the corporation running the schools...6 years ago
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Some of Our Graduates Don't Even Know How to Tighten a Nut - Are schools neglecting practical knowledge and skills? Many of our students are graduating from high school with extremely limited practical knowledge essen...6 years ago
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Read to Self: Just a Kid and a Book. - Date: Monday, January 5, 2020 Place: My classroom Student: Mrs.Mims, could we start doing Read to Self again because I got this great book for Christmas an...6 years ago
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Reminiscences - I just finished dumping the rest of my lesson plans. I guess I held on to the calculus ones for so long because I spent so much time working on them an...6 years ago
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Just Asking for some Teachers I know. - Recently Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers stated, We must … recognize that part of supporting our kids in the classroom means supporting the educators who t...6 years ago
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Charging a terrified 10-year-old girl as a criminal is a very bad look for state attorney Dennis Ward - What the hell is going on? As a parent, I feel very comfortable using this exact wording to ask this … Continue reading →6 years ago
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Cara Menang Bermain Judi Bola Online - Bermain judi bola online tentu saja memiliki kesenangannya tersendiri baik itu mendapatkan keuntungan maupun ketika menantikan hasil skor pada sebuah perta...6 years ago
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Blaming Schools for Student Absences is Like Denouncing Doctors for Disease by Steven Singer - Originally posted at: https://gadflyonthewallblog.com/2019/08/25/blaming-schools-for-student-absences-is-like-denouncing-doctors-for-disease/?fbclid=IwAR1LV...6 years ago
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Jersey journalist roughed up at session sponsored by charter school groups - The sponsors of an event that doesn’t like journalists An independent New Jersey journalist was roughed up, his video camera was seized, and he was ejected...6 years ago
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K12 Inc. Data Breach Puts thousands of students at risk - It's hard to believe school districts are still contracting with this horrible company. K12 Inc. is the largest for-profit online alternative to actual pub...6 years ago
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A Critique of Standards-Based Grading - It first happened to me about ten years ago. I was beginning my third year of teaching in a new school in Washington, DC. Social studies teachers were si...6 years ago
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Reduced time for testing? Not so fast. - NYSED and Commish Elia continue to say that the NYS Assessments are of reasonable length, I completely disagree. Here is what NYSED states are average expe...7 years ago
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A Response to NorthJersey.com's Explosive "Cashing in on Charter Schools" Series - From NorthJersey.com's Cashing in on Charter Schools series Please note: THIS is what journalism looks like. For the better part of a *DECADE* I have wa...7 years ago
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This Week in Education Organizing - February 15, 2019 - Coalition for Education Justice to Release Report on CRE Eighty-five percent of public school students in New York City are Black, Latinx, or Asian and y...7 years ago
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The World According to Michelle Rhee - The men behind the curtain fashioning the brave new world of corporate run education in America! Michelle Rhee is the founder of StudentsFirst, The New T...7 years ago
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Libraries, books and overcoming the effect of poverty - *Published in the New York Times, September 20, 2018* *To the Editor:* *Re “Why libraries still matter.” [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/opinion/sund...7 years ago
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TSJ's 17th Annual Curriculum Fair - *TSJ's 17th Annual Curriculum Fair* *** REGISTER HERE *** *From Puerto Rico to Chicago:* *Reclaiming and Reimagining Our Communities* Saturday, November 1...7 years ago
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Whose Opinions Matter in Education World? - It's hard to identify education heroes and sheroes. And perhaps even harder to pinpoint just whose work is slanted, paid-for and dishonest.7 years ago
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Book Review: The History of Institutional Racism in U.S. Public Schools (2018, Garn Press) by Susan DuFresne - I recently had the privilege of reading Dufresne’s powerful illustrated history of educational and institutional racism in the United States. Dufresne blen...7 years ago
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Corruption on Top of Corruption: How Rahm’s Response to Sexual Abuse of Students Reveals His Core Function - Rahm Emanuel’s response to the Chicago Tribune investigation that found CPS failed to protect hundreds of students from sexual abuse is cowardly. It is co...7 years ago
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New Local Businesses in Sacramento - Starting a new local business in Sacramento is a monumental task, but can be accomplished with footwork, perseverance and knowledge. One must learn the loc...7 years ago
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Lesson Plan: Rhyme and Rhythm in Poetry - I’ve started a recent unit on poetry with my class. I’m not a poet, and I’m not a poetry fan (I don’t hate it, but I’m a prose gal), so this makes it harde...7 years ago
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The Apotheosis of Betsy DeVos - Betsy Devos has drawn few headlines in recent months, and that is a good thing for the Secretary of Education. Her tenure began with Vice President Mike P...8 years ago
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A Teacher’s Tale in the Midst of the Terror in our Schools - Students’ active-shooter plan for teacher in wheelchair: ‘We will carry you’ Reprinted from Allison Slater Tate Feb. 21, 2018 at 4:58 PM Like teachers all ...8 years ago
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Social Emotional Data. The new Cash Cow in the Corporate Assessment Industry - Recently I was asked to allow my son to participate in a survey at school. The "opt in" survey form specifically stated, "the questions on the survey rela...8 years ago
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Education Is a Civic Question - In their final post to end Bridging Differences' decade-long run, Deborah Meier and Harry Boyte urge readers to put the energy, talents, wisdom, and hard w...8 years ago
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Site News: New Home for Education News & Commentary - Quick! Get over there! The daily education news roundup and education commentaries that you're probably looking for are now being published over at The Gra...8 years ago
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Should We Be Grateful? - In an odd turn of events, and with little explanation, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has decided to return the state’s School Reform Office back to the Dep...8 years ago
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Parents Deserve to Know Who Is Being Appointed to State Board of Ed - I spent a rather surreal day at NJ Senate's Judiciary Committee meeting yesterday. This Committee, headed by Democrat Nick Scaturi, is responsible for a...8 years ago
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An Open Letter to NC Lawmakers - An Open Letter to NC State Lawmakers and NC State Superintendent Mark Johnson: I am a NC native, voter, and public school teacher. I am addressing you all ...8 years ago
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The Secret to Fixing Schools (My Next Bestseller) - The Secret to Fixing Schools (My next bestseller) Prologue I just finished watching a fascinating documentary on Netflix entitled, “The Secret”. The film p...9 years ago
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CPS Targets Special Education Teacher Sarah Chambers - Here are the remarks from an action we did today at River Point Plaza, a new development that used over $30 million in TIF funds. CPS claims we are broke...9 years ago
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Farewell, Sleep - Today is the official last day of my spring break. I've done a scientific survey: My natural bedtime is 2 AM, and my natural wake up time is 9:41 AM. Tom...9 years ago
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March is nearly over and I didn't do anything for WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH - I was inspired when I saw this meme I guess it can be called of WOMEN IN STEM and "IT'S OKAY TO BE SMART" And I began thinking about how the only subjec...9 years ago
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REPORT: States With the Best and Worst Schools - States With the Best (and Worst)Schools By *Evan Comen, Michael B. Sauter, Samuel Stebbins and Thomas C. Frohlich* January 20, 2017- http://247wallst.com ...9 years ago
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Test Refusal = People Power - In recent months, social media has been ablaze with talk of regular folk taking action to resist the Trump agenda. Protests are a daily occurrence, and ev...9 years ago
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Attitude Determines Altitude* (*conditions apply)… and the Importance of Humane District Themes - It has been a tumultuous few years in the South Brunswick community, specifically the South Brunswick School District. All you have to do is google the dis...9 years ago
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What Is To Be Done? Trump, the Election, and the Student Loan Crises - President-elect Donald Trump delivering acceptance speech in New York, NY on November 9 (Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Ever since now Presi...9 years ago
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Prison Gerrymandering: Incarceration Weakens Vulnerable Voting Communities - One person equals one vote: seems simple enough. Unfortunately, that hasn’t worked out for many Americans throughout history, specifically women and peop...9 years ago
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Random Musings and Observations. . . . - I’ve been gone a while from the blogging scene. Some of my more regular readers no doubt noticed but did not hassle me about it. Thank you for that. Sinc...9 years ago
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WTU Headquarters On The Auction Block: Union Prez Liz Davis Doesn't Pay Property Tax! - *June 30th is the last official day of WTU Prez Davis' constitutional term. Malcolm Barnes explores this unfortunate scandal in the article below. What r...9 years ago
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AB 934: A LEGISLATIVE FIX FOR VERGARA? - By Michael Stratford | in the Politco Morning Education Report | via email 05/24/2016 10:00 AM EDT :: Two national education groups are backing a Califor...9 years ago
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To simply say you have a growth mindset does not mean you actually have one - By definition, you cannot have a growth mindset when learning is anchored to standardized tests. Standardized tests are a one … Continue reading →9 years ago
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A brief appearance in the Black Panther documentary - 1969 press conference: From left: Fred Hampton and Bobby Rush (Black Panthers); Cha Cha Jiminez (Young Lords Organization); Mike Klonsky (SDS) I have a s...10 years ago
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Kimberly Olson, Broad Superintendents Academy Class of 2005 - Kimberly D. Olson, Colonel, USAF (retired), is currently the Executive Director of *Grace After Fire*, an online social support network for women veteran...15 years ago
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Education - San Jose Mercury News San Jose State to lay off 76 staff and eliminate 49 positions in budget crunch
