Education
californiawatch.org - CDCRMule Creek state prison. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation quietly transferred millions of dollars out of beleaguered rehabilitation programs last year to cover shortf...
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blogs.chron.com - « Magnets and money |MainJanuary 27, 2011HISD board to kumbaya this weekend The board won't exactly be roughing it at the Magnolia Hotel in downtown Houston. The Houston ISD school board is holding...
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dailynews.com - There are elections under way this week in many neighborhoods of Los Angeles. And while the campaigns are sophisticated and well-financed, using expensive glossy campaign mailers - even a billboard...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Margaret Fortune, who was the main pitch person and superintendent forKevin Johnson’s St. Hope schools back in the day, wants to open 10 charter schools—with nearly 5,000 students—in Sacramento Cou...
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huffingtonpost.com - Ohio mother of two Kelley Williams-Bolar was released from jail on Wednesday after serving nine days for falsifying records so that her two daughters could attend a better school.Williams-Bolar was...
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wctrib.com - WILLMAR — The annual adequate yearly progress reports could be a thing of the past for U.S. public schools.Interventions for struggling schools are expected to be less punitive and more flexible th...
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blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,It's interesting to imagine what world view drives my enemies. Reading your piece about economists provided an insight! Maybe. Most of the current members of the billionaire's club make ...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - by Celeste LavinWhen the young teacher attending a panel discussion about men of color and education stood up to tell Superintendent Arlene Ackerman that the School District’s constant bureaucratic...
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 | californiaprogressreport.com - Printer-friendly versionSend to friendBy Gabe TrevesTenants Together The foreclosure crisis continues to devastate tenants and their communities. Earlier today, Tenants Together, California's stat... coopmike48 |
theacorn.com - By Donald Zimring Las Virgenes superintendentThe Acorn has traditionally been on target and in support of our local public schools. They share the community’s belief that good schools mean good com...
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dyn.politico.com - Michelle Rhee turned up at work last Sept. 15 utterly stunned. “I really did think he was going to win,” she told the staff of her boss, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty. “Yes, we know you did,” came the re...
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eiaonline.com - The Department of Health and Human Services released its latest list of companies and organizations that received a one-year waiver of the Affordable Care Act’s ban on annual dollar limits on benef...
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dailykos.com - Thu Jan 27, 2011 at 08:43:07 AM PST One young future teacher explains: "...while I plan to devote myself to teaching in the same communities TFA targets, I will never Teach For America."By now most...
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boston.com - INDIANAPOLIS—A Republican-controlled Senate committee advanced a contentious proposal Wednesday that critics contend would strip Indiana teachers of their collective bargaining rights.The Senate la...
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washingtonpost.com - Interim D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson announced Wednesday that she has reassigned the new principal of Hardy Middle School, acknowledging that poor decisions by the District had contribute...
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sacramentopa.blogspot.com - Jerry Brown argued again today that severe budget cuts were necessary because the money for police, fire, teachers, etc. is not there. here.http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/01/jerry...
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huffingtonpost.com - On Tuesday President Obama made clear that while there are many challenges facing America's future, improving education is as the top of the list.I believe we will only truly improve education in A...
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huffingtonpost.com - I did not see the Presidential State of the Union speech on Tuesday night.I did not hear how we are in a Sputnik moment. I did not hear from the president that the Chinese are out-developing us, ou...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Education reform is about to return to the headlines, if not the floor of Congress, if President Obama’s State of the Union is any indication. Obama built his feel-good speech Tuesday night around ...
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blogs.edweek.org - Across the country we're seeing efforts by lawmakers to challenge traditional notions of how state money should flow to students and schools. In some cases, newly emboldened Republican lawmakers ar...
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ed.gov - Event Date 1: January 28, 2011 12:00 pm - January 28, 2011 02:00 pmAssistant Secretary Alexa Posny will discuss the need for coordinated teacher recruitment, preparation and evaluation across gener...
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ed.gov - Event Date 1: January 28, 2011 08:00 pm - 12:00 amFrank Chong, deputy assistant secretary for community colleges in the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, will discuss technological advances...
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californiaprogressreport.com - Printer-friendly versionSend to friendBy Lisa Schiff President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night promised a continuation of flawed education strategies while ignoring the need for tru...
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huffingtonpost.com - Everybody agrees that small business is good for an economy, that it promotes jobs, and so on. But what does anybody want the government to do about it? And what can governments really do about it,...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - AP Exclusive: Teach For America gets $100M(AP) – 3 hours agoATLANTA (AP) — Teach For America, the education organization that has placed recent college graduates in low-income public schools, is ge...
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baycitizen.org - A small but powerful group of politicians, union officials and civic leaders arrived at City Hall this morning for a planned 9am meeting with newly appointed Mayor Ed Lee. Their agenda: Find a solu...
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ascd.typepad.com - What supports can schools provide to help maintain a healthy, safe environment for learning? How can schools encourage parents—including parents from minority and immigrant cultures—to take on mean...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - I became an education writer, in large part, because I attended the public schools in Ossining, New York. Due to a unique integration/busing program that has been maintained throughout the decades,...
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scholasticadministrator.typepad.com - Here's some more about Edmund Randolph, the school success story highlighted in the State of the union: NPR's Larry Abramson reports that the school graduated 97% of its 75 seniors, but the school... coopmike48 |
 | dailynews.com - Students leave El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 after a brief lockdown following a report of someone carrying a gun. (John McCoy/Staff Photographer) As she s... coopmike48 |
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - So, yesterday I tried to articulate what I think might be a new story to tell around education, one that acknowledges that schools will soon no longer be seen as the only path to learning though th...
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thenotebook.org - West Philadelphia High School is set to experience another dramatic shakeup, but there will be no repeat of last year’s tumultuous Renaissance match process. On Tuesday, District officials announce...
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washingtonpost.com - North Chevy Chase Elementary School, with a demanding curriculum, strong faculty and high student test scores, meets nobody's definition of a failure. Nobody's, that is, except the federal governme...
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usnews.com - Once again, social science research is refuting the often-cited myth that U.S. News's Best Colleges rankings are the main reason that the average student chooses one school over another. That concl...
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ednewscolorado.org - Updated 9:30 a.m. – The Senate Finance Committee this morning unanimously passed House Joint Resolution 11-1007, the controversial measure that suggests a state spending target for 2011-12. Panel c...
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northjersey.com - WANTAGE — Ashley Craig recalls a turning point in her life. As an eighth-grade student at Sussex Middle School, a classmate and close companion sat her down at a desk. He said, "I'm going to end it...
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eyeonearlyeducation.org - January 27, 2011 by Irene Sege Gov. Patrick Yesterday Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick released a $30.5 billion state budget for fiscal 2012 (House 1). The governor’s FY12 budget proposes $570 ...
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washingtonexaminer.com - Forty percent of D.C. Public Schools teachers rejected the thousands of dollars in bonuses offered to them for being "highly effective" educators under the evaluation system introduced last year. I...
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ednewsparent.org - Parenting can be one of our greatest challenges. Many say it is our most difficult job with the least amount of training. Learning effective parenting strategies can dramatically improve our childr...
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