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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch on her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Deborah Meier on the Education Week website. Ravitch and Meier exchange letters abo...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Here is the comment I posted this morning on the Education Writers Association listserve, where topic A is the G.F. Brandenburg blog that proves Michelle Rhee said her students' gains when she taug...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - How to Exercise AuthorityOf the 20 schools I visited last fall, two stand out. Any parent would know in the first five minutes of each visit what I knew: I want my child in school A, and I will fig...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Big Education Ape: Ed News NowBig Education Ape: Ed News Nowpreaprez.wordpress.com - Chicago’s public radio station WBEZ has a website that includes City Life by Achy Obejas. In her recent post she...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - At today's School Reform Commission meeting SRC chair Robert Archie announced that Commissioner David Girard-diCarlo has tendered his resignation.Archie said, "He is a colleague and I think I speak...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - As reported by the DREAMActivist blog this morning, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is looking to take another whack at the DREAM Act.Hutchison voted against the DREAM Act — which would have given som...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - SACRAMENTO — State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson issued the following statement after hearing testimony from parents about the Parent Empowerment Law during today's State Board...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A disturbing number of people are blaming public sector unions for states’ current budget crises (also here, hereand here). Their basic argument is that unions have seriously exacerbated budget sho...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Former Washington DC school boss Michelle Rhee testified in front of the Legislature today about the need for school reform. She advocated firing 8 percent of the state’s teachers.Sen. Bill Montfor...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Today, the President launched his second annual Race to the Top Commencement Challenge. The 2011 Race to the Top Commencement Challenge invites public high schools across the country to demonstrate...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Michelle Rhee's advocacy group, StudentsFirst, on Wednesday eveningissued a statement challenging blogger G.F. Brandenburg's account of her record as a Baltimore school teacher. The entire statemen...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Here are the answers:(1) There is not a single Baltimore Edison/EAI/Tesseract school at which students in math jumped from the 13th percentile to above the 90th percentile, in either CTBS reading o...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - My frame for ASCD's study trip to Finland was to examine complex issues of teaching, learning, and culture within an early childhood development context. I soon discovered that strong cultural valu... coopmike48 |
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The League for Education Voters, LEV, that same Broad-backed, Gates’ funded organization that brought us Kevin Johnson, a big proponent of charter schools who spoke to a mostly African-American aud...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - I actually agreed with 99% of what Cathy Black wrote in her Daily News Op-Ed today. In the following paragraph, she (or whoever wrote this for her) absolutely nails the problem with current, Regent...
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 | bigeducationape.blogspot.com - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Student demonstrations are continuing to shake the University of Puerto Rico, in spite of the successful institution of a $800 fee increase. The first semester of the 2010-1... coopmike48 |
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - When the University of California, Irvine (UCI) last year asked the ambassador of a government widely considered to be guilty of war crimes to deliver a lecture on campus, student activists upset o...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - From Progress Illinois, 2.9.2011Ever since the parking meter deal was hastily passed by the Chicago City Council in 2008, opponents tried to figure out a way to get out of the deal. Chicago mayoral...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - What’s churning:Several entities listed as sponsoring a Feb. 17 talk by education historian and author Diane Ravitch said they’re withdrawing their support after learning her talk will benefit a po...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Each Friday, our faculty gathers for 90 minutes of professional development. It is a valuable time spent collaborating with colleagues and discussing how to better meet the needs of our students. T...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A coalition of lawmakers and child advocates will announce tomorrow that they will appeal a lower court's decision to decline to deny schools chancellor Cathie Black a waiver that she needed to ass...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Steven Newton traces the development of creationism, from the time of the Scopes trial, to "scientific creationism," and the attempts to use science to support a literal reading of Genesis, to the ...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - From Chicagoist, 2.9.2011City Clerk Miguel del Valle has asked state Attorney General Lisa Madigan to investigate the city's ballyhooed parking meter lease deal, believing that because Morgan Stanl...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Several of us have seen advance notice of what Central Administration cuts lead staff is going to present to the Board this afternoon/evening at the Board Work Session on the budget.What I saw almo...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 560wind.com - 560 WIND is Chicago's Conservative Talk Radio Station: Local and National News, Traffic, John & Amy, Dennis Miller, Mike Gallagher, Michael Medved, Michael Savage, Hugh Hewitt, and De...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - New York has been struggling to improve its schools. Now a new study released by education researchers in New York state shows that getting a passing grade on the Regents statewide exams in reading...
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huffingtonpost.com - When it comes to increasing state funding for Chicago Public Schools, I propose a clear solution:Get more kids back into classrooms and on the road to graduation.During the 2009-10 school year, 6,3...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Everyone is rightly horrified about the case of a first-grade teacher at a Silver Spring elementary school who was just charged with several counts of assault after being accused of choking and/or ...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - coopmike48 For-Profit colleges scrutinized for high pressure recruiting | News10.net | Sacramento, California | News -http://goo.gl/p3PJm6 minutes ago · reply
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - By Rick Daysog - Published: 12:00 amPlans for $100 million in green upgrades to Sacramento's school buildings received a boost from the national organization that certifies eco-friendly and energy-...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - (with gratitude to and reverence for the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.)Nine years ago, President George W. Bush, in whose symbolic shadow our children now shiver, signed the No Child Left Behind leg...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - When Desmond Shannon was a student at the Gesu School in North Philadelphia, he thought students at that private Catholic elementary school had more homework than their teachers.Thanks to a new, lo...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Do I really need to go into why there is a problem with Illinois public employee pensions again?Is it something the employees did? Is the average teacher pension of roughly $40,000 a year too greed...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The State Board of Education will hold a public hearing today to discuss what has become a thorny question: Under what circumstances should a charter school company be allowed to bypass local distr...
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