Big Education Ape: Ed News Now
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nydailynews.com - Bonifacio for News; Pool Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Cuomo are deep in talks about education issues in New York City. ALBANY - Gov. Cuomo revealed Wednesday that he's deep in talks with Mayor Bloomber...
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washingtonpost.com - Former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, known for her crusade to use standardized test scores to help evaluate teachers, is facing renewed scrutiny over her depiction of progress that her ...
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tfa20years.org - In the two decades since Teach For America’s inception, there has never been so much momentum for change. Teach For America’s 20th Anniversary Summit will convene thousands of alumni, together with...
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denverpost.com - WASHINGTON — Sen. Michael Bennet wrote in a letter to President Obama today that he will propose the "Presidential Teachers Corps" to craft an army of 100,000 new mobile teachers in the next five y...
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insidehighered.com - Governor Rick Perry wants public colleges and universities in Texas to develop bachelor's degrees that would cost students only $10,000 in total, including the cost of textbooks, KXAN News reported...
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montgomeryadvertiser.com - Bigger class sizes and fewer working days for teachers could be in the works as a remedy to fill the projected shortfalls in the state's 2012 education budget.The state Department of Education is ...
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 | educationnext.org - Evidence from the New York City schools | Print | NO PDF | Share Spring 2011 / Vol. 11, No. 2 An unabridged version of this article is available here. Merit pay proponents argue that monetary incen... leoniehaimson |
blogs.edweek.org - Three things were obvious after the new GOPed-up House education committee held its first hearing on education:1) No more money: Just in case the message hasn't gotten through, school districts sho...
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oregonlive.com - Published: Friday, February 11, 2011, 6:00 AMGovernor John Kitzhaber will announce an executive order today creating the Oregon Education Investment Team, a temporary group that will be tasked with...
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blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,"This is not democracy—letting people yell and scream," says Mayor Michael Bloomberg in publicly chiding the protesters at the meeting of his education advisory board. As UFT President M...
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gothamschools.org - Education Reform Now — the advocacy organization now chaired by former Chancellor Joel Klein — unveiled a TV spot today that shows relatively senior teachers arguing against seniority. The ad’s deb...
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chron.com - A sharply divided Houston school board agreed Thursday to expand Superintendent Terry Grier's signature school reform program to 11 elementary campuses next year despite concerns about a looming bu...
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blog.aflcio.org - Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) and Republican legislators launched their biggest assault yet against Buckeye state public employees with a hearing yesterday on a bill to eliminate collective bargaining ...
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ajc.com - By D. Aileen DoddThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionParents of more than 200 students at Imagine Marietta school may have to look for new options for their kids next fall after the state upheld the re...
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ednewscolorado.org - A new anti-bullying bill introduced in the legislature Thursday proposes to do everything from creating a legislative study committee on the issue to requiring schools to conduct annual surveys abo...
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blogs.ajc.com - Michelle Rhee Former DC schools chancellor Michelle Rhee appealed to both ends of the political spectrum today in her visit to the Georgia Capitol, touting vouchers to provide low-income children w...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Big Education Ape: Ed News NowBig Education Ape: Ed News Noweducationnext.org - | Print | NO PDF | Share Spring 2011 / Vol. 11, No. 2 The following essay is part of a forum, written in honor of Edu...
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blogs.ajc.com - 9:09 pm February 10, 2011, by Maureen Downey As expected, Georgia lawmakers are pushing for a version of California’s controversial parent trigger bill to overhaul failing schools even as that stat...
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quickanded.com - There’s a lot to learn from Harvard business professor Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting College, published this week by the Center for American Progress. Two things in particular: First, Christense...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Dear Mr. Velderman:I Just read this disconcerting blog post from a public school art teacher whom I respect and admire immensely.In fact I have already investigated his work and I can provide some ...
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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - A good education is the lifeblood of the American dream. For millions of young Americans, that dream is now in jeopardy because the education system is failing them.A group of leading educators and...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - LYNWOOD — The Lynwood Unified School District is being sanctioned by the federal government for not being compliant with the No Child Left Behind Law after the district’s new director of human reso...
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gothamschools.org - The Center for Education Reform's new journalism-rating site, The Media Bullpen, launched this morning. A new website that will rate national and local news coverage of education issues — funded an...
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thenotebook.org - Superintendent Arlene Ackerman today acknowledged the size of the District's budget gap for next year to be "$400 to $500 million or more" - an amount that likely represents about 15 percent of tot...
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ed.gov - Event Date 1: February 12, 2011 04:45 pm - 06:45 pmEducation Secretary Arne Duncan will highlight the work Teach for America has done to narrow the achievement gap during his keynote address at the...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Greetings Potential Presenters: SCUSD African American Student Leadership Conference committee invites you to submit an application, detailing your proposed 50 minute workshop, which demonstrates k...
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pepperdine-graphic.com - At the end of last year, Pepperdine's School of Public Policy's Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership has been in the news for the release of a report on the current state ...
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ednewscolorado.org - A tiny Eastern Plains school district is seeking a waiver from one education reform law by invoking the terms of a different reform statute. The 109-student Kit Carson district wants to be declared...
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blogs.chron.com - « HISD board barely approves expanding Apollo program |MainFebruary 10, 2011HISD plan ties teacher ratings to test scores Does this look like the chalkboard of a highly effective teacher? Classroom... coopmike48 |
 | edutopia.org - 2/10/11 The overall education policy and even more strongly, in my home state of New Jersey, encourages the development of charter schools. Often, support for charter schools is framed in the conte... leoniehaimson |
huffingtonpost.com - Lately we hear a lot about teacher merit. Mayor Bloomberg, for example, wishes to end LIFO, the system of last-in first-out layoffs (LIFO). This makes sense to a lot of people. Why shouldn't we kee...
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 | aolnews.com - If school reformer Michelle Rhee hasn't yet parachuted into your hometown, chances are she soon will. You'll recognize her immediately -- she's the blunt-talking, young Korean-American woman praise... coopmike48 |
modeducation.blogspot.com - The San Francisco school board revoked the Edison Academy’s charter ten years ago, when it was run by the for-profit Edison Schools chain. Edison appealed with the California State Board of Educati...
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online.wsj.com - In a growing rift between the city and the teachers union, the president of the United Federation of Teachers yanked his participation in a national conference set for next week in Denver featuring...
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teachbad.com - If you are a reader of this blog, you know that my school is a little heavy-handed with the data and the telling of teachers what to put on their walls and the specificity with which all manner of ...
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parentsacrossamerica.org - The Education and Workforce Committee of the US House of Representatives is holding hearings on “innovation” in education policy today. The list of witnesses completely excludes the people who hav...
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californiaprogressreport.com - Printer-friendly versionSend to friendBy David Dayen House Democrats have been extremely focused over the past couple weeks on the spate of Republican bills and provisions aimed at women’s health a...
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californiaprogressreport.com - Printer-friendly versionSend to friendBy Mike OdehChildren Now Two years ago President Obama signed the reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Thanks to new opportunitie...
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scnow.com - A spokesperson for the South Carolina Dept. of Education explained the No Child Left Behind system and the Annual Yearly Progress. "No Child Left Behind requires schools and districts to break out ...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - I'm reading the article "Teaching the iGeneration," in the the February 2011 issue of Educational Leadership, and was stunned to see that Mr. Rosen missed such a critical resource. He talks about k...
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nj.com - Published: Thursday, February 10, 2011, 10:32 AM Updated: Thursday, February 10, 2011, 10:41 AMTo the Editor:For nine years, teachers and students have lived under the federal education mandate...
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nydailynews.com - Watts/News Mayor Bloomberg is all smiles at the 2009 St. Patrick's Parade -- but he's feeling less love from the Irish community in New York after a questionable joke. Mayor Bloomberg sure got thei...
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nypost.com - By FREDRIC U. DICKER in Albany and CARL CAMPANILE in NYAn education-reform group is launching a multimillion-dollar TV ad blitz to persuade the state Legislature to repeal the "last in, first out" ...
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connectedprincipals.com - At a conference that I was at in Chicago in October, I was fortunate enough to see Douglas Fisher, an outstanding speaker who forever changed my thinking. One of the many things that he talked abo...
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huffingtonpost.com - Now the issue regarding Michelle Rhee's claims to have increased her students' test scores from the 13th to the 90th percentile is settled. Now the disagreement is whether she lied, or simply repea...
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thenotebook.org - Turnaround is a failed measure that’s led to instability in schools and “massive demoralization” among teachers and school officials, said New York University professor and author Diane Ravitch Mon...
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huffingtonpost.com - Now the issue regarding Michelle Rhee's claims to have increased her students' test scores from the 13th to the 90th percentile is settled. Now the disagreement is whether she lied, or simply repea...
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voices.washingtonpost.com - "U.S. students, who once led the world, currently rank 21st in the world in science and 25th in math," Newsweek reported in September. I hear that a lot. Politicians and business leaders often bemo...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - This was written by Larry Cuban, a former high school social studies teacher (14 years, including seven at Cardozo and Roosevelt high schools in the District), district superintendent (seven years ...
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gothamschools.org - Nearly nine months after Albany passed legislation requiring all charter schools in New York City to form parent groups, the city does not yet know exactly how many city charters are in compliance ...
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voiceofsandiego.org - Posted: Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:45 pm | Updated: 7:15 pm, Thu Feb 10, 2011. San Diego officials faced a choice the night they pushed a billion-dollar bill they'd been secretly working on fo...
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catalyst-chicago.org - A show of support from principals for MazanyPosted By Rebecca Harris On Thursday, February 10, 2011 In Principals In his opening remarks Thursday morning at the Chicago Principals and Administrator...
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blogs.edweek.org - Yesterday I shared a conversation between an ex-Teach For America intern and his mentor. The focus of their discussion was on the need for far more effective forms of mentoring than is offered by T...
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tfninsider.org - By Dan Last month’s announcement by a prominent creationist group that it had decided not to seek state approval to sell instructional materials to Texas public schools was good news for supporters...
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edweek.org - Two groups of states that are designing assessments for the new set of common academic standards have expanded their plans to provide instructional materials and professional development to help te...
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charlotteobserver.com - Posted: Friday, Feb. 11, 2011 N.C. Republican lawmakers will likely get the state's 100-school limit on charter schools lifted this year. Fine. But they shouldn't push through changes that would co...
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blogs.chron.com - « HISD to play musical school buildings -- updated |Main | HISD plan ties teacher ratings to test scores »February 10, 2011HISD board barely approves expanding Apollo programI just filed this story...
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huffingtonpost.com - I know we wear a lot of hats already, but I believe that we as teachers need to don a new one, that of publicist. After all, looking at the villainization of teachers in the media, and frankly, the...
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preaprez.wordpress.com - I told you about this group called The Education Action Group. Their boy, Ben Velderman has filed an Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, demanding all my work emails. That’s a picture of Ben...
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northjersey.com - N.J. Assembly panel considers proposed constitutional amendment on rules for privatization TRENTON — An Assembly panel is discussing a proposed constitutional amendment that would give state and lo...
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