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Modern School: TEACHERS’ UNIONS IN HARD TIMES
2011-Feb-6
Modern School: TEACHERS’ UNIONS IN HARD TIMESTEACHERS’ UNIONS IN HARD TIMESby noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dunn)What is the relationship between strikes and teachers salaries and working conditions? Well, according toWilliam Boyd, David Plank, and Gary Sykes, it is a pretty direct link: In the 1970s and 1980s, teachers’ unions in Michigan and Pennsylvania were amongthe most powerful in the United States. They won rapid and substantial gains for their members,in large part because of their readiness to send teachers out on strike, ...
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This Week In Education: Thompson: Early Performance Pay Results Are Not Promising
2011-Feb-4
This Week In Education: Thompson: Early Performance Pay Results Are Not PromisingThompson: Early Performance Pay Results Are Not Promisingby john thompsonHouston's "reform" superintendent, Terry Grier complains that his performance pay system identified 92% of teachers as deserving bonuses, so he plans to cut it back. After the first year of the District of Columbia's performance pay plan, 40% of the teachers who earned bonuses turned them down because they did not trust their system's IMPACT
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Big Education Ape: Ed News Now
2011-Feb-4
Big Education Ape: Ed News NowBig Education Ape: Ed News Now as shared by 6 people on Coopmike48’s Twitter listNext update in about 7 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONPOLITICSBUSINESSLIVINGART ENTERTAINMENTSTORIES#EDUThe Transformation Times harvinmoore.com - How do you get in there? And how can they see out? This provocative editorial from Chester Finn of the Fordham Foundation. Think about it – how does tenure help children? Opinion: Nobody deserves ...coopmike48Additional School Closures Expected At Brooklyn PEP Meeting ny1.com - To view our videos, ...
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Robert Reich (The Jobs Report, and America's Two Economies)
2011-Feb-4
Robert Reich (The Jobs Report, and America's Two Economies)The Jobs Report, and America's Two EconomiesAt a time when corporate profits are through the roof, the Dow is flirting with 12,000, Wall Street paychecks are fat again, and big corporations are sitting on more than $1 trillion in cash, you’d expect jobs be coming back. But you’d be wrong.The U.S. economy added just 36,000 jobs in January, according to today’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Remember, 125,000 are needed ...
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Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Decision 2011: Miguel del Valle's CatalystChicago Questionnaire
2011-Feb-4
Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Decision 2011: Miguel del Valle's CatalystChicago QuestionnaireDecision 2011: Miguel del Valle's CatalystChicago Questionnaireby Joanna2011Miguel del Valle was elected City Clerk of Chicago in 2006, following almost 20 years in the Illinois Senate, where he chaired the elementary and secondary education committee. He was the first Hispanic senator in the Illinois General Assembly. Currently, he chairs the states P-20 Council, which seeks to align education at all levels. He co-founded ...
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Where’s the Pork? Mitigating the Damage of State Aid Cuts « School Finance 101
2011-Feb-4
Where’s the Pork? Mitigating the Damage of State Aid Cuts « School Finance 101Where’s the Pork? Mitigating the Damage of State Aid Cutsby schoolfinance101This is a very long and complicated post, so I’ll give you a few take home points up front…Take home pointsCrude assumptions advanced by the “new normal” pundit crowd that across the board state aid cuts are a form of shared sacrifice are misguided and dreadfully oversimplified.State aid cuts hurt some districts and the children they serve ...
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40 Percent of Latinos in Toronto High Schools Drop Out - Hispanically Speaking News
2011-Feb-4
40 Percent of Latinos in Toronto High Schools Drop Out - Hispanically Speaking News40 Percent of Latinos in Toronto High Schools Drop OutAccording to a recent study, the high school drop out rate for Latinos in Toronto is now 40 percent, and despite attempts to change this, the school district has, so far, been unable to find a solution.The study, by University of Toronto states that the drop out rate is almost double that of the overall population. So what ...
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Shanker Blog » School-Based Early Childhood Education Program Yields High Economic Benefits
2011-Feb-4
Shanker Blog » School-Based Early Childhood Education Program Yields High Economic BenefitsSchool-Based Early Childhood Education Program Yields High Economic Benefitsby Burnie BondEach dollar spent on a high-quality early childhood program in the Chicago Public Schools yields $4 to $11 in benefits to the economy, according to a new cost-benefit analysis. (Full disclosure: Barbara Bowman, Chicago’s Chief Early Childhood Education Officer, who oversees the program, was a key advisor on our early childhood education report.)According to a press release from the ...
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This Week In Education: Thompson: Early Performance Pay Results Are Not Promising
2011-Feb-4
This Week In Education: Thompson: Early Performance Pay Results Are Not PromisingThompson: Early Performance Pay Results Are Not Promisingby john thompsonHouston's "reform" superintendent, Terry Grier complains that his performance pay system identified 92% of teachers as deserving bonuses, so he plans to cut it back. After the first year of the District of Columbia's performance pay plan, 40% of the teachers who earned bonuses turned them down because they did not trust their system's IMPACT
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Big Education Ape: Ed News Now
2011-Feb-4
Big Education Ape: Ed News NowBig Education Ape: Ed News Now as shared by 6 people on Coopmike48’s Twitter listNext update in about 7 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONPOLITICSBUSINESSLIVINGART ENTERTAINMENTSTORIES#EDUThe Transformation Times harvinmoore.com - How do you get in there? And how can they see out? This provocative editorial from Chester Finn of the Fordham Foundation. Think about it – how does tenure help children? Opinion: Nobody deserves ...coopmike48Additional School Closures Expected At Brooklyn PEP Meeting ny1.com - To view our videos, ...
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Robert Reich (The Jobs Report, and America's Two Economies)
2011-Feb-4
Robert Reich (The Jobs Report, and America's Two Economies)The Jobs Report, and America's Two EconomiesAt a time when corporate profits are through the roof, the Dow is flirting with 12,000, Wall Street paychecks are fat again, and big corporations are sitting on more than $1 trillion in cash, you’d expect jobs be coming back. But you’d be wrong.The U.S. economy added just 36,000 jobs in January, according to today’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Remember, 125,000 are needed ...
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Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Web Video: Boost Neighborhood Schools--Progress Illinois
2011-Feb-3
Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Web Video: Boost Neighborhood Schools--Progress IllinoisWeb Video: Boost Neighborhood Schools--Progress Illinoisby Joanna2011From Progress Illinois, 2.3.2011by Micah MaidenbergMiguel del Valle's mayoral campaign is highlighting an effective new web video that emphasizes a point so simple it seems to have been largely overlooked in the debate about education in Chicago's mayoral race: the vast, vast majority of Chicago Public School students don't attend selective enrollment schools. They don't attend charters. They ...
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Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Del Valle Casts His Ballot--NBC5 Ward Room
2011-Feb-2
Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Del Valle Casts His Ballot--NBC5 Ward RoomDel Valle Casts His Ballot--NBC5 Ward RoomJANUARY 31, 2011From NBC5 Chicago Ward Room, 1.31.2011View more news videos at: http://www.nbcchicago.com/video.Continuing his record of "firsts" in the race, Miguel del Valle is the first major candidate to cast his ballot.
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Evening Edition: Big Education Ape: Ed News Now, Education
2011-Jan-31
Big Education Ape: Ed News Now, EducationBig Education Ape: Ed News Now as shared by 6 people on Coopmike48’s Twitter listNext update in about 11 hoursBack to front pageHEADLINESEDUCATIONPOLITICSLIVINGSTORIESHEALTHART ENTERTAINMENT#CHICAGOMAYOR#EDPOLICYEducationThe Daily Reveille - Bobby Jindal to announce legislative reform for higher education lsureveille.com - Published: Monday, January 31, 2011 Updated: Monday, January 31, 2011 10:01 Gov. Bobby Jindal will speak today at noon to discuss his legislative agenda for reforming higher education. Few details ...coopmike48The Answer Sheet - The 'thinking ...