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Parents spell out detailed school reform blueprint - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
2011-Apr-22
Parents spell out detailed school reform blueprint - The Answer Sheet - The Washington PostParents spell out detailed school reform blueprintBy Valerie StraussA national grassroots organization called Parents Across America — a leading group in a young, growing protest movement against test-based school reform — just released its own blueprint for the rewriting of No Child Left Behind.If only President Obama would read it.The document provides detailed positions on the main issues in public education today, taking positions counter to ...
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School district field-tests 52 (yes, 52) new tests on kids - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
2011-Apr-21
School district field-tests 52 (yes, 52) new tests on kids - The Answer Sheet - The Washington PostSchool district field-tests 52 (yes, 52) new tests on kids To see where public education is being driven, let’s look at a school district in North Carolina where students in every grade were used as guinea pigs this spring to help field-test a total of 52 -- yes, 52 -- new standardized tests this spring, ...Public school teacher: 13 reasons I’m outraged --Public ...
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State to Broward school district: We’re watching you - Broward - MiamiHerald.com
2011-Apr-20
State to Broward school district: We’re watching you - Broward - MiamiHerald.comState to Broward school district: We’re watching you Education Commissioner Eric Smith said the state will be monitoring the Broward school district for at least six months to make sure it follows an action plan to address critical problems cited in a recent state Grand Jury report.BY CARLI TEPROFFCTEPROFF@MIAMIHERALD.COMThe state Department of Education said it’s keeping its eye on the Broward County school district — and will continue to ...
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State to Broward school district: We’re watching you - Broward - MiamiHerald.com
2011-Apr-20
State to Broward school district: We’re watching you - Broward - MiamiHerald.comState to Broward school district: We’re watching you Education Commissioner Eric Smith said the state will be monitoring the Broward school district for at least six months to make sure it follows an action plan to address critical problems cited in a recent state Grand Jury report.BY CARLI TEPROFFCTEPROFF@MIAMIHERALD.COMThe state Department of Education said it’s keeping its eye on the Broward County school district — and will continue to ...
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Andrew Breitbart threatens teachers. « Fred Klonsky's blog
2011-Apr-19
Andrew Breitbart threatens teachers. « Fred Klonsky's blogAndrew Breitbart threatens teachers.by Fred KlonskyMy stalker, Ben Velderman.People often ask me why Ben Velderman, who has the chief responsibility of fetching his boss Kyle Olson some coffee, filed an Illinois FOIA request for my emails.Andrew Breitbart explained it all on Sean Hannity last night.Breitbart, you may remember, runs a tea bagger blog called Big Government. The blog features, among others, the teacher hating rants of Kyle Olson, Ben Velderman’s guru. Breitbart is ...
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Standardized Students, Silenced Teachers: The Un-American Education Agenda | Dailycensored.com
2011-Apr-19
Standardized Students, Silenced Teachers: The Un-American Education Agenda | Dailycensored.comStandardized Students, Silenced Teachers: The Un-American Education Agendaby Paul ThomasWriting about standards-driven education reform in her Releasing the Imagination, Maxine Greene explains: “The wilderness has many aspects, of course; the demons have many faces. What is happening makes me wish, more and more desperately, for authentic dialogue among educators. It is time our own voices are heard with greater clarity, the voices of those [...]El Cortito Haunts California Againby Ken_SayersThe short-handled ...
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Students with Disabilities are Victims of Corporal Punishment
2011-Apr-19
Students with Disabilities are Victims of Corporal PunishmentI was reading your blog Big Education Ape and I think it is great! So, I wanted to remind you aboutMarc Ecko's personal and nationwide campaign to end paddling in U.S. schools, which is also a cause that many do not realize still exists today! It's calledUnlimited Justice.If you didn't already know, 20 states in Americastill allow the paddling of students, otherwise known as Corporal Punishment! To put that in perspective, over200,000students are ...
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Pay Your Taxes? These 10 Companies Didn’t. | MoveOn.Org
2011-Apr-18
Pay Your Taxes? These 10 Companies Didn’t. | MoveOn.OrgPay Your Taxes? These 10 Companies Didn't.Posted on April 15, 2011 by AliciaShare this now!Come April 15, everybody ponies up their fair share, right? Not so much. Thanks to corporate tax cuts and loopholes, these big companies will be rollin’ in the green instead of paying Uncle Sam. Read Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) corporate freeloaders list now:Spread the word. Share this on Facebook today.
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Hi Ya! Karate and Autistic Kids
2011-Apr-17
Hi Ya! Karate and Autistic KidsHi Ya! Karate and Autistic Kidsby California FatherThanks to Autism Key for the vid. I love the woman’s comment about wanting to expose her child to something other than therapy. Ditto. “We want to feel normal,” she says. Ditto on that too. Our autistic boy has been taking karate lessons for a while now, but for me the biggest benefit hasn’t been better balance or social skills. What it has shown me week after week ...
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Powerful unions key to education reform package - BusinessWeek
2011-Apr-16
Powerful unions key to education reform package - BusinessWeekPowerful unions key to education reform packageBy JOHN O'CONNORorder a reprintdigg thissave to del.icio.usSPRINGFIELD, ILL.Illinois teachers unions have numbers and money that translate into influence at the state Capitol, but they're still agreeing to major concessions on job security and strikes under legislation approved Thursday by the state Senate.While union leaders said they were driven by what's best for kids, they also acknowledge watching high-profile fights over public employee rights in Wisconsin, ...