ON EQUAL TERMS Themes in the News for the week of May 16-20, 2011 by UCLA IDEA | http://bit.ly/mgEncK 05-20-2011 - Fifty-seven years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that separate education was not equal. Further, the court said ...
JOHN DEASY’S PRESSURE CHAMBER: LAUSD's new leader needs to make things happen fast By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess | http://bit.ly/l8TlYk Posted on 5/19/11 • Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy was asked to talk about a career failure during a breakout session Wednesday at NewSchools Venture Fund’s annual Summit in ...
BEHIND GRASS-ROOTS SCHOOL ADVOCACY, BILL GATES By SAM DILLON New York Times | http://nyti.ms/ko6FBZ Published: May 21, 2011 — INDIANAPOLIS — A handful of outspoken teachers helped persuade state lawmakers this spring to eliminate seniority-based layoff policies. They testified before the legislature, ...
BEHIND STUDENT SUCCESS, AN LAUSD LIBRARIAN Rosemarie Bernier, an LAUSD teacher-librarian facing layoff, teaches students to go beyond textbooks and "learn to stand on the shoulders of the great scientists, philosophers and mathematicians." Just days after asking Hamilton High ...
