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The Service of Democratic Education | The Nation

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Service of Democratic Education | The Nationhe Service of Democratic EducationLinda Darling-HammondMay 21, 2011 Share515|||Recommended by 0|Text Size A | A | AEmail|Print|Share|Single Page|Web...

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The Service of Democratic Education

thenation.com - At the commencement ceremony for Columbia University's Teachers College on May 18, Stanford education professor Linda Darling-Hammond—a nationally renowned leader in education reform and former edu...

DianeRavitch

Ed Reform Meets the Mets

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - May 26, 2011 (GBN News): Long suffering Mets fans may finally have found their knight in shining armor, when it was announced today that that hedge fund manager David Einhorn will be buying a subst...

DianeRavitch

U.S. Reforms Out of Sync With High-Performing Nations, Report Finds

edweek.org - Published Online: May 27, 2011The United States’ education system is neither coherent nor likely to see great improvements based on its current attempts at reform, a report released this week by th...

DianeRavitch

How Do Teachers Matter? Not as Cause Agents But as Learning Opportunities

dailycensored.com - Lost in the exaggerated claims of “bad” teachers being at the core of all that ails education and the concurrent calls for greater teacher accountability, often linked to student test scores, is a ...

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Michael Moore on what happens when you “sit at the table.” « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - NEA President Dennis Van Roekel held a telephone town hall meeting for RA delegates last night. Delegates could call in with questions. I called with a question about last year’s no confidence vote...

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Battle against co-location continues at Brooklyn school

uft.org - Cara MetzUFT President Michael Mulgrew, flanked by the co-plaintiffs, explains the details of the lawsuit against the Department of Education. PS 308 in Brooklyn is still battling plans by the Depa...

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Kathleen Sebelius Wants Your Kids to Sit Still - E.D. Kain - American Times

blogs.forbes.com - EducationMay. 27 2011 - 10:55 am | 1,092 views | 0 recommendations |By E.D. KAIN Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is making me question whether the United States really needs a...

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Alabama Lawmaker Abandons GOP Over New Law Aimed At Teachers

tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - Chalk up another Democratic win this week: Alabama State Rep. Daniel Boman, who entered the legislature as a Republican in November, is switching parties to become a Democrat after he says the GOP ...

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Patriot Act Extension Came Down To The Wire : NPR

npr.org - Congress scrambled to renew three controversial provisions of the anti-terror Patriot Act that otherwise would have expired at midnight Thursday. Minutes before that deadline, President Obama was a...

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Bahrain’s Anti-Union Crackdown

modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/05/bahrains-anti-union-crackdown.html"; As people protest the corrupt and repressive monarchy of Bahrain, the government has responded with violen...

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Friday morning TYs

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Now that I've turned another year older, I'm trying to act my age, a little more mature if you will. So I've dropped my Friday morning FUs in exchange for Friday morning TYs (thanks) in order to ge...

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Working Class Whites, Not Minorities, Most Alienated and Pessimistic Group in America

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 5:15 pm, May 27, 2011 Photo Credits: White working class pessimistic about future In 2005, the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey stated that only 50 percent of white working-cl...

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Caroline Fredrickson: Divine Constitutional Abomination

huffingtonpost.com - Recent news reports have revealed that the nation's largest Tea Party umbrella group is seeking to infiltrate our public schools with the radical theory that the Constitution is divinely inspired.T...

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Terapia infantil: Técnicas para aumentar la frecuencia de conductas en niños (I): economía de fichas (programa de puntos)

vivirlaeducacion.com - Publicado el 28 Mayo 2011Archivado en Josep | 2 mayo, 2011 por Psicólogos Bonnet Un programa de puntos es la aplicación sistemática de una estrategia de premios que tiene por objetivo iniciar o inc...

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While I was Procrastinating. . . - THE DAILY RIFF

thedailyriff.com - While I was procrastinating, my daughter sent me this video below. Give it a minute or so, and his message is not too dissimilar to that of a Seth Godin, or betteryet, the classic, and one of my al...

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Terapia adultos: Cuando el suicidio no ha sido la solución.

vivirlaeducacion.com - Publicado el 27 Mayo 2011Archivado en Josep | 12 mayo, 2011 por Psicólogos Bonnet Algunas personas cuando ven que no tienen salida a los problemas que viven optan por quitarse la vida, de esa forma...

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Boycott Johnsonville Brats This Memorial Day Weekend In Support Of State Workers And Public Employees! « CAFFEINATED POLITICS

dekerivers.wordpress.com - Madison is about to go brat crazy this weekend. Multiple events are scheduled where the best in summer-like fun can be enjoyed. In addition there will be cookouts, such as the one we are plannin...

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Former Marine Shot 22 Times by Arizona SWAT Team, Total of 71 Shots Fired in 7 Sec. (VIDEO)

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 1:17 pm, May 27, 2011 Photo Credits: Jose Guerena On the morning of May 5th, SWAT team officers entered the Arizona home of Jose Guerena, his wife and two children. Moments later Guere...

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Sacramento Press / State Capitol Museum to Unveil Special World War I Exhibit

sacramentopress.com - Through compelling letters and prized artifacts on display as part of an upcoming new (and free!) exhibit at the California State Capitol Museum titled “Californians Over There! California’s Role i...

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Hey,Stupid Seniors! The Post Says a 9 % Cut In Social Security Benefits Won't Hurt

my.firedoglake.com - It’s amazing what you can learn reading the Washington Post. Today its lead editorial told readers that reducing the annual cost of living adjustment for Social Security by 0.3 percentage points wo...

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Is the District padding its books on certain 440 positions?

thenotebook.org - As I was slogging through the District’s 400-plus page budget book, I was struck by the significant increases and expansions within various central office administration budgets. (All references ar...

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Sanders Accuses CFTC of Breaking the Law

news.firedoglake.com - Yesterday we learned that Saudi Arabia warned US officials of oil price speculation back in 2007, telling them they had nowhere to sell additional crude even if they produced more. Since January, t...

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Modern School: PERB to UTLA: Shut Up and Take It Like a Teacher

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Modern School: PERB to UTLA: Shut Up and Take It Like a TeacherPERB to UTLA: Shut Up and Take It Like a Teacherby Michael DunnUnited Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), filed a complaint with the Public E...

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Social Engineering and Facilitating an Enriched Environment | Lefty Parent

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Social Engineering and Facilitating an Enriched Environment | Lefty ParentSocial Engineering and Facilitating an Enriched Environmentby Cooper ZaleMy first reaction to Newt Gingrich’s statement opp...

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Schools Matter: School Librarians Are Being Interrogated by LAUSD Lawyers

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: School Librarians Are Being Interrogated by LAUSD LawyersSchool Librarians Are Being Interrogated by LAUSD Lawyersby Jim HornSchool librarians, or teacher librarians as they referre...

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This week's healthy schools highlights

ednewsparent.org - The chocolate milk wars: A mom’s perspective As any parent knows, you can prepare healthy food but you can’t make your kids eat it. So there are a few tricks we parents have up our culinary sleeves...

coopmike48Anti-tax Crusader Norquist “Enforces” No Brain Pledge in Capitol Visit « State of Emergency

ANTI-TAX CRUSADER NORQUIST “ENFORCES” NO BRAIN PLEDGE IN CAPITOL VISIT

by Leonard Feldman

Grover Norquist makes his case at a recent meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). (Photo by Gage Skidmore.)

Financier and a primary mover and shaker behind the drive to get legislators to sign a “no tax pledge,” Grover Norquist was reportedly in California and meeting with Republican lawmakers in Sacramento to shore up their commitment to his “no-tax” pledge, according to the Sacramento Bee.