nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Diane Ravitch has a great oped in today’s Times on the “miracle” schools promoted by corporate reformers, that all too often turn out to be based on PR spin, inflated test score results and/or sky...
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Jun 01 2011 Larry Ferlazzo Author Bob Sutton recently wrote about a report commissioned by the Annie Casey Foundation that examined one of its major funding initiatives related to school reform (th...
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - On Monday May 16th, President Obama will be the commencement speaker at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, TN. They had won a competition called ‘The Race To The Top High School Commencem...
edwize.org - Most New Yorkers who follow these things know that the DoE has targeted for closure four high schools with a C on their annual high-stakes Progress Reports even though schools with a D or F have no...
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - The top-level Spanish football team Málaga will sport the logo of the United Nations cultural organization as part of an “Imagining Peace” campaign that will also include Internet and social media ...
projo.com - CRANSTON — Critics of Mayor Allan W. Fung’s proposal to open five charter schools in Cranston said at a hearing Tuesday that the plan was the latest attack on the public school system, one intended...
nypost.com - Michael Goodwin After reading my reports from New York teachers who say they are forced to raise grades and pass failing students, a friend has questions. He writes: "If nine years of mayoral contr...
suntimes.com - The digital divide that has left nearly 40 percent of all Chicagoans with little or no access to the Internet is about to narrow for 330,000 needy students.On Tuesday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel joined Com...
blog.angryasianman.com - More census figure fun... but probably stuff you already could have guessed. According to new findings from the U.S. Census Bureau, Asians and Hispanics are the nation's fastest-expanding large min...
firedoglake.com - A group of retired political leaders — strangely not under the influence of lobbying money (or drugs) — has recommended the world, especially the United States, reconsider the War on Drugs. Their r...
beinglatino.wordpress.com - by Orlando Rodriguez Marco Rubio is not Cuban. He is not even an immigrant. Prove it. I want to see his Cuban birth certificate. I have a Cuban birth certificate so I can authenticate his. Mine rea...
democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - What goes around comes around, unless you had something else in mind. But the law is the law, and words have meaning. When Gov. Walker and the Republicans came into power, they passed a law that r...
teamsternation.blogspot.com - Three GOP senators go to court to block recalls Associated Press ...GOP Sens. Dan Kapanke of La Crosse, Luther Olsen of Ripon and Randy Hopper of Fond du Lac all want judges to block the Governm...
californiawatch.org - ericsphotography/istockphoto.com More than three in four Californians buy into Gov. Jerry Brown's notion that voters should have a say in deciding which cuts and taxes will be used to plug the stat...
wildaboutmath.com - June 1st, 2011 | by Sol | James Tanton has produced another great video, this one on a very intriguing partitioning problem with a very clever solution.There are four ways to break the number 6 dow...
sacramentopa.blogspot.com - Neil deMausefieldofschemes.com On Sunday, the Sacramento Bee ran a front-page (of the E section, anyway, whichever one that was) opinion piece by Barbara Shelly, a columnist for its fellow McClatch...
nyceducator.com - Climate control:"MISS, PUT ON THE AIR CONDITIONER."--half of my students"MISS, TURN OFF THE AIR CONDITIONER, IT'S COLD."--the other half of my students"NO MISS, PUT THE AIR CONDITIONER BACK ON."--t...
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - WAYNE, N.J. — A New Jersey technology company that had been a major contractor on the Bloomberg administration’s troubled CityTime payroll project has abruptly halted operations and terminated its ...
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Big losers are social services and schoolsThat's right. This week, former mayor Daley landed his pay-back job with the very firm that negotiated his notorious sell-off of the city's parking meters....
nbcchicago.com - Richard Daley, Ex-Mayor, (Another) New Job Former Mayor Richard Daley has landed a job with the firm that negotiated Chicago's parking meter deal. Daley will be "of counsel" to Katten Muchin Rosenm...
autos.univision.com - FOTO Los autos preferidos por las mujeres Ver fotos FOTO Convertibles económicos para el verano Ver fotos FOTO ¿Por qué está tan cara la gasolina? Ver fotos Las 10 preguntas que te debes hacer El a...
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Es el primer estudio en demostrar causa y efecto, dicen los investigadoresLos videojuegos violentos desencadenan agresividad entre las personas que los utilizan, según un nuevo estudio de la Univer...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - If LAUSD Doesn't Change, Maybe You Should - Ten Signs that You Need to Find a Different Kind of Education for Your Child by Jerry Mintz (Si el LAUSD no cambia, tal vez debería - Diez señales de que...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NYC Public School Parents: Diane Ravitch on "Frozen Assets" by Marguerite RozaDiane Ravitch on "Frozen Assets" by Marguerite Rozaby Leonie HaimsonDiane Ravitch has a great oped in today’s Times on ...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Educators and Innovation - E.D. Kain - American Times - ForbesEducators and Innovationby E.D. KainI have received some surprising emails recently. Apparently my recent critique of teachers’ unions ...
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