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Hide10.0More schools rethinking zero-tolerance discipline stand | The Defenders Online | A Civil Rights Blog
2011-Jun-10More schools rethinking zero-tolerance discipline stand | The Defenders Online | A Civil Rights BlogMore schools rethinking zero-tolerance discipline standPosted By The Editors | June 3rd, 2011 | Category: Education | No Comments » Print This PostZero-tolerance rules, once hailed as the panacea to an explosion of serious student misbehavior in schools, are now recognized more and more as part of the problem, not the solution and are being significantly modified or replaced altogether by policies that are “more child-centered,” ...Hide9.0Big Education Ape: 6-9-11 PM OMG they have armed ED Sec Duncan Edition
2011-Jun-9Big Education Ape: Ed News NowBig Education Ape: Ed News NowPublished by Coopmike48 – 6 contributors todayNext update in about 12 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONPOLITICSBUSINESSLIVINGART ENTERTAINMENTCRIME#EDU#COOPAim of SWAT-Like Raid Was Student-Aid Fraud; Education Dept. Given Police Powers in 2002 - News - ABA Journalbigeducationape.blogspot.com - Aim of SWAT-Like Raid Was Student-Aid Fraud; Education Dept. Given Police Powers in 2002 - News - ABA JournalAim of SWAT-Like Raid Was Student-Aid Fraud; Education Dept. Given Police Powers in 2002... coopmike48Another super-mugging? NY State ...Hide9.0Modern School: Destroying Education Teacher By Teacher (With Help from Bill Gates)
2011-Jun-9Modern School: Destroying Education Teacher By Teacher (With Help from Bill Gates)Destroying Education Teacher By Teacher (With Help from Bill Gates)0diggYesterday John Fensterwald published his take on the Gates-funded proposal for improving LAUSD. However, he called it a United Way study (which it was), but didn’t bother to mention Gate’s funding until the very end. Nevertheless, United Way is nothing more than a moralizing poverty pimp mill, so we should be suspicious of their proposals, too.I will list some of ...Hide9.8Does the Department of Education have a SWAT team? | USA TODAY College
2011-Jun-9Does the Department of Education have a SWAT team? | USA TODAY CollegeDoes the Department of Education have a SWAT team?By Cryn JohannsenJune 8, 2011A local news team in Stockton, Calif., interviewed a man who claimed that the Department of Education used a S.W.A.T. team to invade his house because of his estranged wife’s defaulted loans.Kenneth Wright told the news channel that his door was broken down, he was handcuffed and then held in a S.W.A.T. car for six hours. ...Hide10.0Daily Kos: Surprise! Virtually all of Michelle Rhee's BFF's are Republicans
2011-Jun-9Daily Kos: Surprise! Virtually all of Michelle Rhee's BFF's are RepublicansSurprise! Virtually all of Michelle Rhee's BFF's are RepublicansbySteve SingiserforDaily KosShare29 5 PERMALINK55 COMMENTSRick Snyder (R-MI): One of Rhee's co-conspiratorsFormer DC Schools Chancellor and "education reform" advocate Michelle Rhee has been a busy bee as of late. Undeterred by the looming scandal that could derail much of the mythology surrounding her tenure in the DC schools, Rhee has been a ubiquitous presence in state legislatures around the country, and a ...Hide9.8Charter School Smackdown - TIME
2011-Jun-9Charter School Smackdown - TIMEBacklash: Are These End Times for Charter Schools?Getty ImagesCommentPrintEmailReprintsFacebookTwitterMORE Is it the best of times or end times for public charter schools? 4,000 charter school leaders, teachers, advocates, and policymakers will gather in Atlanta later this month at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools' annual conference. The gathering of upstarts is now larger than many long-standing traditional education groups can muster, but in states and cities across the country, charter schools are facing increased political ...Hide9.0NYC Public School Parents: We're not giving up on our kids' future!
2011-Jun-8NYC Public School Parents: We're not giving up on our kids' future!We're not giving up on our kids' future!by Leonie Haimson1. Many important rallies and protests are happening starting tomorrow afternoon; please come and make your voice heard:· Thursday, June 9, at 12:00 noon at City Hall: an emergency rally with advocates and parents to demand that arts education be properly funded. For more information emaildoug@caenyc.org · Thursday, June 9, 6-9 pm, in Lower Manhattan: emergency meeting re the budget ...Hide9.8Why Charter Schools Are Not The Answer | News One
2011-Jun-8Why Charter Schools Are Not The Answer | News OneWhy Charter Schools Are Not The AnswerWritten by Casey Gane-McCalla, Lead Blogger on June 8, 2011 1:50 pmClick for MoreCharter schools have been in the news a lot lately due to a lawsuit filed by the United Federation of Teacher’s Union and the NAACP against the New York City Department of Education. The lawsuit was filed to help prevent the city from closing public schools and replacing them with charter schools.While ...Hide9.8SWAT team busts into house over student loan default | Raw Replay
2011-Jun-8SWAT team busts into house over student loan default | Raw ReplayWorldCultureSay What?SWAT team busts into house over student loan defaultPosted on 06.8.11By Sahil KapurCategories: Featured, NationActing on orders from the U.S. Department of Education, a S.W.A.T. team broke into a California home Tuesday at 6 a.m. and reportedly roughed up a man — all because of his estranged wife’s defaulted student loans. She wasn’t there.Yet, Kenneth Wright of the city of Stockton was grabbed by the neck by handcuffed ...Hide9.0A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation’s programs and policies « Parents Across America
2011-Jun-8A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation’s programs and policies « Parents Across AmericaA Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation’s programs and policiesApr 19, 2011 14 Comments ›› leoniehaimsonThis guide can also be downloaded as a pdf fact sheet.A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation’s training programs and education policiesThe question I ask is why should Eli Broad and Bill Gates have more of a say as to what goes on in my child’s classroom than I do? – Sue ...Hide9.0Milwaukee's Voucher Program Discriminates Based On Disabilities, ACLU Says
2011-Jun-7Milwaukee's Voucher Program Discriminates Based On Disabilities, ACLU SaysACLU: Milwaukee's Voucher Program Segregates Schoolsby The Huffington Post News TeamNEW YORK -- Milwaukee's voucher system, which allows low-income students to attend private schools using tax dollars, discriminates based on disability, according to a complaint filed Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation and Disability Rights Wisconsin.The complaint seeks an investigation into the system, which the groups allege segregates Milwaukee students, and expresses the desire to end ...Hide10.0Libertarian research paper finds top-funded Calif. charter schools not worth the money | The Washington Independent
2011-Jun-7Libertarian research paper finds top-funded Calif. charter schools not worth the money | The Washington IndependentFlickr/*christopher*Libertarian research paper finds top-funded Calif. charter schools not worth the moneyBy Mikhail Zinshteyn | 06.07.11 | 2:10 pm0 CommentsShareBillions of private dollars have forced journalists and lawmakers to take seriously the school choice movement, be it voucher programs and tax credits, charter schools and reforms to teachers contracts within traditional public schools. Their money is highly strategic as well, with funds being poured into ...Hide10.0About that Cato Institute Charter School/Philanthropy Report... - Dana Goldstein
2011-Jun-7About that Cato Institute Charter School/Philanthropy Report... - Dana GoldsteinAbout that Cato Institute Charter School/Philanthropy Report...by Dana GoldsteinYesterday I tweeted about a Cato Institute study purporting to show that philanthropists are ignoring the California charter school networks that get the best academic results. I often take a critical view of private philanthropists' role in education reform. But when I took a closer look at this particular study's methodology and results, I found that there are good reasons why big donors ...Hide9.0SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Default: the Student Loan Documentary
2011-Jun-7SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Default: the Student Loan DocumentaryDefault: the Student Loan DocumentaryPOSTED BY DUANE CAMPBELL AT 11:20 AMHide9.0An Interesting Few Days - Bridging Differences - Education Week
2011-Jun-7An Interesting Few Days - Bridging Differences - Education WeekAn Interesting Few Daysby Diane RavitchDear Deborah,I had planned to write about an important new report from the National Research Council that shows the risks and ineffectiveness of high-stakes testing, but I have to put that off until next week. Events intervened that require me to address another, though related, subject.On June 1, The New York Times published my critique of politicians who single out "miracle schools." These schools allegedly made ...Hide10.0Judge stops teacher layoffs | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
2011-Jun-6Judge stops teacher layoffs | Philadelphia Public School NotebookJudge stops teacher layoffsby thenotebook on Jun 06 2011COMMENTS (2)PRINTEMAILBy Dale Mezzacappa and Benjamin HeroldCommon Pleas Court Judge Idee C. Fox granteda temporary restraining order Monday sought by the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers that stops any layoffs at least until a hearing on June 14.The PFT went to court while principals were distributing notices in their schools to more than teachers.The union argued that the District wasn't following the contract because it ...Hide10.0THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Plagiarism in the charter school world
2011-Jun-6THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Plagiarism in the charter school worldPlagiarism in the charter school worldby The Perimeter PrimateMerriam-Webster’s definition of PLAGIARIZE to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's ownuse (another's production) without crediting the sourceto commit literary theftpresent as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing sourceMultiple connections between schools can be found by scanning web pages and documents of charter schools for likely phrasing, and then inserting the phrases into ...Hide9.0Michelle Rhee hires Democrat, continues working with Republicans - Education - Salon.com
2011-Jun-6Michelle Rhee hires Democrat, continues working with Republicans - Education - Salon.comMichelle Rhee hires Democrat, continues working with RepublicansBY ALEX PAREENEAP/Pablo Martinez MonsivaisMichelle RheeMichelle Rhee has a very well-connected and talented new employee: Hari Sevugan, formerly the spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, is now the top flack for Students First, the school reform nonprofit founded and run by the former Washington DC schools chancellor. This, Ben Smith reported over the weekend, will help Rhee remind everyone that she is ...Hide9.3Department of Education Spending, 1980 to 2010 | Federal Education Policy History
2011-Jun-6Department of Education Spending, 1980 to 2010 | Federal Education Policy HistoryDepartment of Education Spending, 1980 to 2010Figure 1 depicts the billions of dollars in outlays (money spent) by the Department of Education from 1980 to 2010.(1) These expenditures are not adjusted for inflation.(2)Figure 1. Department of Education Spending 1980-2010 (billions of dollars)Source: Ronald Reagan and Education Policy.Figure 2, meanwhile, depicts these same data adjusted for inflation and expressed as 1981 dollars. Note the large difference in the size of ...Hide10.0Dirty Work: The Creeping Rollback of Child Labor Laws - TIME
2011-Jun-6Dirty Work: The Creeping Rollback of Child Labor Laws - TIMEDirty Work: The Creeping Rollback of Child Labor LawsENLARGE PHOTO+A young doffer boy works among the machines in a Lincolnton mill, North Carolina, 1908.Lewis Hine / Buyenlarge / Getty ImagesCommentPrintEmailReprintsFacebookTwitterMOREThe government has not had a lot of ideas for what to do about the nation's anemic job market, but there are troubling signs that one old idea is starting to reemerge: child labor. In the first part of the 20th ...Hide9.3Big Education Ape: 6-6-11 AM Fake Democrats and Altered Insult Edition
2011-Jun-6Big Education Ape: Ed News NowBig Education Ape: Ed News NowPublished by Coopmike48 – 6 contributors todayNext update in about 12 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONART ENTERTAINMENTPOLITICSLIVINGSTORIESLEISURE#EDU#EDREFORMNot Insulted « InterACTaccomplishedcaliforniateachers.wordpress.com - As my school year is coming to a close, I try to stay connected to the developments in national education reform, but it is the developments here in South Central Los Angeles that have barely allow... DianeRavitchSchool Tech Connect: Thank You, Mr. Alterschooltechconnect.com - Another week approaches. Here at School TechConnect, ...Hide10.0NYC Public School Parents: K. Webster on the undue influence of businessmen on our public schools
2011-Jun-5NYC Public School Parents: K. Webster on the undue influence of businessmen on our public schoolsK. Webster on the undue influence of businessmen on our public schoolsby Leonie HaimsonKathleen Webster engages with Jonathan Alter on his attack on Diane Ravitch and his praise of Bill Gates and the other Billionaire Boys Club for their involvement in public education. For earlier critiques of Alter's attack , see here and here. Kathleen points out that at the same time Gates and other ...Hide10.0NYC Public School Parents: Shino Tanikawa: The deep flaws in the CEC selection process
2011-Jun-5NYC Public School Parents: Shino Tanikawa: The deep flaws in the CEC selection processShino Tanikawa: The deep flaws in the CEC selection processby Leonie HaimsonThe below email is from Shino Tanikawa, a member of the Community Education Council in District 2 to Dennis Walcott. Shino points out the deep flaws in the selection process for Community Education Councils, which ended last week, despite the postponement that resulted from a threatened lawsuit:From: Shino Tanikawa shinot@verizon.net To: Chancellor Walcott DMWalcott@schools.nyc.govCc: Ojeda HallSent: ...Hide9.0Maria Shriver on Alzheimer’s and Women: Hope Over Fear | BlogHer
2011-Jun-5Maria Shriver on Alzheimer’s and Women: Hope Over Fear | BlogHerMaria Shriver on Alzheimer’s and Women: Hope Over FearOctober 20, 2010 9:32 am by Maria Shriver in LifeBLOGHER ORIGINAL POST 8Try to remember what you were doing a minute ago. Got it? Now wrap your brains around this: In the past minute, another American developed a fatal disease that will slowly erase the personality and a lifetime of memories. That person will either die with that disease or from it, ...Hide10.0Analysis Compares Districts' Spending, Academic Performance - San Diego News Story - KGTV San Diego
2011-Jun-5Analysis Compares Districts' Spending, Academic Performance - San Diego News Story - KGTV San DiegoAnalysis Compares Districts' Spending, Academic PerformancePOSTED: 1:46 pm PDT June 3, 2011UPDATED: 1:47 pm PDT June 3, 2011SAN DIEGO -- California's enormously complicated, and notoriously opaque, school financing system often defies understanding and analysis in ways that are accessible to ordinary Californians.Despite decades of efforts to equalize spending in California schools, wide gaps still remain, both among districts, and among schools within those districts. To review ...Hide9.0Special-ed mess: Officials behind schedule in scramble to find seats for 15,500 kindergartners
2011-Jun-5Special-ed mess: Officials behind schedule in scramble to find seats for 15,500 kindergartnersSpecial-ed mess: Officials behind schedule in scramble to find seats for 15,500 kindergartnersBY BEN CHAPMAN DAILY NEWS WRITERSunday, June 5th 2011, 4:00 AMMark Bonifacio for NewsChanges to the city's special education program have created delays for thousands of incoming kindergartners with disabilities.Education officials are weeks behind schedule in a scramble to find seats for about 15,500 kindergartners with special needs - and the delays could cost the city ...Hide10.0DNC official will go to Rhee group - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com
2011-Jun-4DNC official will go to Rhee group - Ben Smith - POLITICO.comDNC official will go to Rhee groupDemocratic National Committee national spokesman Hari Sevugan will move to a top post at the former Washington, D.C., school chief Michelle Rhee's new advocacy group, Students First, a move aimed at strengthening its hand in the complex and high-stakes politics of education policy.Sevugan, 36, a lawyer and veteran politico who also taught for two years in a public middle school in Upper Manhattan, ...Hide10.0NAACP Enters Heated Battle Over Charter Schools - NY1.com
2011-Jun-4NAACP Enters Heated Battle Over Charter Schools - NY1.comNAACP Enters Heated Battle Over Charter SchoolsBy: Lindsey ChristThe controversy over charter schools continues to divide communities, but now the nation's best-known civil rights organization has taken a side and many people aren't happy. NY1's Lindsey Christ filed the following report.They say they're fighting a major battle for civil rights: One to ensure that black and Hispanic students have equal access to education. But the problem is, that's what both sides in ...
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More schools rethinking zero-tolerance discipline stand | The Defenders Online | A Civil Rights Blog
2011-Jun-10
More schools rethinking zero-tolerance discipline stand | The Defenders Online | A Civil Rights BlogMore schools rethinking zero-tolerance discipline standPosted By The Editors | June 3rd, 2011 | Category: Education | No Comments » Print This PostZero-tolerance rules, once hailed as the panacea to an explosion of serious student misbehavior in schools, are now recognized more and more as part of the problem, not the solution and are being significantly modified or replaced altogether by policies that are “more child-centered,” ...
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Big Education Ape: 6-9-11 PM OMG they have armed ED Sec Duncan Edition
2011-Jun-9
Big Education Ape: Ed News NowBig Education Ape: Ed News NowPublished by Coopmike48 – 6 contributors todayNext update in about 12 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONPOLITICSBUSINESSLIVINGART ENTERTAINMENTCRIME#EDU#COOPAim of SWAT-Like Raid Was Student-Aid Fraud; Education Dept. Given Police Powers in 2002 - News - ABA Journalbigeducationape.blogspot.com - Aim of SWAT-Like Raid Was Student-Aid Fraud; Education Dept. Given Police Powers in 2002 - News - ABA JournalAim of SWAT-Like Raid Was Student-Aid Fraud; Education Dept. Given Police Powers in 2002... coopmike48Another super-mugging? NY State ...
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Modern School: Destroying Education Teacher By Teacher (With Help from Bill Gates)
2011-Jun-9
Modern School: Destroying Education Teacher By Teacher (With Help from Bill Gates)Destroying Education Teacher By Teacher (With Help from Bill Gates)0diggYesterday John Fensterwald published his take on the Gates-funded proposal for improving LAUSD. However, he called it a United Way study (which it was), but didn’t bother to mention Gate’s funding until the very end. Nevertheless, United Way is nothing more than a moralizing poverty pimp mill, so we should be suspicious of their proposals, too.I will list some of ...
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Does the Department of Education have a SWAT team? | USA TODAY College
2011-Jun-9
Does the Department of Education have a SWAT team? | USA TODAY CollegeDoes the Department of Education have a SWAT team?By Cryn JohannsenJune 8, 2011A local news team in Stockton, Calif., interviewed a man who claimed that the Department of Education used a S.W.A.T. team to invade his house because of his estranged wife’s defaulted loans.Kenneth Wright told the news channel that his door was broken down, he was handcuffed and then held in a S.W.A.T. car for six hours. ...
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Daily Kos: Surprise! Virtually all of Michelle Rhee's BFF's are Republicans
2011-Jun-9
Daily Kos: Surprise! Virtually all of Michelle Rhee's BFF's are RepublicansSurprise! Virtually all of Michelle Rhee's BFF's are RepublicansbySteve SingiserforDaily KosShare29 5 PERMALINK55 COMMENTSRick Snyder (R-MI): One of Rhee's co-conspiratorsFormer DC Schools Chancellor and "education reform" advocate Michelle Rhee has been a busy bee as of late. Undeterred by the looming scandal that could derail much of the mythology surrounding her tenure in the DC schools, Rhee has been a ubiquitous presence in state legislatures around the country, and a ...
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Charter School Smackdown - TIME
2011-Jun-9
Charter School Smackdown - TIMEBacklash: Are These End Times for Charter Schools?Getty ImagesCommentPrintEmailReprintsFacebookTwitterMORE Is it the best of times or end times for public charter schools? 4,000 charter school leaders, teachers, advocates, and policymakers will gather in Atlanta later this month at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools' annual conference. The gathering of upstarts is now larger than many long-standing traditional education groups can muster, but in states and cities across the country, charter schools are facing increased political ...
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NYC Public School Parents: We're not giving up on our kids' future!
2011-Jun-8
NYC Public School Parents: We're not giving up on our kids' future!We're not giving up on our kids' future!by Leonie Haimson1. Many important rallies and protests are happening starting tomorrow afternoon; please come and make your voice heard:· Thursday, June 9, at 12:00 noon at City Hall: an emergency rally with advocates and parents to demand that arts education be properly funded. For more information emaildoug@caenyc.org · Thursday, June 9, 6-9 pm, in Lower Manhattan: emergency meeting re the budget ...
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Why Charter Schools Are Not The Answer | News One
2011-Jun-8
Why Charter Schools Are Not The Answer | News OneWhy Charter Schools Are Not The AnswerWritten by Casey Gane-McCalla, Lead Blogger on June 8, 2011 1:50 pmClick for MoreCharter schools have been in the news a lot lately due to a lawsuit filed by the United Federation of Teacher’s Union and the NAACP against the New York City Department of Education. The lawsuit was filed to help prevent the city from closing public schools and replacing them with charter schools.While ...
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SWAT team busts into house over student loan default | Raw Replay
2011-Jun-8
SWAT team busts into house over student loan default | Raw ReplayWorldCultureSay What?SWAT team busts into house over student loan defaultPosted on 06.8.11By Sahil KapurCategories: Featured, NationActing on orders from the U.S. Department of Education, a S.W.A.T. team broke into a California home Tuesday at 6 a.m. and reportedly roughed up a man — all because of his estranged wife’s defaulted student loans. She wasn’t there.Yet, Kenneth Wright of the city of Stockton was grabbed by the neck by handcuffed ...
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A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation’s programs and policies « Parents Across America
2011-Jun-8
A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation’s programs and policies « Parents Across AmericaA Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation’s programs and policiesApr 19, 2011 14 Comments ›› leoniehaimsonThis guide can also be downloaded as a pdf fact sheet.A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation’s training programs and education policiesThe question I ask is why should Eli Broad and Bill Gates have more of a say as to what goes on in my child’s classroom than I do? – Sue ...
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Milwaukee's Voucher Program Discriminates Based On Disabilities, ACLU Says
2011-Jun-7
Milwaukee's Voucher Program Discriminates Based On Disabilities, ACLU SaysACLU: Milwaukee's Voucher Program Segregates Schoolsby The Huffington Post News TeamNEW YORK -- Milwaukee's voucher system, which allows low-income students to attend private schools using tax dollars, discriminates based on disability, according to a complaint filed Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation and Disability Rights Wisconsin.The complaint seeks an investigation into the system, which the groups allege segregates Milwaukee students, and expresses the desire to end ...
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Libertarian research paper finds top-funded Calif. charter schools not worth the money | The Washington Independent
2011-Jun-7
Libertarian research paper finds top-funded Calif. charter schools not worth the money | The Washington IndependentFlickr/*christopher*Libertarian research paper finds top-funded Calif. charter schools not worth the moneyBy Mikhail Zinshteyn | 06.07.11 | 2:10 pm0 CommentsShareBillions of private dollars have forced journalists and lawmakers to take seriously the school choice movement, be it voucher programs and tax credits, charter schools and reforms to teachers contracts within traditional public schools. Their money is highly strategic as well, with funds being poured into ...
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About that Cato Institute Charter School/Philanthropy Report... - Dana Goldstein
2011-Jun-7
About that Cato Institute Charter School/Philanthropy Report... - Dana GoldsteinAbout that Cato Institute Charter School/Philanthropy Report...by Dana GoldsteinYesterday I tweeted about a Cato Institute study purporting to show that philanthropists are ignoring the California charter school networks that get the best academic results. I often take a critical view of private philanthropists' role in education reform. But when I took a closer look at this particular study's methodology and results, I found that there are good reasons why big donors ...
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SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Default: the Student Loan Documentary
2011-Jun-7
SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Default: the Student Loan DocumentaryDefault: the Student Loan DocumentaryPOSTED BY DUANE CAMPBELL AT 11:20 AM
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An Interesting Few Days - Bridging Differences - Education Week
2011-Jun-7
An Interesting Few Days - Bridging Differences - Education WeekAn Interesting Few Daysby Diane RavitchDear Deborah,I had planned to write about an important new report from the National Research Council that shows the risks and ineffectiveness of high-stakes testing, but I have to put that off until next week. Events intervened that require me to address another, though related, subject.On June 1, The New York Times published my critique of politicians who single out "miracle schools." These schools allegedly made ...
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Judge stops teacher layoffs | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
2011-Jun-6
Judge stops teacher layoffs | Philadelphia Public School NotebookJudge stops teacher layoffsby thenotebook on Jun 06 2011COMMENTS (2)PRINTEMAILBy Dale Mezzacappa and Benjamin HeroldCommon Pleas Court Judge Idee C. Fox granteda temporary restraining order Monday sought by the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers that stops any layoffs at least until a hearing on June 14.The PFT went to court while principals were distributing notices in their schools to more than teachers.The union argued that the District wasn't following the contract because it ...
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THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Plagiarism in the charter school world
2011-Jun-6
THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Plagiarism in the charter school worldPlagiarism in the charter school worldby The Perimeter PrimateMerriam-Webster’s definition of PLAGIARIZE to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's ownuse (another's production) without crediting the sourceto commit literary theftpresent as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing sourceMultiple connections between schools can be found by scanning web pages and documents of charter schools for likely phrasing, and then inserting the phrases into ...
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Michelle Rhee hires Democrat, continues working with Republicans - Education - Salon.com
2011-Jun-6
Michelle Rhee hires Democrat, continues working with Republicans - Education - Salon.comMichelle Rhee hires Democrat, continues working with RepublicansBY ALEX PAREENEAP/Pablo Martinez MonsivaisMichelle RheeMichelle Rhee has a very well-connected and talented new employee: Hari Sevugan, formerly the spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, is now the top flack for Students First, the school reform nonprofit founded and run by the former Washington DC schools chancellor. This, Ben Smith reported over the weekend, will help Rhee remind everyone that she is ...
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Department of Education Spending, 1980 to 2010 | Federal Education Policy History
2011-Jun-6
Department of Education Spending, 1980 to 2010 | Federal Education Policy HistoryDepartment of Education Spending, 1980 to 2010Figure 1 depicts the billions of dollars in outlays (money spent) by the Department of Education from 1980 to 2010.(1) These expenditures are not adjusted for inflation.(2)Figure 1. Department of Education Spending 1980-2010 (billions of dollars)Source: Ronald Reagan and Education Policy.Figure 2, meanwhile, depicts these same data adjusted for inflation and expressed as 1981 dollars. Note the large difference in the size of ...
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Dirty Work: The Creeping Rollback of Child Labor Laws - TIME
2011-Jun-6
Dirty Work: The Creeping Rollback of Child Labor Laws - TIMEDirty Work: The Creeping Rollback of Child Labor LawsENLARGE PHOTO+A young doffer boy works among the machines in a Lincolnton mill, North Carolina, 1908.Lewis Hine / Buyenlarge / Getty ImagesCommentPrintEmailReprintsFacebookTwitterMOREThe government has not had a lot of ideas for what to do about the nation's anemic job market, but there are troubling signs that one old idea is starting to reemerge: child labor. In the first part of the 20th ...
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Big Education Ape: 6-6-11 AM Fake Democrats and Altered Insult Edition
2011-Jun-6
Big Education Ape: Ed News NowBig Education Ape: Ed News NowPublished by Coopmike48 – 6 contributors todayNext update in about 12 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONART ENTERTAINMENTPOLITICSLIVINGSTORIESLEISURE#EDU#EDREFORMNot Insulted « InterACTaccomplishedcaliforniateachers.wordpress.com - As my school year is coming to a close, I try to stay connected to the developments in national education reform, but it is the developments here in South Central Los Angeles that have barely allow... DianeRavitchSchool Tech Connect: Thank You, Mr. Alterschooltechconnect.com - Another week approaches. Here at School TechConnect, ...
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NYC Public School Parents: K. Webster on the undue influence of businessmen on our public schools
2011-Jun-5
NYC Public School Parents: K. Webster on the undue influence of businessmen on our public schoolsK. Webster on the undue influence of businessmen on our public schoolsby Leonie HaimsonKathleen Webster engages with Jonathan Alter on his attack on Diane Ravitch and his praise of Bill Gates and the other Billionaire Boys Club for their involvement in public education. For earlier critiques of Alter's attack , see here and here. Kathleen points out that at the same time Gates and other ...
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NYC Public School Parents: Shino Tanikawa: The deep flaws in the CEC selection process
2011-Jun-5
NYC Public School Parents: Shino Tanikawa: The deep flaws in the CEC selection processShino Tanikawa: The deep flaws in the CEC selection processby Leonie HaimsonThe below email is from Shino Tanikawa, a member of the Community Education Council in District 2 to Dennis Walcott. Shino points out the deep flaws in the selection process for Community Education Councils, which ended last week, despite the postponement that resulted from a threatened lawsuit:From: Shino Tanikawa shinot@verizon.net To: Chancellor Walcott DMWalcott@schools.nyc.govCc: Ojeda HallSent: ...
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Maria Shriver on Alzheimer’s and Women: Hope Over Fear | BlogHer
2011-Jun-5
Maria Shriver on Alzheimer’s and Women: Hope Over Fear | BlogHerMaria Shriver on Alzheimer’s and Women: Hope Over FearOctober 20, 2010 9:32 am by Maria Shriver in LifeBLOGHER ORIGINAL POST 8Try to remember what you were doing a minute ago. Got it? Now wrap your brains around this: In the past minute, another American developed a fatal disease that will slowly erase the personality and a lifetime of memories. That person will either die with that disease or from it, ...
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Analysis Compares Districts' Spending, Academic Performance - San Diego News Story - KGTV San Diego
2011-Jun-5
Analysis Compares Districts' Spending, Academic Performance - San Diego News Story - KGTV San DiegoAnalysis Compares Districts' Spending, Academic PerformancePOSTED: 1:46 pm PDT June 3, 2011UPDATED: 1:47 pm PDT June 3, 2011SAN DIEGO -- California's enormously complicated, and notoriously opaque, school financing system often defies understanding and analysis in ways that are accessible to ordinary Californians.Despite decades of efforts to equalize spending in California schools, wide gaps still remain, both among districts, and among schools within those districts. To review ...
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Special-ed mess: Officials behind schedule in scramble to find seats for 15,500 kindergartners
2011-Jun-5
Special-ed mess: Officials behind schedule in scramble to find seats for 15,500 kindergartnersSpecial-ed mess: Officials behind schedule in scramble to find seats for 15,500 kindergartnersBY BEN CHAPMAN DAILY NEWS WRITERSunday, June 5th 2011, 4:00 AMMark Bonifacio for NewsChanges to the city's special education program have created delays for thousands of incoming kindergartners with disabilities.Education officials are weeks behind schedule in a scramble to find seats for about 15,500 kindergartners with special needs - and the delays could cost the city ...
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DNC official will go to Rhee group - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com
2011-Jun-4
DNC official will go to Rhee group - Ben Smith - POLITICO.comDNC official will go to Rhee groupDemocratic National Committee national spokesman Hari Sevugan will move to a top post at the former Washington, D.C., school chief Michelle Rhee's new advocacy group, Students First, a move aimed at strengthening its hand in the complex and high-stakes politics of education policy.Sevugan, 36, a lawyer and veteran politico who also taught for two years in a public middle school in Upper Manhattan, ...
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NAACP Enters Heated Battle Over Charter Schools - NY1.com
2011-Jun-4
NAACP Enters Heated Battle Over Charter Schools - NY1.comNAACP Enters Heated Battle Over Charter SchoolsBy: Lindsey ChristThe controversy over charter schools continues to divide communities, but now the nation's best-known civil rights organization has taken a side and many people aren't happy. NY1's Lindsey Christ filed the following report.They say they're fighting a major battle for civil rights: One to ensure that black and Hispanic students have equal access to education. But the problem is, that's what both sides in ...