Sunday, July 10, 2011

Big Education Ape:7-10-11 AM The Charter School Bubble! EDition

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The Charter School Bubble! Never ending CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALSFlorida charter schools (high failure rate) *“I-Team: Lawmakers React To Charter School FCAT Failures.”* CBS4 News (FL) 7/6/11 ...Of Florida’s 2,280 public elementary and mid...

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Jonah Edelman Spills the Oligarchs' Blueprint for Crushing the Teaching Profession

schoolsmatter.info - Please share this WIDELY. Why? Here's why in 15 minutes or less: As Lisa Guisbond said, "this is an amazing video from the Aspen Ideas Festival in which Stand For Children’s Jonah Edelman explain...

DianeRavitch

Gatsby without greatness - Roger Ebert's Journal

blogs.suntimes.com - Did it seem to you that The Great Gatsby was especially difficult to read? It's a book that most American students encounter in high school. When I read it the first time, I certainly missed some o...

DianeRavitch

Whites recover, but the black recession lingers

cbsnews.com - (AP) BALTIMORE — Growing up black in the segregated 1960s, Deborah Goldring slept two to a bed, got evicted from apartment after apartment, and watched her stepfather climb utility poles to turn t...

mikeklonsky

We really are a secret weapon. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - As promised, the summer mailing of the IEA arrived in my mailbox today. “You are the secret weapon,” the cover said. On page 5 there is a picture of incoming IEA President Cinda Klickna. The captio...

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EducationSee all

New Detroit charter school report, Atlanta test scandal reveal ineffective education reform | MLive.com

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - New Detroit charter school report, Atlanta test scandal reveal ineffective education reform | MLive.comNew Detroit charter school report, Atlanta test scandal reveal ineffective education reformPub...

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Report: Decline in Utah ed funding effort is ‘unprecedented’

sltrib.com - The decline in Utah’s education funding effort over the past 16 years is "unprecedented," according to a new Utah Foundation research report. The report, released Tuesday, says that Utah’s funding ...

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Sunday Dialogue: What to Do to Make Our Schools Better

nytimes.com - (Page 3 of 3) Certainly, poor children can learn and excel, but the odds are stacked against them. Every testing program — be it the SAT, the ACT, state scores or federal tests — shows a tight corr...

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PoliticsSee all

Boehner abandons efforts to reach comprehensive debt-reduction deal

washingtonpost.com - Unless Congress acts to raise the $14.3 trillion legal limit on the debt, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said that the government will begin to default on its obligations after Aug. 2. The...

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Boehner abandons efforts to reach comprehensive debt-reduction deal

washingtonpost.com - House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) abandoned efforts Saturday night to reach a comprehesive debt-reduction deal worth more than $4 trillion in savings, telling President Obama that a mid-size p...

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Blog posts on this issue

whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release July 09, 2011 “The President believes that solving our fiscal problems is an economic imperative. But in order to do that, we ca...

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StoriesSee all

School Tech Connect: Aspengate and HuffPo

schooltechconnect.com - So.... Arianna was at the Aspen Approved Ideas Only Festival; she's been appointed as a voice for progressives for some reason. She's also personally very much in the ed deform camp from what I can...

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Results Bachmann FB page flash mob

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Well, thousands of comments have been posted on Michele Bachmann's FB page this afternoon as a result of a virtual flash mob. We're not sure about the usefulness of this kind of online activism -- ...

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How Educator's Dress for Work: Perception is Everything - The Educator's PLN Educators-Dress to Impress

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - How Educator's Dress for Work: Perception is Everything - The Educator's PLNHow Educator's Dress for Work: Perception is EverythingPosted by Bill Burkhead on July 3, 2011 at 7:30amView Bill Burkhea...

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Art & EntertainmentSee all

Scandals Redefine Rules for the Press in Europe

nytimes.com - (Page 2 of 2) In France and Britain, the past days and weeks have shown both models of reporting to be strained to the point of failure, leaving journalists in both countries to define the role the...

DianeRavitch

A 007 Principal’s Ride | Connected Principals

connectedprincipals.com - This week, my family and I saw Cars 2, the sequel to the fabulous, animated story of Lightening McQueen and his learnings of humility with his new-found family in Radiator Springs. In Cars 2, McQue...

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Facundo Cabral: “El día que yo me muera…con una milonga alcanza”

miltonramirez.org - “El día que yo me muera no habrá que usar la balanza, pues pa’velar a cantor con una milonga alcanza”Facundo Cabral nunca se detuvo en ningún lugar, ni siquiera en el puerto donde naciera. No le in...

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EnvironmentSee all

asahi.com（朝日新聞社）：Beef from Fukushima found with high levels of radioactive cesium

asahi.com - The Tokyo metropolitan government on July 8 detected levels of radioactive cesium 4.6 times the national standard in meat from a cow raised in Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, officials said.The ...

mikeklonsky

UA(Arizona)-led research sounds alarm on danger of rising sea levels

democraticunderground.com - Source: AZCentral.comA 1-meter increase in sea level doesn't sound like much.But the 3.3-foot rise would be enough to flood 90 percent of New Orleans, 33 percent of Virginia Beach, Va., and 18 perc...

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BP argues Gulf recovery so strong that future loss claims should end

democraticunderground.com - Source: AP / Toledo BladeNEW ORLEANS -- BP is arguing that victims of last year’s Gulf oil spill should not be paid any more claims for future losses because the areas affected by the spill have re...

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LeisureSee all

Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - There’s was no Saturday coffee last week. I was at the NEA RA. Last night, Anne and I took Ulysses to Wilson beach on the Lakefront so he could play with the hundreds of other dogs at Chicago’s gre...

fklonsky

Saturday coffee. + Old school « Fred Klonsky's blog

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blogSaturday coffee.by Fred KlonskyThere’s was no Saturday coffee last week. I was at the NEA RA.Last night, Anne and I took Ulysses to Wilson beach on the Lakefro...

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Thinking About the American Zeitgeist

saveourschoolsmarch.org - You are here: Home » Blog » Uncategorized » Dusty & Gay: Thinking About the American ZeitgeistJuly 10, 2011 Cross Country by Bike – Glenville – Madrid – Bardstown – Berea – Buckhorn – Lookout, Kent...

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