tampabay.com - By Ron Matus, Times Staff Writer In Print: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Related Links Supporters often say school vouchers are lifelines to low-income students trapped in subp...
wsws.org - By Nancy Hanover 1 September 2011 There are a growing number of American young people for whom “going to school” is now logging in at the family computer. Virtual schools—those conducting all lesso...
parentsacrossamerica.org - Sep 1, 2011 pureparents Now that they’ve had some success destroying public education, the school reform privateers are setting their sights on something even more precious and fundamental to our n...
heraldtribune.com - The Associated Press Published: Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 3:02 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 3:02 a.m. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A new report shows little change in scores on na...
guardian.co.uk - Michael Gove, the education secretary, has said free schools are intended to tackle flaws in the education system. Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Analysis of the catchment areas of the first 24 free...
motherjones.com - Thu Sep. 1, 2011 3:00 AM PDTIn Michigan, a state perennially crippled by budget deficits, public school districts across the state have already outsourced their bus drivers, cafeteria workers, spor...
dailykos.com - Here, then, I want to offer some guidelines for navigating the education debate based on my own experience as an educator for nearly three decades (almost two decades as a high school teacher and a...
freep.com - U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has spent the better part of his administration referring to Detroit Public Schools as one of the nation's worst urban districts, but he said Wednesday that the...
chicagotribune.com - Photo illustration (Chicago Tribune) By Erin Meyer Tribune reporter 8:26 p.m. CDT, August 31, 2011 The board that oversees the Chicago Public Schools teachers’ pension fund filed a lawsuit in Cook ...
villagevoice.com - Years ago, when I was interviewing Justice William Brennan in his Supreme Court chambers for my book, Living the Bill of Rights, he suddenly became somber. "How," he asked, "can we take the Bill of...
whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 01, 2011 Across America, thousands of courageous children fight pediatric cancer each year, facing life‑threatenin...
chicagotribune.com - Thomas Nelson (left) talks during a town hall meeting at Malcom X College at 1900 W. Jackson Blvd. on Wednesday. (Nuccio DiNuzzo, Chicago Tribune) By Kristen Mack Clout Street 8:59 p.m. CDT, August...
suntimes.com - This book cover image released by Threshold Editions shows "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir," by Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney. The book is scheduled for release on Aug. 30, 2011. (AP Pho...
cbsnews.com - US President Barack Obama delivers the annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 25, 2011, left, and Republican presidential candidates p...
nycatr.blogspot.com - A teacher named Sally reports: I just was informed yesterday that I am in excess. I was done dirty. They took my classes, put them under a different code and voila...a 16-year veteran teacher is ...
sacramento.momslikeme.com - Are there certain topics or issues you think are inappropriate and outside of the school's job to educate your child about? If so, what are they? (This is a topic that was originally posted on the...
dailycensored.com - Screenshot of Carlos Miller's post before it was pulledCarlos Miller, whose whose blog Photography is Not A Crime tirelessly covers the intersection of police and cameras, thought he had come upon...
modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/08/california-passes-rectal-injection-bill.html"; If the headline doesn’t make it perfectly clear, crazy California has passed perhaps the looniest ...
whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 01, 2011 NATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER AWARENESS MONTH, 2011BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAA PROCLAMATIONOva...
northjersey.com - ATLANTA — Health officials say a push to get pediatricians to stop prescribing antibiotics for the wrong illnesses is paying off a bit. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released T...
democraticunderground.com - Source: CNNWashington (CNN) -- Twenty-five of 27 spent-fuel storage casks at a Virginia nuclear plant were shifted between 1 and 4 inches during last week's 5.8-magnitude earthquake, officials said...
whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 01, 2011 NATIONAL WILDERNESS MONTH, 2011BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAA PROCLAMATIONThe mystery and w...
gothamschools.org - The city has underestimated both the scope of its bedbug problem in schools and the response needed to deal with it, say critics who have followed the parasitic pests’ resurgence in recent years. M...
catalyst-chicago.org - Common Core standards tests starting this fallPosted By Rebecca Harris On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 In CPS Administration Chicago Public Schools will begin testing 2nd- through 8th-grade students ...
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“Film Story” Is A Very Impressive Site
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Film Story is an interactive site where you can search for theatrical films
by geographical location, history or science subject, historical era, and
film ...
Waiting For The Testing Tide To Turn
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Diane's got a post up about the NYDOE encouraging its teachers to lie to
students about the purpose of a new test they're running in June.
It's a field t...
Sacramento Music Scene Archives: Party of 1999
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Building archives of local music scene history for SacTV.com has generated
a whole new world of adventure. It helps that I happened to take a lot of
vide...
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Pedro Noguera
*"The way we are now as a country, not only aren't we living up to the
Brown decision, we're not even living up the Plessy v. Ferguson ...
The States: More Bully Politics of Education Reform
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From South Carolina to New Jersey to Wisconsin—and all across the
U.S.—universal public education is under assault by the bully politics of
education refor...
NY State Ed Dept: Lie to Students
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As you may know, there has been growing parent dissatisfaction about the
amount of testing that their children are subjected to. initially, the
tests and t...
‘Qualities of mind and heart’ - by Kathryn Baron
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For nearly two-and-a-half centuries Americans have fought and died to
protect the nation’s fragile democracy. From the earliest days of the
Union, the foun...
A Whole Month Left (A Freewrite)
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“You’re going to miss us!” “Yes, I’m going to miss bothering the heck out
of you!” I mean, why do students think we’re actually going to spend our
off time...
a thought about the Florida voter purge
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let's presume I am a US Citizen who has been voting regularly and legally.
Let's further presume I receive one of the notices informing me that the
state...
“Anything has to be better than this…”
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From the discussion on Diane Ravtich’s blog on “reforms” to special
education compliance… putkidzfirst Diane, I’m a sped teacher who believes
the focus on ...
Horace Mann & Compulsory Schooling
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I have continued to ponder why school for kids continues to be compulsory
(with the requisite coercion) while most everything else we do in America
(except...
Quick Hits (5.25.12) – Graduation Edition
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Promises kept. Twelve years ago, a Georgia businessman made a promise to
first graders that he would send them to college. This year, they’re taking
him up...
Les Miserables at CAPA – it almost didn't happen
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I had the privilege of seeing *Les Miserables* at Philadelphia's High
School for Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) Thursday night.
I've seen *Les Miz* ...
Deception by NYSED about the state field tests?
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There's lots of controversy about next month's NY state field tests, and
due to be given next month in all public schools statewide, in certain
grades and ...
The Flipped Class: Students Talk
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"There is no one-size fits all in education,
but as teachers,
we always can benefit from observing and listening to our students." Results from Student Sat...
It's Principal Firing Season in DC Public Schools!
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Written By Candi Peterson
Recently letters were sent out to DC Public Schools principals notifying
them whether their yearly contract as a principal will ...
Labor Leader Paves Way for Teacher Concessions
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The region’s most powerful labor leader says the school district and the
teachers union must sit down immediately to forge a solution that avoids
more than...
'The New Jim Crow'
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The manufactured school "crisis" we are living through may have much to learn from the "crime" and "drug" crisis that has built prisons instead of schools, t...
From Isolation, to Collaboration, to Leadership
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This guest blog post comes to InterACT from Cate Kruse Schroeder, a
bilingual-kindergarten teacher from San Jose, CA. A member of Accomplished
California ...
Educational (in)Equity Part 3
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This week we were going to highlight some data from our Ready Middle Schools Project, but it seems more pertinent to comment on the recent articles by the Ex...
Growing Bill Looms for School Repairs
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San Diego Unified has pushed back its plans to fix up aging schools because
of financial woes and the desire to get other things done first. That will
cost...
Kids These Days
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The Occupy movement continues to grow...globally! Here in Sacramento,
Cesar Chavez Park remains the center of Occupy activity, with protesters
saying the...
Sacramento Scoop is on Vacation
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Sacramento Scoop is taking an end of summer break. We hope you will enjoy
some of our previous posts and we will be back soon.
Is This Really Fair CPS?
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The Chicago Public Schools want to give teachers a 2% raise for 29% more
hours. For a beginning teacher this is $3.08 an hour. That’s considerably
less t...
My Review of Freshwaterboys by Adam Schuitema
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Well, Litstack went live on Monday and my first review went live today. You
can find my review of Adam Schuitema's wonderful collection of short storiesh...
Todo el mundo ama los Viernes
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Everyone loves Fridays. My office is filled with the sounds of “Happy
Friday!” and “Thank God it’s Friday!” and other festive Friday greetings.
Monday is...
The Ghost in the (Learning) Machine
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So, David’s initial concern was that some people come to MOOC’s without the
requisite knowledge they need to really advance. That’s not a denial of the
imp...
10 Years of Blogging: Time for a Change and a Book
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So last week it marked 10 years since my first blog post, a full decade of
writing and sharing online. As I’ve said many times before, it’s been an
amazing...
College & Careers, No More Cuts! (Video)
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Governor Cuomo is proposing a $1.5 billion cut to public school funding,
the largest cut in New York State History. In this entry to the Alliance
for Quali...
It's really great that every now and then I ca...
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It's really great that every now and then I can make a statement on a
critical issue in such a compelling way that nobody disagrees!
Of course, no one agre...
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