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Lessons From New Orleans

nytimes.com - Before Hurricane Katrina, more than 60 percent of children in New Orleans attended a failing school. Now, only about 18 percent do. Five years ago, less than a quarter of the children i...
leoniehaimson

What Made Michelle Obama Anxious and Nervous

politicsdaily.com - First Lady Michelle Obama revisited a stressful period of her youth on Monday, opening up to teen girls at a Denver mentoring event when asked about her views of standardized testing.Mrs. Obama use...
DianeRavitch

Frank is trending again. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - In November, 2008 Frank Cieciorka died. Frank was a 60s activist, member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and a people’s graphic artist. His drawing of the clenched fist became ico...
fklonsky

Starving America’s Public Schools | OurFuture.org

ourfuture.org - Read full report » VIDEOS School Cuts Hurt Kids. . .  . . . By Increasing Class Size . . . By Eliminating Critical Classes . . . By Eliminating Great Teachers RESOURCESCOMMENTARYCritics of America’...
K12NN

A cautionary charter school tale - The Answer Sheet

washingtonpost.com - Some public charter schools do wonderful work. Some don’t. This is what can happen when officials who allow charter schools to open don’t pay enough attention to what happens after the doors open t...
mikeklonsky

News Corp. and the Business of Education

care2.com - Not only did Rupert Murdoch give the keynote speech at the education summit held under the aegis of Jeb Bush the past two days in San Francisco. His News Corporation is seeking to make its way into...
K12NN

Board, KIPP to talk performance in Jacksonville school

jacksonville.com - KIPP wants to open more charter schools in Jacksonville, but Duval County School Board is going to do something state law does not: consider KIPP's current performance before giving the OK. School ...
mikeklonsky

Es el momento - Educacion, Becas, Universidades, Aprendizaje

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Es el momento - Educacion, Becas, Universidades, AprendizajeEducación Preescolar Educación Elemental y Media Educación Secundaria College y Universidad Doctora Isabel Foro Becas Universidades A-Z...
coopmike48

Boomerang kids moving back home with parents

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Boomerang kids moving back home with parents:Boomerang kids moving back home with parentsKevin Fagan, Chronicle Staff WriterSunday, October 16, 2011(page 1 of 2) SINGLE PAGEPrintE-mailShareComments...
coopmike48

Occupy Wall Street: The T-Shirt

dailycensored.com - “It’s time, the anger is boiling over and we’re sick of being taken advantage of and taken for granted! Occupy Wall Street! It is time to stop the greed and bring about real social change,” so stat...
coopmike48

All Education Matters: WE OCCUPY #ows

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - All Education Matters: WE OCCUPY:WE OCCUPYby Cryn JohannsenAnd unlike some cheating journalists and writers, I believe in giving credit to those who CREATE such content.John De Guzman shared this o...
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News Corp. and the Business of Education | Care2 Causes

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - News Corp. and the Business of Education | Care2 Causes:News Corp. and the Business of Education (video)by Kristina C.October 15, 201111:00 pm19 comments FacebookRedditStumbleUponDiggE-MailText Si...
coopmike48

Occupy Davis in Central Park 24/7 (PHOTO GALLERY)

davis.patch.com - Round-the-clock occupation of Central Park in Davis has begun. Help tell the story by uploading photos to this gallery.  After several gatherings in which the attendees worked to shape the movement...
coopmike48

Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow:Test Today, Privatize TomorrowUsing Accountability to "Reform" Public Schools to DeathBy Alfie KohnI just about fell off my desk chair the other day when I came acros...
coopmike48

Privatizing Public Schools:

louisville.edu -   Privatizing Public Schools: Education in the Marketplace  Ellen Boesenberg Every relationship of “hegemony” is necessarily an educational relationship.-- A. Gramsci  1.1 The privatization of publ...
coopmike48

Podcast: A new way to scale and sustain reforms?

ednewscolorado.org - Sajan George has seen many of the nation’s recent and most high-profile public education reform efforts from an insider’s perspective. George played a leading role in reinventing the New Orleans sc...
coopmike48

OWS Forms a Public | Firedoglake

firedoglake.com - John Dewey Media reporting about OccupyWallStreet is bound up in its traditional mindset. The important things are clothes, demands, impact on the political horserace, police actions, and spectacle...
coopmike48

Fun in Mathematics” « Wild About Math!

wildaboutmath.com - A while back I received this email from Jeff Zilahy.Dear Mr. Lederman, I came across your blog, Wild about Math, and I too share your enthusiasm for the world of mathematics. In fact, I wrote a pop...
coopmike48

Seattle Schools and Capacity Management

saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - The headline story from the Seattle Times this morning - Surging Enrollment Blindsides Schools.  (I wish it had been "blindsides district" which would have been more the case.)  The photo of the Ha...
coopmike48

Tweets from the No-Fault Line: PSC @ COCHRAN MIDDLE SCHOOL

4lakidsnews.blogspot.com - 14 Oct   UTLAnow UTLA Warren Fletcher & AFT’s Randi Weingarten met with teachers to see why Cochran MS is on the right track but still on LAUSD’s giveaway list.   UTLAnow UTLA Teachers ...
coopmike48

"You Say You Want a Revolution"

bluejersey.com - "You say you want a revolution. Well, you know. We all want to change the world. You say you got a real solution. Well, you know. We'd all love to see the plan."                         - Beatles: ...
coopmike48

Much Ado About Pearson (Foundation)

chicagonow.com - By Alexander Russo, today at 9:18 am Concerns about private sector influence over public policy keep coming up -- not just in education, and not just from the political fringe. There's Jane Meyer's...
coopmike48

The Baltimore Angle on the National Opt Out Movement

editbarry.wordpress.com - Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post blog “The Answer Sheet” noticed something I missed: that two of the movement’s leaders teach in Towson, Md., just up the road. Among the leaders of the Opt Ou...
coopmike48

Meeting Sal Khan « Cooperative Catalyst

coopcatalyst.wordpress.com - I attended an independent schools conference outside Seattle yesterday (Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools Educators’ Conference: Innovation and Change in the Classroom).  I was e...
coopmike48

Occupy Comes to Appleton, Wisconsin |

bluecheddar.net - Appleton, Wisconsin was occupied by between 200 and 300 people yesterday. It’s part of a world wide movement that started with people occupying a park near Wall Street. I’m thankful for the positiv...
coopmike48

Along the Color Line Video Contest « Outside the Cave

stephenlazar.com - By Stephen Lazar, on October 16th, 2011 Please share this with any teachers you know.  Dr. Marable was very important to me, and I can think of no greater tribute to him then to share his work so t...
coopmike48

Video

nypost.com - Mayor Bloomberg likes to boast of the “gains” made in city schools during his tenure, but the test scores and graduation rates he cites have long been suspect. Want to know why?As Susan Edelman rep...
coopmike48

AFT - A Union of Professionals

aft.org - by Randi WeingartenPresident, American Federation of Teachers  Here’s what you’ll find in too many public schools in America today: “Classrooms” fashioned out of storage rooms, school cafeterias an...
coopmike48

White House Tweetup: American Jobs Act Bus Tour

whitehouse.gov - Posted by Kori Schulman on October 15, 2011 at 12:19 PM EDT Ed. Note: The deadline to apply for the White House Tweetup is 9:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday, October 16th. Sign up now at WhiteHouse.gov/tweet...
coopmike48

State of the Occupation (Sat, Global Day of Action Roundup)

dissenter.firedoglake.com - A whole lot happened today on the occupation front. Anywhere between 60,000 and half a million people gathered in Madrid:According to the Guardian, around three thousand protesters assembled in Lon...
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