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Pension Call Tuesday. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - The veto session begins in one week. Every reader of this blog now must contact their own General Assembly representative every day. By personal contact. By phone. By fax or personal email. Or by u...

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The “Continuous Narrowing” of ESEA « Common Core

blog.commoncore.org - In September 2009, when reauthorization of ESEA seemed imminent, Secretary Duncan said, “Let us build a law that discourages a narrowing of curriculum and promotes a well-rounded education that dra...

DianeRavitch

Online Educators Gaining Both Classes and Critics

nytimes.com - HOUSTON — The school day was difficult, said Will Clarkston, a soft-spoken 20-year-old who, in his own words, can’t sit still. His dyslexia sometimes leaves him grasping to text the rig...

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How are dues are being used. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - School Tech Connect’s Tim Furman links to my post that has the two Eeyore’s, IEA Prez Cinda Klickna and Government Relations chief Jim Reed, putting the members to sleep. The video was intended to ...

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SignOn.org Beta

signon.org - Flag petition as inappropriateBy Susan DuFresne (Contact)To be delivered to: The United States SenateDear Senators: The recent passage of H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents Through the Quality Chart...

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Starving America’s Public Schools | OurFuture.org

ourfuture.org - Wall Street’s excesses blew up the economy. Now the question is who pays to clean up the mess. And across the country, our children are already paying part of the bill – as their schools are hit ...

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THE CLIMATE OF FEAR AT BEAUDRY

4lakidsnews.blogspot.com - editorial in Associated Administrators of Los Angeles Update - Week of October 17, 2011 | http://bit.ly/pcoQu8 14 October 2011 - Earlier this week an AALA member, a supervisory administrator, sent...

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CER 18th Anniversary Gala

edreform.com - NOTORIOUS GARDEN STATE ACTIVIST TO PERFORM AT NATIONAL EDUCATION CELEBRATION WASHINGTON, DC (September 28, 2011) – Derrell Bradford, executive director of New Jersey-based Better Education for Ki...

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2011 Agenda / Foundation for Excellence in Education

excelined.org - Education Everywhere: National Summit on Education Reform 2011Thursday, October 13, 20117:30 am Registration Opens 7: 30 – 8:15 am Breakfast Buffet8:30 – 9:00 am Welcome from Je...

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New Orleans RSD — the ‘miracle’ district

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - The Louisiana Department Of Education just released the 2011 School Performance Data. As New Orleans has been hailed as a ‘miracle’ district, I was eager to see the results. As you might know, afte...

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No Testing Week - Finding Common Ground

blogs.edweek.org - "We are raising a stressed out generation of students who are over-tested and overanalyzed."The other day I took some time to craft an e-mail in a Word document. I needed to take the time to make s...

DianeRavitch

WEEKEND QUOTABLES

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Dr. Cornell West "If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, he would be on Freedom Plaza."--Upon his arrest in D.C. protestSen. Bernie Sanders"Now that Occupy Wall Street is shining a spotli...

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California School Spending Among Lowest In The Nation

huffingtonpost.com - This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch.Budget shortfalls have pushed California's spending on public schools to a historic low, relative to the rest of the United States, according t...

coopmike48

This Day in History 10/17: Burgoyne Surrenders at Saratoga

mrdsneighborhood.com - Image via WikipediaEverything about the Battle of Saratoga–including its name–has been scrubbed clean by scores of textbooks. On October 17, 1777, after a punishing four-month campaign, British gen...

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Harkin-Enzi Bill Improved... Or Ruined?

scholasticadministrator.typepad.com - October 17, 2011 | Posted At: 06:30 PM | Author: Alexander Russo | Category: Best of the Blogs & Pundits , NCLB News Harkin – Enzi ESEA Bill Now Officially Bad Kevin Carey: No bill is better than t...

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Big Class Takes a Big Step Towards Literacy - Education

good.is - The number of illiterate adults in New Orleans is nearly twice that of the national average, a statistic that's all the more frightening when we consider their children. For an elementary school st...

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Pension Call Tuesday. « Fred Klonsky's blog

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Pension Call Tuesday. « Fred Klonsky's blog:Pension Call Tuesday.by Fred KlonskyThe veto session begins in one week. Every reader of this blog now must contact their own General Assembly representa...

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Blog posts on this issue

whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the First Lady For Immediate Release October 17, 2011 South Lawn3:38 P.M. EDTMRS. OBAMA: Man, isn't that something? (Applause.) Hello everyone, and welcome to the White Ho...

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In Case You Missed it

ascd.typepad.com - Check out the most recent ASCD highlights: ASCD Author Bryan Goodwin says it may not be the program that doesn’t work, it might be that the way it's implemented is all wrong. Simply knowing and ta...

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Five Strategies for Supporting Gifted Students

ascd.typepad.com - Last week's most-clicked ASCD SmartBrief article echoes a previous most-clicked report from the Fordham Foundation that claims policies focused exclusively on low achievers disserve high achievers,...

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Loving my i-pad in the Classroom!

edupln.com - I love using my i-pad in the classroom sooo much that I want more of them! I know I may be a little late to this game and that many teachers who are reading this are most likely beyond what I ha...

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Senators announce agreement on education law

boston.com - WASHINGTON—Signaling some unity in the Senate on overhauling the "No Child Left Behind" law, two senators announced Monday an agreement to move forward on bipartisan legislation to revamp it.Soon a...

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Generational Divide in Education « My Island View

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Generational Divide in Education « My Island View:Generational Divide in Educationby tomwhitbyIt is my birthday today, so please forgive me for allowing my contemplation once again lead us down a w...

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Quick Hits (10.17.11)

quickanded.com - Substitute ESEA bill. You’ve heard by now, we assume, of the ESEA substitute bill posted this morning. As Policy Analyst Anne Hyslop explains, the changes correspond with concerns expressed by advo...

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Rules Are Made to Be Broken, and Fixed – SchoolBook

nytimes.com - Oct. 17, 2011, 3:20 p.m. The first few weeks of school feel like rehearsal for both students and teacher. We go through routines slowly: practicing how to enter and exit the classroom, seeing how q...

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Keeping Teachers Off the Unemployment Line

ed.gov - “I don’t want teachers on the unemployment line. I want them in the classroom,” Secretary Duncan said last Friday at an American Jobs Act roundtable in Richmond, Va. “This is really a moment of tru...

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The science of recess | EdNews Parent

ednewsparent.org - AURORA – With 770 students squeezed into a school building designed to accommodate just 425, classroom space at Aurora’s Elkhart Elementary School is at a premium. Elkhart Elementary's new Peaceful...

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