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Big Money, Bad Media, Secret Agendas: Welcome to America's Wildest School Board Race
thenation.com - School board elections are supposed to be quintessential America contests. Moms and Main Street small business owners and retired teachers campaign by knocking on doors, writing letters to the edit...
When Bad Progress Reports Happen To Good Schools — Change ‘em!
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - New York City’s Department of Education recently released their ‘progress reports’ for all the middle and elementary schools for the 2010-2011 school year. For each school they have a complicated f...
Are top students being shortchanged? - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by Paul Thomas, an associate professor of education at Furman University in South Carolina. A version of this was published on Daily Kos.By Paul Thomas One aspect of the education ...
Proving Why Parents Need a Revolution
huffingtonpost.com - Last week, Dr. Diane Ravitch launched a broadside against Parent Trigger and the parent empowerment movement, calling it a "stealth assault" and a "deceptive scheme" to undermine public education. ...
W. enters my wife's schoolboard race - Campaign Finance
salon.com - Emily knew it would be a tough race against her opponent, a deep-pocketed investment banker, but she felt confident she could run a solid campaign. She thought her experience as a social worker and...
The Kick-off of "Parents as Partners Week": Who is David Coleman and why should we care?
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - DOE officials are working hard, trying to persuade us that they now have a different attitude towards parents. Next week is called “Parents as Partners” week, starting off with a meeting on Tuesda...
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nypost.com - The city teachers union threatened to derail a new evaluation system, claiming school principals have used it to punish teachers before it even started.But Department of Education officials counter...
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nypost.com - On Tuesday, the state Board of Regents approved measures to address long-obvious weaknesses in test administration and scoring procedures and to thwart the rigging of results. Yet only one of the s...
Fighting for Upper West Side Schools
westsidespirit.com - Posted by West Side Spirit on October 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment By Dan Rosenblum Even though Noah Gotbaum came from a family of teachers, labor leaders and political figures, he never thought he’...
Shanker Blog » The Teachers' Union Hypothesis
shankerblog.org - For the past couple of months, Steve Brill’s new book has served to step up the eternally-beneath-the-surface hypothesis that teachers’ unions are the primary obstacle to improving educational outc...
Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion
nber.org - NBER Working Paper No. 17533Issued in October 2011NBER Program(s): CH ED LS PEThis paper examines the effect of early childhood investments on college enrollment and degree completion. We u...
The passive-aggressive correspondence of Vincent Gray and Michelle Rhee
tbd.com - October 21, 2011 - 07:22 am Was it only two years ago that Vincent Gray, then the chairman of the D.C. Council, fumed at Michelle Rhee, then the chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, in a public meeti...
No Excuses for obfuscating abysmal attrition data with complex calculations
schoolsmatter.info - By John Thompson MacArthur Genius grant recipient Roland Fryer did some complex calculations in "Creating 'No Excuses' (Traditional) Public Schools" to estimate student performance gains during the...
1% Find Creative Ways to Profit from Our Schools -- At What Cost to Our Kids? | Education
alternet.org - Rupert Murdoch's sudden interest in America's school system does not bode well. October 20, 2011 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Educa...
Miguel del Valle on Occupy Chicago: 'This is What Democracy Looks Like' - Felsenthal Files
chicagomag.com - Posted Oct 20, 2011 at 10:57 AM By Carol Felsenthal "If Occupy Wall Street has taught us anything, it‘s that when people decide to move and move quickly and together, that things happen, good thing...
Citing “abuses,” teachers union says it is wearying on eval talks
gothamschools.org - The teachers union is threatening to curb its efforts toward new teacher evaluations if the Department of Education doesn’t remind principals again that the old evaluation system is still in place....
Melody Barnes to Exit White House - Politics K-12
blogs.edweek.org - 20985 « Early-Learning Race to Top Contests: 35 State Applicants | Main | Senate Education Panel Approves ESEA Rewrite Bill »By guest blogger Lesli A. MaxwellMelody Barnes, President Obama's top do...
No Child Left Behind; Parents Need to Take Responsibility
huffingtonpost.com - Recent headlines in our newspaper blare out the results of the Academic Performance Index and the No Child Left Behind.Interesting, and not surprising, schools in poorer district didn't fare well. ...
Senate vote: first step toward dismantling No Child Left Behind
csmonitor.com - A Senate panel votes to drop a signature provision of No Child Left Behind, the Bush-era education reform. The new law would eliminate the mandate for 'adequate yearly progress.' In a major course ...
Occupy movement rallies at L.A. school district headquarters
latimesblogs.latimes.com - About 200 protesters gathered near downtown Tuesday to link the nationwide Occupy Wall Street-inspired protests to budgets cuts and layoffs in the Los Angeles Unified School District. “Occupy LAUSD...
Proposed charter school expects to run surplus
northjersey.com - A new proposal for an online charter school for 1,000 children statewide comes with an unusual twist: After its first year, the public school expects to have nearly $4.7 million left in the bank. T...
Charter schools / Time to reassess - pressofAtlanticCity.com: Editorials
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Charter schools / Time to reassess
pressofatlanticcity.com - New Jersey has 80 charter schools. Next year, 25 more are scheduled to open, and another 42 applications are being considered by the Department of Education. But 15 years into the state's experimen...
Charter schools put pressure on APS | Albuquerque, N.M.
krqe.com - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - This week charter schools in Albuquerque held a recrutment fair. The schools offer an alternative to a traditional public education with a focus on everything from the ...
Hard work, devotion to each other propel triplets to success
latimes.com - For years, the Walker triplets were a fixture in their father's Pasadena barbershop.Nicole, Aubrey and Charles worked at Just In Time Hair Trends every weekend. Sweeping up the floors, answering th...
The Final Outcome of the Washington State PTA Legislative Assembly
seattleducation2010.wordpress.com - As I have posted previously in Whoa! Where did that come from Washington State PTA!!? Charter Schools?! Part 1, So Much for Fair and Balanced With the Washington State PTA, A Letter to All Parents ...
Big Money, Bad Media, Secret Agendas: Welcome to America's Wildest School Board Race | The Nation
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Big Money, Bad Media, Secret Agendas: Welcome to America's Wildest School Board Race | The Nation:Big Money, Bad Media, Secret Agendas: Welcome to America's Wildest School Board RaceJohn Nichols on...
Unable to show union support, city goes it alone for RTTT funds
gothamschools.org - Months after a deal to let a handful of city schools receive federal funding, requirements continue to keep millions of Race to the Top dollars off-limits to all but 2 percent of city schools. When...
Marian Wright Edelman: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Stupid
huffingtonpost.com - “The Economy Stupid” were the words on the now famous sign in successful presidential candidate Bill Clinton’s 1992 war room. Today, that sign should be in the war rooms of all candidates—from thos...
Obama Admin. Concerned With Harkin-Enzi Accountability - Politics K-12
blogs.edweek.org - Sounds like the Obama administration is less than thrilled with the accountability provisions in the ESEA-reauthorization bill passed out of the Senate education committee yesterday.No press releas...
High school applications due Oct. 28
thenotebook.org - The application deadline is just one week away. This weekend, Oct. 22-23, the High School Expo will be held at District headquarters, 440 N. Broad St. The Notebook will be at the expo, with a table...
What Back to School is Like for An Unschooler
democraticeducation.org - Posted in DemEd in Real LifePhilosophy of EducationParenting on Aug 21, 2011 - 08:07 PM For unschoolers like us, there is no back to school. There is continual learning, all of the time. We don't b...
Occupy Columbus Circle | OccupyWallSt.org
occupywallst.org - bobby 1 points 18 minutes ago VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY, DIRECT DEMOCRACY EBALLOT: http://www.usparliament.org/v-h-dd.php Results to be announced on November 6th, 2012. See the sole eballot cast, on t...
Announcing “Blog for IDEC 2012 Week,” October 31 - November 4
democraticeducation.org - Posted in DemEd in Real Life on Oct 21, 2011 - 04:47 PM I'm on the outreach team for IDEC 2012, the international education gathering happening in Puerto Rico next March 24-31, and I'd like to invi...
Silencing Dissent: WTU VP Candi Peterson’s Removal From Office | . . . . . TheFightBack
thefightback.org - LISTEN TO THE FULL 40-MINUTE INTERVIEW WITH CANDI PETERSON HERE: Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also ...
“Mitchell 20″ Honors the Challenge to Give Ourselves to Teaching « InterACT
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - “Mitchell 20″ Honors the Challenge to Give Ourselves to Teaching « InterACT:“Mitchell 20″ Honors the Challenge to Give Ourselves to Teachingby David B. CohenDaniela Robles (image from "Mitchell 20"...
Paul Mann, Collision Course: Federal Education Policy Meets State and Local Realities
federaleducationpolicy.wordpress.com - Paul Manna, Collision Course: Federal Education Policy Meets State and Local Realities (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011) You may order a copy of this book here. Reviewed by Kevin R. Kosar This websi...
Taking Workplace Flexibility From Private to Public « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - By now it should come as no surprise to anyone to hear that American parents are struggling to meet the conflicting demands of their jobs and their families. As the field of work-life research has ...
Quick Hits (10.21.11)
quickanded.com - ESEA mark-up aftermath. The reauthorization chatter continued this morning via tweets and blog posts. Eduwonks weighed in, betting on the bill’s chances of passage and nit-picking at amendments pus...
Louisiana Says No to Race to Top, and Senator Isn't Happy - State EdWatch
blogs.edweek.org - One of the states that opted not to apply for the Race to the Top early-learning competition was Louisiana, and that decision has drawn the wrath of U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu.In a letter to Republica...
From a probation officer to a top teacher
signonsandiego.com - SAN PASQUAL VALLEY — Mark Burroughs’ route to his teaching career was an unlikely one.The fifth-grade teacher at San Pasqual Union School in the San Pasqual Valley toiled 10 years on the darkest si...
Brown looks at multiple incentives to steer highly effective teachers to weak schools - D.C. Schools Insider
washingtonpost.com - D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown called this afternoon to say that the bill he is drafting to steer good teachers to struggling schools involves more than possibly waiving annual evaluations. B...
Introducing the #OccupySupply Fund | The Dissenter
dissenter.firedoglake.com - I’m really excited to announce the Occupy Supply Fund, a new effort at FDL to truly support the thousands of Occupiers protesting economic injustice and inequality across the country. 100% of donat...
Are Colleges Really Like Cable Companies?
missourieducationwatchdog.com - Education is big business, big money. In fact, it is easy to see which business model colleges and universities use when developing their degree programs. I am writing today about colleges in the w...
Education Dept. issues ‘urgent’ warning about aid fraud in distance learning programs - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Education Dept. issues ‘urgent’ warning about aid fraud in distance learning programs - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:Education Dept. issues ‘urgent’ warning about aid fraud in distance le...
Psychologists Defend The Importance Of Working Memory Capacity
educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ΩIn a new paper in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science, psychologists David Z. Hambrick of Michigan State University and El...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 21, 2011 East Room2:09 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Welcome, everybody. Please have a seat. It is a great pleasure to be with s...
Missouri repeals teacher-student Internet restrictions
northjersey.com - JEFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation repealing a contentious law that had limited online discussions between teachers and students. Nixon's Friday action eliminates a...
Test Prep a Great Way to Lower Test Scores « PWC Education Reform Blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Test Prep a Great Way to Lower Test Scores « PWC Education Reform Blog:Test Prep a Great Way to Lower Test ScoresOctober 21, 2011 — pwceducationreformIf you want to practically guarantee lower test...
Making a Difference in Education Reform, ProComp External Evaluation Report
educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ΩProComp is an ambitious alternative teacher compensation system developed by Denver Public Schools (DPS) in cooperation with the Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA). This report summarize...