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The Vindication Of P.S. 84 Part I

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - I was inspired to get to the bottom of the New York City school progress report grades after reading this story from the New York Times Schoolbook website about P.S. 84 which was one of the thirty ...

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Responding to the PARCC and Common Core (Modified)

anurbanteacherseducation.com - Last spring, when I was teaching at a small school in the Bronx, I caused an unnecessary ruckus by posting my thoughts about a presentation my staff received on the looming impacts of PARCC and Com...

DianeRavitch

School Tech Connect: I Heart Karen Lewis

schooltechconnect.com - I just do. Here she was at Occupy Chicago.Longer clip at the CTU site. Hyperbole? No. We're living in a gilded age of fraud. Fraud is the business model. Anyway, can you imagine the recent leadersh...

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Teacher evaluation systems blown away

substancenews.net - Jim Horn - October 23, 2011Everybody connected to Washington's corporate legislative process badly needs some good PR. With approval numbers for Congress in or near single digits, and with both hig...

DianeRavitch

Book Reading Statistics in the USA

dailysalty.blogspot.com - This was shocking to me, I would have never thought so at all, but I have no reason to disbelieve these statistics (You will have to register to see the document - page 15 which quotes these docume...

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Video

nypost.com - Nearly 80 percent of students entering CUNY community colleges have to take basic remediation classes, and most languish there -- never earning a college degree, a new report reveals.A staggering 7...

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When charter schools get too picky - Class Struggle

washingtonpost.com - The Pacific Collegiate School in Santa Cruz, Calif., is a public charter school. It must hold a random lottery when it has more applicants than vacancies. It is not supposed to be selective. Yet so...

mikeklonsky

Schools rolling out new fundraisers: food truck nights

latimes.com - Echo Lau drove to Whitney High School on a recent Monday evening to pick up her kids. She left with dinner. The student parking lot at the Cerritos campus is transformed every week into a congested...

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Paul wants to phase out federal student loans

abclocal.go.com - WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential contender Ron Paul said Sunday he wants to end federal student loans, calling it a failed program that has put students $1 trillion in debt when there are no...

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Daniel Pink On Grades, Autonomy & Inquiry

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Oct 23 2011 Larry FerlazzoDaniel Pink was recently interviewed on a local Washington, D.C. television show along with a local university official. You watch it all here, but I thought the few minut...

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The Usual Whitney Tilson Fail

southbronxschool.com - So here I am at my son's travel league baseball game this morning, when at 11:36 AM I check my email and lo and behold I see in my inbox one of Whitney Tilson's meglomanical, hyper, fictionalized, ...

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Envisioning University of Future, in Person or Online

nytimes.com - MADRID — Will the university of the future be bigger — or smaller? Are college campuses still cradles of revolt — or merely marginal spectators to the Arab Spring? Should students expect to be trai...

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Obama to return to Denver to push his jobs legislation

denverpost.com - President Barack Obama honors the recipients of the 2010 National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, during a ceremony in the East Room of the ...

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TO TEST OR NOT TO TEST?

4lakidsnews.blogspot.com - By Jeff Mangum – Pomerando News | http://bit.ly/o13er5 Poway is a city of 50,000 located north of the city of San Diego and south of the city of Escondido in San Diego County. “I recently...

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The Sunday Education Weekly Reader: 10.23.11

missourieducationwatchdog.com - Welcome to the Sunday Education Weekly Reader for 10.23.11. Stories this week highlight what the educational waivers for NCLB reauthorization mean (it's more federal control, not state determined s...

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CA School Finance 101 Wrap-Up

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - CA School Finance 101 Wrap-Up:CA School Finance 101 Wrap-Upby cynthiaAsk any parent casting an uneasy eye on state budget cuts and the ballooning class sizes, shrinking programs, and dwindling reso...

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N.J. college students celebrate zombie apocalypse

nj.com - MORRIS COUNTY — Hundreds of students ran around Drew and Fairleigh Dickinson universities with foam dart guns and balled-up socks last week. But there was no need to panic.The students were just fi...

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Podcast: The “brutal work” of turnarounds | EdNewsColorado

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Podcast: The “brutal work” of turnarounds | EdNewsColorado:Podcast: The “brutal work” of turnaroundsWritten by EdNews staff on Oct 23rd, 2011. | Copyright © EdNewsColorado.orgNational education blo...

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Transforming Seattle Public Schools

cliffmass.blogspot.com - Every week there seems to be a new headline revealing a new scandal, a new mistake, a new problem or a new school official forced to leave at Seattle Public Schools. Student performance lags, part...

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School levies no guarantee of quality | Cincinnati.com

news.cincinnati.com - This is the first of a three-part series examining who pays what in school taxes in Southwest Ohio. Today: local districts' tax rates.Where you live may determine how much you pay for public school...

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Schools Matter: Teachers Want Corporate America Assessed

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: Teachers Want Corporate America Assessed:Teachers Want Corporate America Assessedby Judy RabinIt has been a week since last Saturday when I stood in Times Square penned in behind ba...

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How does speech therapy help Parkinson’s patients?

edusped.com - National Parkinson Foundation – Michael S. Okun, MDChristiana Care Staff Celebrate Great Place to Work WeekImage by Christiana Care This year’s Great Place to Work Week festivities, celebrated May ...

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Una Carta Abierta: #Edcamp Santiago Tiene Auspiciador!

edcampsantiago.wordpress.com - Estimados Tamara y Thomas! Gusto en saludarles, Te escribo para presentarte EVENTBIS, empresa Española que ha iniciado operaciones en Chile, la cual cuenta con un completo sistema de soluciones tec...

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Why NOT School Performance Scores?

geauxteacher.com - This blog by Gary Rubinstein at "TEACHFORUS" is a great example and explanation of the "inaccurate statistically meaningless scoring process" in New York City (that's where our unqualified candidat...

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MATHFEST!!

saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - For the 6th year in a row, Explorations in Math is bringing MathFest to Seattle!What: MathFest – A city-wide celebration of elementary students and mathematics When: November 3, 2011 5:00 p.m. – ...

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A Teacher’s Voice « My Island View

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A Teacher’s Voice « My Island View:An Educator’s Voiceby tomwhitbyYesterday, I participated in a wonderful public discussion on Education. The best part about this discussion was that it was with p...

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Glorie Russell

napavalleyregister.com - Glorie Russell passed away Oct. 16, 2011 in Fairfield. She was born Feb. 6, 1915, in southern Oregon, where she received her early schooling. In 1932, she came to California to attend San Jose Stat...

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Senate Panel Approves Bill That Rewrites Education Law

nytimes.com - Legislation rewriting the No Child Left Behind education law finally gained traction this week, and the Senate Democrat whose committee passed the bill said on Friday that progress became possible ...

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