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Beachhead for Corporate Takeover of Public Schools « Education Talk New Orleans
edutalknola.com - New Orleans The national media consensus is that New Orleans has discovered the miracle cure for urban education. Their conclusion is largely drawn from data provided by the Louisiana Department o...
Groups linked to Booker, Cerf received nearly one-third of first $13M of Facebook donation to Newark schools
mobile.nj.com - Groups linked to Booker, Cerf received nearly one-third of first $13M of Facebook donation to Newark schools Robert Sciarrino/The Star-LedgerNewark Mayor Cory Booker and acting Commissioner of Educ...
Shanker Blog » Similar Problems, Different Response: “We Are Public Education”
shankerblog.org - Thousands of people from all over Spain demonstrated Saturday October 22nd in Madrid against severe austerity measures affecting public education in several Spanish regions. The march on Madrid, wh...
State auditor determines that municipalities shouldn't have to pay for transporting homeless students - Danvers - Your Town
boston.com - By Justin A. Rice, Town CorrespondentState Auditor Suzanne M. Bump determined on Thursday that forcing municipalities to pay the cost of of transporting and educating homeless students living in mo...
An open letter to NPR about their coverage of the SOS march « Parents Across America
parentsacrossamerica.org - Aug 11, 2011 leoniehaimson This letter was sent today to Claudio Sanchez, the reporter and Edward Schumacher Matos, the NPR ombudsperson. We will let you know if we receive a response. If you’d l...
The Newest Companies Coming Out Of Incubators: EdTech
fastcompany.com - This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone. Imagine K12 is a new Palo Alto incubator birthing only education startups. Can they change...
NWCN.com Washington - Oregon - Idaho
nwcn.com - by ERIC WILKINSON / KING 5 News NWCN.com Posted on October 26, 2011 at 4:28 PM Updated today at 5:39 PM SEATTLE - The Seattle School District is seeing a staggering number of homeless students. Mor...
City's playing teacher's pet? Bias against public school, cry parents
nydailynews.com - Nicholas Fevelo for News Jimmy Dinkins outside Public School 256 in Bedford-Stuyvesant with his daughters Lycis (left), 6; Nylah (center), 5; and Shadayee, 2. Parents at a struggling Bedford-Stuyve...
Embedded Jonathan Alter equates unions with T-Party
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - After reading Jonathan Alter's latest diatribe against teacher unions ("Tea Party and Teachers Union Make Strange Brew"), I can only wonder who at Duncan's D.O.E. is feeding Alter his lines. Writin...
Reading Teacher: CCSS "overwhelming," "very different," "a lot more difficult" | Common Core State Standards
scoop.it - Education leaders say the Internet will be a powerful tool for sharing resources and best practices across state and district lines. Common Standards Mean More Sharing “We’ve always had the abi...
While they’re stealing teacher pensions. How the 1% lives. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Reinsdorf’s sweet deal at U.S. Cellular Field gets even sweeter | Government | Crain’s Chicago Business. White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf pays the State of Illinois $1.5 million a year for using The...
Institute for Democracy and Education
sites.google.com - Historic Lawsuit Challenges California’s Unconstitutional Education Finance SystemA historic lawsuit was filed in May against the State of California requesting that the current education finance ...
Waking up the sleepy heads at IEA headquarters on Edwards Street in Springfield. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Something must have set off some bells on Edwards Street in Springfield, home of the IEA state leadership. For weeks we got the Alfred E. Newman treatment. What, me worry? The Party Line from chief...
Groups linked to Booker, Cerf received nearly one-third of first $13M of Facebook donation to Newark schools
nj.com - NEWARK — One of every three dollars of private money spent so far in Newark’s bid to reform its schools has gone to consultants and contractors, many with ties to Mayor Cory Booker and acting state...
There Are No Quick Fixes - Bridging Differences
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,If we could clone you and send you everywhere at once, with a few follow-ups from others, would it matter? Yes. Because we definitely don't reach as many people with our message as "they...
Congressional hopeful Jeffries firms up charter school support
gothamschools.org - Dania Reid, of the Charter Parent Action Network, speaks at a town hall event with elected officials. If charter school advocates had any concern that Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries wasn’t on their si...
Charters Line Up For Extended School Day Cash
huffingtonpost.com - Catalyst Chicago:Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Thursday that most charter schools eligible for the financial incentives to lengthen the day by 90 minutes have quickly signaled that they are ready to...
Embedded Jonathan Alter equates unions with T-Party
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - After reading Jonathan Alter's latest diatribe against teacher unions ("Tea Party and Teachers Union Make Strange Brew"), I can only wonder who at Duncan's D.O.E. is feeding Alter his lines. Writin...
True to your school! Cobble Hill parents fight charter • The Brooklyn Paper
brooklynpaper.com - By Natalie O’Neill The Brooklyn PaperThe city wants to give one third of a formerly-struggling Cobble Hill high school to a high-performing charter school — but parents are already fighting the co-...
Letters: Defending teachers’ pensions - Springfield, IL - The State Journal
sj-r.com - Recently, the Illinois Policy Institute, a “think tank” that doesn’t disclose its funding, issued a report claiming that in 48 percent of school districts across the state, teachers pay nothing tow...
Michigan Cyber Schools Receive Senate Approval
huffingtonpost.com - Michigan might be getting more cyber schools.Under legislation narrowly approved 20-18 by the Republican-led state Senate, Michigan's current cap of two cyber charter schools with approximately 1,4...
A primer on corporate school reform - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This is an edited version of a commentary given byStan Karp, a teacher of English and journalism in Paterson, N.J., for 30 years. Karp spoke on Oct. 1 at the fourth annual Northwest Teachers for Ju...
Jersey Jazzman: The Ed Reform Gravy Train
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: The Ed Reform Gravy Train:The Ed Reform Gravy Trainby DukeIt's a-puffin' into Newark - all aboard!One of every three dollars of private money spent so far in Newark’s bid to reform ...
Campus Cash | The American Prospect
prospect.org - New education reforms often translate into big money for private groups. Following the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, states paid millions of dollars annually for companies to develop and administe...
Tea Party and Teachers’ Union Make Strange Brew: Jonathan Alter
businessweek.com - October 20, 2011, 7:22 PM EDT By Jonathan Alter Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The age-old tension between federal authority and states’ rights is back in a big way in this year’s presidential campaign, wi...
Angry crowd demands the Oakland school board keep schools open
mercurynews.com - Click photo to enlarge Parents, teachers and students march along Broadway in Oakland, Calif., to demand that the school board abandon its plan to close five of the district's elementary schools, W...
College Readiness Replacing Test Scores as Measure of High School Effectiveness - Education
good.is - What makes a high school effective? Is it the number of students who graduate? Sky-high test scores? Those are the traditional measures, but the majority of recent high school grads say they don't ...
Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: A Concise Post about Why You Should Vote for the Challengers
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: A Concise Post about Why You Should Vote for the Challengers:A Concise Post about Why You Should Vote for the Challengersby Melissa WestbrookMega-ConciseFirst a...
You Call This Choice? – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Oct. 26, 2011, 7:12 a.m. She was crying when I picked up the phone. “Miss Klein, I do not know what to do. I am thinking that maybe I should not have brought her here to this country. This is a big...
Second Public Radio Freelancer Fired for OWS Support
democraticunderground.com - Source: SlateA second public radio freelancer has lost her job for taking part in the Occupy Wall Street protests.Caitlin Curran, who says she was fired from her freelance position with WNYC’s The ...
Is Choice a Panacea? An Analysis of Black Secondary Student Attrition from KIPP, Other Private Charters, and Urban Districts
escholarship.org - eScholarship requires Javascript to be enabled in your browser. Citation Vasquez Heilig, Julian; Williams, Amy; McNeil, Linda McSpadden; & Lee, Christopher. (2011). Is Choice a Panacea? An Analysis...
The despicable Mike Antonucci. « Fred Klonsky's blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The despicable Mike Antonucci. « Fred Klonsky's blog:The despicable Mike Antonucci.by Fred KlonskyMike Antonucci is a right-wing blogger who spends his time attacking teacher unions. Almost exclusi...
Panel: To serve poor children, a need to go beyond academics
gothamschools.org - To help poor students do better in school, what comes first: tackling out-of-school factors tied to poverty, like health care or housing, or boosting academic offerings at school? A panel yesterday...
CPS Lays Groundwork for School Closings
chicagonewscoop.org - John Konstantaras CPS Chief Portfolio Officer Oliver Sicat said there is a correlation between poorly performing schools and underutilized school buildings at the Chicago Board of Education Meeting...
Profile of the California Partnership Academies - High School (CA Dept of Education)
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Profile of the California Partnership Academies - High School (CA Dept of Education):Profile of the California Partnership AcademiesProfile of the California Partnership Academies for the 2009-10 s...
Parents Rising Up for Schools to be Fixed NOT Closed « EdVox
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Parents Rising Up for Schools to be Fixed NOT Closed « EdVox:Parents Rising Up for Schools to be Fixed NOT Closedby edvoxnyLocked out of Chancellor Walcott's "Parents as Partners" event (Picture fr...
America’s public education system: a nation still at risk
scpr.org - Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools. Thirty years ago, the White House commissioned "A Nation at Risk," a now famous report documenting the sorry state of America’s public educ...
Establishing a New Balance « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - October is annual National Work & Family Month. Who knew? A 2003 U.S. Senate Resolution declared this to be the month of “encouraging workplaces to pause…and reflect on the progress already made on...
VIDEO: March Through UC Davis Challenges Tuition Hikes & More
davis.patch.com - Like Davis Patch on Facebook for more video news. A Day of Action was held at UC Davis on Thursday, October 27. Students and supporters gathered near the MU, and then marched through some the majo...
Democrats Abroad Public Education Platform
missourieducationwatchdog.com - This resolution was submitted to the DNC this week by Democrats Abroad France with the request that it be added to and approved as part of Democratic Platform for the next election cycle. Democrats...
National youth town hall comes to Bodine
thenotebook.org - Students at Bodine High School for International Affairs learned life lessons from experts at a youth town hall on Thursday. The BEM (Believe Every Moment) Foundation has embarked on a national ca...
A PRIMER ON CORPORATE SCHOOL REFORM [Teachers’ Edition]: Stan Karp’s Address to Northwest Teachers for Social Justice, Oct. 1, 2011 + Video
4lakidsnews.blogspot.com - by Stan Karp - teacher of English and journalism in Paterson, N.J., Director of the Secondary Reform Project for New Jersey’s Education Law Center and an editor of Rethinking Schools magazine | ...
What would you do to get more Texans to finish college on time? | The Education Front Blog
educationfrontblog.dallasnews.com - Bill Powers, head of the University of Texas at Austin, came by for an editorial board interview yesterday. Among the topics was how schools can get more students to graduate on time.Powers threw o...
The Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Education Research Report: The Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement:The Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievementby Jonathan KantrowitzA Meta-Analysis of the LiteratureCharter sc...
Five Best Blogs: Happy Edu-Halloween
scholasticadministrator.typepad.com - A tale of two teacher evaluations Joanne Jacobs: Rhames almost quit teaching because of her experience, but is “now happily working at my charter school where teacher evaluations are fair, substan...
So I Said, "Lady Di, Why Bother?"
saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - Way back when, David Letterman used to give celebrities about $5,000 to make a short film for his "Holiday Film Festival." My favorite was one with Bette Midler who made a film about a boozy barfl...
Nokesville K – 8 School « PWC Education Reform Blog
pwceducationreform.wordpress.com - Getting information out of PWCS is difficult, and that’s putting it mildly, and that difficulty makes it almost impossible to figure out what’s really happened. As a result, misunderstandings and ...
New York Teacher | Edwize
edwize.org - Highlights from the Oct. 27 issue of New York Teacher: Be BRAVE against bullyingUFT announces a new campaign With many political supporters and plenty of press, the UFT launched a new campaign, cal...
Lessons from the School Advisory Councils' first year | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Lessons from the School Advisory Councils' first year | Philadelphia Public School Notebook:Lessons from the School Advisory Councils' first yearby Erika OwensSidebar Article: NoSub Title: The Marc...
Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública
forpubliced.blogspot.com - Occupy the Dept of Mis-Education! The Last PEP- Panel of Elite Puppets (the NYC PEP- panel on education policy) was interrupted by hundreds of OccupyWallStreet inspired educators and parents (and ...