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If Only the Billionaire Reformers Cared about THIS Data - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - Billionaire Bill Gates was in the news again this week, bemoaning the sorry state of America's schools, insisting that business leaders like him have a lot to teach us about measuring performance.M...
Free film Screening and discussion of Success Academy charter co-locations
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Eva Moskowitz wants to bring her Success Charter Schools to District 15. What does that mean for our neighborhood public schools?What happens when charter schools are given space in public school ...
Teachers Learning in a Virtual World
impatientoptimists.org - Ever wonder whether you have what it takes to be teacher? At the University of Central Florida (UCF) we are using a new tool, TeachLivE™, to help students decide if being a teacher is right for th...
A MOVIE WARNS US | Dailycensored.com #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A MOVIE WARNS US | Dailycensored.com:A MOVIE WARNS USWritten by slandauDaily Journal (Opinion), PoliticsOct 29, 20110diggShareBy Saul LandauOccupy Wall Street activists everywhere agree: the system...
Speak Out to Raise $2.8 Billion for Baltimore City Public Schools | Re:education in Baltimore
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Speak Out to Raise $2.8 Billion for Baltimore City Public Schools | Re:education in Baltimore:Speak Out to Raise $2.8 Billion for Baltimore City Public Schoolsby Edit BarrySpeak Out to Raise $2.8 B...
Radical Scholarship: CALL for submissions: Becoming and Being a Teacher (Peter Lang USA)
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Radical Scholarship: CALL for submissions: Becoming and Being a Teacher (Peter Lang USA):CALL for submissions: Becoming and Being a Teacher (Peter Lang USA)by P. L. ThomasUnder Contract:Becoming an...
The big banks and I are getting a divorce and there will be real community property. « Fred Klonsky's blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The big banks and I are getting a divorce and there will be real community property. « Fred Klonsky's blog:The big banks and I are getting a divorce and there will be real community property.by Fre...
New data Bill Gates, other ed reformers should care about - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - New data Bill Gates, other ed reformers should care about - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:New data Bill Gates, other ed reformers should care aboutby Valerie StraussThis was written by edu...
solidaridad: LA Weakly proudly pushes propaganda for Broad/Gates astroturfers
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - solidaridad: LA Weakly proudly pushes propaganda for Broad/Gates astroturfers:LA Weakly proudly pushes propaganda for Broad/Gates astroturfersby Robert D. Skeels * rdsatheneNo question: the Busines...
How Much Do We Really Care for Children? « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Last week’s policy briefings included one on the state of early education and child care...
Big challenges ahead for Occupy movement
sfgate.com - Michael Macor / The Chronicle An Occupy Oakland protester who identified herself as Jessica of San Rafael urges calm as a march to protest police brutality comes face-to-face with police in riot ge...
Are you in? The White House wants to hear from you « MomsRising Blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Are you in? The White House wants to hear from you « MomsRising Blog:Are you in? The White House wants to hear from youby Kristin Rowe-FinkbeinerMomsRising has been invited to the White House this ...
Wall Street Isn’t Winning – It’s Cheating
defendwisconsin.org - – October 30, 2011Posted in: Press Matt Taibbi, writing for Rolling Stone, explains what the Occupy Wall Street protests are all about, and contests a main-stream media explanation: Think about it:...
Does Your School Have Integrity? « Whole Child Education
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education:Does Your School Have Integrity?October 28th, 2011 by ASCD Whole Child BloggersPost submitted by Paula Mirk, M.Ed. Mirk has worked at whole child partne...
School vouchers: For some, it's a concern about safety | PennLive.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School vouchers: For some, it's a concern about safety | PennLive.com:School vouchers: For some, it's a concern about safetyBY DAWN CHAVOUSPennsylvania’s public education system needs help. Every d...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank AM Posts #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank AM Posts Urgent: Winter Donation Needs | OccupyWallSt.org #ows Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 7 minutes ago Urgent: Winter Donation Nee...
Eric Smith’s Airy Dismissive Evasion of Testing Critics | Scathing Purple Musings
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Eric Smith’s Airy Dismissive Evasion of Testing Critics | Scathing Purple Musings:Eric Smith’s Airy Dismissive Evasion of Testing Criticsby Bob SikesJeffrey Solocheck finally tracked down former Fl...
Denver Public Schools board candidates' canvassers walk the political talk
denverpost.com - As campaigns wind down, the strategy of sending out canvassers maintains — or increases — the pace until the hours before polls close. Campaign staffers who organize canvassers and are passionate a...
Coloradans face nation's only statewide tax vote
boston.com - DENVER—The nation's only statewide tax vote on the November ballot asks Colorado voters whether they want to temporarily raise taxes to generate $3 billion for classrooms and colleges -- a proposal...
Illinois cuts textbook funding for second year in a row, passing along costs to families
chicagotribune.com - Illinois families already shell out more money for K-12 textbooks than parents anywhere else in the country, but now they face even steeper bills after the state wiped out funding for schoolbooks. ...
NYC Public School Parents: Free film Screening and Success Academy charter school meeting
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NYC Public School Parents: Free film Screening and Success Academy charter school meeting:Free film Screening and Success Academy charter school meetingby Leonie HaimsonEva Moskowitz wants to bring...
Evidence of Economic Oligarchy | Firedoglake
firedoglake.com - Max Weber A recent study of concentration of corporate control says that 737 entities have accumulated 80% of the control of the 43,060 Transnational Corporations (TNCs) listed in the Orbis databas...
All Things Education: A Lesson on Failing #SOSMarch
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - All Things Education: A Lesson on Failing:A Lesson on Failingby Rachel LevyThis summer at the SOS March & National Call to Action, I was pleased to see there some young and enthusiastic, but indepe...
Blue Jersey:: Governor Christie: No Compassion For Kids After 3 #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Blue Jersey:: Governor Christie: No Compassion For Kids After 3:Governor Christie: No Compassion For Kids After 3by: Bill OrrSun Oct 30, 2011 at 01:31:15 PM EDT "Life begins after school ...
No Compassion For Kids After 3
bluejersey.com - "Life begins after school
that's when bend all the rules" - 6 Teen Theme Song According to statistics from the federal Office of Juvenil...
More schools host church services as controversy lingers | OregonLive.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - More schools host church services as controversy lingers | OregonLive.com:More schools host church services as controversy lingersby Nicole Dungca, The OregonianEight of Oregon's 10 biggest distric...
Colorado Faces Nation's Only Statewide Tax Vote To Raise Taxes For Education
huffingtonpost.com - DENVER — The nation's only statewide tax vote on the November ballot asks Colorado voters whether they want to temporarily raise taxes to generate $3 billion for classrooms and colleges – a proposa...
Failing School No Longer (But Were We Ever?) « InterACT
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Failing School No Longer (But Were We Ever?) « InterACT:Failing School No Longer (But Were We Ever?)by Martha InfanteThe announcement came out of nowhere, via a phone call by the Principal, as a co...
Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real
democraticunderground.com - denverbill (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-30-11 02:21 PM Original message Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com Software has b...
Quotes of the Day: Martin Luther King & Kaleem Caire | AMPS #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Quotes of the Day: Martin Luther King & Kaleem Caire | AMPS:Quotes of the Day: Martin Luther King & Kaleem Caireby Thomas J. MertzIf you will judge anything here in this struggle, you’re commanding...
In Idaho, teacher bonuses depend on parents
boston.com - BOISE, Idaho—Parents across Idaho will now play a role in whether or not their child's teacher gets a raise.Teacher bonuses in more than two dozen school districts statewide will depend to some deg...
Teacher Bikes from U.K. to the Arctic Circle to Hook Kids on Cycling - Transportation
good.is - Need some inspiration to get yourself biking to work or school every day? British teacher Lisa Baum wanted to raise money for charity, and get students interested in travel and biking, so she set o...
Shrewsbury Public Schools - Strategic Priorities Survey
surveymonkey.com - Our school district is developing a set of "strategic priorities" to help us better achieve our mission and foundational goals over the coming five years. Our mission is:The Shrewsbury Public Schoo...
We Party Patriots » Blog Archive » Veterans Facing Hiring Resistance In the Private Sector
wepartypatriots.com - Oct 2011 30 Yet another story has been published addressing the resistance many military veterans are facing in the the private sector job market. While we have reported repeatedly on the success o...
How candidates would handle encampment
sfgate.com - Finally we have consensus in the mayor's race. Every single candidate agrees that he or she could have handled the Occupy SF encampment better than any other candidate. We've certainly watched Mayo...
Relaxing kindergarten cutoff - The Boston Globe
boston.com - The School Committee’s policy subcommittee will meet at 5 p.m. on Tuesday in the superintendent’s office at Malden Government Center to discuss the district’s kindergarten age requirement. Currentl...
East Orange Campus High School gets tablets, leaves textbooks behind
nj.com - EAST ORANGE — Dana Williams and her senior class are the high-tech guinea pigs for a new initiative at East Orange Campus High School.The 458-student senior class has swapped its textbooks for tabl...
Curiosity Is Critical to Academic Performance
educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ΩCuriosity may have killed the cat, but it's good for the student. That's the conclusion of a new study published in Perspectives in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psycholo...
DeVry graduate has successful job but uses earnings to pay off student loans
chicagotribune.com - If he didn't have student loans, Anthony Alexander, 23, might be looking to buy his first house. Instead, the successful college graduate with a $50,000 annual salary is living with his grandparent...
Rethinking education reform | SignOnSanDiego.com
signonsandiego.com - As California’s budget crisis deepens, many fear that education funding could be back on the chopping block. Student funding of K-12 schools has already been cut over 20 percent. If budgets are red...
Greenlee: Taxes and education - Boulder Daily Camera
dailycamera.com - Colorado voters rarely, if ever, deny tax increases for primary education. That's likely to be the case Tuesday when results of the only statewide ballot issue, known as Proposition 103, get tallie...
Last Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRank #OCCUPYTOGETHER #ows #OCCUPYWALLSTREET #sosmarch #p2 #1u
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Last Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRank Hide7.9 Modern School: California’s Skyrocketing College Tuition 2011-Oct-28 Modern School: Califor...
Round two of candidate finance reports « EdNewsColorado
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Round two of candidate finance reports « EdNewsColorado:Round two of candidate finance reportsby Nancy Mitchell and Charlie BrennanWide gaps in dollars raised by school board candidates in Denver, ...
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...
An Evening With Diane Ravitch | The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - An Evening With Diane Ravitch | The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education:An Evening With Diane Ravitchby adminFriday, January 20, 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pmSacramento Convention Center1400 J ...
On Assignment: Charter school debate sparks power struggle on Mt. Diablo school board
contracostatimes.com - This is an excerpt of On Assignment, education writer Theresa Harrington's blog on Contra Costa County schools. Read more and post comments at IBABuzz.com/onassignment. Follow her at Twitter.com/tu...
LAUSD's $30 million mistake: Schools must make costly repairs to meet standards for disabled
dailynews.com - At Columbus Avenue Elementary School in Van Nuys, the grab bars in the boys' restroom are slightly off, the stair handrails are half an inch too high, and the signs leading from the playground to t...
Christie's education chief going to NJEA convention | Daily Record
dailyrecord.com - TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie’s education commissioner has been booked to speak at the upcoming state teachers convention, a year after the Christie administration snubbed the New Jersey Education ...
Student loans - forgive and forget
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Student loans - forgive and forget:Student loans - forgive and forgetDebra J. SaundersSunday, October 30, 2011PrintE-mailShareComments (38)Font | Size: 49John Moore / Getty ImagesPresident Obama sp...
Student loans - forgive and forget
sfgate.com - John Moore / Getty Images President Obama speaks last week at the University of Colorado in Denver. One of the great things about America, President Obama told students at the University of Colorad...