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Sunday, Oct. 09, 2011

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Dumbest completely fabricated (but still serious?) graph ever! (so far) « School Finance 101

schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - Okay. You all know that I like to call out dumb graphs. And I’ve addressed a few on this blog previously. Here are a few from the past: http://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/dumbest-real...

shankerblog

Paradoxes of the Finland Phenomenon

joebower.org - Have you noticed there's a lot of hullabaloo about Finland's education system lately? I've been paying attention to what the Finns have been doing for a couple years now, but it is only recently t...

alfiekohn

5 Reasons Why Public School Teachers are Occupying Wall Street

huffingtonpost.com - The classroom and the boardroom are often seen as dissimilar spaces. In classrooms, there are students and teachers; two groups of people that have the most insight on the current debate about what...

DianeRavitch

Here’s What’s So Bad About School Choice

edhughesschoolblog.wordpress.com - This week’s Isthmus includes an opinion column by Larry Kaufmann entitled “What’s So Bad About School Choice?” Mr. Kauffmann is identified as “an economic consultant based in Madison.” I bet Mr....

TeacherReality

Inflating the Software Report Card

nytimes.com - The Web site of Carnegie Learning, a company started by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University that sells classroom software, trumpets this promise: “Revolutionary Math Curricula. Revolutionary R...

DianeRavitch

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The Best Resources To Learn About High School ID’s & The Scarlet Letter

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Oct 08 2011 Larry FerlazzoBy this time, many readers have probably already heard about the southern California high school that issued color-coded student ID’s based on student standardized test sc...

Larryferlazzo

Tempers Flare at Jobs Fair as Experienced Teachers Told No Jobs

nycityeye.blogspot.com - Memphis surplus teachers crisis instigated by policies of U.S. Education Secretary Arne DancanPublished verbatim from democraticunderground. Indents are article excerpts that the original post cit...

DianeRavitch

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Occupy Wall Street Spreads Beyond NYC - Alan Taylor - In Focus

theatlantic.com - It's now been three weeks since the "Occupy Wall Street" protests began in New York City's Financial District, and the movement has grown, spreading to other cities in the U.S. Protesters have orga...

TeacherReality

Daily Kos: Desperately Seeking Someone

dailykos.com - Perhaps it shouldn't be this way. Perhaps the Republican nominee might not be so important were Obama to be facing a challenge, perhaps from his left, in his own party. But with filing deadlines ...

teacherken

Black 'Occupy' Protesters Start Occupy The Hood

loop21.com - Malik Rhasaan Malik Rhasaan Supporting Occupy Wall Street, Occupy The Hood seeks to recruit, educate blacks and Latinos The racial makeup of the Occupy Wall Street protests has been a curious, if n...

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Student Tributes to Steve Jobs

huffingtonpost.com - "What is going to happen to Apple now?" one of my students asked me. I paused. "Well," I said. "It's as if Willy Wonka has died." Their eyes went wide. Now this was something they understood. "Sure...

Thanks2Teachers

What Are Critiques Of Standardized Tests & What Are Alternatives? - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo

blogs.edweek.org - 20723 « Response: Ways the "Next Generation" of Standardized Tests Should Treat ELL's | Main This week's question comes from Alice Mercer (a Sacramento colleague and a phenomenal teacher), who asks...

KenMLibby

Who is the next great leader in technology?

thenextweb.com - While we in the tech world are still celebrating the life of Steve Jobs, I’ve seen numerous articles over the past few days that talk about the things he’s accomplished, the impact that he’s had an...

tomwhitby

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The Multimillionaire Helping Republicans Win NC : NPR

npr.org - Enlarge iStockphoto.com Millionaire James (Art) Pope poured money into helping a Republican strategy called RedMap succeed in North Carolina. The project is aimed at taking over state legislatures ...

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G.O.P. Anti-Federalism Aims at Education

nytimes.com - Representative Michele Bachmann promises to “turn out the lights” at the federal Education Department. Gov. Rick Perry calls it unconstitutional. Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, would allo...

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Steve Jobs and drug policy - Glenn Greenwald

politics.salon.com - Now that hordes of Obama defenders are running around justifying the President’s due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizen Anwar Awlaki based on exactly the same claim and mindset — our Presid...

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Too Big to Jail? | Mother Jones

motherjones.com - Jail.org - Inmate Search Criminal records, instant public records & people search & current court records. www.jail.org U.S. Public Records Search Search County & State Court Records, Criminal reco...

Larryferlazzo

Facebook now the size of the Internet in 2004 Brian Solis

briansolis.com - Source You’ve all heard the stat, if Facebook were a country, it would be the the third largest in the world. That stat was initially shared when Facebook hit 500 million users. Now the site has mo...

TheJLV

Black Unemployment Dips As Economy Adds Jobs

theroot.com - Recent Congressional Black Caucus Job Fair. (Getty Images) The black unemployment rate dipped slightly last month, while the national rate held steady at 9.1 percent, according to statistics releas...

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More Occupy Wall Street protests planned in Fla.

tbo.com - MIAMI — People in cities throughout Florida are gathering to organize protests similar to the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York. Meetings are planned today in Fort Myers, Pensacola, Miam...

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SFPD raids OccupySF camp, seizes gear, but protesters remain

sfbg.com - By Yael Chanoff Last night, San Francisco Police officers showed up at Occupy San Francisco for the first hostile altercation that the SF movement has had with cops so far, and among the first poli...