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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top AM Posts

Hike it! Bike it! I like it! Walk to School 2011 | ED.gov Blog

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Hike it! Bike it! I like it! Walk to School 2011 | ED.gov Blog:Hike it! Bike it! I like it! Walk to School 2011Posted on October 6, 2011 by Guest BloggerIt’s a special day when communities and schools, parents, kids, and teachers make that extra effort to find an alternate safe way to get to school other than riding on a bus or in a car. Meg McFarland, Walking School Bus Committee Chair, at Briarcliff Elementary in the North Kansas ... more »

Linked K-12, Postsecondary, and Workforce Data—A Bipartisan Holy Grail?

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Linked K-12, Postsecondary, and Workforce Data—A Bipartisan Holy Grail?:Linked K-12, Postsecondary, and Workforce Data—A Bipartisan Holy Grail?by Amy LaitinenIt’s rare to see Republicans and Democrats agree on anything these days, so it was particularly heartening at yesterday’s Data Quality Campaign meeting on Strengthening the Feedback Loop: Using Data to Support the College-and-Career-Ready Agenda, to see high-ranking conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats sound the call for better data to understand how secondary and postsecondary schools prepare students for further edu... more »

Idealism that Blinds: Facing Social and Educational Inequity | Dailycensored.com

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Idealism that Blinds: Facing Social and Educational Inequity | Dailycensored.com:Idealism that Blinds: Facing Social and Educational InequityWritten by Paul ThomasEducationOct 6, 20110diggShareOne aspect of the education reform debate that persistently gives me pause is the claim that the top students are being short-changed in U.S. public education—specifically due to disproportionate time and money being spent on struggling students. I have attempted to address this argument bothseriously and satirically, but each approach has brought primarily defense of those neglected top stude... more »

Study looks at 20 years of Chicago school reforms | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

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Study looks at 20 years of Chicago school reforms | Philadelphia Public School Notebook:Study looks at 20 years of Chicago school reformsby thenotebook on Oct 06 2011 Posted in Latest newsCOMMENTS (0)PRINTEMAILTags:data Education Weekstandardized testing racial equityThe Notebook recently began sharing content with Education Week, where this piece originally appeared.As we continue to search for reliable measures to evaluate a school district’s progress and debate the true meaning of test score gains, this sobering story broke in Chicago. A complex ... more »

Ty Fahner and the Civic Committee are a laughing stock with their anti-teacher pension ad. « Fred Klonsky's blog

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Ty Fahner and the Civic Committee are a laughing stock with their anti-teacher pension ad. « Fred Klonsky's blog:Ty Fahner and the Civic Committee are a laughing stock with their anti-teacher pension ad.by Fred KlonskySince Ty “Big Fat Liar” Fahner and his front group, Illinois is Broke, came out with their ad with an actress portraying a handwringing teacher, the response has been underwhelming.The ad shows a teacher in a classroom setting only Hollywood would recognize. She’s a school marm ... more »

Genocide Education Survey - Letters (CA Dept of Education)

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Genocide Education Survey - Letters (CA Dept of Education):October 5, 2011Dear County and District Superintendents, Charter School Administrators, and High School Principals:GENOCIDE EDUCATION SURVEYThe California Department of Education (CDE), with the assistance of The Genocide Education Project, has prepared a brief online survey regarding the teaching of the Armenian Genocide.Please ask the history-social science teachers in your district/school to take the survey. Your help completing this survey will allow us to have a better understanding about how this subject is ... more »

5 Lessons from the Save Our Schools & AERO Conferences | IDEA

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5 Lessons from the Save Our Schools AERO Conferences | IDEA:5 Lessons from the Save Our Schools AERO Conferencesby Melia Dicker in The LandscapeIt is summer conference season. Oh yes, it is summer conference season.As you may have noticed from our social media updates, the IDEA team has been traveling all over creation for the past couple of months. Last month Dana Bennis flew to Devon, England, for the 19th annual International Democratic Education Conference, while Scott Nine went to ... more »

solidaridad: CAMS October Actions: Stop Military Recruiters from having easy access to our children!!!

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solidaridad: CAMS October Actions: Stop Military Recruiters from having easy access to our children!!!:CAMS October Actions: Stop Military Recruiters from having easy access to our children!!!by Robert D. Skeels * rdsatheneInform students about their right to "opt out" of their school giving their private information to MILITARY RECRUITERS! Join Palisadians for Peace and CAMS as they distribute Student Privacy (Opt Out) forms to high school juniors and seniors.October Student Privacy (Opt Out) Actions:Thursday, October 6, 7amBelmont High School1575 W 2nd ... more »

Missouri Education Watchdog: It's Confirmed! Totalitarian Democracy Alive and Well in Education.

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Missouri Education Watchdog: It's Confirmed! Totalitarian Democracy Alive and Well in Education.:It's Confirmed! Totalitarian Democracy Alive and Well in Education.by stlgretchenWe change the quote at the top of the MEW page from time to time and our current heading reads:Is this Arne's Duncan plan for public education?"Totalitarian democracy is a term made famous by Israeli historian J. L. Talmon to refer to a system of government in which lawfully elected representatives maintain the integrity of a nation state whose citizens, ... more »