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Principals Protest Role of Testing
nytimes.com - Rockville Centre, N.Y. Through the years there have been many bitter teacher strikes and too many student protests to count. But a principals’ revolt? “Principals don’t revolt,”...
Principals' Objections to the New Evaluation System – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Nov. 28, 2011, 4:30 p.m. Principals who object to the new state system to evaluate teachers and principals based on student testing have begun circulating a petition against it. In his On Education...
Local Schools Network - Why are we following the US into a schools policy disaster?
localschoolsnetwork.org.uk - It is amazing how quickly you can discourage a nation. Just 18 months ago, Michael Gove kicked off his controversial tenure at the Department for Education with apparently definitive claims, backed...
New Orleans RSD — the ‘miracle’ district
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - The Louisiana Department Of Education just released the 2011 School Performance Data. As New Orleans has been hailed as a ‘miracle’ district, I was eager to see the results. As you might know, afte...
Why are we following the US into a schools policy disaster? | Education
guardian.co.uk - President Barack Obama at the Capital City public charter school in Washington, DC. What is the impact of these schools on the system as a whole, asks Melissa Benn. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty...
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An "American" Approach to K-12 School Reform :: Frederick M. Hess
frederickhess.org - by Frederick M. Hess • Nov 28, 2011 at 8:26 amCross-posted from Education Weekhttp://www.frederickhess.org/2011/11/an-american-approach-to-k-12-school-reformA recent series in The Atlantic has ex...
Texas School Finance Fix Eludes Perry as Students Do Without Art
businessweek.com - November 29, 2011, 12:47 AM EST By David Mildenberg Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Students at elementary schools in Amarillo, Texas, don’t get drawing lessons as a five-year-old finance plan from Republic...
The Dissenter
tnr.com - On July 30, 2011, thousands of public school teachers rallied on the southwest corner of the Ellipse, near the White House. Union members mingled with the occasional communist pamphleteer, and, on ...
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Peabody lecture on educational change in Finland | News
news.vanderbilt.edu - by Jennifer Wetzel | Posted on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 — 2:03 PMPasi Sahlberg, director general of CIMO, an organization for international mobility and cooperation under the Finnish Ministry of Educ...
City Council Plans Suit Over Homeless Policy
nytimes.com - Christine C. Quinn, the speaker of the City Council, announced plans Monday to sue the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg over a new policy that imposes stricter requirements on homeless ...
Protesters face eviction in L.A., Philadelphia – USATODAY.com
usatoday.com - By Donna Leinwand Leger, USA TODAY Updated Occupy protesters in Los Angeles and Philadelphia faced eviction from their encampments Sunday as frustrated city officials complained that two months of ...
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Teen tweeter 1, Kansas governor 0
latimes.com - Ending a battle that could only have taken place in the brave new world of social media, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback on Monday apologized for an incident involving a teen who had maligned him on Twit...
The girl who dared to tweet about Gov. Brownback
cnn.com - By Dean Obeidallah, Special to CNN updated 12:32 PM EST, Mon November 28, 2011Emma Sullivan was ordered by her high school principal to apologize for a tweet critical of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback.E...
Steve Lopez: Will tonight mark the end for Occupy L.A.?
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Will police make their move on Occupy L.A. tonight? They won't say, so it's cat and mouse out there, and more than a little surreal at what to this point has been one of the friendliest, most well-...
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Michelle-Rhee-Style Reforms Didn’t Work in DC! « GFBrandenburg's Blog
gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com - It bears repeating: Michelle Rhee’s reforms have been going on now in DC for nearly five years. SHE CLAIMED SHE WOULD PRODUCE MIRACLES if she was given full, dictatorial powers to REFORM education ...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Early Evening Posts #ows #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Striking for the future of the profession! - The Educator's PLN #ows Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 16 minutes ago Striking for the future of the profession! - The Educator's PLN...
10 Gifts a Teacher Can Give Their Students! « Diary of a Public School Teacher!
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 10 Gifts a Teacher Can Give Their Students! « Diary of a Public School Teacher!:10 Gifts a Teacher Can Give Their Students!by OldschoolteachOf course, there are more than 10 things that we could gi...
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Occupy LA campers brace for midnight eviction deadline
reuters.com - By Mary Slosson LOS ANGELES | Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:39am EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters who have camped outside Los Angeles City Hall for weeks braced on Sunday fo...
Occupy L.A.: Police corral protesters back toward City Hall park
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Occupy L.A. protesters who had swarmed onto downtown streets faced off with police early Monday morning as a skirmish line of officers with batons slowly moved protesters back toward their now-ille...
Occupy L.A.: Religious leaders meet with Villaraigosa, Beck
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Interfaith leaders who have recently become involved in the Occupy movement held a meeting with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck on Monday morning as city official...
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Are we the teachable species? | The Loom
blogs.discovermagazine.com - We know that our species is unique, but it can be surprisingly hard to pinpoint what exactly makes us so. The fact that we have DNA is not much of a mark of distinction. Several million other speci...
Moms vs Monsanto « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - I’m a California mom, and I’m deeply concerned about pesticides. As part of my job with Pesticide Action Network, I’ve learned more than anyone should ever know about pesticides in my body and on t...
Blue Jersey:: Communicating - One Drip at a Time
bluejersey.com - I love NJ Spotlight. Its web site is a great source of information on the important issues in the Garden State. The organization is run by a bunch of displaced journalists with decades of experien...
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Big Education Ape: 11-28-11 PM Jefferson charter school budget has $87,500 per student EDition #OCCUPYLA #CORPREFORM #ows
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WATCH LIVE Occupy L A Protesters to be Evicted at Midnight
ktla.com - WATCH LIVE: Occupy L.A. protesters at City Hall are being asked to leave park grounds at 12:01 a.m.
#OccupyLA Refuses To Leave, Police Attempting To Evict Now | OccupyWallSt.org
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The "Shock Doctrine" Comes to Your Neighborhood Classroom
commondreams.org - "Let's hope the fiscal crisis doesn't get better too soon. It'll slow down reform." -- Tom Watkins, a consultant, summarizes the corporate education reform movement's current strategy to the Sunday...
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