Thursday, November 3, 2011

Big Education Ape: 11-3-11 PM Charters are Flunking EDition #EDreform

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Which charters are flunking according to DOE's own metrics?

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - About two weeks ago, DOE officials released a list of twenty elementary and middle schools that they are considering closing. According to the NY Times, “The schools on the list fit at least one ...

DianeRavitch

What’s New in Healthy, Green Schools at the U.S. Department of Education

letsmove.gov - Posted by Secretary Arne Duncan, U.S. Department of Education on November 03, 2011 In September, I opened the pilot year of the Green Ribbon Schools award to recognize the highest performing green ...

arneduncan

Port Washington Educators Oppose Evaluation System

portwashington.patch.com - Three top educators of the Port Washington School District joined hundreds of Long Island public school principals in challenging the state Education Department and criticizing new standards for ev...

leoniehaimson

Guess What? The EddyFormer$ lied. (Educational Deformers) « GFBrandenburg's Blog

gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com - If you look at the tables that I posted on my blog, which I culled from the NAEP scores over the years, it is clear that no miracle occurred under Rhee’s reign. It is also clear that turning 40% of...

DianeRavitch

Side by Side: On Britain's School Wars

thenation.com - Nothing is so likely to cause a dinner party to turn violent. In Britain, the question of the type of school parents choose for their children ranks with international terrorism and global warming ...

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EducationSee all

Eduwonk » Blog Archive » Second Response From Diane Ravitch

eduwonk.com - Ed Note – All week Eric Hanushek and Diane Ravitch have discussed and debated the pros and cons of more assertive policies to deselect the lowest-performing teachers. Hanushek started on Monday, R...

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Shanker Blog » The Impact Of The Principal In The Classroom

shankerblog.org - Direct observation is way of gathering data by watching behavior or events as they occur; for example, a teacher teaching a lesson. This methodology is important to teacher induction and profession...

DianeRavitch

The Problem With Paying Teachers Less Money | Swampland

swampland.time.com - Lara Cerri / St. Petersburg Times / ZUMAPRESS.comShore Acres Elementary fourth grade teacher Telsha Marmash leads her students in a discussion about prefixes Nov. 1, 2011 in St. Petersburg, Florida...

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SocietySee all

There Are Far More Americans Living in Poverty Now - National

theatlanticwire.com - Things aren't getting better yet: the number of Americans living far below the poverty line is growing larger, and increasingly the hardest hit areas are becoming suburbs. Today's census data shows...

mikeklonsky

Ann Coulter on Herman Cain: “Our blacks are so much better than their blacks” | Politics Blog

blog.sfgate.com - Not surprising that the Fox News conservative cheer squad is rallying to Herman Cain’s defense over allegations of sexual harrasment from his past. (Cain’s wife Gloria Cain may field softballs from...

mikeklonsky

Anonymous Spokesman Barret Brown Says #OpCartel Is On (VIDEO)

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 6:02 pm, November 3, 2011 Photo Credits: Anonymous VS Los Zetas. Barret Brown, spokesperson for Anonymous, said the hacktivist group has examined 25,000 stolen Mexican Government docum...

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PoliticsSee all

Romney's Estate Tax Cut Would Save The Koch Brothers Up To $8.7 Billion Each

thinkprogress.org - Mitt Romney speaking at a Koch summit in previous years; David Koch speaking at his own gala Tomorrow, 2012 GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is slated to give a “major spending policy speech” a...

mikeklonsky

Elizabeth Warren Heckler Hurls Epithet At Senate Candidate

huffingtonpost.com - BRACKTON, Mass. -- Moments into a speech before volunteers here Wednesday evening, Elizabeth Warren was interrupted by a Tea Party supporter who hurled a gender-based epithet at the Senate candidat...

tbfurman

Mike Bloomberg's Marie Antoinette Moment | Matt Taibbi

rollingstone.com - Last year I had a chance to see New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg up close at the Huffington Post’s “Game Changers” event. I was standing right behind the guy when he was introduced by Nora Ephron, and...

leoniehaimson

WorldSee all

Police, Occupy protesters clash in Oakland #ows

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - News from The Associated Press:Police, Occupy protesters clash in OaklandBy TERRY COLLINS Associated PressAP Photo/Terry CollinsUS VideoBuy AP Photo ReprintsMultimediaTimeline on World Cup Violence...

coopmike48

Northeast High Schools May Shorten Student Vacations

huffingtonpost.com - HARTFORD, Conn. -- Education officials in the Northeast worried Thursday about having to shorten school vacations to make up for all the days students have missed because of power failures caused b...

coopmike48

Occupy protesters disavow Oakland violence

boston.com - OAKLAND, Calif.—Occupy Wall Street supporters who staged rallies that shut down the nation's fifth-busiest port during a day of protests condemned on Thursday the demonstrators who clashed with pol...

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HealthSee all

Bronx school recorded hundreds of cases of sick students since '05

nydailynews.com - Students at a Bronx elementary school suffered from ailments including headaches, nausea, vomiting, abnormal gaits and seizures before the building was closed because of toxic contamination, accord...

leoniehaimson

Raising Medicare Eligibility Age Erodes Social Security, New Study Shows

ourfuture.org - A proposal to increase the Medicare eligibility age, which the Super Committee is considering, would drive up health care costs to the point where they would consume almost half of the Social Secur...

coopmike48

How Important is a Correct Diagnosis? :: Help! S-O-S for Parents

sos-research-blog.com - Barbara Lester, LCSW, member of OUR Journey THRU Autism (OJTA), shared that she is often asked the importance of obtaining a “correct” diagnosis before determining treatment, since the symptoms of ...

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Art & EntertainmentSee all

Lesbian student crowned homecoming king

nydailynews.com - Happy is the head that wears the crown. San Diego area high school senior and self-identified lesbian Rebeca Arellano has been voted homecoming king by her fellow Patrick Henry High school peers He...

leoniehaimson

CNN, Mornings With Latinas Soledad O'Brien and Zoraida Sambolin

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 3:46 pm, November 3, 2011 Photo Credits: Zoraida Sambolin and Soledad O'Brien soon-to-be the faces of CNN morning shows CNN is looking to change things up a bit and is doing so by reva...

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The convicted extortionist William Cellini, Jim Thompson and Ty Fahner. Connect the dots and follow the arrows to TRS. « Fred Klonsky's blog

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The convicted extortionist William Cellini, Jim Thompson and Ty Fahner. Connect the dots and follow the arrows to TRS. « Fred Klonsky's blog:The convicted extortionist William Cellini, Jim Thompson...