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Our Children Can’t Wait: New Regulations Increase Accountability and Boost Quality in Head Start
whitehouse.gov - Posted by Kathleen Sebelius on November 08, 2011 at 04:04 PM EST President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, right, talk with students while visiting a classro...
Biggs and Richwine: Public School Teachers Aren't Underpaid
online.wsj.com - A common story line in American education policy is that public school teachers are underpaid—"desperately underpaid," according to Education Secretary Arne Duncan in a recent speech. As former fir...
Occupy Wall Street Protests Outside Department Of Education
huffingtonpost.com - NEW YORK -- On Monday evening, about 200 students, parents, school aides and educators associated with Occupy Wall Street congregated on the steps of the New York City Department of Education in lo...
In Tennessee, Following the Rules for Evaluations Off a Cliff
nytimes.com - MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Last year, when Tennessee was named one of the first two states to win a federal Race to The Top grant, worth $501 million, there was great joy all around. Educati...
Hooray for the Long Island Principals! - Bridging Differences
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah,Sometimes it seems we are living in the worst of times for American education, given the daily news of budget cuts, attacks on teachers, and attacks on the very idea of public educatio...
Shanker Blog » The False Conflict Between Unionism and Professionalism?
shankerblog.org - Some people have the unfortunate idea that unionism is somehow antithetical to or incompatible with being a professional. This notion is particularly salient within education circles, where phrases...
The choice not taken | Editorials
arktimes.com - The Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, which is subsidized by $200,000 annually in city tax dollars, continues its work to tear down the best hope for a vibrant community — its public school...
Are union-bashing charter reformers sobering up?
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - NYT's Joe Nocera ("Teaching With the Enemy") says Steven Brill was shocked when AFT prez Randi Weingarten held a book party for him at her home. To tell you the truth, I was too. But the real story...
ESEA needs parent input! « Parents Across America
parentsacrossamerica.org - Nov 8, 2011 pureparents Today, Parents Across America sent a letter to the members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee after noting that panelists testifying this morning...
Rise of the Shadow Economy: Second Largest Economy in the World
forbes.com - By Marco Rabinowitz The fact that the shadow economy, or the black market or underground economy, is on the rise in the middle of a global financial crisis should be no surprise to economists. A re...
CT News Junkie | OP-ED
ctnewsjunkie.com - by Dianne Kaplan deVries | Nov 7, 2011 10:54pm(0) Comments | Log in to Post a Comment Posted to: Education, Opinion “Singing to the choir because the choir needs support,” that’s what Diane Ravitch...
‘Occupy’ protesters join teachers and parents on Tweed steps
gothamschools.org - More than 100 activists took to the steps of Tweed Courthouse shortly after 5 p.m. today to repeat the Occupy Wall Street-inspired protest-style that cut short an October Panel for Education Policy...
Election day in Ohio and Michigan and a Springfield vote. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Local public radio station WBEZ says teachers have hounded legislators. In Chicago, where elections usually compete with the Bears and (most years) the Bulls for November attention, there is no ele...
Following the money: who wants Paul Scott's recall to fail - the anti-teacher/anti-public school wing of the GOP
eclectablog.com - You can tell a great deal about a given situation, as they say, by following the money. As anti-union, anti-teacher Republican state Rep. Paul Scott faces the voters of his district in a recall ele...
New Charter Study by Mathematica With More Bad News for Corporate Ed Reform
schoolsmatter.info - The first national charter school study was conducted in 2009 by CREDO at Stanford, and the co-funders of the study (the Walton Foundation and Pearson) were not enamored by the results. So bad were...
Teachers, Children's Advocates Chant Schooling Demands On DOE's Doorstep
ny1.com - To view our videos, you need toenable JavaScript. Learn how.install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. A couple hundred activists belonging to a group ...
Teachers Leave the Classroom to Occupy Wall Street in NYC
missourieducationwatchdog.com - Teachers Leave the Classroom to Occupy Wall Street in NYCThe video is entitled: Educators use Occupy Movement to Empower Students, Defend Public Education. Questions:What do you think of this video...
Don't Fear It, Use It – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Nov. 8, 2011, 4:10 p.m. A new, mandatory sex education program for city middle and high school students will start in January, requiring a semester of sex education in 6th or 7th grade, and again i...
What’s a Connected Educator? - The Educator's PLN
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - What’s a Connected Educator? - The Educator's PLN:What’s a Connected Educator?Posted by Thomas Whitby on November 8, 2011 at 2:19pm View Blog The idea of being connected in the Twentieth Century ha...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Mid Day Posts #ows #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Modern School: Let Them Eat Exams! (Tests, Not Toys For Toddlers) Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 1 hour ago Modern School: Let Them Eat Exams! (Tests, Not Toys For Toddlers):Le...
Schools Matter: Poverty Not Destiny?: Masking Corporate Agendas
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: Poverty Not Destiny?: Masking Corporate Agendas:Poverty Not Destiny?: Masking Corporate Agendasby P. L. ThomasPoverty Not Destiny?: Masking Corporate AgendasRelease a report, make i...
Stopping Tomorrow’s Bullies Now « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - My five-year-old daughter started kindergarten ten weeks ago. She is excited, happy, and reasonably well-adjusted to life at our neighborhood public school. Yet, she recently confided in me that ...
Poverty Not Destiny?: Masking Corporate Agendas | Dailycensored.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Poverty Not Destiny?: Masking Corporate Agendas | Dailycensored.com:Poverty Not Destiny?: Masking Corporate AgendasWritten by Paul ThomasEducationNov 8, 20110diggShareRelease a report, make it appe...
The California Majority Report // On Pension Reform, Is the LAO More Interested in Politics Than Fiscal Issues?
camajorityreport.com - Steven Maviglio Eyebrows were raised in Capitol circles last week when the respected well-respected chief of the Legislative Analysts Office, Mac Taylor, praised Governor Jerry Brown's pension prop...
At Least Mussolini Made the Trains Run On Time
bluejersey.com - Chris Christie says he's for promoting business in New Jersey. What he fails to understand is that the engine of business is not capital from his greedy Wall Street friends, but the people who buil...
Voters heading to polls in parts of L.A., Southern California
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Voters are heading to the polls Tuesday in parts of Los Angeles and in some other cities and school districts. They'll pick a mayor for Palm Springs, decide whether to give a 93-year-old activist a...
Common Core: Caution on narrative writing | catalyst
catalyst-chicago.org - There’s certainly a lot to like in the new Common Core State Standards embraced by the Chicago Public Schools – serious attention to writing, emphasis on reading non-fiction (which college students...
Is this the best we can do for our kids?
dangerouslyirrelevant.org - Deron Durflinger, a high school principal in Van Meter, Iowa, says:We need a system that isn't based on doing well on NAEP and PISA, but in which students are able to actually develop a love for le...
Quick Hits (11.8.11)
quickanded.com - ESEA saga. Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) hosted the hearing they promised Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., last month during the mark-up of the Elementary and Seco...
Abused Students Can Return To School and Thrive With Educator Help
educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ΩStudy of math and reading scores indicate daily focus can bring successA new study from the University of Missouri shows that children who are abused can return to school and do well academically ...
Cooking in the classroom to fight childhood obesity
educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ΩBased on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other reports that childhood obesity has tripled over the past 30 years, we recognize the importance of reaching our children early to form ...
TAG, Notebook to discuss 'teaching in the time of testing' | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - TAG, Notebook to discuss 'teaching in the time of testing' | Philadelphia Public School Notebook:TAG, Notebook to discuss 'teaching in the time of testing'by thenotebookThe Philadelphia Public Scho...
Don't Fear It, Use It – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Nov. 8, 2011, 4:10 p.m. A new, mandatory sex education program for city middle and high school students will start in January, requiring a semester of sex education in 6th or 7th grade, and again i...
Agendas For This Week's Meetings
saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - The agendas for the Executive Committee meeting on Wednesday morning and the Audit& Finance Committee meeting (Audit) on Thursday afternoon have been posted.Executive Committee Agenda - There is a...
Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » Parents to Senate Ed Committee: You need our input!
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » Parents to Senate Ed Committee: You need our input!:Parents to Senate Ed Committee: You need our input!by adminToday, Parents Across Americ...
On College and Career Readiness Data, Kentucky Leads the Way
quickanded.com - The ESEA roundtable hosted this morning by the Senate HELP Committee featured a diverse panel of education advocates: special education teachers, a principal, a gifted and talented coordinator, a d...
Confirmation Bias in Everything - Forbes
forbes.com - Image via Wikipedia In June of 2010, Daniel Klein and Zeljka Buturovic published a study which they said proved that liberals and progressives were less enlightened about economic issues than their...
Lectures Are Good. There I Said It.
ideasandthoughts.org - Unless you've spend the last several years on another planet, you've been hearing about how the awful lectures are for learning. Often associated with these phrases, "sit and git", "stand and deliv...
Video-chatting may be the answer to literacy problems for rural and isolated students
educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ΩDistance may no longer be an obstacle for struggling students living in rural and isolated areas. According to the new study "Voice-over-the-Internet-Protocol as a Medium for Delivering Reading In...
SARC Template Restored - Year 2011 (CA Dept of Education)
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - SARC Template Restored - Year 2011 (CA Dept of Education):State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Restores Time-Saving Web Tool for School DistrictsSACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction T...
Texas Tech program puts twist on "academic" recruitment | Dallas ISD Blog
dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com - Student athletes aren't the only ones getting wooed these days. High school-students who score at least 1,500 on the SAT and apply at Texas Tech get a paid trip to the campus, including transportat...
OCCUPY EDUCATION
occupyedu.tumblr.com - I occupy education because: The big picture is being shattered into smaller and smaller pieces. We need less competition and more cooperation—now more than ever. The labels we assign to students (a...
More Inexcusable Inequalities: New York State in the Post-Funding Equity Era « School Finance 101
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - More Inexcusable Inequalities: New York State in the Post-Funding Equity Era « School Finance 101:More Inexcusable Inequalities: New York State in the Post-Funding Equity Eraby schoolfinance101I di...
LET’S COME TOGETHER IN NOVEMBER 2012 TO RESTORE EDUCATION FUNDING:
4lakidsnews.blogspot.com - By Carol Kocivar in Thoughts on Public Education/ToPED | http://bit.ly/uclE7s Posted on 11/06/11 • It’s time now to unite for next November. Yes, November 2012. It may seem like a long way off...
Planting Change: Guerrilla Gardening and the Occupy Movement
occupywallst.org - Posted 24 minutes ago on Nov. 8, 2011, 1:35 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt Guerrilla gardening is the occupation of ill-used land to support the communities and ecosystems to which that land rightfully b...
OccupySupply Raises $83,583.58; Supplies On Their Way to 40 Occupations
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - We’ve been working hard behind the scenes for the past few weeks with FDL members on the OccupySupply program. So far the FDL Membership Program has raised $83,583.88 and spent $42,833.96 on supp...
Remarks by the President on Head Start in Yeadon, Pennsylvania | The White House
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Remarks by the President on Head Start in Yeadon, Pennsylvania | The White House:Remarks by the President on Head Start in Yeadon, Pennsylvaniaby The White HouseRelease Time: For Immediate ReleaseY...
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Are union-bashing charter reformers sobering up?
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schooling in the Ownership Society: Are union-bashing charter reformers sobering up?:Are union-bashing charter reformers sobering up?by Mike KlonskyNYT's Joe Nocera ("Teaching With the Enemy") says...
Newspaper Corrects NYSUT Salary Story; Still Not Right
eiaonline.com - I apologize for not following the ongoing melodrama surrounding the front-page publication of “NYSUT’s leaders get double-digit raises” in the October 28 Albany Times-Union. Sure, I raised some que...
Beaumont Middle School in Northeast Portland: Tonight's your night to talk overcrowding
oregonlive.com - Beaumont parents and school neighbors, get out your Sharpies and butcher paper. Tonight's your night to talk about overcrowding in Northeast Portland public schools and what you want the district t...