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Ed Schools « School Finance 101
schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - Ed schools seem to make an easy target in public policy debates over the quality of American public schooling and the American teacher workforce. In many recent lopsided “ed school as the root of a...
Daily Kos: People - you need to read Charles Blow today
dailykos.com - The new report from the Census Bureau is full of powerful information, for example, that without SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), the overall poverty rate would rise from 16 percen...
Research doesn’t back up key ed reforms - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - There is no solid evidence supporting many of the positions on teachers and teacher evaluation taken by some school reformers today, according to a new assessment of research on the subject. The Ed...
The Bleak Future for NYC Students - Page 1 - Columns - New York
villagevoice.com - Cathie Black was mocked out of the chancellorship, but what of the longtime failing educators who remain: her successor, Dennis Walcott, and the self-styled “Education Mayor,”Mike Bloomberg? I also...
Tennessee’s Push to Transform Schools
nytimes.com - Tennessee has a long way to go in improving its schools, but it has made significant headway in turning itself into a laboratory for education reform. It was one of the first states to test a rigor...
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Carl Campanile Of The New York Post Questions The Integrity Of Mona Davids
southbronxschool.com - So here I am yesterday giving the students busy work as I read that veritable bastion of journalistic integrity, The New York Post. Haha, only kidding. That entire first sentence was a lie. Let me ...
Teacher Training Should Start Before iPad Deployment -- THE Journal
thejournal.com - Professional Development Teacher Training Should Start Before iPad Deployment ELL instructors, like those in other disciplines, are discovering the benefits of iPads in the classroom. With some adv...
If education was really about learning
minddump.org - If education was really about learning… …we’d let kids ask more questions and then give them support to find their own answers. …we’d see dunking milk in cookies as a science opportunity, not just...
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UCPD yank women by their hair who are defending public education
youtube.com - More police brutality from the Occupy Cal protest at UC-Berkeley November 9, 2011. UC police yank women by their hair so they can destroy the encampment tents. Later, a woman is pinned to a bush an...
School Accused of Covering Up Student's Murder
abcnews.go.com - Despite believing that Laura Dickinson had been raped and murdered in her dorm room, administrators at Eastern Michigan University took 10 weeks to tell her parents and university students and staf...
On Campus, a Law Enforcement System to Itself
nytimes.com - After the body of an Eastern Michigan University freshman was found in her dorm room in December 2006, naked from the waist down with a pillow over her head, the chief of the university police said...
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The 99% - Who Should Be TIME's Person of the Year 2011?
time.com - On Sept. 17, about 2,000 people amassed on Wall Street to protest corporate greed and influence in government. They didn't succeed in occupying all of the financial district, or even all of Wall St...
Ad By Crossroads, Karl Rove's Outfit, Yanked Off Air For Being False (UPDATE)
huffingtonpost.com - WASHINGTON -- An ad by Karl Rove-backed Crossroads GPS was yanked from rotation on a Montana cable show because it made claims that the network deemed false.Recently a number of ads by the well-fun...
Romney, Gingrich at GOP debate: We'd go to war to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons - Political Hotsheet
cbsnews.com - (Credit: CBS) SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich said at the Republican presidential debate here Saturday night that they would be willing to go to war to keep Iran from attaining n...
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Do You Have A Personal Learning Network?
timsstrategy.com - Today the blog features a guest post by Sarah Fudin. You can learn more about Sarah at the end of her post. You need information on new technology resources in a specific industry, you’re interest...
MSNBC Education Show - NO TEACHERS ALLOWED!
jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - ADDING: Here's the contact page for MSNBC. Consider telling them what you think about an education special with no advocate for teachers or their unions on the show - politely, of course.MSNBC is g...
The Best Collections Of Online Educational Games
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - There are tons of online educational games out there, and many, many collections of them, too. However, I’ve found that most of these collections also include quite a few non-learning games — arca...
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Jay-Z’s ‘Occupy All Streets’ T-Shirt Removed from Rocawear Site — ANIMAL
animalnewyork.com - For the past few days, the internet has been buzzing about Jay-Z’s ‘Occupy All Streets’ t-shirt. At first, when fellow hip hop mogul Russell Simmons tweeted a backstage photo of Hov wearing it, no ...
Jay-Z's 'Occupy All Streets' Shirt Vanishes from Rocawear Site Amid Controversy - Heard on the Runway
blogs.wsj.com - By Elva RamirezGetty Images Jay-Z and Kanye West perform at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show on Nov. 9.For Jay-Z, the week started out with acclaim, and ended with a controversial product vanishi...
Education Votes
educationvotes.nea.org - Posted in: Top Story Tags: Dropkick Murphys, protest songs, Rage Against the Machine, rally songs, Solidarity Forever, Take Em Down, The Nightwatchman, Tom Morello, We Shall Not Be Moved, We're Not...
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Are You Ready for MORE CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS #edREFORM #ows #sosmarch
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Are You Ready for MORE CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALSI'm NOT but here they are anyway!Prime Prep AcademyThe Perimeter Primate at CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS - 24 minutes ago*“Former f...
Cuts to Medicaid hurt the poor - JSOnline | Medicaid and Children's Health
scoop.it - Medicaid, the public program that provides health and long-term care coverage for low-income individuals and families, covers about 60 million people currently, or 1 in 5 Americans. Medicaid benefi...
Affordable Care Act supports children’s health | Times
downriversundaytimes.com - Lisa Rutledge By Lisa Rutledge If we want our children to learn, we have to keep them healthy. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, parents and kids will have more resources at their disposal this ye...
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MSNBC Education Show - NO TEACHERS ALLOWED!
jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - ADDING: Here's the contact page for MSNBC. Consider telling them what you think about an education special with no advocate for teachers or their unions on the show - politely, of course.MSNBC is g...
Asian math teachers better than Black ones « School Finance 101
schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - The big news over the weekend involved the LA Times posting of value-added ratings of LA public school teachers. Here’s how the Times spun their methodology: Seeking to shed light on the problem, T...
Tennessee’s Push to Transform Schools
nytimes.com - Tennessee has a long way to go in improving its schools, but it has made significant headway in turning itself into a laboratory for education reform. It was one of the first states to test a rigor...
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Research that Counts (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)
susanohanian.org - The Annual Meeting of Education Reporters, Writers and Editors: Plenty of Wattage but Not Much Illumination Susan Notes: This action research will show you why teachers have more to learn from the ...
WNY Education Associates » Unwrapping the Common Core Learning Standards
angelastockman.com - In order to mine a standard’s true meaning, you typically have to unwrap it a bit. The purpose of this work is to distinguish the standard’s explicit and implicit meaning. Implicit meaning? Aren’t...
“See it, Say it!” Helping to End the Abuse of Our Children! « Diary of a Public School Teacher!
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - “See it, Say it!” Helping to End the Abuse of Our Children! « Diary of a Public School Teacher!:“See it, Say it!” Helping to End the Abuse of Our Children!by OldschoolteachIn 1982, I worked in a He...
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