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Schools Matter: Tennessee's Milken Plan for Teacher Evaluation Ready to Collapse

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Schools Matter: Tennessee's Milken Plan for Teacher Evaluation Ready to Collapse:Tennessee's Milken Plan for Teacher Evaluation Ready to Collapseby Jim HornWhat does a corporate attorney with hundreds of millions of dirty money do when "banned for life from working in the securities industry?" These days he stops gambling in Wall Street casinos and puts his money on a sure thing: taxpayer dollars.And so goes the story (told by James Stewart) of Lowell Milken, whose more infamous business partner/brother, Michael, took ... more »

School Closures Curtailed, New Borrowing Idea Floated - voiceofsandiego.org: Pounding The Pavement

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School Closures Curtailed, New Borrowing Idea Floated - voiceofsandiego.org: Pounding The Pavement:School Closures Curtailed, New Borrowing Idea FloatedComments | 12:41 am Judging from numerous public comments and a smattering of interviews held afterwards, many of the parents and teachers who left Tuesday night's San Diego Unified school board meeting felt not relief, nor joy, at learning their schools would not be closing, but rather disgust and fatigue.After two weeks of angry protests, and after district staff had spent months studying ... more »

St. Louis PD follows the paper trail to investigate for-profit charter schools : BusinessJournalism.org Reynolds Center for Business Journalism

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St. Louis PD follows the paper trail to investigate for-profit charter schools : BusinessJournalism.org Reynolds Center for Business Journalism:St. Louis PD follows the paper trail to investigate for-profit charter schoolsBy Rosland Gammon on Nov 02, 2011 in Best Practices, Featured, Investigation, Rosland GammonElisa Crouch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch looked into Imagine Schools Inc., the nation's largest charter school operator. This image is from Imagine Schools' website: http://www.imagineschools.com.Elisa Crouch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch helped me understand why I see ... more »

Experts: Half of Foster Kids Quit High School | EQUAL VOICE

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Experts: Half of Foster Kids Quit High School | EQUAL VOICE:Experts: Half of Foster Kids Quit High SchoolNovember 1, 2011 | Filed under: Education,Midwest,Spotlight,West | Posted by: adminKelli Kennedy | Associated PressSACRAMENTO – When Carey Sommer entered foster care in California, he left his mom, his high school and his friends. Bounced from home to home, he changed high schools nine times until the disheartened teen finally dropped out.“I just started to not really care about high school because I ... more »

Educator not always voucher advocate - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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Educator not always voucher advocate - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:Educator not always voucher advocateBy Jodi Weigand, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEWWednesday, November 2, 2011School voucher advocate Michelle Rhee says she doesn't buy claims that using tax money to send children to private schools will worsen the experience for students who remain in low-performing schools.Rhee once opposed vouchers but changed her stance she became chancellor of the Washington public school system in 2007."I'm not going to say to these parents, 'Just give me five years to ... more »

Turning to the Courts to Untangle Texas School Finance Mess | The Transformation Times

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Turning to the Courts to Untangle Texas School Finance Mess | The Transformation Times:Turning to the Courts to Untangle Texas School Finance Messby HMooreWhy Am I Here?Last week, the HISD joined a lawsuit against the State of Texas following the largest funding cuts to public education in the history of Texas. It’s the second time in ten years such a lawsuit has been filed: the last time, school districts prevailed when the Texas Supreme Court declared the school finance system ... more »

OCCUPY EDUCATION

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OCCUPY EDUCATION:I occupy education by cautioning parents about the dangers of a...I occupy education by cautioning parents about the dangers of a standardized, data, not passion, driven agenda in our schools.I do this by speaking and writing about ways to fix schools, not children as well as providing information about To whom it may concern,I, April Parent, have learned french as a...To whom it may concern,I, April Parent, have learned french as a second language, not in elementary nor secondary ... more »

An Unintended Consequence of Policy: Low-Quality Elementary Science Education | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights

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An Unintended Consequence of Policy: Low-Quality Elementary Science Education | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights:An Unintended Consequence of Policy: Low-Quality Elementary Science Educationby obrienaAccording to a recent report on science education in California, more than half of elementary school principals do NOT believe it is likely that a student receives high-quality science instruction at his or her school.If anything, I would expect principals to be optimistic about the strength of their schools, so this finding really drives ... more »

This Week In Education: Teaching: Resorting To Heavy-Handed Screening

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This Week In Education: Teaching: Resorting To Heavy-Handed Screening:Teaching: Resorting To Heavy-Handed Screeningby Alexander RussoNewark isn't the only place where things aren't going particularly smoothly these days. Come to think of it, most big city districts seem full of divisions and disputes. One of several challenges the teachers union in Chicago has made against Board of Education initiatives includes an attempt to block further use of an online survey called TeacherFit (Union files complaint over 'TeacherFit' survey Tribune, Union challenge ... more »

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Oakland's general strike -- Today's teachable moment

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Oakland's general strike -- Today's teachable moment:Oakland's general strike -- Today's teachable momentby Mike Klonsky"We as fellow occupiers of Oscar Grant Plaza propose that on Wednesday November 2, 2011, we liberate Oakland and shut down the 1%." -- Occupy Oakland General Assembly votes to shut it down.Teachers and students are playing a central role in today's general strike. Teachers are participating in teach-ins across the city and thousands of students are planning to take part in ... more »

Ravitch: A place where public education is working - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

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Ravitch: A place where public education is working - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:Ravitch: A place where public education is workingBy Valerie StraussThis was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Deborah Meier on the Education Week website. Ravitch and Meier exchange letters about what matters most in education. Ravitch, a research professor at New York University, is the author of the bestselling “The Death and Life of the Great ... more »

Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Report from Fall CUE 2011

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Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Report from Fall CUE 2011:Report from Fall CUE 2011by alicemercerAndroid TabletsI can always count on Rushton Hurley to have a great presentation, this time he did not disappoint. It was a small workshop, but a nice mix of folks familiar with Android, folks who knew iOS, and a bunch who had experience with both. Everyone was excited by the possibilities, and we quickly dug into apps (which you can get to from the ... more »

Pre-results post-mortem | EdNewsColorado

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Pre-results post-mortem | EdNewsColorado:Pre-results post-mortemby Alexander OomsAlexander Ooms is a member of the board of the Charter School Institute, the West Denver Preparatory Charter School and the Colorado chapter of Stand for ChildrenAlan has asked bloggers for their thoughts on the election as part of a post-mortem. I find this rearview mirror perspective usually boringly obvious, as it’s far easier to ascribe cause once one knows the effect. So I’m sending in my quick thoughts in advance of the election ... more »

The Occupations Report: 11/01 | Occupy Together #ows

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The Occupations Report: 11/01 | Occupy Together:The Occupations Report: 11/01by EllaWe’ve recently seen this report posted and shared through social media, but we thought it might be helpful to have another place on the web it can be published and accessed daily. We’ll be posting the archives of this report soon. This Occupation Report is compiled by Rebuild the Dream. This report includes updates from Occupy sites and related efforts across the country and the globe. It includes big wins, ... more »