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In Friday's paper: Area charter schools report low test scores - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star

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In Friday's paper: Area charter schools report low test scores - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star:In Friday's paper: Area charter schools report low test scoresROCKFORD — Rockford’s charter schools were ranked near the bottom of the heap when local Illinois Standards Achievement Test scores were released earlier this week, and school leaders say it’ll take time to make gains.All three public charter schools fell below the Rockford School District average and well below the state average in reading, math ... more »

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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top AM Posts #owsA GOLDEN CHALK AWARD GOES TO — « Teachers Fight BackBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-6 hours agoA GOLDEN CHALK AWARD GOES TO — « Teachers Fight Back:A GOLDEN CHALK AWARD GOES TO —by alkleenAnother Golden Chalk Award has been given out. This one goes to Mary Fergus, a spokeswoman with the Illinois State Board of Education. She was explaining to reporters why Illinois students did so poorly on the ... more »

Longer school day: Union to announce agreement with CPS - chicagotribune.com

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Longer school day: Union to announce agreement with CPS - chicagotribune.com:Union to announce deal with CPS on longer school dayMadigan has spoken with city, labor leaders in last few days, her spokeswoman saysComments21Share211By Joel Hood, Chicago Tribune reporter8:53 p.m. CDT, November 3, 2011The Chicago Teachers Union has called a news conference at noon Friday to discuss details of an agreement reached with Chicago Public Schools over the longer school day issue.Neither side would provide specifics of the agreement Thursday.But a ... more »

Sac City middle school consolidation plan criticized - Sac Moms Club & Family - sacbee.com

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Sac City middle school consolidation plan criticized - Sac Moms Club Family - sacbee.com:Sac City middle school consolidation plan criticizedShare By Anne GonzalesBee CorrespondentPublished: Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 - 12:00 am | Page 1BSutter Middle School seemingly dodged one consolidation plan, but it still may have a fight on its hands to preserve what some describe as a jewel of the city's school system.Sutter parents and students turned out at the Sacramento City Unified School District meeting Thursday night to ... more »

Pension killer. What’s the over/under? One. You. « Fred Klonsky's blog

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Pension killer. What’s the over/under? One. You. « Fred Klonsky's blog:Pension killer. What’s the over/under? One. You.by Fred KlonskyThe other morning my friend Matthew was trying to explain the betting concept of over/under to Cynthia, our music teacher.Of course we don’t actually do any gambling at work. Absolutely no Super Bowl squares. No NCAA brackets. That would be wrong.But we were talking about Vegas. As you know, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Including your money.At the sports books ... more »

Occupy Wall Street to Mayor Bloomberg: Get Your Facts Straight; Stop the Fear Mongering | OccupyWallSt.org #ows

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Occupy Wall Street to Mayor Bloomberg: Get Your Facts Straight; Stop the Fear Mongering | OccupyWallSt.org:Occupy Wall Street to Mayor Bloomberg: Get Your Facts Straight; Stop the Fear Mongeringby OccupyWallStYesterday New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg alleged that Occupy Wall Street participants at Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park) are chasing criminals out of the park instead of reporting them to police. In reality, Occupy Wall Street has its own well-trained internal security force, but this team does not substitute for the ... more »

NYC Educator: Spamolicious

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NYC Educator: Spamolicious:Spamoliciousby NYC EducatorEvery few days our comment section gets spammed. Sometimes the spammers choose posts from years back, perhaps thinking I won't notice. The spammers who love this site best are those who are selling term papers. Here's one of their most recent comments:It is absolutely an fantastic advice and gives abundant advice about education. Thanks for providing such affectionate of advice with us. Thanks for sharing.You have to wonder who would want to buy a term paper ... more »

Grumpy Educators: Oregon Parent Opts Out of Standardized Testing

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Grumpy Educators: Oregon Parent Opts Out of Standardized Testing:Oregon Parent Opts Out of Standardized TestingOregon parent Jen Norman explains why she will no permit her son to take standardized tests this year.We can complain about the choices our administrators make, but at the end of the day, their job is to get every student to pass the OAKS test. That’s the system that is in place, and they’re working very hard to ensure that it happens. They’re doing a good ... more »

Education's Revolving Door: Former school board President Canter heads Green Dot charters - latimes.com

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Former school board President Canter heads Green Dot charters - latimes.com:Former school board President Canter heads Green Dot chartersFormer Los Angeles school board President Marlene Canter will head the governing board for Green Dot Public Schools, one of the nation’s largest charter school groups, the organization announced Thursday.The locally based nonprofit operates schools mostly in the low-income, heavily minority areas of south and southwest Los Angeles. Its best-known effort is the takeover of Locke High School, near Watts, where academic ... more »

A GOLDEN CHALK AWARD GOES TO — « Teachers Fight Back

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A GOLDEN CHALK AWARD GOES TO — « Teachers Fight Back:A GOLDEN CHALK AWARD GOES TO —by alkleenAnother Golden Chalk Award has been given out. This one goes to Mary Fergus, a spokeswoman with the Illinois State Board of Education. She was explaining to reporters why Illinois students did so poorly on the national tests, but much better on the Illinois Standards Achievement Tests.She was quoted as saying, ” It’s a different test and our students are not necessarily taught ... more »

Eviction Defense! | OccupyWallSt.org #OWS

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Eviction Defense! | OccupyWallSt.org:Eviction Defense!by OccupyWallStSign up for the eviction defense text blast!Send a text to the number 23559, with the the message @occupyalertThis will be used for emergency alerts and announcements.Three weeks ago NYPD delivered what was effectively a notice of eviction, telling residents of Liberty Square that Brookfield, with the help of the city, was going to clean the park. Instead, #OWS mobilized, organizing a mass clean up, mobilizing thousands of supporters, and flooding the mayors office with ... more »

Washington Post Co Silences Employees with Intimidation: Kaplan again | Dailycensored.com

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Washington Post Co Silences Employees with Intimidation: Kaplan again | Dailycensored.com:Washington Post Co Silences Employees with Intimidation: Kaplan againWritten by Danny WeilBusiness, MediaNov 3, 20110diggShare Many of you know of the case of Pfc Bradley Manning. The government has alleged he leaked documents to Wikileaks and has caged him for months now in an attempt to let others know not to mess with the US government and its classified documents. Well, wlelcome to The Washington Post Company, a company that ... more »

Some High-Performing Florida Charter Schools “Run by or Connected” to Legislators | Scathing Purple Musings

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Some High-Performing Florida Charter Schools “Run by or Connected” to Legislators | Scathing Purple Musings:Some High-Performing Florida Charter Schools “Run by or Connected” to Legislatorsby Bob SikesFrom Jeffrey Solochek at GRADEBOOK:Keeping with new state law, the Florida Department of Education has blessed 104 charter schools as “high performing” this year. The appellation grants these schools added powers, making it even more difficult for local school boards to govern them. (See Pasco County’s recent deliberations over a Charter Schools USA application.)The ... more »

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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top AM Posts #owsBecause I'm Worth It? - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week TeacherBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-17 minutes agoBecause I'm Worth It? - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher:Because I'm Worth It?by Nancy FlanaganI worked for two years at a non-profit whose mission centered on improving teaching. The first and most important thing I learned there was that nobody--not the most supportive policy wonk, not ... more »