Tweed serves as “#Occupy” stop on way to Foley Square protest | GothamSchools #ows
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Tweed serves as “Occupy” stop on way to Foley Square protest | GothamSchools:Tweed serves as “Occupy” stop on way to Foley Square protestby Geoff DeckerPopoutIt’s been two months since anti-inequality protesters first settled in at Zuccotti Park in a movement that became known as “Occupy Wall Street.” To commemorate education’s unique role in the activism, protesters chose the Department of Education’s headquarters, Tweed Courthouse, as a meeting point for a much larger rally taking place tonight in Lower Manhattan.Just as ... more »
'Children's Brigade' Joins Occupy Wall Street On Two-Month Anniversary #ows
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'Children's Brigade' Joins Occupy Wall Street On Two-Month Anniversary:Joy ResmovitsJoy.resmovits@huffingtonpost.comBecome a fan of this reporterGET UPDATES FROM JOY Like648'Children's Brigade' Joins Occupy Wall Street On Two-Month AnniversaryFirst Posted: 11/17/11 07:36 PM ET Updated: 11/17/11 07:36 PM ETNEW YORK -- As college students took center stage at a Tuesday afternoon Union Square rally on Occupy Wall Street's two-month anniversary, a smaller but equally loud group of younger protesters refused to miss out on the action."We have power, we have friends, nothing ...more »
The Return of ‘A State without a Budget, A government without a Clue’
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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: The Return of ‘A State without a Budget, A government without a Clue’: BIG MIDYEAR HIT FOR PROP 98 LIKELY + DEEPER CUTS TO STATE BUDGET EXPECTED + Addl Coverage + smf’s 2¢:The Return of ‘A State without a Budget, A government without a Clue’: BIG MIDYEAR HIT FOR PROP 98 LIKELY + DEEPER CUTS TO STATE BUDGET EXPECTED + Addl Coverage + smf’s 2¢INT. CLASSROOM – DAYsmf: In budget cycles ...more »
#Occupy #UCDavis « occupy california #ows
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#Occupy UC Davis « occupy california:#Occupy UC DavisBy *DAVIS, California – Students have set up tents in the Quad at UC Davis, responding to police raids and brutality both here, at UC Davis, as well as at UC Berkeley. They have declared their solidarity with #OccupyWallStreet. We even have a mailbox!
Daily Kos: "I AM a Man"
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Daily Kos: "I AM a Man":"I AM a Man"by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)I want you to think back to April of 1968. Many of America's cities burned, because Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis.Perhaps you even remember why Dr. King was in Memphis - to help African-American sanitation workers who were on strike after two of their brethren, who had sought shelter during a rain storm in a compactor, were crushed to death.The words titling this post were those ... more »
The Heck with Tech « My Island View
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The Heck with Tech « My Island View:The Heck with Techby tomwhitbyEver since I started writing my blog, I wondered when I would reach the end of my road and run out of things to rant about. It seems that every time I approach that point, something pops up to get me started again. As luck would have it, two such events occurred today. One incident happened early today and the second came later in the day. Of course, for ... more »
Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: More Good News
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Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: More Good News:More Good Newsby Melissa WestbrookFrom our friends at the West Seattle blog, news I had to print from Roxhill Elementary:Last Thursday, November 10th, Roxhill fourth graders were treated to a Living Voices performance of Native Vision. Lisa Gladstone, a Blackfoot Indian from Browning, Montana did a remarkable job of engaging our students in the story of Alice, a Navajo girl sent to a government run boarding school in the 30’s and 40’s. Alice ... more »
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Big midyear hit for Prop 98 likely | Thoughts on Public EducationBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-3 minutes agoBig midyear hit for Prop 98 likely | Thoughts on Public Education:Reality vs $ at community colleges - by Kathryn Baronby Kathryn BaronOne of the dominant issues at the fourth and final town hall meeting on how to improve the state’s community colleges wasn’t even in the 70 pages of recommendations from the Task Force on Student Success. “There was some ... more »
THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Arne Duncan issues a public statement about the Gulen movement's charter schools! Not. #ows
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THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Arne Duncan issues a public statement about the Gulen movement's charter schools! Not.:Arne Duncan issues a public statement about the Gulen movement's charter schools! Not.by The Perimeter PrimateI fully expect that my comment left at Town Hall: 140 Characters at a Time, a Twitter town hall with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, will not be published, and will be quite surprised if it is. In either case, I've decided to also make it into a post ... more »
Tweed serves as “#Occupy” stop on way to Foley Square protest | GothamSchools #ows
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Tweed serves as “Occupy” stop on way to Foley Square protest | GothamSchools:Tweed serves as “Occupy” stop on way to Foley Square protestby Geoff DeckerPopoutIt’s been two months since anti-inequality protesters first settled in at Zuccotti Park in a movement that became known as “Occupy Wall Street.” To commemorate education’s unique role in the activism, protesters chose the Department of Education’s headquarters, Tweed Courthouse, as a meeting point for a much larger rally taking place tonight in Lower Manhattan.Just as ... more »
'Children's Brigade' Joins Occupy Wall Street On Two-Month Anniversary #ows
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'Children's Brigade' Joins Occupy Wall Street On Two-Month Anniversary:Joy ResmovitsJoy.resmovits@huffingtonpost.comBecome a fan of this reporterGET UPDATES FROM JOY Like648'Children's Brigade' Joins Occupy Wall Street On Two-Month AnniversaryFirst Posted: 11/17/11 07:36 PM ET Updated: 11/17/11 07:36 PM ETNEW YORK -- As college students took center stage at a Tuesday afternoon Union Square rally on Occupy Wall Street's two-month anniversary, a smaller but equally loud group of younger protesters refused to miss out on the action."We have power, we have friends, nothing ...more »
The Return of ‘A State without a Budget, A government without a Clue’
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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: The Return of ‘A State without a Budget, A government without a Clue’: BIG MIDYEAR HIT FOR PROP 98 LIKELY + DEEPER CUTS TO STATE BUDGET EXPECTED + Addl Coverage + smf’s 2¢:The Return of ‘A State without a Budget, A government without a Clue’: BIG MIDYEAR HIT FOR PROP 98 LIKELY + DEEPER CUTS TO STATE BUDGET EXPECTED + Addl Coverage + smf’s 2¢INT. CLASSROOM – DAYsmf: In budget cycles ...more »
#Occupy #UCDavis « occupy california #ows
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#Occupy UC Davis « occupy california:#Occupy UC DavisBy *DAVIS, California – Students have set up tents in the Quad at UC Davis, responding to police raids and brutality both here, at UC Davis, as well as at UC Berkeley. They have declared their solidarity with #OccupyWallStreet. We even have a mailbox!
Daily Kos: "I AM a Man"
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Daily Kos: "I AM a Man":"I AM a Man"by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)I want you to think back to April of 1968. Many of America's cities burned, because Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis.Perhaps you even remember why Dr. King was in Memphis - to help African-American sanitation workers who were on strike after two of their brethren, who had sought shelter during a rain storm in a compactor, were crushed to death.The words titling this post were those ... more »
The Heck with Tech « My Island View
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The Heck with Tech « My Island View:The Heck with Techby tomwhitbyEver since I started writing my blog, I wondered when I would reach the end of my road and run out of things to rant about. It seems that every time I approach that point, something pops up to get me started again. As luck would have it, two such events occurred today. One incident happened early today and the second came later in the day. Of course, for ... more »
Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: More Good News
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Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: More Good News:More Good Newsby Melissa WestbrookFrom our friends at the West Seattle blog, news I had to print from Roxhill Elementary:Last Thursday, November 10th, Roxhill fourth graders were treated to a Living Voices performance of Native Vision. Lisa Gladstone, a Blackfoot Indian from Browning, Montana did a remarkable job of engaging our students in the story of Alice, a Navajo girl sent to a government run boarding school in the 30’s and 40’s. Alice ... more »
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Early Evening Posts #ows #edreform
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Big midyear hit for Prop 98 likely | Thoughts on Public EducationBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-3 minutes agoBig midyear hit for Prop 98 likely | Thoughts on Public Education:Reality vs $ at community colleges - by Kathryn Baronby Kathryn BaronOne of the dominant issues at the fourth and final town hall meeting on how to improve the state’s community colleges wasn’t even in the 70 pages of recommendations from the Task Force on Student Success. “There was some ... more »
THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Arne Duncan issues a public statement about the Gulen movement's charter schools! Not. #ows
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THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Arne Duncan issues a public statement about the Gulen movement's charter schools! Not.:Arne Duncan issues a public statement about the Gulen movement's charter schools! Not.by The Perimeter PrimateI fully expect that my comment left at Town Hall: 140 Characters at a Time, a Twitter town hall with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, will not be published, and will be quite surprised if it is. In either case, I've decided to also make it into a post ... more »
Ten Thousand Massed at Foley Square, Thousands More En Route | OccupyWallSt.org #OWS
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Ten Thousand Massed at Foley Square, Thousands More En Route | OccupyWallSt.org:Ten Thousand Massed at Foley Square, Thousands More En Routeby OccupyWallStWatch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.comA few hours ago, thousands of students, workers, and other supporters gathered in Union Square chanting "Shut the city down!" and using the People's Mic to share more stories of how banks and corporate greed have impacted the 99%. Simultaneously, Occupiers took to multiple subway stations in all five boroughs.Students chanted "CUNY ... more »
Jersey Jazzman: Double-Secret Charter School Panel
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Jersey Jazzman: Double-Secret Charter School Panel:Double-Secret Charter School Panelby DukeIn New Jersey, you have to file a freedom of information request to find out who decides which charter schools get your tax money. Oh, that pesky democracy...Sen. Nia Gill (D-Essex) filed the request under the Open Public Records Act (OPRA), and her office yesterday shared the state's response of more than a dozen pages of names and emails.Included in the first reviews were advocates from across New Jersey, including several ... more »
When it Rains, it Pours…in the Middle of the Classroom - Lily's Blackboard – Lily's Blackboard
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When it Rains, it Pours…in the Middle of the Classroom - Lily's Blackboard – Lily's Blackboard:Skip to Content ↓About LilyWhen it Rains, it Pours…in the Middle of the ClassroomNov 17th, 2011 by LilysBlackboard.In an effort to highlight the dire, immediate need for school modernization funding to repair schools that are literally falling to pieces, Lily and NEA Health Information Network Director Jerry Newberry, visited Southern Middle School in Reading, Pennsylvania.An estimated 14 million American children attend
URGENT: to the 72% of NYC Residents who Support Occupy Wall Street: WE NEED YOU NOW! | OccupyWallSt.org #OWS
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URGENT: to the 72% of NYC Residents who Support Occupy Wall Street: WE NEED YOU NOW! | OccupyWallSt.org:URGENT: to the 72% of NYC Residents who Support Occupy Wall Street: WE NEED YOU NOW!by OccupyWallStWe are gathering at 3PM today at subway stations across the five burroughs. We will occupy the subway, and convene at Foley Square tonight at 5PM.Contact your friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, classmates, everyone!Call, text, email, tweet, knock on doors!Leave work, leave school, join your fellow 99% on ... more »
Charter Schools - Triggering suspicion
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Pasadena Weekly - Triggering suspicion:Triggering suspicionfamilies should not be lured by the false promises of Parent RevolutionBy Caroline Grannan 11/17/2011Like it? Tweet it! SHARE IT!Pasadena Unified School District parents are being targeted by an outside organization that claims it wants to “empower” them to fix their schools. Parent Revolution is a front group for corporate-backed charter schools, which have a very mixed academic record. Parent Revolution has never improved or even worked in any schools. It aims to exploit PUSD ... more »
NYPD Swarming Liberty Square in Bloody Assault. | OccupyWallSt.org #OWS
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NYPD Swarming Liberty Square in Bloody Assault. | OccupyWallSt.org:NYPD Swarming Liberty Square in Bloody Assault.by OccupyWallStLive Updates2:38 pm: march gathering to join student strike at Union Square.2:28 pm: videographer reports assault by undercover cop, video coming soon.2:28 pm: surrounded by media, occupiers chant "the whole world is watching"2:26 pm: heavy police presence continues, occupiers undaunted2:18 pm: Liberty Square reopened, occupiers return inside to see blood on the ground2:11 pm: multiple victims reported. Witnesses confirm man tackled from behind by NYPD, ... more »
Event in DC This Friday…Like, Tomorrow | Mr. Teachbad #OWS
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Event in DC This Friday…Like, Tomorrow | Mr. Teachbad:Event in DC This Friday…Like, TomorrowHi, Everybody–There is an Occupy event being held tomorrow at McPherson Square, just behind the White House, at 15th and K St. NW. Easy to get to on the Blue and Orange line downtown. This is for educators and people who care about what they do.I’ll be there and hope to see some of you.Here are the details:We teach the 99%! Stand up for public education in ... more »
CALL-FOR-ENTRIES: RED RIBBON WEEK 2012
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Home:CALL-FOR-ENTRIES: RED RIBBON WEEK 2012BE PART OF HISTORY BY CREATING NEXT YEAR’S NATIONAL THEMEDeadline for Entries is December 1, 2011Win $500 Worth of Red Ribbon Merchandise For Your School MIAMI (November 17, 2011) – The National Family Partnership (NFP) announced its annual call-for-entries for the new theme of next year’s Red Ribbon Week. “The winner will receive national acclaim and recognition,” said Peggy Sapp, NFP’s volunteer president. “The winning slogan and design will be used throughout 2012 at thousands of ... more »
How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools | The Nation
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How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools | The Nation:How Online Learning Companies Bought America's SchoolsLee Fang November 16, 2011 | This article appeared in the December 5, 2011 edition of The Nation.Share21|||Recommended by 0|Text Size A | A | AEmail|Print|Share|Single Page|Web Letter (0)|Write a Letter|Take Action|Subscribe NowThis article was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. If the national movement to “reform” public education through vouchers, charters and privatization has a laboratory, it is Florida. It ... more »
It’s a Video Library, Not a Revolution « The Core Knowledge Blog
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It’s a Video Library, Not a Revolution « The Core Knowledge Blog:It’s a Video Library, Not a Revolutionby Diana SenechalNovember 17th, 2011Tags: education reform, flip model, instructional video, Khan Academy, Salman KhanPosted in Assessment and Testing, Curriculum, Education Practice, Teaching | No Comments »Ever since the entrepreneur Salman Khan burst forth in 2011 with hiseducation revolution—a massive video library and proposal that the classroom be “flipped”—there has been no end to the euphoric roar from reporters. They delight in the ... more »
Education Research Report: Performance of Students With Disabilities
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Education Research Report: Performance of Students With Disabilities:Performance of Students With Disabilitiesby Jonathan KantrowitzΩSecondary School Programs and Performance of Students With Disabilities: A Special Topic Report of Findings From the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 uses data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 dataset to provide a national picture of what courses students with disabilities took in high school, in what settings, and with what success in terms of credits and grades earned.Selected findings include:* Students with disabilities ear... more »
NYC Educator: Scholarship Report
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NYC Educator: Scholarship Report:Scholarship Reportby Miss EyreI always get nervous when I look at the scholarship reports for my class. No one at my school is silly enough to say so, of course, but it's easy to feel like the pass/fail rates say something profound about you as a teacher.No more than the old Teacher Data Reports, of course, do the scholarship reports mean. They're one piece of information in a sea of information about what you do as a ... more »
Big midyear hit for Prop 98 likely | Thoughts on Public Education
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Big midyear hit for Prop 98 likely | Thoughts on Public Education:Reality vs $ at community colleges - by Kathryn Baronby Kathryn BaronOne of the dominant issues at the fourth and final town hall meeting on how to improve the state’s community colleges wasn’t even in the 70 pages of recommendations from the Task Force on Student Success. “There was some eloquent testimony today that we need more funding,” Community College Chancellor Jack Scott told the 200 or [...]Unanimous for ... more »
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top AM Posts #ows #edreform
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The Cost of Corporate Tax Avoidance #EDreformBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-1 hour agoNEA - The Cost of Corporate Tax Avoidance:The Cost of Corporate Tax AvoidanceWhen corporations avoid paying taxes, public education gets shortchanged.NEA Research has created a series of charts that reflect the cost – in lost federal dollars for education – of corporate tax avoidance based on Citizens for Tax Justice’s analysis. The charts cover:How much federal aid each state would have received for education from 2008-2010 ... more »
Watch Wall Street Shut Down. Live. | OccupyWallSt.org #OWS
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Watch Wall Street Shut Down. Live. | OccupyWallSt.org:Watch Wall Street Shut Down. Live.Posted 23 minutes ago on Nov. 17, 2011, 7:32 a.m. EST by OccupyWallStWatch live streaming video from owsnyc at livestream.comLive Updates
What Is Special Education? :: Help! S-O-S for Parents
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What Is Special Education? :: Help! S-O-S for Parents:What Is Special Education?November 17th, 2011 by Michele Hancock M.S., P.P.S.1tweetretweetShareSurprisingly, over three million children in the United States have some sort of specific learning disability or special need. Schools are mandated by a federal law called the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to provide specialized services to children who qualify for special education. Every day, I receive an email from a parent asking how they can get their child an ... more »
How Bill Gates can be an education hero - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
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How Bill Gates can be an education hero - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: 6 common myths about hazingby Valerie StraussAt Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, hazing during homecoming week is quite the tradition. Older students pelt freshmen with paint and, sometimes, assault them.In this Post story, my colleague Michael Alison Chandler details how hazing continues to thrive at many schools (including the event informally known as “freshmen beat-down day”) and she quotes school administrators saying how hard it ... more »
Shanker Blog » Why Do Most Americans Support "Assistance To The Poor" But Oppose "Welfare"?
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Shanker Blog » Why Do Most Americans Support "Assistance To The Poor" But Oppose "Welfare"?:Why Do Most Americans Support “Assistance To The Poor” But Oppose “Welfare”?by Matthew Di CarloPoliticians and other public figures spend a great deal of resources – time and money – on crafting their messages so as to elicit a desired response. A famous example is the effort to relabel the estate tax as the death tax – the former conjures images of very wealthy people paying ... more »
Detroit's Teach For America Recruits Stuck In Middle Of Broader Battle
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Detroit's Teach For America Recruits Stuck In Middle Of Broader Battle:Joy ResmovitsJoy.resmovits@huffingtonpost.comBecome a fan of this reporterGET UPDATES FROM JOY Like647Detroit's Teach For America Recruits Stuck In Middle Of Broader BattlePosted: 11/16/11 10:32 PM ETWhen Brenda Belcher, principal of the new Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine, interviewed Mo Torres this past summer for a position teaching Spanish, he seemed like a good fit."It was a match," Belcher recalled in a phone interview on a recent busy Friday. ... more »