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Koch Brother Front Group Americans For Prosperity Pushes Smear Campaign Against Me | ThinkProgressBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-2 hours agoKoch Brother Front Group Americans For Prosperity Pushes Smear Campaign Against Me | ThinkProgress:Koch Brother Front Group Americans For Prosperity Pushes Smear Campaign Against MeBy Lee Fang on Nov 9, 2011 at 5:30 pmLevi Russell, Americans for Prosperity Director of Public Affairs, contributed to a blog post calling Lee a "liar." Russell, however, erroneously quoted the conversation and has ... more »
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES:
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES::Monday, November 14, 2011WEEKEND QUOTABLES:Fred Shavies"That’s our Birmingham. So, twenty years from now this movement could be the turning point, the tipping point, right. It’s about time your generation stood up for something. It’s about time young people are in the streets. [...] Ya’ll don’t need to throw
Schools are like businesses – with students as knowledge workers | Thoughts on Public Education
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Schools are like businesses – with students as knowledge workers | Thoughts on Public Education:Schools are like businesses – with students as knowledge workers - by Jeff Campby Jeff CampSchools are like businesses, but not in the way most think. I frequently find myself in conversations comparing “how it works in business” with “how it works in education.” A popular version goes something like this: Schools are like factories. They take raw materials (kids and textbooks) and, through years of ... more »
Monday morning. A Wisconsin teacher story. « Fred Klonsky
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Monday morning. A Wisconsin teacher story. « Fred Klonsky:Monday morning. A Wisconsin teacher story.by Fred KlonskyHere’s a good story to get your blood flowing and start the week. From Mr. Helper on Daily Kos.I just got off the phone with my wife. She and another Wisconsin teacher are actively subverting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s plans to demoralize and discourage Wisconsin teachers from doing their jobs.Like ALL Wisconsin teachers, my wife is making considerably less money this year. For a while, ... more »
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Turn Me to We: Get Along, Work Together, Protect Kids from Adult Arguments
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Turn Me to We: Get Along, Work Together, Protect Kids from Adult Arguments:Turn Me to We: Get Along, Work Together, Protect Kids from Adult Argumentsby coolcatteacher@gmail.com (Victoria A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher)Image via WikipediaTrue organizational greatness is about turning Me into We.It is sad when you see a team take their eye of their goal and turn upon each other. When you're busy fighting each other, you lose sight of the main mission and cannot achieve ... more »
The Innovative Educator: Teaching Generation Text Goes Global! TODAY!
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The Innovative Educator: Teaching Generation Text Goes Global! TODAY!:Teaching Generation Text Goes Global! TODAY!by noreply@blogger.com (The Innovative Educator)Join Lisa Nielsen and Willyn Webb, authors of Teaching Generation Text, as they present two sessions at the free online Global Education Conference today!The Texting Teacher 4:00 ESTjoin hereBreak the Ban on Cell Phones and Open the Door for Global Connections: A 6 Part Plan6:00 ESTjoin hereLearn about all of the exciting ways you can empower students, using only the cell phone in ... more »
Proof there is no proof for education reforms - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
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Proof there is no proof for education reforms - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:Proof there is no proof for education reformsby Valerie StraussThis was written by Carol Corbett Burris, principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York State.By Carol Corbett BurrisMy three daughters loved Miss Levin. Each of them had Gail Levin in elementary school. Whenever she was their ... more »
NYC Educator: Why the Push for Teacher Evaluation?
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NYC Educator: Why the Push for Teacher Evaluation?:Why the Push for Teacher Evaluation?by NYC EducatorThere is a crisis in this country. A crisis of unprecedented proportions. Apparently, there are billions of dollars being poured into this education thing, and many hedge fund managers are not getting even a fraction of this cash. What to do? Most importantly, we have to get rid of this whole union thing so we can stop frittering away vital resources on salaries for teachers. Of ... more »
Concern Over Changing Teacher Evaluations - Chicago News Cooperative
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Concern Over Changing Teacher Evaluations - Chicago News Cooperative:Concern Over Changing Teacher Evaluationsby REBECCA VEVEAFor the first time next year, thousands of Chicago Public Schools teachers will be evaluated based partly on how well their students are doing academically. Many fear they will face dismissal if the standards are not applied fairly.“It’s going to make people really angry,” said Ruth Resnick, a librarian at O’Keefe Elementary School, who spoke last week at a public forum about carrying out a new ... more »
Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Week 10: Why teach narrative writing?
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Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Week 10: Why teach narrative writing?:Week 10: Why teach narrative writing?from Reflections on Teaching by alicemercerSo, I did last week’s post late, and it was more about the beginning of this week (which didn’t get much better by the way) than week 9. Rather than focus on the FUBAR that week felt like (it wasn’t that bad, just felt that way),a post by Dina Strasser seemed relevant to a discussion about writing that ... more »
Bob seger - Old Time Rock And Roll (LYRICS)
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Just take those old records off the shelfIll sit and listen to em by myselfTodays music aln t got the same soulI like that old time rock n rollDont try to take me to a discoYoull never even get me out on theIn ten minutes Ill be late for the doorI like that old time rockn rollStill like that old time rockn rollThat kind of music just soothes the soulI reminisce about the days of oldWith that old time rock ... more »
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Global Ed Conference Nov 14-18 #globaled11
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Global Ed Conference Nov 14-18 #globaled11:Global Ed Conference Nov 14-18 #globaled11Posted by Vicki Davis Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Global Ed Conference is this week! Online! Free! Helpful. In this post, I'm going to give you a few things: the overall calendar, my personal calendar, and the calendar for our entire Flat Classroom community (coming soon.) My friend Julie Lindsay has done a lot of work on the student summit end as part of our ... more »
Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Shorter School Year Coming?
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Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Shorter School Year Coming?:Shorter School Year Coming?by Melissa WestbrookFrom the Everett Herald comes a story about superintendents around the state coming together in agreement about having fewer school days for all districts rather than the Governor's idea of getting rid of levy equalization which favors districts able to pass levies versus those that can't.The superintendents are saying that while it may end up being detrimental to students in the long run, they want the cuts ... more »
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts #ows #edreform
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What The Founding Fathers Thought About Corporations | Addicting InfoBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-17 minutes agoWhat The Founding Fathers Thought About Corporations | Addicting Info:What The Founding Fathers Thought About CorporationsNovember 13, 2011By Stephen D. Foster Jr.Citizens United. This is the 2010 Supreme Court case that shocked America, influenced an election, and reversed over 100 years of campaign finance laws. In this case, corporations were declared as people and as such declared to have the same rights as ... more »
Occupy Wall Street’s commitment to nonviolence | OWSnews.org
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Occupy Wall Street’s commitment to nonviolence | OWSnews.org:Occupy Wall Street’s commitment to nonviolenceby Waging NonviolenceAt various times in the past, Occupy Wall Street has had trouble coming to consensus on a statement of nonviolence (as opposed to, say, the October 2011 movement in DC, whichpublicized one at the outset). This was an issue both in the planning process and in the early days of the occupation. In my essay on the notion of “diversity of tactics” for Occupy Wall Street, ... more »
Simon and Garfunkel The Boxer (Original)
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Simon And Garfunkel The Boxer LyricsI am just a poor boyThough my story's seldom toldI have squandered my resistanceFor a pocket full of mumbles such are promisesAll lies and jestsStill a man hears what he wants to hearAnd disregards the restWhen I left my home and my familyI was no more than a boyIn the company of strangersIn the quiet of the railway station running scaredLaying low, seeking out the poorer quartersWhere the ragged people goLooking for the places only ... more »
Jersey Jazzman: The Two Worlds of Ed Reform
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Jersey Jazzman: The Two Worlds of Ed Reform:The Two Worlds of Ed Reformby DukeI want to recommend this great piece teacher/blogger Katie O about this weekend's conferences in Chicago. Read the whole thing (us teacher/bloggers need that click-through love), but here's the takeaway:To me, the moral of this tale of one city’s schizophrenic day of education is this: Sure, we love progressive education practices, but only for the rich white private schools. When it comes to the vast majority of ... more »
Above and Beyond | The Jose Vilson
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Above and Beyond | The Jose Vilson:Above and Beyondby JoseOften, people make me question what the words “above and beyond” mean in an age when we’re obsessed with overworking and overstating. When Carmen told me that she will not go above and beyond in her activism, I started to think about what that meant based on what I knew about her. When someone approaches her about her hair, her dress, or her passions, she’s not likely to say, “Because I ... more »
Daily Kos: Music
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Daily Kos: Music:Musicfrom Daily Kos by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)Consider this an addendum to what I posted this morning. Today was a full day. We spent three hours at a gathering of Old Members of Univ - University College Oxford, where my beloved spouse got an M. Litt while on a Marshall. From there we went to a concert at the Kennedy Center.It was the initial concert of what will be Norman Scribner's final year of directing the Choral Arts Society, a ... more »