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Many charter schools not measuring up in new report card data
articles.chicagotribune.com - Teacher Stephanie Licker works on arithmetic problems with fifth-graders… (Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune)November 30, 2011|By Joel Hood and Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune reportersMayor Ra...
Is K-12 Inc. The Future Of Education? Here's Why I'm Skeptical
seekingalpha.com - The internet has radically altered the media, financial markets, retail, and service industries to improve their services at a lower cost. Can the same be done to primary and secondary education?K1...
Getting From Here to There - Bridging Differences
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,The hope that there is a fast route to solving big problems is alluring. And, it might even be true if only I were smart enough. But it's unlikely. I spent many years of my happy youth b...
Shanker Blog » What Value-Added Research Does And Does Not Show
shankerblog.org - Value-added and other types of growth models are probably the most controversial issue in education today. These methods, which use sophisticated statistical techniques to attempt to isolate a teac...
Michigan's union-busters caught sending secret emails to pols
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - The Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan, calls itself a "nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to improving the quality of life." But recently this far-right, free-mark...
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Fred Smith on David Abrams' resignation: No Mas!
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Fred Smith is a former senior analyst for the NYC Board of Education and an expert on testing. Here he comments on the sudden resignation of David Abrams, who led the NY State Education Dept. testi...
Chicago Charter Schools Return Erratic State Test Results
huffingtonpost.com - After being touted as the solution to low-performing Chicago public schools, state achievement test data released Wednesday showed erratic student performance at Chicago's charter schools, even bet...
Teachers, the other 1%: While we lavishly pay our CEO’s, our educators barely get by
nydailynews.com - That doesn’t seem to be true on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms, where the pay of the CEO is often at odds with his company’s performance. Take Cisco’s John Chambers. The website 24/7 Wall ...
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Politicians shocked by pension abuse. But not the abuse you’re thinking of. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - GOP House leader and pension killer Tom Cross. Governor Quinn, GOP House Leader Tom Cross and Rahm Emanuel all expressed shock at the abuse of the state employee pension system. Said Quinn: “Taxpay...
Newt Gingrich: Child labor laws 'truly stupid' [Video]
latimes.com - Promising “extraordinarily radical proposals to fundamentally change the culture of poverty in America,” Newt Gingrich said Friday that he would fire school janitors and pay students to clean schoo...
Newt's Cruelest Campaign: Replace School Janitors With Child Labor
thenation.com - It has been suggested that the Republicans who would be president are determined to turn the clock back 75 years and "rescind the New Deal." Now, Newt Gingrich has gone his rivals one better. The f...
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Britons Strike as Government Extends Austerity Measures
nytimes.com - LONDON — Hundreds of thousands of public employees walked off their jobs in schools, hospitals, airports, courtrooms, libraries, museums and government offices on Wednesday, as British workers beca...
Working America
ninedemands.com - Support education for all. Reduce class sizes, ensure access to early childhood education and enrichment courses, keep educators in the classroom, support local school construction and modernizatio...
58% of Californians Agree With Reasons Behind Occupy Wall Street Protests
obrag.org - By Josh Richman / Oakland Tribune / November 29, 2011California voters are almost evenly split, largely along ideological lines, over whether they identify with the Occupy movement, according to a...
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Kids are Heroes - Kids are making a difference in this world
kidsareheroes.org - Kids are indeed heroes and each one has the power tochange the world.
Who Would Actually Use Siri to Find an Abortion Provider?
danagoldstein.net - Amanda Marcotte, Jill Filipovic, and lots of other folks are calling attention to the fact that Siri, the new iPhone voice-recognition software, can find Viagra, prostitutes, breast implants, and a...
The OccupyUSA Blog for Thursday (Dec. 1), With Frequent Updates
thenation.com - I've been live-blogging OWS here daily since October 1. Email: epic1934@aol.com. All times ET. My new e-book is "40 Days That Shook the World: From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere." ...
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The CME/Sears Tax Break Goes into a Coma, and Other Alternatives - The 312 - November 2011
chicagomag.com - Posted Nov 30, 2011 at 07:12 PM By Whet Moser The Merc, circa 1982. I demand a red-suit dress code as part of the tax break. The CME-Sears tax-break bill—which also features more modest breaks fo...
A Banker Speaks, With Regret
nytimes.com - If you want to understand why the Occupy movement has found such traction, it helps to listen to a former banker like James Theckston. He fully acknowledges that he and other bankers are mostly res...
Fewer Foreclosures Found in Neighborhoods With Quality School Districts | Moneyland
moneyland.time.com - Joe Raedle / Getty ImagesFewer foreclosures are found in neighborhoods with good public schools.A new analysis of foreclosures shows that the expression “safe as houses” could be expanded to “safe ...
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Judy Lewis, Secret Daughter of Hollywood, Dies at 76
nytimes.com - Her mother was Loretta Young. Her father was Clark Gable. Yet Judy Lewis spent her first 19 months in hideaways and orphanages, and the rest of her early life untangling a web of lies s...
Former SF schools chief collects six-figure Philly buyout and then…. | City Insider
blog.sfgate.com - Arlene Ackerman before San Francisco sent her packing File this under the category of You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me. Former San Francisco school Superintendent Arlene Ackerman has filed for unemploym...
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Working America
ninedemands.com - Support education for all. Reduce class sizes, ensure access to early childhood education and enrichment courses, keep educators in the classroom, support local school construction and modernizatio...
58% of Californians Agree With Reasons Behind Occupy Wall Street Protests
obrag.org - By Josh Richman / Oakland Tribune / November 29, 2011California voters are almost evenly split, largely along ideological lines, over whether they identify with the Occupy movement, according to a...
Former Cop Says Cops Don’t Beat Women Because They’re Too Busy Trying To Bone Them « Student Activism
studentactivism.net - Cop novelist (and former cop) Joseph Wambaugh has an op-ed in the LA Times this week mocking the students who were pepper-sprayed at Davis. It’s about as stupid and as boring as you’d expect, but t...
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Villaraigosa says he raided Occupy LA to protect kids. 13,000 homeless children in LA. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Following the police raid on the City Hall Occupy LA encampment, LA’s Democratic Party Mayor Antonion Villaraigosa the LA Times reported: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said he decided it was time to e...
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