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How the FCAT Cut Score Debate Isolates Jeb Bush, Pearson, Florida Chamber of Commerce and Gerard Robinson
bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com - From Kaitlyn Ross, writing for First Coast News: The FCAT is getting national attention after a school board member in Orange County failed the standardized test. “That should tell you a lot. Somet...

December 9, 2011 : The Daily Papert
dailypapert.com - Posted by gary on Friday, December 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment “Actually the educational software industry does know best about something, but about something other than the best ways to learn math...
As Washington Props Up For-Profit Colleges, Students Vote With Their Feet « Student Activism
studentactivism.net - For-profit colleges have boomed in the last decade, spurred largely by success in hoovering up public money — for-profit college students now account for a quarter of all Pell Grant disbursements, ...

Longer Standardized Tests Are Planned, Displeasing Some School Leaders
nytimes.com - Students across New York State will sit longer for high-stakes standardized tests in language arts and math this April compared with past years, education officials indicated Friday, drawing critic...

New York State in the Post-Funding Equity Era « School Finance 101
schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - I did a post a short while back about the fact that there are persistent inequities in state school finance formulas and that those persistent inequities have real consequences for students’ acces...


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Shanker Blog » The Year In Research On Market-Based Education Reform: 2011 Edition
shankerblog.org - If 2010 was the year of the bombshell in research in the three “major areas” of market-based education reform – charter schools, performance pay, and value-added in evaluations – then 2011 was the ...

The most important speech on education in years
dailykos.com - Or perhaps, from the next paragraph, these words: The free market works very well in producing goods and services, but it works through competition. In competition, the weakest fall behind. The m...


A Look at State Aid Cuts in New York State 2011-12 « School Finance 101
schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - Following is another in my school finance geeky series of straight-up analyses of state school finance formulas. I wrote about New Jersey’s funding formula few days ago. This analysis focuses speci...

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The Good And The Bad Of The New OPEN Bill From Wyden And Issa
techdirt.com - from the some-good,-some-bad deptSen. Wyden and Rep. Issa have released a draft of OPEN: Online Protection & ENforcement of Digital Trade Act, intended as an alternative to SOPA/PROTECT-IP. See my ...

Daily Kos: January 7: National Opt Out Day
dailykos.com - Posting for your information a message that is being widely distributed among some educational lists and Facebook groups: United Opt Out National has declared January 7th as National Opt Out Day. O...


Today in Labor History—December 10
modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/12/today-in-labor-historydecember-10.html"; Portrait of Spies, prior to his execution on trumped up murder chargesDecember 10, 1865 – August Spies...

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The Answer Sheet - The Bill Gates problem in school reform
voices.washingtonpost.com - Posted at 8:00 AM ET, 03/ 2/2011By Valerie StraussThis was written by Paul Thomas, an associate professor of education at Furman University in South Carolina, who taught high school English for 18 ...

Emanuel says he'll testify if called before Congress on Solyndra
chicagotribune.com - By Kristen Mack Clout Street 7:28 p.m. CST, December 1, 2011 Mayor Rahm Emanuel today said that if asked, he will appear before a Congressional panel investigating the now-bankrupt solar power firm...


Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create Jobs
businessinsider.com - Image: 60 MinutesAmerica's real job-creators...who can't afford to create any jobs.In the war of rhetoric that has developed in Washington as both sides try to blame each other for our economic mes...

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Big Ghost Chronicles on His Drake Review: Music: GQ
gq.com - The strangest, least decorous, and definitely funniest writing about rap music in 2011 comes to us courtesy of Big Ghost Chronicles, a blog written in the imitable voice of the Wu-Tang Clan's own G...

Eva Longoria Fires Off At Newt Gingrich On Twitter
huffingtonpost.com - Eva Longoria has turned to Twitter to criticize GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's controversial proposal to use children as janitors, writing: "@newtgingrich you clearly know little about ...

The Best Videos For Educators In 2011
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - This is always one of my favorite year-end lists to do….. You might also be interested in: Part Two Of The Best Videos For Educators — 2010 The Ten Best Videos For Educators — 2010 And you might al...
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The 'adorable' gay penguins who adopted a baby chick
mobile.theweek.com - Instant Guide posted on December 9, 2011, at 12:35 PM A pair of Adelie penguins: Chinese zookeepers have allowed two "gay" penguins to adopt a chick from a female penguin who was struggling to care...

The Best Places To Learn About Christmas, Hanukkah, & Kwanzaa
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa are all coming-up, and I thought it would be timely to create a “The Best…” list focusing on those holidays. Obviously, there are a lot more materials about Christm...
The Reemerging Popularity And Relevance Of Inanimate Objects
huffingtonpost.com - If you have any doubt that puppets are playing an influential role in our current culture, just take a look at what happened last week, when they were implicated as communists in a liberal, anti-co...

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Put It on My Marquee: I Just Watched ‘Creepshow 2’
nytimes.com - IF Netflix has its way, Facebook members in the United States may soon be able to see which of their friends and family members have just video-streamed “Paranormal Activity” or “Boys Don’t Cry.” ...
2011 Lobby List Sorted by Lobbyist
ethics.state.tx.us - 2011 Lobby List with Concerns (Employers and Clients) Sorted By Lobbyist Name Part III - (I-M) Printed December 9, 2011 Lobbyist Employer/Client Igo, Shanna (00013440) (512)231-7400 1821 Rutherford...

Where Are the Women Executives in Silicon Valley?
bits.blogs.nytimes.com - Though it won’t be news to anyone who has worked in Silicon Valley, a new study confirms that tech companies are woefully behind in including women among their board members and highest-paid execut...

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The Answer Sheet - The Bill Gates problem in school reform
voices.washingtonpost.com - Posted at 8:00 AM ET, 03/ 2/2011By Valerie StraussThis was written by Paul Thomas, an associate professor of education at Furman University in South Carolina, who taught high school English for 18 ...


Tools for 21st Century Teachers (by Miss Noor) – Teaching Village
teachingvillage.org - Living in a complex, rapid, digital environment, and having a digital-savvy generation that has grown up in this environment, requires us as educators to be aware of changes and challenges and to b...


Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create Jobs
businessinsider.com - Image: 60 MinutesAmerica's real job-creators...who can't afford to create any jobs.In the war of rhetoric that has developed in Washington as both sides try to blame each other for our economic mes...

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Commentary (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)
susanohanian.org - Publication Date: 2011-02-02 By Susan Ohanian The Denver Public Schools 28-page rubric raises some questions. For starters, how many pages does it take before a rubric becomes a checklist? NO...


School Tech Connect: Words of Wisdom
schooltechconnect.com - Pass them along. Diane gave a barnburner in DC yesterday. I decided to pass it along to my state representative, my highly reformy state senator, my charter-happy liberal Democratic congresswoman, ...

Where is the NEA leadership headed just at the time when we need a fighting union? « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - In Illinois Senate Bill 7 took away our seniority rights and tenure rights and the right to bargain teacher evaluation at the local level. Chicago teachers had their ability to strike made more dif...

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