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Vermont Moves Toward Single-Payer Healthcare - E.D. Kain - American Times - Forbes

Vermont Moves Toward Single-Payer Healthcare - E.D. Kain - American Times - Forbes

Vermont Moves Toward Single-Payer Healthcare

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One more reason to move to Vermont:

In a move that will no doubt cheer conservative states-rights advocates (OK, I’m kidding), the Vermont Senate passed a billyesterday that will move the state toward a single-payer health system. Since it had already been passed by the state House, the two bills just need to be reconciled, and then Vermont will be on

Sticking it to the little guy, literally « Failing Schools

Sticking it to the little guy, literally « Failing Schools

Sticking it to the little guy, literally

APRIL 26, 2011
by mariasallee

Tuesday is my usual day to post, as per our Failing Schools’ general agreement, so today I found myself without a clear topic in mind and surfing the web during my lunch break for current news on education. When what to my wondering eyes should appear…It seems that the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers just released its State Preschool Yearbook 2010 report, which indicates overall cuts in state funding of preschool programs across the country. Here’s a portion of today’s blog from NIEER’s Preschool Matters…Today!

For the first time since we began tracking state pre-K, total spending for the country

The Future - Professional Teacher Version

Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: The Future - Professional Teacher Version

The Future - Professional Teacher Version

Let's just get this straight from the start. All students are capable of learning. Except for the few with cognitive disabilities, all of them are capable of working at grade level, which is regarded as developmentally appropriate. In fact, they are capable of far more.

Some students have been well-prepared for school and some have not. Those who have been well-prepared need to be challenged to meet all of the minimum grade level expectations and then go beyond them. Those who have not been well-prepared need some additional support to allow them to also meet all of the minimum grade level expectations and then go beyond them.

Every student is well-prepared in some ways and to some degree and poorly prepared in other ways to some degree. In short, they are each unique individuals.

Identifying individual student needs and providing those students with the lessons and support they need is the professional work of teachers. Teachers employ their training, their expertise, their talent, their effort, and their

School Tech Connect: Rev. Calvin Morris--- A Good Teacher

School Tech Connect: Rev. Calvin Morris--- A Good Teacher

Rev. Calvin Morris--- A Good Teacher

"We have scapegoating, scapegoating, and scapegoating." There was a long discussion about what makes a good teacher, and of course the TFA guy had a very data-driven answer-- TFA invented formative assessment, apparently--- and then the rest of the panelists described their own vision of "a good teacher."

Bay Area teachers bus to the Capitol « State of Emergency

Bay Area teachers bus to the Capitol « State of Emergency

Bay Area teachers bus to the Capitol

Eighth-grade teacher Stephanie Anderson joined about 15 Bay Area teachers who rode a bus together to Sacramento today to lobby to protect public schools. They all urged their local legislators to extend temporary taxes, reinforcing the messages in the CTA State of Emergency campaign.

“I took the time to go because it’s all about making our students a priority again,” said Anderson, who is co-president of the Dublin Teachers Association. “The time we spent in Sacramento was all about making our kids and our communities the priority. We really can’t survive an all-cuts budget.”

The teachers were all from school districts covered by the Alcosta Service Center Council, which represents CTA members in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Educators taking part in the Alcosta Lobby Day were from districts in Dublin, San Ramon, San Leandro and Mt. Diablo Unified, among other districts.

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edvox.org - Close to one hundred high school students from the Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC), New York City’s largest student-led group, gathered on the steps of the Department of Education headquarters toda...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A Funny Thing Happened At Work Today | Mr. Teachbad's Blog of Teacher DisgruntlementA Funny Thing Happened At Work Todayby mrteachbadI liked my job.This was highly unlikely because it was the first...

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freep.com - Gov. Rick Snyder will propose Wednesday financial rewards to individual schools that show exceptional academic progress.The money could be divided among the teachers or used in other ways they choo...

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baltimoresun.com - Barbara Gaskins says she took her 15-year-old son to his bus stop every morning at 7:30, well in time for his 9 a.m. homeroom bell at Patterson Park High School. She obtained as many medical excuse...

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nytimes.com - I find myself haunted by a 13-year-old boy named Saquan Townsend. It’s been more than two weeks since he was featured in The New York Times Magazine, yet I can’t get him out of my mind. ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Students Protest UW-Madison Spinoff Plan At Bascom Hall | Defend WisconsinStudents Protest UW-Madison Spinoff Plan At Bascom Hall– APRIL 26, 2011POSTED IN: MASS MEDIA, PRESSUniversity of Wisconsin-...

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schooltechconnect.com - Pauline Lipman, professor of educational policy at UIC, offers some advice to the incoming superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, and it sounds like Rahm is doubling down on his choice. Lipman m...

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forbes.com - Falmouth, Maine, is a picturesque waterfront town 110 miles north of Boston with moderate housing costs (median price: $351,550), per-student public-school spending just a touch above the state ave...

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delvalleformayor.com - Dear friends, There is a buzz in Chicago among people striving for a city that works together. Inspired by Wisconsin and our immigrant youth, Chicagoans are reaching new levels of organizing to mak...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 6:21 pm, April 26, 2011 Photo Credits: Record Number of Hispanic Voters A new study out by the Pew Hispanic Center shows that a record 6.6 million Latinos voted in last year’s mid-term...

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - Here's the next "big whopper" from the Republican Party of Wisconsin: The Democrat Party of Wisconsin is using a fraudulent tactic to harass and intimidate constituents … targeted for harassment pe...

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blogs.forbes.com - Wall StreetApr. 26 2011 - 1:52 pm | 1 views | 0 recommendations |By BRUCE UPBIN Manhattan Beach, Calif. Image via WikipediaWhere will your housing dollar go the furthest in getting your kids a grea...

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robertreich.org - This week’s biggest economic show occurs tomorrow (Wednesday) when Fed chair Ben Bernanke steps in front of the cameras for the Fed’s first-ever news conference. The question on everyone’s mind: Wi...

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wepartypatriots.com - What defines a pizza?Is it the shape? Is it the texture? Is it the way that it cooks?No, it can’t be any of those. Pizza has so many things in common with so many other foods — cookies, FOR EXAMPLE...

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mediaite.com - Mediaite is looking for editorial interns for Summer 2011! Every few months, we select a chosen few current college students to join us in our offices in SoHo. We ask them to scour the web, the air...

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sacbee.com - Sutter Middle School teacher Jody Cooperman will learn this morning whether she is a finalist for "Live With Regis & Kelly" Top Teacher Search.Cooperman was named one of 12 semifinalists Friday, wh...

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bloomberg.com - A handout photograph shows disaster relief workers holding a meeting at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on April 1, 2011. Source: T...

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firedoglake.com - "SOLARTOPIA! Our Green-Powered Earth" by Harvey Wasserman “There is no safe dose of radiation.” So begins today’s guest, Harvey Wasserman, in a recent piece, “’Safe’ Radiation is a Lethal Three Mil...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 26, 2011 April 26, 2011The Honorable John Boehner The Honorable Harry Reid Speaker of the ...

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defendwisconsin.org - – April 26, 2011Posted in: Announcements Immigrant rights groups, along with supporters from the labor community, will be rallying on Sunday, May 1 in both Milwaukee and Madison. Richard Trumka, th...

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bbc.co.uk - 26 April 2011 Last updated at 12:30 ET A US federal court has ordered a new sentencing hearing for an ex-Black Panther activist on death row for the 1981 killing of a white policeman. A Philadelphi...

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