No Capitalist Left Behind in LouisianaThe Louisiana Senate recently voted 22-16 to allow corporations to sponsor charter schools in exchange for half of the enrollment slots and half the governing board seats, according to the *Times Picayune*. The House is expected to approve the bill and ...
Clarence Thomas’s Wife Supported Armed Insurrection, Benefited from Citizens UnitedIn a recent post, “Kids May Not Know Democracy, But They Know a Bum Deal When They See It,” I made the argument that our political system functions quite differently from the idealized system we are taught in school. I specifically argued that it was ...
Numbers that private schools fear Jay Mathews: As they have in the past, spokespersons for the Sidwell Friends School and St. Albans School declined to tell me how many Advanced Placement exams they gave in 2010.
Teach for America and Me Mark Naison (Fordham): Something was really wrong here if an organization who wanted to serve low income communities rejected every applicant who came from those communities.
2,000 STILL FACE POSSIBLE LAYOFFS IN LAUSD: Tough decisions lie ahead for Los Angeles Unified schoolsBy Jason Song, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/iI9VJz Administrators must weigh the value of nearly 2,000 teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses and psychologists who still could lose their jobs. Sally Stevens, an attendance counselor at ...
LOCKE HIGH’S SLOW AND STEADY TURNAROUND +smf’s 2¢LA Times Editorial | http://lat.ms/jS8MfR The takeover by charter operator Green Dot hasn't yielded the quick and dramatic results many had hoped for, but there has been some solid improvement. Tenth-grade English teacher Beth Schmidt works with Locke ...
The entryways of the remodeled Bellevue Hospital come at incoming patients and visitors in layers akin to the human body: the new glass-and-metal facade presents the first layer before encountering a marble and stone arch around the tunnel leading to elevators, an photo gallery, and eventually, the emergency room. The first layer hosts visitors communicating on their cell phones and security guards, with gateways color-coded like the subways we New Yorkers live with daily. As one walks directly into the tunnel and into the emergency room, we are reminded that it’s an established hospital, full of the aches, rumbles, and off-white walls we trust will be there anytime we visit the hospital.
In there, children cry for their mothers, the elderly wheeze in an unsettling tempo, and grown boys brace the responsibilities of manhood.
Where people often mistake manhood is in places like the hospital. We still ask men not to emote, and treat illness as a sign of debilitating (and ignorable) weakness, whether the person injured is a stranger or a loved one. The perception of what men do in those situations and the actions that make a real man in these situations
elc-pa.org - Pennsylvania's Best Investment? Public Education, says new report Investing in public eduation initiatives, from quality pre-kindergarten programs to lowering class size in elementary schools, pa...
sfgate.com - Albany, N.Y. -- From City Hall in Manhattan to rural hamlets upstate, New York officials began to prepare Saturday for a surge in gay couples expected to flood clerks' offices next month seeking to...
lovealocalbusiness.intuit.com - Vote to Help Your Favorite Local Businesses Win Big There’s over $1 Million in grants at stake; your votes help decide who gets them.Voting is easy, and fast. Just share a few brief thoughts about ...
nydailynews.com - Exclusive This school really doesn't want kids to fail.Flushing High School students can score no lower than a 50 in a subject as long as they show up - and students getting a 50 or a 55 can do mak...
washingtonpost.com - Bill Kerlina won a plum assignment when he was hired away from Montgomery County in July 2009 to become a principal in Northwest Washington. Phoebe Hearst Elementary was a small, high-performing sc...
nepc.colorado.edu - When the captain says she’s going down, it should not be surprising to see the ship’s officers checking the davits and taking the lifeboat covers off. So here we are, watching the crew react now th...
nola.com - BATON ROUGE -- Over the objections of some public school advocates, the Louisiana Senate voted 22-16 Monday to allow corporations to sponsor charter schools in exchange for controlling up to half o...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Leaked internal documents shows what Rhee really thinks of some Michigan legislatorsLeaked internal documents shows what Rhee really thinks of some Michigan legislators Here’s what Michelle Rhee re...
preaprez.wordpress.com - As the 9,000 delegates to the NEA RA arrive in Chicago this week, some might want to head over to Whittier School at 23rd and Damen to show support for the parents, teachers and students who are fi...
contracostatimes.com - SACRAMENTO -- In vetoing the Legislature's budget 10 days ago, Gov. Jerry Brown took some sharp jabs from members of his own party, who accused him of betraying their trust, among other things. But...
northjersey.com - TRENTON — Republicans and Democrats will be at it again this week as details on New Jersey's state budget will be hammered out. RECORD FILE PHOTO The Legislature will hammer out New Jersey's budge...
fdlbooksalon.com - Welcome Bill Zimmerman, and Host Richard Flacks. Troublemaker – A Memoir From the Front Lines of the Sixties Host, Richard Flacks: Bill Zimmerman’s memoir of the sixties is a terrific book to read...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - June’s Best Tweets — Part Two | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...June’s Best Tweets — Part Twoby Larry FerlazzoEvery month I make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I ...
modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/06/today-in-labor-historyjune-26.html"; June 26, 1894 - The American Railway Union launched a boycott of all trains carrying Pullman cars, turning...
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON HE was born this way. Bi. Not bisexual. Not even bipartisan. Just binary. Our president likes to be on both sides at once. In Afghanistan, he ...
sfgate.com - Susana Bates / Special to The Chronicle A pink triangle will remain on Twin Peaks through this evening to mark Gay Pride Weekend. San Francisco -- A huge pink triangle was raised Saturday on Twin P...
womensenews.org - It's been 25 years since Phyllis Chesler wrote "Mothers on Trial" to help women fight their child-custody battles. In this excerpt from her revised book, she reviews what's changed, for better and ...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Educated Guess: FEW STATE RULES FOR TRANSITION K + MESS WITH PROP 98, DO NOT PASS GOEducated Guess: FEW STATE RULES FOR TRANSITION K + MESS WITH PROP 98...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Review: Profit At the Bottom Of The Ladder « MomsRising BlogReview: Profit At the Bottom Of The Ladderby Elisa BatistaSince coming back from Netroots Nation, I have been thinking a lot about worker...
tbogg.firedoglake.com - Someday, long after most of us are dead and gone and then reincarnated and then dead again and then maybe reincarnated once more, someone is going to have to explain to future generations why there...
contracostatimes.com - San Francisco police arrested two teenagers after a Saturday evening shooting near Seventh and Market streets that sent five victims, including four bystanders, to the hospital, a police lieutenant...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge Prosser Grabbed Fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley Around The Neck In An Argument In Her Chambers Last Week « Larry Miller's BlogWisconsin Supreme Court Judge Prosser Gr...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: Bitter Lessons from Chasing Better TestsBitter Lessons from Chasing Better Testsby P. L. ThomasIn a New York Times Op-Ed (22 March 2009), E. D. Hirsch Jr. argued, "We do not need to...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Do We Respect Seattle Teachers? | Seattle EducationDo We Respect Seattle Teachers?by KristinSeattle’s public schools sure have been through a lot in the 2010-2011 school year. On top of the multimi...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Selling of the World: Privatization Schemes Proliferate | FDL News DeskThe Selling of the World: Privatization Schemes Proliferateby David DayenSelling the family silver (photo: Jenica26)One of...
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