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All Education Matters: Reader's Response To Piece On Suicide: "If I can't get a job by February, I will just kill myself on Valentine's Day."

All Education Matters: Reader's Response To Piece On Suicide: "If I can't get a job by February, I will just kill myself on Valentine's Day."

Reader's Response To Piece On Suicide: "If I can't get a job by February, I will just kill myself on Valentine's Day."

AEM has been covering the topic of suicidal thoughts and student loan debt since last August. These pieces have received the most comments, and people, who have a lot of guts, have opened up about the pain and suffering they are going through as student loan debtors.

This evening, a woman named Liz shared her thoughts. Here's what she said:

Why One-Size-Fits-All Could Save Public Education « Cooperative Catalyst

Why One-Size-Fits-All Could Save Public Education « Cooperative Catalyst

Why One-Size-Fits-All Could Save Public Education

One-size-fits-all is vanilla ice cream. It’s plain white athletic socks. It’s “Mary Had a Little Lamb” with a recorder. One-size-fits-all is an assembly line and a Model-T Ford and a straight line of school children marching to their class. It’s industrial. It’s lock-step. It’s mechanistic.

And it just might save public education.

Sometimes I use one-size-fits-all synonymously with standardization, when, in fact, they are entirely different. One-size-fits-all is boring and industrial, but it only becomes standardized when it cannot be modified. Permit a little freedom to one-size-fits-all and it becomes unique. It becomes the palate for creativity.

See, I hate vanilla ice cream only when I’m not allowed to add peanut butter and chocolate chips and crushed-up

This Week In Education: Brill: Time's Up For "Race" Laggards (Like NY & HI)

This Week In Education: Brill: Time's Up For "Race" Laggards (Like NY & HI)

Brill: Time's Up For "Race" Laggards (Like NY & HI)

Tumblr_lpda2bnLRq1qzleu4o1_500The whirlwind process of reviewing and approving $5B worth of Race To The Top applications is for me the most interesting and useful part of Steve Brill's new education book, Class Warfare, as well as being one of the focus points of the interview he did with me for the September issue of Scholastic Administrator. In the book, Brill describes how boxed-in Duncan and his team were when it came to a review process that resulted in some obviously in accurate state application ratings. In our interview, Brill argues that Duncan was right to go along with the outside scoring of the state applications at the time but should stop payment or even try and recover funding from states where there has been and will likely be very little progress implementing the promised reforms. It's one of Brill's better

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Big Education Ape: 8-17-11 PM Bloomberg’s Approval Rating SUCKS! EDition

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Secretary Duncan to Hold #AskArne Twitter Town Hall

ed.gov - The Department of Education announced today that Secretary Arne Duncan will participate in the first-ever #AskArne Twitter Town Hall on August 24, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. EDT. Veteran education journalis...

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Innovator: Carnegie Mellon's Richard McCullough

businessweek.com - Through his startup Plextronics, the professor is working on conductive "ink" that could lay the groundwork for thin, flexible phones and TVsBy Karen A. FrenkelRichard McCullough (left), Andrew W. ...

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hosted.ap.org - BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) -- GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry told New Hampshire voters Wednesday that he does not believe in manmade global warming, calling it a scientific theory that has not been ...

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DOE to curtail specialized prep course?

insideschools.org - A prep course designed to help low income middle school students prepare for the city's elite specialized high schools will be cut from 16 months to three beginning in 2012, sources tell Insidescho...

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When Reform Touches Teachers

edexcellence.net - August 23, 201110:00 a.m. Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 1016 16th Street NW Floor 7, Washington DC, 20036Register to attend When Reform Touches TeachersFeaturing Frederick M. Hess and Randi Weingart...

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Mass Incarceration Doesn’t Make Us Safer

forbes.com - Tough talk on law and order is politically a pretty safe bet. Public sector unions like it because it means more jobs for cops and prison guards. Private contractors like it because it means more p...

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Judge orders halt to Douglas County voucher program

taxpayersforpubliceducation.org - From the order "The Court finds that the injuries asserted by Plaintiffs, both economic and non-economic, are sufficient in quality and directness to establish standing. The prospect of having mi...

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In Poll, Lowest Marks for Bloomberg in 6 Years

nytimes.com - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s job approval rating among New Yorkers has hit its lowest point in six years, as residents convey widespread anxieties about the city’s economic prospects, according to ...

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More on Key Findings from the 2009 NAEP State Mapping Analysis

educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - Ω State standards in 2009 There is a wide variation among state proficiency standards. * In 2009, as in 2003, 2005, and 2007, using NAEP as a common metric, standards for proficient performanc...

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Skowron pleads guilty in insider trading scam

marketwatch.com - CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Joseph "Chip" Skowron III, former portfolio manager of the health-care unit of a hedge fund, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to engage in insider trading and obstructio...

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Rick Perry, Cameron Todd Willingham, and the death penalty

chicagoreader.com - On the occasion of Texas governor Rick Perry's entry into the Republican presidential primary, the New Yorker is highlighting on its website David Grann’s astonishing 2009 feature about Cameron Tod...

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Teen charged with planning to blow up Tampa school

content.usatoday.com - Tampa police have arrested an expelled high school student and charged with him with planning to blow up Freedom High School on the first day of class next Tuesday.At a news conferendce today, Tamp...

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Bachmann's Elvis Tribute, Slightly Off

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - August 16, 2011, 6:33 pm By SARAH WHEATONBefore making her pitch for the Republican presidential nomination in Spartanburg, S.C., on Tuesday Representative Michele Bachmann paused to show some resp...

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Home - Inside Higher Ed

insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ...

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new details emerge in tyler clementi suicide case

blog.angryasianman.com - An update in the continuing criminal case against former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, who is accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man. His roommate, Ty...

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UseYourTeacherVoice | The Classroom Sooth

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - UseYourTeacherVoice | The Classroom SoothUseYourTeacherVoiceby classroomsoothYesterday I launched the Use Your Teacher Voice campaign. At this juncture it is solely a YouTube campaign. The goal i...

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