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Recess Is Making a Comeback in Schools - NYTimes.com

Recess Is Making a Comeback in Schools - NYTimes.com:

Recess Is Making a Comeback in Schools

As more Chicago public schools cash in on Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s longer-day financial incentives by adding 90 minutes to their school day, the previous votes by a dozen schools to add about a half hour to the day by bringing back recess are going unnoticed.

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Restoring recess is part of a broader health push by parents, advocacy groups and some city officials to bring more exercise and better nutrition to both schoolchildren and preschoolers.

Beginning in November, the city’s Department of Public Health will require children who attend preschool or day care centers in Chicago to spend less time in front of television or computer screens — 60 minutes or less — and more time, at least an hour a day, participating in physical activity. At snack or meal time, milk cannot have a fat

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Moving from Hierarchy to a Circle of Equals | Lefty Parent

Moving from Hierarchy to a Circle of Equals | Lefty Parent:

Moving from Hierarchy to a Circle of Equals

When people ask me, “What do you do?” or “What kind of work do you do?”, they generally are asking me what kind of job I do to make a living. And particularly because I am a white male person of some economic and educational privilege (with a head full of gray hair), they often presume that that job is a fairly high-powered one, and a major part of how I define myself. My job is fairly high-powered, I am a “business process consultant” for Kaiser Permanente, specifically the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, which is a not for profit health insurance company. But nowadays, that is not how I answer the question of what I do or even what my “work” is.

Though I am a great advocate for what Kaiser is doing as a “health maintenance organization”, modeling what I believe to be the best approach to health care in the United States, my work for them is at most my “day job”, and how I pay our family’s bills. Increasingly, I answer the question by talking about my “life’s work” instead,

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Schools Matter: Shirlee Smith: Parent Revolution? Not really

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: Shirlee Smith: Parent Revolution? Not really:Shirlee Smith: Parent Revolution? Not reallyby Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene"The idea of the Parent Revolution is to say fuck you." — Ben...

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Privatization: Turning America into K-Mart

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Privatization: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty: Driven by wrong-minded public officials and corporate greed, contracts for public services are doled out wit...

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Washington Post hosts ownership society soiree

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Katherine and David BradleySteve Brill is this year's Davis Guggenheim. His aptly titled "Class Warfare" book is this year's Waiting For Superman and has become the rallying point for a waning and ...

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Stranger in a strange land. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - Guest post by North Shore Teacher. Your latest post on the late Harvard educator and his concerns about the damaging effects of central curriculum and standardized testing made me want to share som...

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Class Warfare | Edwize

edwize.org - Class Warfare: that’s the title Steven Brill gave to his recent book on the state of American education. With such a title, one might think that that Brill’s book would investigate how the deep cla...

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What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?

nytimes.com - Dominic Randolph can seem a little out of place at Riverdale Country School — which is odd, because he’s the headmaster. Riverdale is one of New York City’s most prestigious private schools, with a...

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Book Details Dissension in Obama Economic Team

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — A new book claims that President Obama’s response to the economic crisis was hampered by a White House economic staff plagued by internal rivalries, a domineering chief adviser and a T...

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Thousands of protesters to 'Occupy Wall Street' on Saturday

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Sacramento's jobless rate drops to 11.9%

bizjournals.com - Sacramento’s jobless rate plummeted in August to 11.9 percent.Sacramento’s jobless rate plummeted in August as teachers who were not employed for the full year went back to work, health systems add...

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Marin County’s Efforts Against Whooping Cough Pay Off

baycitizen.org - Last year, California experienced its worst outbreak of whooping cough in more than 60 years, and the disease hit hardest in an unexpected place: bucolic Marin County. This year, the disease is sti...

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Autism Spectrum Disorders – The Critical Facts

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