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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Occupy the Classroom - NYTimes.com #edreform

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Occupy the Classroom

Occupy Wall Street is shining a useful spotlight on one of America’s central challenges, the inequality that leaves the richest 1 percent of Americans with a greater net worth than the entire bottom 90 percent.

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Most of the proposed remedies involve changes in taxes and regulations, and they would help. But the single step that would do the most to reduce inequality has nothing to do with finance at all. It’s an expansion of early childhood education.

Huh? That will seem naĂŻve and bizarre to many who chafe at inequities and who think the first step is to throw a few bankers into prison. But although part of the problem is billionaires being taxed at lower rates than those with more modest incomes, a bigger source of structural inequity is that many young people never get the skills to compete.

Occupy Wall Street Videos for the Classroom | Mr. D's Neighborhood #OWS

Occupy Wall Street Videos for the Classroom | Mr. D's Neighborhood:

Occupy Wall Street Videos for the Classroom

The Occupy Wall Street protests are obviously on many peoples’ minds lately. In my scotch fog (more like cheap Bourbon, in my case) not only did I not take into account my lack of activity on this blog, but also my lack of real analysis of these protests.

So here’s some video to share with your students–hopefully with as little editorializing as possible.

The YouTube channel OccupyTVNY provides a pretty good snapshot of the various protests in New York, where

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Elite Club or Catalyst for Change?

edweek.org - Published Online: October 18, 2011Published in Print: October 19, 2011, as Broad Prize: Do the Successes Spread?When the Broad Prize for Urban Education was created in 2002, billionaire philanthrop...
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Chinese Students Lose as U.S. Schools Exploit Need

bloomberg.com - Enlarge image China Students Paying $52,000 Say Boarding Schools Misled Guan Wang, a freshman at the University of California, Davis, from China, uses a laptop computer as she studies in her dorm r...
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Readin’ > ‘Rithmetic | Gary Rubinstein's TFA Blog

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - Something that nearly every adult has wondered about, but is scared to say it out loud is “Is knowing math really that important?” They don’t say it out loud because they fear that someone, possibl...
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The Black Hole of School Fraud

nbcnewyork.com - advertisement The state is finally cracking down on the practice of teachers grading their own students’ standardized tests. The state Board of Regents, the supreme authority in education, will not...
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New Orleans RSD — the ‘miracle’ district

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - The Louisiana Department Of Education just released the 2011 School Performance Data. As New Orleans has been hailed as a ‘miracle’ district, I was eager to see the results. As you might know, afte...
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Daily Kos: Minimum wage for teachers?

dailykos.com - Forget Finland, Saudi Arabia might be on to something. Saudi Arabia's per capita GDP is just over $24,000 -- teacher's salaries lag behind their average, as they do here in the United States. Howev...
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Smaller classes buffeted by budgets, policy questions

signonsandiego.com - How to contact usWe look forward to feedback on our stories and education issues at large. Please send letters, story ideas and other comments to us via email:education@uniontrib.com.The case for s...
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Beating the bushes for a speaker in Denver

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Look who they've dredged up in Denver to speak on school reform. This even though Jr. had backed out of his previous commitment. His handlers wouldn't let him get within 10 miles of WikiLeaks' foun...
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Who Needs Tenure? Who Needs Green Dot?

modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/10/who-needs-tenure-who-needs-green-dot.html"; The new contract between New York's United Federation of Teachers and Green Dot, the California-bas...
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Intermediate Capacity Management Committee

saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - The district now has its committee in place. There are about 32 members. It breaks down roughly like this:2 each from the 7 director district regions (14) 2 each from the four special program are...
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Possible changes from facilities plan in University City

thenotebook.org - They were only 142 words, comprising just one proposal among 84 others on the leaked Philadelphia School District’s facilities closings list published last spring by the Public School Notebook. The...
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Washington Fails At #NCLB Rewrite Attempt

chicagonow.com - By Alexander Russo, today at 4:11 pm Ten years after it was first enacted and more than two years after the Obama administration has been pushing for a reauthorization, the federal NCLB law was sup...
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UFT announces $50,000 outlay in new anti-bullying campaign

gothamschools.org - Council Speaker Christine Quinn, UFT President Michael Mulgrew, Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott and others pose with the new BRAVE poster The teachers union and city are often portrayed as pushing eac...
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Blog posts on this issue

whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 19, 2011 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key...
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The Folly Of Intercession Study Periods

scholasticadministrator.typepad.com - October 19, 2011 | Posted At: 04:14 PM | Author: john thompson | Category: John Thompson , Teachers & Teaching , Urban Ed Scott Elliot of the Indianapolis Star reports on the latest chapter of our ...
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Blog U.: In Praise of Librarians - Reality Check

insidehighered.com - By John Lombardi October 19, 2011 4:01 pm EDT I had a chance to participate in a recent meeting of the Association of Research Libraries, the famous ARL. Before commenting, let me clarify how I com...
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Input Sought on Permanent Superintendent

saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - As promised, the Board is having a series of meetings around the qualities for the selection of a permanent superintendent.To be absolutely clear, these meetings are NOT to decide if there will be ...
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Why Is College So Expensive? : NPR

npr.org - Enlarge Eric Risberg/AP Sproul Plaza at the University of California, Berkeley. Tuition at U.C. Berkeley was about $700 a year in the 1970s. Today, families pay over $15,000 per year to attend. Eri...
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Geaux Teacher!: Sharon Hewitt Campaign Bows to Pressure

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Geaux Teacher!: Sharon Hewitt Campaign Bows to Pressure:Sharon Hewitt Campaign Bows to Pressureby noreply@blogger.com (Lee Barrios, M.Ed., NBCT)You can imagine my surprise when teachers began calli...
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In the News: Duncan to visit Chicago school | catalyst

catalyst-chicago.org - Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the former Chicago Public Schools CEO, returns to Chicago on Thursday. He will appear with Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean Claude Brizard and school board vice pres...
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MA Submits Early Learning Challenge Application «

eyeonearlyeducation.org - October 19, 2011 by Irene Sege Photo: Alessandra Hartkopf for Strategies for Children Massachusetts has submitted its application for the federal Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge, due in ...
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'We Cannot Support The Bill At This Time'

huffingtonpost.com - As Senators of the Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee debated federal education policy at an abbreviated hearing Wednesday morning, two coalitions of education and civil rights groups r...
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Support from Senator Turner And More

bluejersey.com - Senator Shirley K. Turner (D-15th), whose district includes Trenton in a telephone interview today, said, "The issues the occupiers are concerned about, I am concerned about - the lack of economic ...
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A Primitive Way to Learn Global History – SchoolBook

nytimes.com - Oct. 19, 2011, 2:39 p.m. Ask a child what comes to mind with the word “technology,” and he or she is likely to say iPods, cellphones and play stations. Not campfires, boomerangs and stone tools. “I...
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Adnother few hours for ESEA input?

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » Another few hours for ESEA input?:Another few hours for ESEA input?by adminSen. Rand Paul has given us a few more hours to speak out on ESE...
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Take the school safety poll

ednewsparent.org - It’s School Safety Week in Colorado. How do you feel about school safety? Take the poll. And we’ll write about the results soon. Popularity: 1% [?]What do you think?Tags: school safety Category: Sa...
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Starving The Schools Of The 99% | OurFuture.org

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Starving The Schools Of The 99% | OurFuture.org:Starving The Schools Of The 99%by Jeff BryantLast week's release of the report Staving America's Schools: How Budget Cuts and Policy Mandates Are Hur...
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ESEA mark-up: Senators debating committee meeting

quickanded.com - UPDATE: Senators are currently on the floor, arguing over the earlier committee meeting on the ESEA reauthorization bill and whether, or how, to proceed. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., still adamantly stan...
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