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New York State leaders are expected to kneel for Mayor Bloomberg's school plan
nydailynews.com - Getty Images Mayor Bloomberg seems set to get his way on school reforms. The state expects to sign off on Mayor Bloomberg’s dramatic new plan to ax half the teachers at 33 struggling schools, the D...
Study on Teacher Value Uses Data From Before Teach-to-Test Era
nytimes.com - My four children have all attended public schools in our middle-class suburban district. When my oldest was in fourth grade, in 1998, he took the state tests, and I was not even aware of it. Later,...
David Beats Goliath – Wisconsin Style
forwardseeking.com - By Molly Belt “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~Margaret Mead Nearly everyone who was a part of the...
Part I – Developing Literacy
virginiaedreport.org - [NOTE: This is the first post in a five-part series by Rachel Levy commenting on Virginia Governor McDonnell's 2012 education agenda, as announced last week.] *** On Monday, January 9th, Virginia G...
"Education Reform" As Collective Bullying
withabrooklynaccent.blogspot.com- When I see the most powerful, and wealthiest people in this country, representing both major parties, attack public school teachers, it makes my blood boil. The education reform juggernaut, a "big ...
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Parents’ fight for integration failed, but paved way for change - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - BY MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA Staff Reporter/mihejirika@suntimes.com January 15, 2012 5:48PM Tony Burroughs, outside of the Burnside School 650 E. 91st Place, where 50 years ago the first demonstration aga...
Accountability without Autonomy Is Tyranny
dailykos.com - When educational research reaches the public through the corporate media, the consequences are often dire. Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff released "The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-A...
APPR Paper - New York Principals
newyorkprincipals.org - In May 2010, the New York State Legislature—in an effort to secure federal Race to the Top funds—approved an amendment to Educational Law 3012-c regarding the Annual Professional Performance Review...
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For too many African-Americans, prison is a legacy passed from father to son | Gary Younge | Comment is free
guardian.co.uk - In the US almost one in 10 young African-American men are behind bars. Photograph: Ric Francis/AP According to Jeffrey Gamble, the luckiest day of his life was when his car hit the kerb at the corn...
Martin Luther King Jr. and education reform: what would he say about the attack on teacher unions and class size?
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - On Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, too many of our elected leaders are using this day as an opportunity to attack teachers and their unions, and put in a system which would lead to 50 percent of...
Kansas GOP House Speaker 'Prays' That Obama's 'Children Be Fatherless And His Wife A Widow'
thinkprogress.org - Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal (R)ThinkProgress reported last week that Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal (R) was forced to apologize to First Lady Michelle Obama after forwarding an email to fell...
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Support PURE! » For MLK Day – “Put pressure where it really hurts”
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » For MLK Day – “Put pressure where it really hurts”:For MLK Day – “Put pressure where it really hurts”by adminLast year on the observance of...
An Urban Teacher's Education: Something to Consider
anurbanteacherseducation.com - The assistant principal’s office is crammed into the corner of the second floor of the nearly ninety-year-old James Monroe Building in the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx. Behind me the door in...
Blog posts on this issue
whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 16, 2012 Browne Education Campus Washington, D.C.9:57 A.M. ESTTHE PRESIDENT: Well, good morning, everybody! AUDIENCE: G...
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Huntsman Says He's Quitting G.O.P. Race
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - January 15, 2012, 9:18 pm By JEFF ZELENYCHARLESTON, S.C. — Jon M. Huntsman Jr. informed his advisers on Sunday that he intends to drop out of the Republican presidential race, ending his candidacy ...
New York State faces losing $1 billion in federal education funds over teacher evaluation issue
nydailynews.com - Albany — New York is on notice: The feds are threatening to yank nearly $1 billion in education funding unless the state adopts a new teacher evaluation system.Senior members of U.S. Education Secr...
Donors Gave as Santorum Won Earmarks
nytimes.com - The announcements flowed out of Rick Santorum’s Senate office: a $3.5 million federal grant to Piasecki Aircraft to help it test a new helicopter propeller technology; another $3.5 million to JLG I...
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Study of Retail Workers Finds $9.50 Median Pay
nytimes.com - Retail workers in New York City earn a median of $9.50 an hour, most are part-time or temporary, and just 3 in 10 receive health insurance through their jobs, according to a new study of the city’s...
Cablevision Workers Lead MLK Day March as Disparities Fuel Union Drive
labornotes.org - Kester Charter has heard the promises before, but this time he isn’t biting. “Cablevision said they would look into wages at other companies, make ours competitive, upgrade the retirement,” says th...
Occupy the Neighborhood
dissidentvoice.org - An electronic database called MERS has created defects in the chain of title to over half the homes in America. Counties have been cheated out of millions of dollars in recording fees, and their t...
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Environmental science students spread the word
davisenterprise.com - Part of any Regional Occupational Program is community outreach, and students in Ann Moriarty’s environmental science class at Davis High School did just that last week, visiting North Davis Elemen...
On Getting Rich as a Tree Hugger
dissidentvoice.org - I’m tired of being a tree-hugger. I’m tired of being called a radical by the Prime Minister for signing up to speak at the Enbridge Pipeline/Tanker Giga-Project hearings. I’m tired of being skinny ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. and education reform: what would he say about the attack on teacher unions and class size?
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - On Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, too many of our elected leaders are using this day as an opportunity to attack teachers and their unions, and put in a system which would lead to 50 percent of...
