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The values behind ‘value-added’
takingnote.learningmatters.tv - Does the current push for “Value Added” measures mean that education has finally figured it out, or is this yet another silver bullet that will fail — and perhaps do more harm than good along the w...
How to a Spot a Manufactured Crisis - Gapers Block Mechanics
gapersblock.com - by Katie OsgoodI recently discovered that my alma mater, New Trier High School, did not make AYP (Annual Yearly Progress) mandated by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act this year. (See here for th...
Follow up on Fire First, Ask Questions Later « School Finance 101
schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - Many of us have had extensive ongoing conversation about the Big Study (CFR) that caught media attention last week. That conversation has included much thoughtful feedback from the authors of the s...
JamesBoutin's Blog | Teacher Leaders Network
teacherleaders.org - Over the past weekend, a group of Washington State teachers participated in a multi-prompt asynchronous chat around the creation and use of new systems of teacher evaluation in the Seattle area. Af...
An Assault on the Right to Protest
huffingtonpost.com - On Monday, I had the honor of joining in our nation's celebration of the life and legacy of one of the great protesters of the last century. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. marched, and led historic ma...
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Historian Timuel Black’s ‘incredibly varied’ papers now open to public viewing - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - BY KARA SPAK Staff Reporter/kspak@suntimes.com January 18, 2012 6:20PM Black historian and author Timuel Black talks about the great migration during a 207 interview. Photo by Jean Lachat/Sun-Times...
Duncan: It's Time to Create Race to Top for Districts - Politics K-12
blogs.edweek.org - Flush with $550 million in new Race to the Top money, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said he intends to use the vast majority of it to design a new competition just for school districts.In...
School Tech Connect: On Data, and Fundamentalism
schooltechconnect.com - I stopped teaching kids English at the end of the of the 2004-2005 school year to become a testing coordinator and media specialist, and then administrator and finally, a computer guy. I'm trying t...
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See how well your school district pays its teachers, superintendent - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News
sacbee.com - The average teacher salary last year was $67,871, a decrease of 0.1 percent from 2010, according to new state figures. The average superintendent salary last year was roughly $159,000, also essenti...
Private-sector lobbyists stand to collect public-sector pensions - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - BY THE BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION January 19, 2012 12:02AM storyidforme: 24381136 tmspicid: 6254329 fileheaderid: 1651707 Updated: January 19, 2012 9:12AM Township Officials of Illinois is a pr...
Food stamp families to critics: Walk in our shoes
northjersey.com - Some have advanced degrees and remember middle-class lives. Some work selling lingerie or building websites. They are white, black and Hispanic, young and old, homeowners and homeless. What they ha...
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Rahm's retreat was phony
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Protesting the mayor's latest assault on free speech. With protesters chanting “We vote no” outside, a compliant city council approved Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to deny First Amendment rights to ...
The 50 Most Powerful People in Washington D.C.: Politics: GQ
gq.com - 1. Eric CantorVirginia Representative, House Majority LeaderThe Republican whom Democrats—especially Obama—hate most. The Virginia Congressman masterminded, and then masterfully carried out, the GO...
Big Hollywood's Big Copyright Defeat
motherjones.com - One draft for a "blackout screen" for Wikipedia, which plans to "go dark" on Wednesday in protest of two Hollywood-backed copyright bills pending in the US Congress. WikipediaOnly two American indu...
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Are You Kidding Me? Another Month of Job Losses? |
bluecheddar.net - I have mixed feelings about the ease of my self-assigned task of reporting Wisconsin’s employment data in the worst light possible. Obviously it hurts to see so many Wisconsinites still looking for...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 19, 2012 Walt Disney World Resort Orlando, Florida12:40 P.M. ESTTHE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! (Applause.) I am glad...
Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott
tomscott.com - Contents Not VerifiedIt seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there's no similar labelling system ...
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Benefits of high quality child care persist 30 years later
educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - Ω Adults who participated in a high quality early childhood education program in the 1970s are still benefiting from their early experiences in a variety of ways, according to a new study. The stud...
A year ago today, House Repub’s Tried to Repeal the Affordable Care Act. What If They Had Succeeded? « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - Statistics from The White House: If the Republican’s repealed the ACA Here are some of the statistics about what WOULD have happened if Congressional Republicans had succeeded in repealing the Affo...
Doctors Prescribe Doses of Fruit to Fight Childhood Obesity
baycitizen.org - Brittany Schell, Oakland North The California Healthy Food Financing Initiative could help bring produce stands and other sources of healthy food to under-served communities. If the doctor ordered ...
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Technology funds still out of reach for DISD years after scandal | Dallas ISD Blog
dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com - Dallas ISD hasn't fully recovered from a 2005 scandal that rocked the district, landed its technology chief in prison and resulted in the forfeiture of millions in federal technology funds.A commit...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 19, 2012 This morning, President Obama will sign an Executive Order and announce new initiatives to significantly increas...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 19, 2012 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and...
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Education Will Get You a Job! But We're Cutting Education
commondreams.org - We're often reminded that education is the key to adapting to globalization and changing technologies. Reports from Georgetown University, the New York Times, and the Brookings Institution cite the...
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iPads And Digital Textbooks Do Not Belong In Classrooms Yet
techcrunch.com - I do not want my children learning math proofs on iPads. I simply do not see the value in it. iPads will not help with identifying sentence clauses or writing an essay. There’s a place for interact...
