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Diane Ravitch: Embattled teachers need support, not more testing - Lodi News
lodinews.com - Diane Ravitch believes public school teachers are getting bashed for problems beyond their control. She's strongly critical of standardized testing, which she says is corroding public education, no...
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...
A Tale of Two Rockaway School Closings (With Apologies to Charles Dickens) How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other NYC Educator: A Fine Day for a Sellout Is Tenure a Strike Issue?Moskowitz Aims Charters at Wealthy- So
ednotesonline.blogspot.com - NOTE: PS 215 closing school hearing Friday at 6 PM Support them on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SavePS215Email messages about keeping PS 215 school open at D27Proposals@schools.nyc.gov or call...
Brown wants smaller role for U.S., state in local schools
latimes.com - Deviating sharply from education reform policies championed by President Obama, California Gov. Jerry Brown is calling for limits on standardized testing and reduced roles for federal and state gov...
No longer joint between UFT and city, Danielson trainings go on
gothamschools.org - A training session about the city’s favored teacher evaluation model went off as planned on Tuesday — but without the involvement of the city, which had worked with the teachers union on event. Sin...
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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...
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...
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...
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Rahm caught using astroturf protesters to support school privatization
democraticunderground.com - Rahm Emanuel has been a fierce advocate of school ''reforms'' that any Republican would be proud of, and now he's borrowing another page from the right wing play book by busing in paid protesters w...
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...
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...
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Newt Gingrich wanted 'open marriage,' ex-wife says
cnn.com - Ex-wife: Gingrich wanted 'open marriage'(CNN) -- Newt Gingrich offered his second wife a choice of an open marriage or a divorce when he revealed to her he was having an affair with the woman he la...
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 ...
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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You’ll Do Fine | California Father
californiafather.com - I need to put a new connector on a cable that plugs an antenna into my video camera, so I go to a place called Electronic City in Burbank. The guy there doesn’t have the correct connector but can o...
The Bold & Self-Sufficient Occupiers of Flint, Michigan
dissenter.firedoglake.com - Occupy Flint There are about forty to fifty Occupy encampments left in the United States. But, as I found out during a demonstration against Governor Rick Snyder’s emergency manager law on Martin L...
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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Students disrupt UC regents in Riverside to protest cuts
latimesblogs.latimes.com - January 19, 2012 | 11:12 am Students protesting budget cuts temporarily disrupted the UC Board of Regents meeting Thursday in Riverside, at one point forcing officials to move to another room. Abou...
Protesters briefly trap regents inside building at UC Riverside
latimesblogs.latimes.com - After their meeting at UC Riverside was over Thursday afternoon, some UC regents and officials were trapped inside a campus building for two hours as a noisy demonstration outside blocked vehicles ...
Ed Dept. seeks public input on cheating
boston.com - WASHINGTON—The Education Department wants the public's input to develop guidelines to prevent and detect cheating. The effort comes after several cheating scandals involving teachers.The department...
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Clean Air – Another Project for the Mom Committee « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - Every day, moms across the country get together – as teams, task forces, coffee klatches, etc. – to discuss, plan and organize projects and activities for the benefit of their families, schools and...
Today's Teamster News 01.19.12
teamsternation.blogspot.com - Indiana Democrats show no sign of ending boycott Associated Press ...Most Indiana House Democrats aren’t showing signs of ending their boycott over the right-to-work bill despite threats of $1,0...
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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...
Big Education Ape: 1-19-12 PM The values behind ‘value-added’ EDition #P2ED #ELEARNING
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Big Education Ape: Ed News Now: Big Education Ape: Ed News NowPublished by Coopmike48 – 8 news spotters todayNext update in about 11 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONSOCIETYPOLITICSSTORIESHEA...
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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...
Big Education Ape: 1-19-12 PM The values behind ‘value-added’ EDition #P2ED #ELEARNING
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Big Education Ape: Ed News Now: Big Education Ape: Ed News NowPublished by Coopmike48 – 8 news spotters todayNext update in about 11 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONSOCIETYPOLITICSSTORIESHEA...
