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Did NEA President Dennis Van Roekel really Kiss TFA CEO Wendy Kopp on the lips? #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Did NEA President Dennis Van Roekel really Kiss TFA CEO Wendy Kopp on the lips? Did NEA President Dennis Van Roekel really Kiss TFA CEO Wendy Kopp on the lips is the Wrong Question. The Quest...
Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’ standardized-test scores seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students’ lives beyond acad...
Escaping the constraints of ‘No Child Left Behind’
washingtonpost.com - Arne Duncan is U.S. secretary of education. Ten years ago today, President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act. The law has improved American education in some ways, but it also still has flaw...
The ‘three great teacher’ study — finally laid to rest
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - In today’s New York Times there was a story about a research study which supposedly proved that students who had teachers with good value-added scores were more successful in life. This inspired me...
Fire first, ask questions later? Comments on Recent Teacher Effectiveness Studies « School Finance 101
schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - Yesterday was a big day for big new studies on teacher evaluation. First, there was the New York Times report on the new study by Chetty, Friedman and Rockoff. Second, there was the release of the ...
Give New York State Parents the Right to Opt Their Children Out of High Stakes Testing
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Voucher Program Student Performance | Educate Now!
educatenow.net - In 2008, the Louisiana Legislature passed the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program to provide tuition vouchers to low-income students in Orleans Parish to attend private and paro...
Teachers Decide To Work For Free After Budget Cuts Leave Pennsylvania School District Without Funds For Salaries
thinkprogress.org - A teacher at Chester Upland Schools The Chester Upland School District in Delaware County, Pennsylvania suffered a serious setback when Gov. Tom Corbett (R) slashed $900 million in education funds ...
Economists to teachers: We’ve dropped the “Deselection” and moved straight to “Fire ‘em”
cedarsdigest.wordpress.com - I had a few thoughts about the big teacher quality and VAM study that came out today that I wanted to share before they float away. My thoughts are less about the methods of the study itself and mo...
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California Dream Act foes' petition drive falls short
latimes.com - Jonathan Luna, left, and Yohana Hinojosa participate in a rally supporting the California Dream Act last year. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) By Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times January 7,...
The G.O.P.’s ‘Black People’ Platform
nytimes.com - That didn’t take long. As we’ve gotten around to casting votes to select a Republican presidential nominee, the antiblack rhetoric has taken center stage. You just have to love ...
Arizona school funding withheld over Tucson ethnic studies class
latimes.com - Tucson's Mexican American studies program remains in violation of state law, Arizona's public schools chief ruled Friday, ordering that millions in state funding be withheld from the school distric...
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Reining in Chicago protesters - Chicago Tribune
articles.chicagotribune.com - Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s planned limits on protests, ahead of the G-8… (Nancy Stone, Chicago Tribune)January 06, 2012|By Marilyn KatzUsing May's G-8 and NATO summits as the trigger, Mayor Rahm Emanuel ...
Book Reveals Friction Between Rahm Emanuel, Michelle Obama
huffingtonpost.com - Then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel offered his resignation to President Barack Obama in February 2010 after a series of columns appeared depicting him as the lone element keeping the Obam...
FDL Book Salon Welcomes David Swanson, When The World Outlawed War
fdlbooksalon.com - Welcome David Swanson (Let’sTryDemocracy), and Host Scott Horton (Harper’sMagazine) [As a courtesy to our guests, please keep comments to the book and be respectful of dissenting opinions. Please t...
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Mayor Emanuel: Money for CME, cuts for public libraries
chicagoreader.com - Mayor Emanuel must have got lots of rest on his South American vacation, cause he marched back into town last week supercharged and ready to kick ass—specifically, librarian's ass. Not really sure ...
Goals for 2012 | Just Gabe
justgabe.com - Posted by Gabe on January 5, 2012 under Kids are Heroes |Many people set New Year’s resolutions. I’ve never been a big fan of them. I just try and improve things on a daily basis no matter what tim...
Time is Nothing // Around The World Time Lapse
edupln.com - 17 Countries. 343 Days. 6237 Photographs. One incredible journey. After I quit my job last year, I packed a bag, grabbed my camera and bought a one way ticket to London. 17 countries later, I put t...
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14 wounded in shootings across Chicago - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - Fourteen people were wounded in separate shootings across the city Thursday.Two people were shot at 50 W. 85th Street about 11:45 p.m., just west of the Dan Ryan Expressway, police said.They were s...
Oakland, 2011: An Especially Bloody Year in an Increasingly Violent City
baycitizen.org - Thor Swift For The Bay Citizen Toys, notes and candles at a memorial for 5-year-old Gabriel Martinez in Oakland on Jan. 4, 2012 Five-year-old Gabriel Martinez Jr. died Dec. 30, shot as he played un...
10 wounded, 2 killed in shootings since Friday night
nola.com - At least 10 people were injured, and two killed, in a spate of unrelated shootings Friday night and Saturday morning.Five of those wounded were children, including four teenagers shot after a high ...
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Charter Schools’ New Cheerleaders: Financiers
nytimes.com - When Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo wanted to meet certain members of the hedge fund crowd, seeking donors for his all-but-certain run for governor, what he heard was this: Talk to Joe. ...
Profiles of For-Profit and Nonprofit Education Management Organizations: Thirteenth Annual Report - 2010-2011
nepc.colorado.edu - January 6, 2012 While past annual Profiles reports have focused on either for-profit EMOs or nonprofit EMOs, this is the first annual Profiles report to cover both categories in a single report whi...
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Can Cuomo become the next education governor?
edexcellence.net - yes Peter Meyer / January 6, 2012 Having proved himself the “steamroller” governor that his defrocked predecessor Eliot Spitzer had promised to be, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo strode into a pa...
