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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...
Teen Unemployment Remains Sky-High in New Numbers « Student Activism
studentactivism.net - December’s unemployment rate, announced this morning, was 7.9% for women, 8.0% for men. But it was 8.5% overall. Who’s missing? Teenagers. The unemployment rate for Americans aged 16 to 19 was a st...
Using Slaves to Teach Math, or Sometimes The Blatant Ignorance & Insensitivity Make Me Tired
moniselseward.com - This article about a Beaver Ridge Elementary teacher using slavery ‘examples’ in a Math word problem is yet another reason why I have ‘put the brakes’ on my commentary rants about public education....
Know Your Rights
ed.gov - OCR enforces several Federal civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination in programs or activities that receive Federal funds from the Department of Education. These laws prohibit discrimination...
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...
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Thanks2Teachers Why I don't believe that school is a child's most important job -goo.gl/RMexd #edchat #elemchat #edu#teachers #education20 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite
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Report: Does money matter in education? - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - The answer to the often-debated question — Does money matter in providing a quality education? — is yes, according to a new report that reviewed research on the subject. To someone not steeped in s...
Here We Go Again « InterACT
accomplishedcaliforniateachers.wordpress.com - Big news today in education policy and research – or was it? The Gates Foundation-funded Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project continues to update its research findings, and continues to arg...
One Study Does Not a Policy Make
jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - And so it begins: one working paper comes out - a study that hasn't even been published yet in an academic journal - and we're supposed drop all the previous high-quality research about the unrelia...
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Zion-Benton District 126 teachers strike for second day
abclocal.go.com - January 6, 2012 (ZION, Ill.) (WLS) -- For the second day in a row, classes are canceled for thousands of Zion-Benton high school students as teachers and district officials work to hammer out a n...
Clergymen Are Among Arrested Protesters
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - Updated, 6:26 p.m. | Four pastors, including a member of City Council, were among seven men arrested Thursday morning in front of the city Law Department during a protest of the city’s ban on allow...
Majority of Minnesota Teachers Working Without Contracts
modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2012/01/majority-of-minnesota-teachers-working.html"; Teachers in over 200 Minnesota school districts are currently working without contracts, accordin...
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10 Truisms for 2012 - Arlington, VA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post
edge.ascd.org - As we head into 2012, here are ten truisms to keep in mind: The rules have changed What worked 50 years ago does not apply today. If your current strategies are no longer getting you the results ...
Two Good Online Video Games For English Language Learners
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - I’ve previously written about how I use online video games as a language-development activity for my ELL students. Here are two new games, along with links to their walkthroughs (instructions on ho...
Nobody Doesn't Like Sandra Lee
nyceducator.com - Hi folks! I'm Sandra Lee, hostess of Food Network's best show, Semi-Homemade, and soulmate of none other than NY State Governor Andrew Cuomo! I have to tell you though, New Year's Day with Andy was...
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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...
Headlines for January 06, 2012
democracynow.org - New U.S. Defense Strategy Emphasizes Asia-Pacific, Drone WarfareThe Obama administration has unveiled a new military strategy billed as a move toward a leaner, streamlined global U.S. force. In "Su...
Balloon Juice » What Mitt Romney’s Free Market Looks Like
balloon-juice.com - by John ColeVia Greg Sargent, this Reuters piece is a must read:The young men in business suits, gingerly picking their way among the millwrights, machinists and pipefitters at Kansas City’s Worldw...
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Music sales milestone: digital surpasses physical
econsultancy.com - Print Posted 06 January 2012 10:00am by Patricio Robles with 0 commentsIt's been more than a decade since Napster sent the music industry into a tailspin, and record labels are still adapting to th...
Euro Collapse and the American Impact
huffingtonpost.com - The questions that I most often receive as a Brit commentating in America are: why is the Euro a mess, will it survive 2012 and if it doesn't, how does it impact America? This is normally accompani...
Corporations at Risk From Social Media Adoption Issues
huffingtonpost.com - While many people are finding it challenging to make time to manage multiple social networks, many businesses are faced with even steeper challenges. Connecting with friends is one thing, while man...
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Nicki Minaj and Lil' Wayne Honored as 'Teachers of the Year'
educationnation.com - What does a teacher need to do in order to better reach their students? As educators across the country continue to scramble to answer this question and improve the learning experience of schoolchi...
The Best Resources For Learning About Rube Goldberg Machines
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Jul 13 2011 Larry Ferlazzo Rube Goldberg machines are incredibly complex machines designed to do one simple task. They’re a lot of fun to build and to watch, and offer engaging ways for students to...
How ‘Sh*t White Girls Say to Black Girls’ Blew Up the Internet
ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com - It’s been a whirlwind 48 hours for Franchesca Ramsey. The 28-year-old New York-based graphic designer and comedian posted her hit video parody “Shit White Girls Say…to Black Girls” on Jan. 4, and i...
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Music sales milestone: digital surpasses physical
econsultancy.com - Print Posted 06 January 2012 10:00am by Patricio Robles with 0 commentsIt's been more than a decade since Napster sent the music industry into a tailspin, and record labels are still adapting to th...
Facebook Nearing The Release Of 'Actions'; Integrate Frictionless Sharing Onto Site
simplyzesty.com - Facebook is gearing up to include frictionless sharing on their site by integrating various actions user take across the web into the social network. According to VentureBeat, such actions would fu...
2011 DCPS suspicious erasures decline– so do test scores
rheefirst.com - Written by Bill Turque for The Washington Post. Read the entire article here. “That’s a drop of nearly 50 percent from 253 classrooms in 2009. The 128 classrooms represent less than 3 percent of t...
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Switch to weighted funding, local control
toped.svefoundation.org - By Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing to overhaul how K-12 schools are funded, starting with next year’s budget. The move to a “weighted pupil funding” formula would vastly simplify the current complica...
Kenzo Shibata: Education Reform: Where's the Debate?
huffingtonpost.com - The phrase "education reform" has been co-opted to mean a narrow party program advocated by the reform establishment (mainly billionaires and their designees) that includes a barrage of testing, ch...
2011 DCPS suspicious erasures decline– so do test scores
rheefirst.com - Written by Bill Turque for The Washington Post. Read the entire article here. “That’s a drop of nearly 50 percent from 253 classrooms in 2009. The 128 classrooms represent less than 3 percent of t...
