Professor: Educating New Jersey's impoverished kids costs more - NorthJersey.com
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Professor: Educating New Jersey's impoverished kids costs more - NorthJersey.com:Professor: Educating New Jersey's impoverished kids costs moreSUNDAY JANUARY 1, 2012, 12:58 PMBY GEOFF MULVIHILLASSOCIATED PRESSASSOCIATED PRESSPAGES: 1 2 3 DISPLAY ON ONE PAGE | PRINT | E-MAILOne in a periodic series on efforts to remake New Jersey's education system.NEW BRUNSWICK — A scholar who studies and blogs about education finance says improving the state's urban schools will take more money — and that merit pay is not likely to help.Bruce ... more »
Jersey Jazzman: I Take a Day Off On Vouchers
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Jersey Jazzman: I Take a Day Off On Vouchers:I Take a Day Off On Vouchersby DukeWhy should I do battle yet again with Tom Moran and the Star-Ledger editorial page? So many others are knocking down today's ridiculous piece cheering on vouchers that I'm taking the day off!Here's NJ Parents Against Christie's School Cuts:The assertion that it's ok to hand public money to religious institutions for education as long as we let parents choose which ones is utterly wrongheaded. Why ... more »
Jersey Jazzman: Who Gets a "Superstar" Teacher?
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Jersey Jazzman: Who Gets a "Superstar" Teacher?:Who Gets a "Superstar" Teacher?by DukeThe NY Times writes about merit pay in post-Rhee Washington, D.C.:“The most important role for incentives is in shaping who enters the teaching profession and who stays,” said Eric A. Hanushek, a professor of economics at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. “Washington’s incentive system will attract talented teachers, and it’ll help keep the best ones.” Under the system, known as Impact Plus, teachers rated “highly effective” earn bonuses ... more »
Profits before students with charter schools | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
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Letters: Profits before students with charter schools | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:Profits before students with charter schoolsKurt Strazdins/McClatchy-TribuneFILED UNDEROpinionLetters To The EditorCharter SchoolsRick SnyderGrosse PointeNow that Gov. Rick Snyder has lifted the cap on charter schools, we can expect to see a rise in for-profit companies running schools under the "authority" of universities.In case anyone thinks charter schools are still "public" because they are run by universities, read the print in Senate Bill 618, which lists the kinds of ... more »
School Tech Connect: Let's Get On With It
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School Tech Connect: Let's Get On With It:Let's Get On With Itby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney last night at Evanston SPACE. Another hilarious show. After the show, I raced back home before the fireworks started because they terrify the dog. Really, throughout the course of the year, there are any number of events that terrify the dog.Now back to another year of calling out Arne Duncan
New Year’s Day links. « Fred Klonsky
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New Year’s Day links. « Fred Klonsky:New Year’s Day links.by Fred KlonskyNew York Mayor Bloomberg kisses Lady Gaga. Ball drops. H/T Arthur Goldstein.500 Occupy Wall Street protesters briefly took back Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhanttan last night and this morning. “At least a dozen police officers charged into the park, plowing directly into a crowd of people, some of whom were trying to flee, pushing and shoving. One man was thrown down and pinned to the ground by several officers.”“We ... more »
PWCS “Debt” and Budget « PWC Education Reform Blog
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PWCS “Debt” and Budget « PWC Education Reform Blog:PWCS “Debt” and BudgetJanuary 1, 2012 — pwceducationreformEvery year about this time the school division begins preparing its budget for next year. The budget is a little confusing, and with over 100 pages of detail, kind of cumbersome. We’ll try to keep you aware of things we notice as the budget is released. Before we get into the details of the budget we wanted to review one item in particular which is ...more »
What Mayor Bloomberg Kisses When He isn't Kissing Lady Gaga #edreform #ows
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Missouri Education Watchdog: The Sunday Education Weekly Reader 01.01.12. Lady Gaga and A Possum Greet You!
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Missouri Education Watchdog: The Sunday Education Weekly Reader 01.01.12. Lady Gaga and A Possum Greet You!:The Sunday Education Weekly Reader 01.01.12. Lady Gaga and A Possum Greet You!by stlgretchenWelcome to the Sunday Education Weekly Reader for 01.01.12. We are using a different logo today in honor of possums everywhere.Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Happy New Year!Did you stay up until midnight and celebrate the ushering in of a new year? Most folks at home probably had their televisions turned ... more »
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top AM Posts #ows #edreform
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Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin (extended version)Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-0 seconds agoMoody Blues Nights In White Satin LyricsNights in white satin, never reaching the end,Letters I've written, never meaning to send.Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before.Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore.'Cos I love you, yes I love you, oh how I love you.Gazing at people, some hand in hand,Just what I'm going through they can't understand.Some try to tell me, ... more »
Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin (extended version)
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Moody Blues Nights In White Satin LyricsNights in white satin, never reaching the end,Letters I've written, never meaning to send.Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before.Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore.'Cos I love you, yes I love you, oh how I love you.Gazing at people, some hand in hand,Just what I'm going through they can't understand.Some try to tell me, thoughts they cannot defend,Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.And I ... more »
Schools Matter: Protect Your Children's Future by Saying No to High-Stakes Testing
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Schools Matter: Protect Your Children's Future by Saying No to High-Stakes Testing:Protect Your Children's Future by Saying No to High-Stakes Testingby Jim HornPlan for National Opt Out Day, January 7thA New Year is upon us. It is paramount that we make the most of it and organize and ACT to end corporate education reform. We must move out into our neighborhoods, our communities, and support others in understanding the absolute destruction surrounding the tactics of the corporate education reformers. Opting ... more »
The Few Like You Are Still The Few Like You « Cooperative Catalyst
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The Few Like You Are Still The Few Like You « Cooperative Catalyst:The Few Like You Are Still The Few Like YouPOSTED BY PAULA WHITE ⋅ JANUARY 1, 2012 ⋅ LEAVE A COMMENTFollowing up on Pam’s post, “Once Upon a Time We Put a Human on the Moon,” I have to say I agree with much of what she said. In the “olden days,” there were desks in rows, kids doing worksheets, very little choice in assignments, mostly the teacher ... more »
Weekly Address: Working Together in the New Year
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President Obama tells the American people that, by joining together, we can move past the tough debates and help to create jobs and grow the economy in the new year.
4LAKids - WE MUST PRESERVE PUBLIC EDUCATION
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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: WE MUST PRESERVE PUBLIC EDUCATION:WE MUST PRESERVE PUBLIC EDUCATIONOP-ED BY PATRICE APODACA IN THE NEWPORT BEACH DAILY PILOT | HTTP://BIT.LY/RTOTZIDecember 31, 2011 | 6:49 p.m. :: By many measures, 2011 was a momentous year.Osama bin Laden was finally tracked down and killed. The Arab Spring uprisings toppled ruthless regimes. The Eurozone's unity was sorely tested. The Occupy protest movement swept across America.Closer to home, Costa Mesa became a key battleground in ... more »
Occupy Wall Street Ringing in the New Year (LIVE VIDEO) | The Dissenter #ows
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Occupy Wall Street Ringing in the New Year (LIVE VIDEO) | The Dissenter:Occupy Wall Street Ringing in the New Year (LIVE VIDEO)By: Kevin Gosztola Saturday December 31, 2011 10:19 pm Tweet15 Occupy Wall Street is celebrating the New Year in the streets. OccupyWallSt.org has posted a roundup on the website of what has happened thus far tonight. There have been multiple tents. A “tiny tent” went up in Zuccotti Park. People have been jumping barricades at Liberty Park. The police ... more »
Once Upon a Time We Put a Human on the Moon « Cooperative Catalyst
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Once Upon a Time We Put a Human on the Moon « Cooperative Catalyst:Once Upon a Time We Put a Human on the Moonby pamelamoranDespite complaints that NCLB has reduced classrooms to one-size-fits all test prep environments, my perspective is that our classrooms have mostly always been, with a few exceptions, one-size-fits all teaching spaces. In working at all three levels of Pk-12, elementary educators do seem more likely to create spaces where students have resource material choices, opportunities to ... more »
Walking to School: Dear NEA,
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Walking to School: Dear NEA,:Dear NEA,I have a New Year's Resolution for you: Man-up.That's what my students would say. That's much of what your membership seems to be saying. And that's what I implore you to do.I have been a teacher since 1978 and an NEA member for almost as long. But the fact of the matter is that, as I improved in my abilities to teach through an association with other professional organizations (the National Writing Project, The National ... more »
Schools Matter: Occupy the Schoolhouse! #ows
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Schools Matter: Occupy the Schoolhouse!:Occupy the Schoolhouse!by Kathleen LynchTime magazine has named the Protester as 2011’s Person of the Year. However, as I read the Time article reviewing the year in protests and revolutions, I found one critical protest missing from the narrative: the Save Our Schools movement. Aside from some limited coverage around the national march in July, the national media has largely ignored this important protest against the latest education “reform” movement . The Occupy movement, on the ... more »