Where did she go? Emily Alpert Former Voice of San Diego Reporter Joins the LA Times - FishbowlLA
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Former Voice of San Diego Reporter Joins the LA Times - FishbowlLA:Former Voice of San Diego Reporter Joins the LA TimesBy Matthew Fleischer on January 17, 2012 10:00 AMLooks like former Voice of San Diego reporter Emily Alpert has landed on her feet. Alpert was one of three VoSD journos laid off shortly before the new year due to fundraising shortages at the journalistic nonprofit. According to her Twitter account, Alpert has since moved north to join the LA Times ... more »
All Education Matters: Why America Is Losing the War On Poverty
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All Education Matters: Why America Is Losing the War On Poverty:Why America Is Losing the War On Povertyby Cryn JohannsenHere's a snippet from my latest article, "Why America Is Losing the War on Poverty," at The Loop21.com:Recent figures about poverty in America paint a grim picture about the living conditions of a large majority of Americans. Not only is poverty spreading rapidly, but the chances of escaping it are becoming more difficult, if not impossible. For instance, Timothy Smeeding wrote ... more »
Major Bill Actions in Education - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress
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Education - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress:Bill Sent To President: H.R.3237 SOAR Technical Corrections ActOpen Congress : Major Bill Actions in Education - 12 minutes agoTo amend the SOAR Act by clarifying the scope of coverage of the Act. January 25, 2012: Presented to President.Bill Introduced: H.R.3826 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the reduced interest rate for Federal Direct Stafford Loans.Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Education - 12 minutes agoTo amend the Higher Education ... more »
Weekly Update, January 27, 2012: In Tucson racism is alive and well, Rahm bus(ted) in Chicago and other stories in education | Seattle Education
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Weekly Update, January 27, 2012: In Tucson racism is alive and well, Rahm bus(ted) in Chicago and other stories in education | Seattle Education:Weekly Update, January 27, 2012: In Tucson racism is alive and well, Rahm bus(ted) in Chicago and other stories in educationby seattleducation2011This has not been a slow news week so I’ll get started with all the news that fits.First up, the teachers and students in Tucson. If you haven’t been following this story, I would recommend that ... more »
5 Biggest Lies About the Right-Wing Corporate-Backed War on Our Schools | | AlterNet
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5 Biggest Lies About the Right-Wing Corporate-Backed War on Our Schools | | AlterNet:5 Biggest Lies About the Right-Wing Corporate-Backed War on Our SchoolsThough National School Choice Week has some liberal support, its primary backers are deeply conservative activists whose goal is to dissolve public education in the US.January 23, 2012 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ?Join our mailing list:Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. National School Choice Week, a pet project of big ... more »
Can Codecademy Teach Poor Black & Brown Kids to Code?
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Can Codecademy Teach Poor Black Brown Kids to Code?:Can Codecademy Teach Poor Black Brown Kids to Code?By Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 18, 2012 8:02 PM / 19 CommentsinShare76Share on TumblrUnemployment among youth of color is widespread complex; can a tech education startup change things?The White House announced new participation in a jobs initiative yesterday from fast-growing technical education website Codecademy, as well as some venerable social justice oriented organizations Level Playing Field Institute and College Bound Brotherhood, a group dedicated ... more »
Schools Matter: GUEST BLOG: IDOE–Shrinking State Power to Expose Your Tender Underbelly (UPDATE)
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Schools Matter: GUEST BLOG: IDOE–Shrinking State Power to Expose Your Tender Underbelly (UPDATE):GUEST BLOG: IDOE–Shrinking State Power to Expose Your Tender Underbelly (UPDATE)by P. L. ThomasIDOE–Shrinking State Power to Expose Your Tender Underbelly (UPDATE)by Douglas Storm[UPDATE in the body of the text]Indiana is at the forefront of a concerted and aggressive drive to weaken state power. That sounds good to so many of us, especially those who believe there is a libertarian with a good heart out there. But here’s ... more »
VIDEO: Dallas ISD board meeting turns chaotic before vote to close schools | Dallas ISD Blog | dallasnews.com
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VIDEO: Dallas ISD board meeting turns chaotic before vote to close schools | Dallas ISD Blog | dallasnews.com:VIDEO: Dallas ISD board meeting turns chaotic before vote to close schoolsby Matthew Haag/ReporterThe Dallas school board voted Thursday night to close 11 schools -- but not before the audience taunted and yelled at trustees, police escorted community activist Joyce Foreman from the auditorium and board members moved to another room. It was a chaotic scene, and Tawnell Hobbs captured it all:
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit
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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:TWO L.A. UNIFIED SCHOOLS WIN $100,000 GRANTS FROM TARGETsmf at 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit - 6 hours ago-- Rick Rojas | la tIMES/la nOW | http://lat.ms/yDWdEK January 25, 2012 | 7:42 pm :: Two Los Angeles Unif-ed schools, nominated by viewers of Ellen DeGeneres' daytime talk show, have received $100,000 grants from Target, the district announced Wednesday. Crenshaw High School and Enadia Way Elementary School were two ... more »
Modern School: Data Driven Nonsense--Few Credible Studies of Charter Schools
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Modern School: Data Driven Nonsense--Few Credible Studies of Charter Schools:Data Driven Nonsense--Few Credible Studies of Charter Schoolsby Michael DunnTeachers in the trenches have long suspected that the “data-driven” reforms being shoved down their throats by Gates, Broad, Walton, Obama, Duncan, Rhee, et al, had little credible data to back them up and little hope of improving educational outcomes for their students. An article in the latest issue of Science (reposted on EurekAlert) lends credibility to these suspicions.According to UC San ... more »
Letter From Reynoso Indicates UCD Police Not Cooperating With Investigation #ows
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Letter From Reynoso Indicates UCD Police Not Cooperating With Investigation:Letter From Reynoso Indicates UCD Police Not Cooperating With InvestigationWritten by David GreenwaldWednesday, 25 January 2012 04:20A letter from former Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso sent to UC President Mark Yudof indicates there will be delays in the original timeline. The delay means that Justice Reynoso is now "targeting February 21, 2012 for the release of the report of the Task Force."Mr. Reynoso indicates the changes result "primarily from our negotiations ... more »
Comprehensive, Continuous, and Coherent Assessment « The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education
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Comprehensive, Continuous, and Coherent Assessment « The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education:Comprehensive, Continuous, and Coherent Assessmentby Klea ScharbergOur goal is to educate students who are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged and who are ready for the demands of college, career, and citizenship. Through a combination of assessments of and for learning, such as growth models; portfolios; criterion-referenced tests; norm-referenced tests; computer adaptive assessments; diagnostic evaluations; and formative, interim, and summative assessments; we get a more... more »
NYC Public School Parents: The decline of science education in NYC high schools as shown by the falling number of Intel submissions and semi-finalists
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NYC Public School Parents: The decline of science education in NYC high schools as shown by the falling number of Intel submissions and semi-finalists:The decline of science education in NYC high schools as shown by the falling number of Intel submissions and semi-finalistsby Leonie HaimsonThese posts about the decline of independent science research at NYC high schools – especially at the less selective non-specialized high schools – were written and researched by NYC parents Steve Koss and Melvin Meer. For ... more »
Jersey Jazzman: NOLA: Charter Nirvana
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Jersey Jazzman: NOLA: Charter Nirvana:NOLA: Charter Nirvanaby DukeRick Hess took the week off and left the keys to his blog with Neerav Kingsland, the chief strategy officer for New Schools for New Orleans. His posts this week - here, here, here, and here - are both astonishing and infuriating.Astonishing because they call for a radical upending of public education through the entire country. Infuriating because Kingsland simply ignores the primary issue with charter school expansion:In the following letter I aim ... more »
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top 1-26 Early Evening Posts #ows #edreform
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Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Thursday edition. « Fred KlonskyBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-58 minutes agoLife in Rahm’s Chicago. Thursday edition. « Fred Klonsky:Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Thursday edition.by Fred KlonskyRahm doesn’t think pay-for-protesters is a problem.And his hand-picked board of education seems to have skipped a step. They’re budgeting for turnarounds before all the public hearings and actually taking a vote.The Sun-Times:The mayor was not concerned.“The ministers have a right — who have been long involved in school ... more »
SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Demonstrators Protest Rhee and Corporate Agenda for Schools
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SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Demonstrators Protest Rhee and Corporate Agenda for Schools:Demonstrators Protest Rhee and Corporate Agenda for Schoolsby Duane Campbell“Silent” protestors with their mouths tapedshut confronted Sacramento MayorKevin Johnson and corporate education proponent Michelle Rhee as they entereda carefully promoted andcontrolled discussion abouteducation issues at the Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, 828 I St, in Sacramentoon Wednesday, January 25.Demonstrators held a news briefing with local mediaoutlets. The Sacramento Bee didnot
NYC Public School Parents: Concerns with the MRDC study on small schools released today
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NYC Public School Parents: Concerns with the MRDC study on small schools released today:Concerns with the MRDC study on small schools released todayfrom NYC Public School Parents by Leonie HaimsonMDRC released a study today, which the NY Times writes “appeared to validate the Bloomberg administration’s decade-long push to create small schools to replace larger, failing high schools.” The report mentions the current controversy over the massive number of school closings, here in NYC and across the country, and thus there ... more »
No-Day Lobby Day. « Fred Klonsky
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No-Day Lobby Day. « Fred Klonsky:No-Day Lobby Day.by Fred KlonskyI don’t know why the leaders of the IEA decided not to mobilize teachers for Lobby Day in Springfield this year.I know that their stated reason, that the Capitol building is under renovation, doesn’t make any sense. We have met with Park Ridge State Senator Dan Kotowski in his Capitol building office, in his office when it was in some
Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Thursday edition. « Fred Klonsky
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Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Thursday edition. « Fred Klonsky:Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Thursday edition.by Fred KlonskyRahm doesn’t think pay-for-protesters is a problem.And his hand-picked board of education seems to have skipped a step. They’re budgeting for turnarounds before all the public hearings and actually taking a vote.The Sun-Times:The mayor was not concerned.“The ministers have a right — who have been long involved in school reform, longer school day, turnaround schools, who don’t accept the status quo — to speak up,” ... more »
RheeFirst! » Protesters stage duct-taped “silent protests” on Rhee’s home turf
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RheeFirst! » Protesters stage duct-taped “silent protests” on Rhee’s home turf:Protesters stage duct-taped “silent protests” on Rhee’s home turfby adminA spirited “silent protest” was held in Rhee’s home turf last night. Rhee’s “Town Hall” had advertised itself as open to all Sacramento residents but a member of the public shown here was turned away because she did not belong to StudentsFirst or Stand for Children.Eventually, Rhee and her employees noted the growing number of protesters standing outside with their mouths