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The Cruel Hoax of “Choice” With Charter Schools | Seattle Education

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The Cruel Hoax of “Choice” With Charter Schools | Seattle Education:The Cruel Hoax of “Choice” With Charter Schoolsby seattleducation2011Karran Harper Royal, a Founding Member of Parents Across America, works as an Education Advocate in New Orleans. She is the Assistant Director of Pyramid Community Parent Resource Center and the former Training Coordinator for the New Orleans Parent Organizing Network. Her work at Pyramid involves providing one on one support to parents of children with disabilities and conducting workshops to help ... more »

Prospective college students fear proposed aid cuts in California - latimes.com

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Prospective college students fear proposed aid cuts in California - latimes.com:Budget plan would raise the bar for Cal Grant financial aidPart of Gov. Jerry Brown's plan would raise the minimum GPA needed to qualify for the two types of Cal Grants, which are merit- and income-based. The aid is key for many low- and middle-income students.Comments11Share0Edgar Flores-Villalobos, a senior at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, fills out a form for college financial aid. He would like to attend ... more »

Wanted: Common Core Stories « Cooperative Catalyst

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Wanted: Common Core Stories « Cooperative Catalyst:Wanted: Common Core Storiesby Adam BurkAfter the big splash of Common Core Standards coming on the education scene there’s been a notable silence since they have begun to roll out.I’m looking for stories of how these new standards are playing out in schools for better, the same, or worse. I began asking as we pulled new calendars out of their plastic wrapping and hung them where 2011 used to be.So far I have heard ...more »

Daily Kos: 10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free

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Daily Kos: 10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free:10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the freeby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)is the title of this op ed by Jonathan Turley in today's Washington Post, which is a must read.I urge everyone to read it and pass it on and then scream bloody hell.Here are his ten reasons, each of which is backed up with detail, as I will illustrate with only one.Assassination of U.S. ... more »

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Denied Educational Equity or Discriminated Against by LAUSD?- Perdaily.comBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-1 hour agoDenied Educational Equity or Discriminated Against by LAUSD? (Negó la Equidad Educativa o discriminados por el LAUSD? por L. Joanne Tachera) by L. Joanne Tachera - Perdaily.com:Denied Educational Equity or Discriminated Against by LAUSD? (Negó la Equidad Educativa o discriminados por el LAUSD? por L. Joanne Tachera) by L. Joanne Tacheraby Leonard Isenberg(Mensaje se repite en Español)(For a national view of public education reform ... more »

Missouri Education Watchdog: Republicans Applauded by a Democratic Lawmaker for Supporting Obama's Educational Agenda

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Missouri Education Watchdog: Republicans Applauded by a Democratic Lawmaker for Supporting Obama's Educational Agenda:Republicans Applauded by a Democratic Lawmaker for Supporting Obama's Educational Agendaby stlgretchenOn the heels of our last posting, Republicans are Supporting the Federal Takeover of Education, a blogger in Nashville confirmed (from a Democratic congressman's lips) the alliance of conservative Republican legislators and Obama's educational plan. From Enclave:Democrat Jim Cooper celebrates conservatives supporting President Obama on charter schoolsCongressman Jim ... more »

Hechinger Report | How to measure teacher effectiveness fairly?

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Hechinger Report | How to measure teacher effectiveness fairly?:How to measure teacher effectiveness fairly?by Justin SniderIn the age of accountability, measuring teacher effectiveness has become king. But it’s not enough merely to measure effectiveness, according to many leading thinkers and policymakers; personnel decisions—from pay and promotions to layoffs and outright firings—should be based on teacher-effectiveness data, they say.The Obama administration’s Race to the Top competition brought renewed attention to teacher evaluation, as did The New Teacher Project’s 2009 landma... more »

Denied Educational Equity or Discriminated Against by LAUSD?- Perdaily.com

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Denied Educational Equity or Discriminated Against by LAUSD? (Negó la Equidad Educativa o discriminados por el LAUSD? por L. Joanne Tachera) by L. Joanne Tachera - Perdaily.com:Denied Educational Equity or Discriminated Against by LAUSD? (Negó la Equidad Educativa o discriminados por el LAUSD? por L. Joanne Tachera) by L. Joanne Tacheraby Leonard Isenberg(Mensaje se repite en Español)(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)PARENTS: Does your child's teacher and school have the resources ... more »

Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top late Early Evening Posts #ows #edreform 1-14

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Grumpy Educators: Florida: Parent, community member, and tax payer opposition strengthensBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-25 minutes agoGrumpy Educators: Florida: Parent, community member, and tax payer opposition strengthens:Florida: Parent, community member, and tax payer opposition strengthensby SandraFlorida legislators introduced a Parent Trigger bill, calling it the Parent Empowerment Act. Under the bill, parents and teachers could vote to turn a public school into a charter school if 51% agree and the local elected school board has no say in ... more »

Elk Grove Citizen : News

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Elk Grove Citizen : News:Elk Grove teachers union to host education activist’s speech, Jan. 20By Citizen staffPublished: Friday, January 13, 2012 2:35 PM PST Diane Ravitch, a nationally renowned public education advocate, will be speaking at the Sacramento Convention Center on Jan. 20.The Elk Grove Education Association, which represents teachers in the Elk Grove Unified School District, is hosting the event, “An Evening with Diane Ravitch.”Ravitch wrote the book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System and ... more »

Top Content this Week - The Educator's PLN #edreform #edchat

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Top Content this Week - The Educator's PLN:Top Content this WeekTop Content Rank1No Chicken or Egg ChoiceAdded by Thomas Whitby on January 11, 20122Josh Stumpenhorst, 2012 Teacher of the YearAdded by Thomas Whitby on January 5, 20123EdchatAdded by Shelly Terrell on October 17, 20094Favorite FREE Web 2.0 AppsPosted by Thomas Whitby on November 23, 20115Bring it on 2012: A Resolution Worth KeepingAdded by Anne Beck on January 5, 20126To Compute or Not to Compute?Added by Mark White on October 27, ... more »

Capitalists: Venture vs. Vulture | MyFDL

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Capitalists: Venture vs. Vulture | MyFDL:Capitalists: Venture vs. VultureBy: dakine01 Saturday January 14, 2012 11:48 am Tweet Author’s Note: Please take a few minutes and Join the Firedoglake Membership Program today. FDL provides the tools that help me and others extend our reach with our rants so we need to support FDL when we can.So there I was, surfing around the intertoobz this morning when I came across this headline at CNN:Stop vilifying venture capitalistsI have to admit, I was ... more »

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Randy Dorn Comes Out Against Charter Legislation

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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Randy Dorn Comes Out Against Charter Legislation:Randy Dorn Comes Out Against Charter Legislationby Melissa WestbrookFrom OSPI, Randy Dorn on Education Reform:January 2012 - State Superintendent Randy Dorn is pleased that education reform will be front and center during the 2012 legislative session. Dorn believes – and hopes legislators agree – that discussions around education reform must be mindful of the Supreme Court’s January 6 ruling on McCleary v. State, which held that the state isn’t providing ... more »

Missouri Education Watchdog: Republicans are Supporting the Federal Takeover of Education. How to Register Your Displeasure with the Republican Leadership.

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Missouri Education Watchdog: Republicans are Supporting the Federal Takeover of Education. How to Register Your Displeasure with the Republican Leadership.:Republicans are Supporting the Federal Takeover of Education. How to Register Your Displeasure with the Republican Leadership.by stlgretchenThis picture of Obama, Arne Duncan and Jeb Bush illustrates the bipartisanship present in the current educational reforms pushed by the current administration. We keep asking the question: Why are Republicans backing the federal centralization of education? Aren't Republicans supposed to be t... more »

Mother Crusader: Reviewer #1 and the Smoking Gun

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Mother Crusader: Reviewer #1 and the Smoking Gun:Reviewer #1 and the Smoking Gunby darciecimaOn Thursday Tikun Olam lead applicant Sharon Akman was quoted as saying that she did not misrepresent anyone's position. Yesterday I detailed that even if she is trying to claim former Edison Mayor Jun Choi and Assemblyman Peter Barnes flip-flopped on her, despite the fact that she never bothered to obtain official statements of support from them, how does she explain that Bishop Bootkoski clearly stated St. ... more »

MLK Jr. Day 2012: Organizations v. Community | Dailycensored.com

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MLK Jr. Day 2012: Organizations v. Community | Dailycensored.com:MLK Jr. Day 2012: Organizations v. CommunityWritten by Paul ThomasEducation, PoliticsJan 14, 20120diggShareLet me preface this commentary with a confession: I have lived my entire life in South Carolina, a non-union state, and I have always felt a tug toward a Henry David Thoreau-Groucho Marx-Woody Allen-esque recalcitrance to join anything. That said, I have come to see a powerful and often unspoken distinction between organizations, about which I remain deeply skeptical, and ... more »

Keeping My Feet Under Me and Staying Off My Ass | Lefty Parent

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Keeping My Feet Under Me and Staying Off My Ass | Lefty Parent:Keeping My Feet Under Me and Staying Off My Assby Cooper ZaleMy “day job” (that pays the bills) is working as a “business process consultant” for Kaiser Permanente. Honestly, I have a lot of issues with the U.S. health care industry, particularly the for-profit part of it, because it seems to be more about profiting from illness by selling more pills and procedures than promoting health. KP on ... more »

Grumpy Educators: Florida: Parent, community member, and tax payer opposition strengthens

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Grumpy Educators: Florida: Parent, community member, and tax payer opposition strengthens:Florida: Parent, community member, and tax payer opposition strengthensby SandraFlorida legislators introduced a Parent Trigger bill, calling it the Parent Empowerment Act. Under the bill, parents and teachers could vote to turn a public school into a charter school if 51% agree and the local elected school board has no say in the matter. However, in a combined statement, these Florida parent groups have come out publicly opposing the legislation:Florida ... more »

#edreform : Cotton Fields

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Tim Tebow’s unusual education - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

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Tim Tebow’s unusual education - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:Tim Tebow’s unusual educationValerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 1 hour agoTim Tebow’s life story is now familiar to football fans, who know this about the Denver Broncos quarterback: * He was born in the Philippines to Christian missionaries. * His mother was very ill while pregnant with him and was urged by doctors to have an abortion, but she refused. Read full article Report: We still don’t ... more »