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Are Rising Test Scores in Connecticut School Districts Related to the Exclusion of Students with Disabilities? (January 2012)
ctkidslink.org - Robert Cotto, Jr., M.Ed.This report finds that the exclusion of thousands of students with disabilities from reported Connecticut Mastery Test results has distorted reported trends in test scores. ...
City schools get $4m arts programs boost
articles.boston.com - A study in 2009 said that the availability of arts instruction varied greatly from school to school, with opportunities dwindling as students moved to higher grades. Since the district launched the...
Common school program reduces signs of bullying
reuters.com - By Kerry Grens NEW YORK | Wed Feb 8, 2012 2:17pm EST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A widely implemented school program aimed at improving kids' behavior helps to slow the increase in bullying during ...
Good Reasons and Bad Reasons « School Finance 101
schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - Current reformy rhetoric dictates that we MUST CLOSE FAILING SCHOOLS! That we must close those schools that are dropout factories or have persistently low achievement levels on state assessments. A...
Applying the Success of NCLB to the Improvement of Interscholastic Football
dailykos.com - NCLB: The Football Version 1. All teams must make the state playoffs and all MUST win the championship. If a team does not win the championship, they will be on probation until they are the champio...
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Detroit To Close 9 Schools, Convert 4 To Charters
huffingtonpost.com - Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Roy Roberts announced a big shake-up in the district Wednesday, closing nine schools next year and converting four into charters, to save $7.5 million in an...
Do Value-Added Estimates Match Up With Teachers' Opinions Of Their Colleagues?
shankerblog.org - A recent article about the implementation of new teacher evaluations in Tennessee details some of the complicated issues with which state officials, teachers and administrators are dealing in adapt...
The Test Generation
prospect.org - On exam day in Sabina Trombetta's Colorado Springs first-grade art class, the 6-year-olds were shown a slide of Picasso's "Weeping Woman," a 1937 cubist portrait of the artist's lover, Dora Maar, w...
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RI education commissioner opposes bill that would prevent high-stakes testing | Breaking News | providencejournal.com
news.providencejournal.com - PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Two state lawmakers known for their advocacy for disabled and minority students have filed a bill that would prevent the use of standardized tests to decide whether a student re...
City Clerk yanks stickers over gang sign flap despite mom’s plea - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - BY KIM JANSSEN AND FRAN SPIELMAN Staff Reporters February 8, 2012 2:06PM Jessica Loor, mother of student Herbert Pulgar, creator of the winning City Sticker, talks with media at his school, Lawren...
Protesters Rally Against Closures To No Avail
ny1.com - To view our videos, you need toenable JavaScript. Learn how.install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. The United Federation of Teachers and Occupy the...
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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS - 'Another One Bites the Dust'
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS:CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS WEBSITECHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALSA compilation of news articles about charter schools which have been charged with, or are highly suspected of, tamperin...
What This Teacher Means By Whole Child Education | The Jose Vilson
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - What This Teacher Means By Whole Child Education | The Jose Vilson:What This Teacher Means By Whole Child Educationby JoseOn Monday, I finally handed in my second quarter grades, still dizzy from t...
School Tech Connect: The Time Is Now For Crane
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: The Time Is Now For Crane:The Time Is Now For Cranenoreply@blogger.com (Tim) Feb 9, 2012 7:40 PM - Show original item...to hit the phones.1-713-553-1500Ask for Jean Claude Briz...
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Poll: NYers don’t trust Bloomberg to protect students’ interests
gothamschools.org - New York City residents won’t be appointing Mayor Bloomberg as students’ chief lobbyist any time soon. Nearly twice as many New Yorkers trust the teachers union to protect students’ interests than ...
U.S. Chamber of Commerce begins multi-million dollar ad campaign in congressional races - Election 2012
washingtonpost.com - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a multi-million dollar ad blitz in House and Senate races across the country on Thursday.Thomas Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Joshua Robe...
Libya Struggles to Curb Militias as Chaos Grows
nytimes.com - TRIPOLI, Libya — As the militiamen saw it, they had the best of intentions. They assaulted another militia at a seaside base here this week to rescue a woman who had been abducted. When the guns fe...
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Asthma and Indoor Air Quality in Schools - Letters (CA Dept of Education)
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Asthma and Indoor Air Quality in Schools - Letters (CA Dept of Education):Asthma and Indoor Air Quality in SchoolsJoint letter from the California Department of Education and the California Departm...
Depressed Kids May Be Targets for Bullying, Study Suggests
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - New research challenges notion that bullying leads to mental health woes.Children with depression are at increased risk for bullying, the results of a new study suggest.The finding challenges the w...
Hispanic Teen Births 2-3 Times Higher Than Other Ethnic Groups
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 12:12 pm, February 9, 2012 Photo Credits: Latina Teen Pregnancy Teen pregnancies have declined dramatically in the United States since their peak in the early 1990s, as have the births...
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K12 4Q profit tumbles 46 pct as costs rise
businessweek.com - HERNDON, Va. Educational software provider K12 Inc. said Tuesday that its fiscal second-quarter net income fell nearly in half on higher costs. Profit was less than half of what analysts expected a...
Attorney General Harris agrees to settlement
sacramentopa.blogspot.com - California Attorney General Kamala Harris and 48 state Attorneys General just announced a $25 billion settlement with the banks that will be a down payment on the debt owed to homeowners and commun...
The Harris Claim: Side Deals and Numbers
news.firedoglake.com - “Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Secures $18 Billion California Commitment for Struggling Homeowners,” the headline blares. But wait: the foreclosure fraud settlement is only a total of $25 billi...
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us1.campaign-archive1.com - Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Florida Politicians have hit our public schools hard this session. Here are two special-interest driven bills that are making committee stop...
Big Education Ape: 2-9-12 PM Who will turnaround the turnarounds? EDition #CORPWELFARE #EDREFORM
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Eduardo Marti - Administrators CUNY
cuny.edu - On July 1, 2010, the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York appointed Eduardo J. Marti as the first Vice Chancellor for Community Colleges. An experienced educator who has led several...