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Supporters of Public Education to Occupy Department of Education
onenewspage.us - drannitabjones RT @tchrpeg: SUPPORTERS OF PUBLIC EDUCATION TO OCCUPY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - education reform,education,reform http://t.co/tiZqR3mB 2 days agodapapa4x SUPPORTERS OF PUBLIC EDUCATI...
Education secretary urges other governors to follow Cuomo’s lead | Vote Up!
blogs.democratandchronicle.com - In a statement today, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan praises the agreement New York officials reached on teacher and principal evaluations and appears to indicate the state is no longer at ri...
Ex-employee sues Kenilworth operator | News
theadvocate.com - A former employee of Pelican Educational Foundation, which runs Kenilworth Science and Technology School in Baton Rouge, claims the foundation fired her in February 2011 for telling state officials...
Chicago News Cooperative to suspend operations
articles.chicagotribune.com - A screenshot from a video of a Chicago News Cooperative staff meeting. (Image via chicagonewscoop.org)The Chicago News Cooperative, a non-profit news organization launched in 2009 to add another vo...
Warren: Charter’s Discipline Fines Crude, Misguided
chicagonewscoop.org - As Newt Gingrich urges putting students to work as paid school janitors, a Chicago charter network may one day mull having them pay to sweep and clean toilets. Goodbye, corporal punishment. Hello, ...
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Students Learn Differently. So Why Test Them All the Same? – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Feb. 17, 2012, 5:11 p.m. We teachers have been hearing for years about “differentiated instruction.” It makes sense to treat individuals differently, and to adapt communication toward what works fo...
Grading the Teacher, Judging the Test
nytimes.com - To the Editor: Re “Cuomo Brokers Deal on Rating State Teachers” (front page, Feb. 17): If the goal is great teachers, the new evaluations are a giant step in the wrong direction...
SD Unified moves massive bond plan forward
utsandiego.com - The San Diego Unified School District is moving forward with plans to float a $2.5 to $2.8 billion bond measure on the November ballot to generate revenue to repair and upgrade schools — and free u...
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"It takes a process to fail a child" -- Piccolo 7th grader
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - A. Klonsky photo "We need our school. If they've got the funding, give us the money and we'll do what we've got to do for Brian Piccolo." -- Parent Nedra Martin. Piccolo is just one of ten CPS scho...
Piccolo Parents Call Victory After School Occupation | Occupied Chicago Tribune
occupiedchicagotribune.org - A sign posted outside of the occupied Piccolo elementary school. Photo by Joe Macaré. by Rosa Trakhtensky Nearly twenty-four hours after the occupation of Brian Piccolo Specialty School on Chicago’...
Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - On the front door of Brian Piccolo Elementary School, Chicago. Our favorite barista is back from a trip to Spain. As we were having our coffee, she brought by her boyfriend from Argentina and intro...
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Alec Baldwin calls Breitbart a ‘festering boil on the anus of public discourse’ « The Fifth Column
kaystreet.wordpress.com - I have never been a real big fan of Alec Baldwin. However, that has all changed since reading this headline on the Raw Story. I have tweeted Andrew Breitbart a few times telling him what I thought...
What Can Teachers Learn From Target?
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Today’s New York Times Magazine has a pretty scary article about how the retail giant Target tracks what’s going on in the lives of customers and uses that information to get us to buy more stuff f...
School Tech Connect: Occupy #twill #soschat #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Occupy #twill: Occupy #twill by noreply@blogger.com (Tim) I've been in the suburbs all day, at the fabulously managed Students in Technology Conference at Stephe...
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NY newspaper man Richard Blood dies at 83
boston.com - NEW YORK—Richard J. Blood, a former city editor at the New York Daily News who nurtured a generation of young journalists while teaching for more than two decades at the Columbia University School ...
Plan calls for Malcolm X site to house graduate students
boston.com - The now run-down Roxbury home where Malcolm X lived in the 1940s would be renovated and turned into housing for graduate students in African-American studies or related fields, under a new agreemen...
Generous bequest of nearly $392,000 lifts spirits at Pacoima Middle School
dailynews.com - Khadijeh Haghani, pictured above, had never been to Pacoima Middle School, but she learned of it through friends Harry and Azar Sagheb of Encino. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer)When Pacoima...
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Charges Are Dropped for 14 Demonstrators
nytimes.com - Judge Neil Ross’s courtroom had just come to order on Friday morning, and the first defendant of the day stood at a wooden table facing the bench. A prosecutor for the Manhattan distric...
Naked girl eating from trash cans shocks Temecula neighbors
latimesblogs.latimes.com - February 18, 2012 | 7:20 am Neighbors in Temecula expressed shock after seeing a 12-year-old girl walking naked through a neighborhood and eating out of trash cans. Neighbors noticed the girl roa...
Chancellor Vows to Fire Those Guilty of Sexually Abusing Students
nytimes.com - Hoping to quell anxiety after three members of the teaching staff were arrested and accused of sexual crimes involving students, Dennis M. Walcott, New York City’s schools chancellor, ordered a rev...
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New CPS schools chief and teachers union president meet - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Tribune reporter 6:39 p.m. CDT, May 9, 2011 Incoming schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard had his first meeting with Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis Monday, and he...
THE SYRIAN DILEMMA | Dailycensored.com
dailycensored.com - Saul Landau How to evaluate events in Syria and what to do? Syria borders on Turkey (north), Iraq (east), the Mediterranean (west), Lebanon (south and west), Israel (Golan Heights) and Jordan (sout...
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Can’t Wait to Have Students Read This | Outside the Cave
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Can’t Wait to Have Students Read This | Outside the Cave:Can’t Wait to Have Students Read Thisby Stephen LazarThere’s an interesting op-ed in Thursday’s New York Times, “Why China’s Political Model...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 2-18 #soschat #ReclaimingReform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - LAUSD Supt. John Deasy addresses Miramonte sex-abuse allegations - latimes.com Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 52 minutes ago LAUSD Supt. John Deasy addresses Miramonte sex-abuse ...
School Tech Connect: Occupy #twill #soschat #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Occupy #twill: Occupy #twill by noreply@blogger.com (Tim) I've been in the suburbs all day, at the fabulously managed Students in Technology Conference at Stephe...
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 2-18 #soschat #ReclaimingReform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - LAUSD Supt. John Deasy addresses Miramonte sex-abuse allegations - latimes.com Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 52 minutes ago LAUSD Supt. John Deasy addresses Miramonte sex-abuse ...