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Drowning In A Rising Tide Of…
takingnote.learningmatters.tv - “The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.” Surely everyone recognizes the five-w...
An Invitation to Respond to Your Data Report – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Feb. 23, 2012, 10:55 a.m. Under a court order based on the Freedom of Information Law, the New York City Department of Education plans to soon release its Teacher Data Reports — individual ratings ...
No Team Left Behind
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - February 23, 2012 (GBN News): Signaling a new flexibility in his signature Race to the Top program, Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced today that he is giving local school districts greater ...
Shanker Blog » Public Schools Create Citizens In A Democratic Society
shankerblog.org - Our guest author today is Jeffrey Mirel, Professor of Education and History at the University of Michigan. His book, Patriotic Pluralism: Americanization Education and European Immigrants, publish...
Shame Is Not the Solution
nytimes.com - Seattle LAST week, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that teachers’ individual performance assessments could be made public. I have no opinion on the ruling as a matter of law, ...
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Testing expert points out severe flaws in NYS exams and urges parents to boycott them this spring!
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Many recent columns have pointed out the fundamental flaws in the new NY teacher evaluation system in the last few days: by Aaron Pallas of Columbia University; Carol Burris, Long Island principal...
At the Department of Education, Warm Snow Falls Up - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - As the Simpson family prepared to travel south of the equator to Brazil, Homer revealed some misconceptions. In opposite land, according to Bart's father, "warm snow falls up." Reading the latest p...
Other People's Children
withabrooklynaccent.blogspot.com - Hello Michael Moore and Matt Damon! I have a title for a new movie we would like you to make about the corporate school reform movement. We could call it "Other People's Children" because no school...
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There's No 'I' in 'Congress'
online.wsj.com - Mitt Romney is inevitable again, although his detractors can take heart that he's been inevitable before and it's never lasted. That's another way of saying we agree with the conventional wisdom th...
Board Closes All 17 Schools!
teachersforjustice.org - Tonight, Feb 22, 2012, at about 6:15 PM, the appointed Board of Education of the city of Chicago closed, phased out, and turned around all 17 schools on their chopping block without a dissenting vo...
Bible class: Arizona House says OK in high schools
latimes.com - Some Arizona lawmakers want to allow high schools to offer a class on the Bible's historical and cultural influence. Here, a personalized Bible is used during a class at a women's prison in Minneso...
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NY1 Exclusive: Mother Says Her Autistic Son Was Abused Twice In A Manhattan School
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. A teacher's aide is back in the classroom, even ...
Immaculata starts committee to evaluate policies after volunteer allegedly videotaped students in shower
nj.com - SOMERVILLE — Immaculata High School has commissioned a special independent committee to evaluate the school’s policies of ensuring the safety and security of students in the wake of the last month’...
Former Beverly Hills school superintendent gets 60 days in jail
latimesblogs.latimes.com - The former schools chief in Beverly Hills was sentenced Thursday to spend 60 days in jail for misappropriating public funds. Jeffrey Hubbard, who was the schools superintendent in Beverly Hills bef...
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The noise of change
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday he’s sensitive to the “noise associated with change.” -- Sun-Times Somehow the words, "sensitive" and "Rahm" just don't sound right in the same sentence. Chicago's ...
$80.35 Million in Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Funds Now Getting Redirected to State Budgets
news.firedoglake.com - I’m trying to keep a running tally of the direct funds to states from the foreclosure fraud settlement that will get diverted to General Funds to fill budget holes. When we last left this story, Ma...
Politicians Increasingly Dancing With Billionaires Who Brung 'Em
ourfuture.org - Our politicians are doing and saying increasingly incomprehensible things. The separation from regular people is unbelievable. But in politics you "dance with the one that brung ya," and these thin...
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In Reality and Film, a Battle for Schools
nytimes.com - LOS ANGELES — On Tuesday officials in Adelanto, a California desert town, are set to consider whether parents there can be the first to take over a failing public school under a new state law that ...
Hollywood vs. reality — Joanne Jacobs
joannejacobs.com - Adelanto parents attempt to take control of their failing school was rejected by the Desert Trails school board last night. Seventy percent of parents in the Southern California town had signed the...
Where did she go? Emily Alpert Former Voice of San Diego Reporter Joins the LA Times - FishbowlLA
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 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 S...
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Republic Windows, redux? Workers occupy Goose Island plant
chicagotribune.com - Former workers at the now-shuttered Republic Windows and Doors plant at 1333 N. Hickory Avenue, seen here at their sit-in at the Goose Island plant on Dec. 9, 2008. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Trib...
Reward offered for runaway science class balloon near O.C. airport
latimesblogs.latimes.com - February 23, 2012 | 8:39 am An Orange County high school is offering a $100 reward for a 30-foot-long balloon that floated away from a science class and raised alerts at a nearby airport. The adva...
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Summary of Budget and Interim Report Status
cde.ca.gov - Summary of disapproved budgets and negative and qualified certifications for local educational agencies. Fiscal Year Disapproved Budgets Totals (1) Budget Review Committee Fiscal Year Totals (2) Ne...
Third of California school kids in financially distressed districts
blogs.sacbee.com - What You Should Know About Comments on Sacbee.comSacbee.com is happy to provide a forum for reader interaction, discussion, feedback and reaction to our stories. However, we reserve the right to de...
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The Crane Deal's A Crock
schooltechconnect.com - I started to regret saying anything positive about the Crane “deal” the instant I heard that Rahm had praised it. In the very same nanosecond, I started to worry that the deal won't be what it seem...
