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Kaya Henderson: National standards needed to guide educators in detection, investigation of cheating - D.C. Schools Insider
washingtonpost.com - Chancellor Kaya Henderson has made a practice of avoiding the national spotlight, but Tuesday morning, at an U.S. Education Department symposium on cheating, she stepped up. Henderson called for a ...
How to Demoralize Teachers - Bridging Differences
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah,Two weeks ago, New York state's highest court ruled that the New York City Department of Education could release for public scrutiny the value-added ratings of teachers of mathematics ...
Statement by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
ed.gov - “The shootings at Chardon High School are an unspeakable tragedy, and our hearts go out to the entire community as they grieve this terrible and senseless loss. It’s still too early to know yet why...
Release to press of teacher data has become a rallying cry
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Public debasing of teachers in N.Y. N.Y. Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Cuomo may have won the legal battle to base teacher evaluations on student test scores and publish them in the press. But they may ...
Michelle Rhee's Backers Include Obama Bundler Billionaire, Big Romney Backer
huffingtonpost.com - Rhee with husband Kevin Johnson, the mayor of Sacramento, at the premiere of 'Waiting for Superman.'Politics is once again making strange bedfellows. A top Mitt Romney supporter and one of Barack O...
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Performance Ratings for Charter School Teachers Are Made Public – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Feb. 28, 2012, 4:10 p.m. Performance ratings for 217 New York City charter school teachers were made public on Tuesday but city officials cautioned that because of missing information, the reports ...
A Case for Crumbling Schools
lsba.com - Hear the Echoes No. 37 A Case for Crumbling Schools Gov. Jindal’s Path to Educational Success Louisiana is one of only nine states that provides no support for local school districts in...
The charter school scam
leftbusinessobserver.com - Home Mail Articles Supplements Subscriptions Radio The following article appeared in Left Business Observer #127, June 2010. Copyright 2010, Left Business Observer. Like this? Subscribe today! Ther...
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Anti-Union Bill Back From The Dead In Arizona
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - Nick R. Martin February 28, 2012, 2:35 PM One bill in a series of proposed laws that would devastate public unions in Arizona has come back to life and is set to be debated later today on the floor...
Negotiators Deadlock Over TEACH Eligibility - Teacher Beat
blogs.edweek.org - Federal negotiators have pushed back on the U.S. Department of Education's attempts to tie together the Title II accountability system for teacher preparation with eligibility for the TEACH grant p...
Speed Bumps On The Transvaginal Highway
tbogg.firedoglake.com - Fighting back at the forced birth crowd whose delay, deny, destroy methods, run the gamut from state sanctioned rape to provider murder, and are designed to prevent women from receiving a perfectly...
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Poll Shows Scott Walker In Trouble Against Dems In Recall
2012.talkingpointsmemo.com - Eric Kleefeld February 28, 2012, 12:50 PM Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) could be in a serious fight in the upcoming recall election, according to the new survey from Public Policy Polling (D), with Walk...
At alma mater, ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff discusses his downfall
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Students at Beverly Hills High School gathered Tuesday to hear one of the school's most prominent -- albeit for unusual reasons -- graduates: former lobbyist and convicted felon Jack Abramoff. Abra...
With Release of Teacher Data, Setback for Union Turns Into a Rallying Cry
nytimes.com - In the days leading up to the release of ratings for thousands of New York City public-school teachers on Friday, hundreds of e-mails poured into the in-box of Michael Mulgrew, president of the Uni...
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Dawn Reader: "A Good Coach Is One Who Puts My Kid at Shortstop--and Lets Him Hit Leadoff": Thoughts on teacher quality
dawnreader.blogspot.com - From Mr. Peepers, a 50s TV show about a teacherMuch controversy these days in New York about ratings of public school teachers. Today's New York Times ran a story about the results--and included t...
Clear your Google web history NOW! Why and how educators should do this.
coolcatteacher.blogspot.com - You can go to https://www.google.com/history/ and sign in with your Google account and clear your web history before the March 1 (Thursday) privacy change. You can click "remove all web history." ...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release February 28, 2012 Washington Marriott Wardman Park Washington, D.C.11:30 A.M. ESTTHE PRESIDENT: How's it going, UAW? (Applause....
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Illinois' Budget Deficit: Raising More Revenue Is the Right Solution for Needed Services and Pension Stabilization
teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com - Can Illinois solve its budget problems without creating new revenue? The answer is no. If expenditures must at least equal revenues, then what needs to be done is to enhance the state’s sources ...
Flush with cash, Apple unveils plan to shift 700,000 jobs to United States
obrag.org - CUPERTINO, CALIF. — Giving new meaning to corporate social responsibility, Apple Inc. announced it is “bringing home” more than 700,000 manufacturing jobs currently held by workers in foreign count...
The Ongoing Housing Crisis and the End of an Era)
robertreich.org - Economic cheerleaders on Wall Street and in the White House are taking heart. The US has had three straight months of faster job growth. The number of Americans each week filing new claims for unem...
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To The Point - KCRW
kcrw.com - To the Point can be heard on the following stations: ARKANSAS: El Dorado KBSA 90.9 M-F 3:00-4:00PM CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles Mojave/Antelop Valley Palm Springs/Indio Oxnard/Ventura San Diego Sant...
Christian owner sought for school
boston.com - A Christian university led by the son of the late Jerry Falwell has emerged as a leading contender to take over a 217-acre school campus and 43 buildings tucked away in the Pioneer Valley. The bill...
LAUSD'S LATINO MAJORITY AND REVERSE RACISM (Mayoría latina del LAUSD y racismo a la inversa)
perdaily.com - (Mensaje se repite en Español)(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)The positive American identity is based on a heterogeneous model that has always taken wh...
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Illinois' Budget Deficit: Raising More Revenue Is the Right Solution for Needed Services and Pension Stabilization
teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com - Can Illinois solve its budget problems without creating new revenue? The answer is no. If expenditures must at least equal revenues, then what needs to be done is to enhance the state’s sources ...
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An Open Letter to Nick Hanauer from Bill Lyne
seattleducation2010.wordpress.com - This post has been burning up the internet and I finally slowed down enough to read this brilliant piece thanks to my co-editor Sue Peters who suggested that we publish it. To follow is a post writ...
