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Teachers Want to Lead Their Profession's Transformation
edweek.org - Published Online: February 7, 2012Published in Print: February 8, 2012, as Teachers Want to Lead Their Profession's TransformationCommentary ByGeneviève DeBose, Claire Jellinek, Greg Mullenholz, Sh...
Cleveland students hold their own with voucher students on state tests
blog.cleveland.com - The push is on to expand school voucher programs in Ohio, but new state data suggests that students who attend private schools with the help of taxpayer-funded vouchers don't necessarily fare bette...
Does The DOE Really Dump "Low Achieving Students" Into The Large Struggling Schools? You Better Believe That They Do!
chaz11.blogspot.com - I am now in one of those large struggling schools that Mayor Bloomberg has threatened to make a "turnaround school" and eliminate 50% or more of the teaching staff. However, unlike the real "closi...
New staff arrives at Miramonte – USATODAY.com
usatoday.com - LOS ANGELES – Two days after school officials announced they were removing all the faculty and staff at a school where two teachers were arrested for allegedly abusing students, new teachers began ...
Like the Ideas, Not the Execution – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Feb. 8, 2012, 7:59 a.m. This Wednesday morning brings bad reviews for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on his legacy issue: his handling of the New York City public schools. A Quinnipiac University poll ...
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Shanker Blog » A Look Inside Principals' Decisions To Dismiss Teachers
shankerblog.org - Despite all the heated talk about how to identify and dismiss low-performing teachers, there’s relatively little research on how administrators choose whom to dismiss, whether various dismissal opt...
AUSL's turnaround model of school reform achieves mixed results - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - Over the last decade, a nonprofit teaching academy with strong political ties has launched an education revolution inside Chicago Public Schools, tearing down and rebuilding some of the city's wors...
Texas schools chief calls testing obsession a ‘perversion’ - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - The Republican education commissioner of Texas, Robert Scott, might not be the first person you’d think would find common ground with California’s Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, but Scott has savaged...
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Court Strikes Down Ban on Gay Marriage in California
nytimes.com - LOS ANGELES – A federal appeals court panel ruled on Tuesday that a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in California violated the Constitution, all but ensuring that the case will proceed to t...
Santorum Tells Sick Kid Not To Complain About $1 Million Drug Costs Because People Pay $900 For An IPad
thinkprogress.org - While campaigning yesterday in Woodland Park, Colorado, GOP contender Rick Santorum told a sick child and his mother that they shouldn’t complain about the exorbitant cost of his medication because...
Morning CheckUp: February 8, 2012
thinkprogress.org - Obama budget to include Medicare/Medicaid cuts: “The president will propose cutting spending on Medicare, the federal health program for the elderly, and Medicaid, the joint federal-state program f...
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Workers & Working Families “Welcome” Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker Today. Naples, FL « Continuing Change
gatorbonbc.wordpress.com - February 8, 2012 by gatorbonbcWisconsin … SW Florida residents and Wear Red for Ed has joined with the AFL CIO and many other activists/organizations to rally/protest the visit of Wisconsin’s Gov S...
Finding Purpose, and NYC, at Washington Irving HS
edwize.org - [Editor's note: The author is a social studies teacher at Washington Irving HS, Manhattan. He delivered the following speech at the Jan. 31 public hearing on Irving's proposed closure.] I began tea...
Moving from Traditional Teaching to PBL
edupln.ning.com - For me, PBL is the only way to go. I teach Architecture and Engineering Drafting at Wheeler High School. I tire of having to teach the basics in a step by step manner, but it is a necessary evil. O...
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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 ...
Live Updates From Minnesota, Missouri & Colorado
huffingtonpost.com - Appearing on Fox News this evening, Herman Cain advised the remaining candidates in the Republican field to tone down the nastiness or risk an enthusiasm gap against Obama in the fall. I don't like...
State lawmakers unleash a whole lot of crazy
teamsternation.blogspot.com - Jim Hoffa in Madison last year.It's becoming an annual ritual when state Legislatures convene in January. The corporate quislings who somehow got elected file anti-worker bill after anti-worker ...
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Sesame Street Welcomes Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor,VIDEO
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 2:39 pm, February 8, 2012 Photo Credits: Sesame Street Welcomes Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor stopped by Sesame Street last week to have t...
Beaverton School District says elementary student with 'hit list' is not a threat
oregonlive.com - The Beaverton School District has determined that a boy found with a "hit list' is not a threat to the students or staff at Bethany Elementary. The district had suspended the boy, who is in the upp...
Wood Middle School teacher Susan Asher dies after falling in classroom last week
oregonlive.com - Susan Asher, a seventh grade social studies teacher at Inza R. Wood Middle School, has died after being hospitalized from a fall in her classroom last Thursday, Principal Barb Soisson announced to ...
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Whistleblower Hotline Contact Data - Compliance Program
thyssenkrupp.com - The ThyssenKrupp Whistleblower Hotline is available to employees of the ThyssenKrupp Group to report possible infringements of laws or policies, in particular antitrust violations and corruption, a...
Warren: FHFA Must Help With Principal Write-Downs
news.firedoglake.com - Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor, consumer advocate and candidate for US Senate in Masachusetts, said today that the Federal Housing Finance Agence (FHFA) must increase their actions on beha...
Occupy the DOE in DC Schedule: March 30th to April 2nd, 2012 | United Opt Out National #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Occupy the DOE in DC Schedule: March 30th to April 2nd, 2012 | United Opt Out National:OCCUPY THE DOE IN DC SCHEDULE: MARCH 30TH TO APRIL 2ND, 2012Our schedule is up! It is subject to revision. P...
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RheeFirst! » Michelle Rhee adds anti-immigration state Alabama to her portfolio
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - RheeFirst! » Michelle Rhee adds anti-immigration state Alabama to her portfolio:Michelle Rhee adds anti-immigration state Alabama to her portfolioby adminWritten by Karoli for Crooks and Liars. Rea...
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Headlines
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Higher Education Headlines:SUNO Reaches 94 Percent of Pre-Katrina EnrollmentLatest articles - 9 minutes agoSUNO president Victor Ukpolo said he credits aggressive recruitment efforts and good relat...
Scottsboro Alabama Schools Trample the 1st Amendment With Bible Man
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Freedom From Religion Foundation has complained to the Jackson County Alabama School Board that elementary school students are attending school assemblies to hear Bible Man tell stories from th...
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A View From And On Iran: Obama’s New “Diplomacy”
owsnews.org - I just returned from attending a conference in Iran. I kept getting asked about Occupy activism. It seems to be getting more coverage in their media, including PRESS TV, than in our own. Here’s a r...
Occupy the DOE in DC Schedule: March 30th to April 2nd, 2012 | United Opt Out National #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Occupy the DOE in DC Schedule: March 30th to April 2nd, 2012 | United Opt Out National:OCCUPY THE DOE IN DC SCHEDULE: MARCH 30TH TO APRIL 2ND, 2012Our schedule is up! It is subject to revision. P...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top 2-8 AM Posts #edreform #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - SHOCKER! State Rules in Favor of Charter Schools USA and its Well-Connected CEO Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 4 hours ago SHOCKER! State Rules in Favor of Charter Schools USA an...