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value-added teacher ratings invaluable - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - New York City officials recently delivered a priceless gift to schoolchildren and their parents: They released ratings for about 18,000 public school teachers that showed which ones helped students...
Pension, Pension, who wants a Pension – Steven Adamowski this is your lucky day. - Wait, What?
jonathanpelto.com - jonpeltoBudget Cuts, Education, Malloy Budget cuts, Education Reform, Malloy 21 Comments Are you sitting down? No really… I think you should sit down for this one. Governor Malloy’s “Education Ref...
Teachers union to lawmakers: Jindal voucher plan unconstitutional
nola.com - One of the state teachers unions' top officials is pressing ahead with his argument questioning the legality of Gov. Bobby Jindal'sproposal to use Louisiana's public school financing formula to giv...
for the love of learning: Fraser Institute: Data mongers
joebower.org - Fraser Institute: Data mongers I was reading Student awards cut to foster teamwork in B.C., Alberta when I came across this: “Competition is a mechanism by which to encourage excellence among stude...
Bronx Students Walk Out of Class to Protest Charter Co-Location Plan - DNAinfo.com
dnainfo.com - LONGWOOD — When several dozen students at Schomburg Satellite Academy High School heard the 12:05 bell ring Friday afternoon, rather than meander to their next class, they stood up, pulled out neon...
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The Mind Trust: The Celebrity-Corporate-Government Plan To Privatize Indiana Education
my.firedoglake.com - When former NBC Today Show co-host Jane Pauley walked out onto a stagein her birth city, Indianapolis, a year ago, some in the audience, including Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony ...
Wendy Lecker: Evaluation system will compound problems - StamfordAdvocate
stamfordadvocate.com - Amid all the talk of the proposed teacher evaluation system, one major effect is not being discussed -- the exponential increase in standardized tests that these evaluations demand. The proposed sy...
Gregory Michie: What Value Is Added by Publicly Shaming Teachers?
huffingtonpost.com - Just when you think the climate of disrespect for teachers can't get any worse, it does. This past weekend, the Chicago Tribune's editorial board urged Illinois parents to demand that the state emu...
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Tense fight over ‘parent trigger’ bill ends in defeat for supporters - Florida - MiamiHerald.com
miamiherald.com - TALLAHASSEE -- The well-financed, politically savvy backers of the parent trigger bill thought it would be a sure thing. In the end, it came down to a dramatic, last-minute vote in the sharply divi...
Tense fight over ‘parent trigger’ bill ends in defeat for supporters - Florida - MiamiHerald.com
miamiherald.com - TALLAHASSEE -- The well-financed, politically savvy backers of the parent trigger bill thought it would be a sure thing. In the end, it came down to a dramatic, last-minute vote in the sharply divi...
New CPS schools chief and teachers union president meet - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Tribune reporter Incoming schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard had his first meeting with Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis Monday, and here's the good news--neither...
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Activists Seek To Curtail Restraining Students
foxnews.com - WASHINGTON – Tens of thousands of students, most of them disabled, are strapped down or physically restrained in school, and disability advocates hope that a new Education Department report detail...
On Anschutz, Villaraigosa, LAUSD Privatization Candidates, and Riding Dinosaurs
dissidentvoice.org - [A] Bizarro World, where the richest and most powerful people in the U.S. are cast as a plucky band of selfless rebels fighting for the civil rights of poor children of color, while dedicated and o...
Imperfect justice system greets sex assault victims at universities - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - By Stacy St. Clair, Jodi S. Cohen and Todd Lighty, Tribune reporters When a 19-year-old University of Notre Dame freshman first went to campus police to file a sexual assault report in late Novembe...
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WEEKLY ADDRESS: Investing in a Clean Energy Future
whitehouse.gov - WASHINGTON, DC— In his weekly address, President Obama spoke to the American people from a factory in Petersburg, Virginia about the growing trend of companies creating more jobs in the United Stat...
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Six Reasons Rewards Don't Work
edutopia.org - Dr. Richard Curwin is the director of the Master's program in Behavior Disorder at David Yellin College in Jerusalem and the author of 20 books related to motivation and behavior, includingDiscipli...
