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Analyzing Released NYC Value-Added Data Part 4
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - Value-added has been getting a lot of media attention lately but, unfortunately, most stories are missing the point. In Gotham Schools I read about a teacher who got a low score but it was because...
High-Stakes Testing 101 | Carroll Gardens Classes & Lectures, School Events, Government, and Family Events on Patch - Carroll Gardens, NY Patch
carrollgardens.patch.com - P.S. 146, The Brooklyn New School/The Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies, 610 Henry St, Brooklyn, NY | Get Directions » FREE Education reporter Meredith Kolodner (Daily News, InsideSchools) ...
Virginia teacher tenure bill dies in GOP-led Senate - Virginia Schools Insider - The Washington Post
washingtonpost.com - Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell’s bill to eliminate tenure-style job protections for public school teachers died Thursday at the hands of the Republican-led Senate. After delaying a decision on t...
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...
This Florida activist not feeling too misinformed or bitter today, jeb. You? #NoTriggerIsAGoodTrigger « Continuing Change
gatorbonbc.wordpress.com - Maybe there was a day… We remember 2010. We remember Jeb robocalling FL residents. We remember him calling us teachers and parents a ‘massive campaign of misinformed’. Now, we remember this year. ...
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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...
Better Test Scores Lead to Better Lives and Strong Economy: Fact or Hunch?
larrycuban.wordpress.com - It is rare that a pundit (and ardent reformer) lays out clearly and crisply the core assumption driving the past thirty years of school reform. It is not only rare but startling when that insider t...
Education Dept.'s incomplete look at school discipline - latimes.com
latimes.com - The big announcement from the U.S. Department of Education implied that schools were unfairly disciplining African American students, and that's how it was played in news reports. "Minority student...
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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...
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...
On Anschutz, Villaraigosa, LAUSD Privatization Candidates, and Riding Dinosaurs
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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...
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...
Right-leaning governors find common ground on school reform with left-leaning President Obama
mlive.com - Is President Obama sort of conservative when it comes to education, or are the nation’s Republican governors starting to lean left? AP's Kimberly Hefling noted that Obama's recent appearance before...
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Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday - latimes.com
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Sunday marks the start of daylight saving time, when clocks are turned forward one hour at 2 a.m. The United States began observing daylight saving time during World War I, seeing it as a way to pr...
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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Sleep deprivation and teens: ‘Walking zombies’ - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
washingtonpost.com - This was written by Vicki Abeles, director of the documentary “Race to Nowhere,”and Abigail A. Baird, associate professor of psychology at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Baird’s primary area o...
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Kyle Olson’s latest target: teaching about Gay and lesbian equality. « Fred Klonsky
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School Tech Connect: IFT Primary Outreach: Kelly Cassidy
schooltechconnect.com - IFT Primary Outreach: Kelly Cassidy I just got the nicest letter from IFT president Dan Montgomery, advising me to vote for Kelly Cassidy, who was endorsed early on by IFTand then later on byIPACE...
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School Tech Connect: IFT Primary Outreach: Kelly Cassidy
schooltechconnect.com - IFT Primary Outreach: Kelly Cassidy I just got the nicest letter from IFT president Dan Montgomery, advising me to vote for Kelly Cassidy, who was endorsed early on by IFTand then later on byIPACE...
