Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!
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These Billionaires and Millionaires sure are “Interested” in “Education Reform”
jonathanpelto.com - Mar 25 jonpeltoAchievement First/ConnCAN, Charter Schools, Education, Malloy, Stefan Pryor, Teacher Tenure Achievement First, Charter Schools, ConnCAN, Education Reform, Malloy, Stefan Pryor Some r...
Smiley & West featuring Pasi Sahlberg
smileyandwest.com - West: From PRI, Public Radio International in Princeton I’m Cornel West and this is Smiley & West. Duncan: All of us have to move outside our comfort zone. All of us have to change....
LAUSD Should Fund Schools in Need, Not District Offices
huffingtonpost.com - Dear LAUSD School Board Members, Superintendent Deasy, Secretary Duncan, and President Obama,We all want to provide the educational opportunities for children and our communities. Please help me re...
The Rich Get Even Richer
nytimes.com - NEW statistics show an ever-more-startling divergence between the fortunes of the wealthy and everybody else — and the desperate need to address this wrenching problem. Even in a country that somet...
Momentum Builds for Dual-Language Learning
edweek.org - After reading a story about a Mexican hat dance, 1st grader Ethan Wheeler tries out the dance himself at the Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy in Houston, one of the oldest schoolwide dual-language...
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NYC Teaching Fellows call for overhaul of 12-year-old program as deadline for new batch of teachers nears
nydailynews.com - Like many driven do-gooders who apply for the New York City Teaching Fellows program, Lisa Cunningham wanted to make a difference in the lives of struggling students.“I wanted to put a lot of thoug...
Pilot Districts | slcedu.org
slcedu.org - To develop and launch the services, the SLC is working with school districts in several states that have holistic plans to improve student achievement by addressing curriculum, content, assessments...
In 1933, Chicago's 'irritable teachers' fought city to get paid
wbez.org - Think the Chicago Public Schools have problems today? Think the teachers are treated unfairly?Go back to 1933. The teachers had not been paid regularly in two years. On March 22nd that year, they d...
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Lobbyists, Guns and Money
nytimes.com - Florida’s now-infamous Stand Your Ground law, which lets you shoot someone you consider threatening without facing arrest, let alone prosecution, sounds crazy — and it is. And it’s tempting to dism...
No Limits On Teacher Evaluation Info, Skelos Says
nydailynews.com - State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said Monday there will be no restrictions on the public release of teacher evaluations. Our Ken Lovett reports: The Daily News reported today that the issue...
All Kids To Keep Providing For Undocumented Children
progressillinois.com - An idea for reducing Illinois' health care costs is off the table for now. An Illinois Senate subcommittee rejected last week Sen. Carole Pankau's (R-Itasca) plan to bar undocumented immigrant chil...
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Who's behind 'Stand Your Ground' and school privatization? -- ALEC
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Krugman New York Times columnist Paul Krugman shines his light on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the force behind the so-called "Stand Your Ground" law in Florida and other state...
State budget framework takes shape as final deal nears
gothamschools.org - With a final deal on the 2012-2013 state budget imminent, legislators were racing to hash out the last of several education rifts in a series of closed door negotiations on Monday. State Senate Maj...
State leaders discuss plan to keep teacher evaluations private
nydailynews.com - Susan Watts/New York Daily News "We will fight to ensure teachers' privacy is protected," said state teachers union spokesman Carl Korn. ALBANY — State leaders are quietly discussing a plan that w...
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All Our Problems Solved…Or Not « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Journalist Liza Mundy sees a time, in the very near future, when women will earn more th...
The Best Fun Videos About Books & Reading
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - I’m sure there are plenty of fun videos out there about books and reading, and I hope readers will point me in the direction of others besides the ones on this list. You might also be interested ...
Practice Makes Perfect (maybe) - The Educator's PLN
edupln.ning.com - So I find myself a bit anxious, asking myself, "What am I doing here?" As a brand new blogger, I am embarrassed that I don't know how to do it properly. This has long been a failing of mine and s...
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Obama Relies on Debt Collectors Profiting From Student Loan Woe
bloomberg.com - Enlarge image Debt Collectors Flout Congress to Profit From Ex-Students’ Pain A debt collector for the U.S. Education Department insisted that Oswaldo Campos pay $219 a month on his more than $20,0...
India shows concerns to US over rejection of H1B, L1 visas
democraticunderground.com - 4 Mar, 2012, 10.00PM IST, Ishani Duttagupta,ET Bureau Alexandra Patargia is a 26-year-old civil engineer from Greece. After an engineering degree from Athens, she completed her master's degree in d...
Murdoch firm used hacker site to target pay-TV rival
democraticunderground.com - News Corp owned 49% of NDS at point of sale. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/15/us-nds-cisco-idUSBRE82E0C120120315 Issue affecting ITV Digital was publicised almost exactly 10 years ago. Det...
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A Mother’s Grace and Grieving
nytimes.com - Miami Gardens, Fla. “They called him Slimm.” That is what Sybrina Fulton, the mother of the slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, told me people called her son because he was s...
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 3-26 #soschat #EDReform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - OCCUPY EDUCATION - Education is not for sale from Taiwan to Quebec .. #ows. Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 33 minutes ago OCCUPY EDUCATION - Education is not for sale from Taiw...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top 3-26 AM Posts #soschat #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Melissa Harris-Perry: Standing in solidarity with Trayvon Martin #trayvonmartin Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 19 minutes ago msnbc video: Standing in solidarity with Trayvon M...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution Flags Improbable Test Scores In Analysis
huffingtonpost.com - ATLANTA — Hundreds of school systems nationwide exhibit suspicious test scores that point to the possibility of cheating, according to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.The analy...
