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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The Texas Two-Step -- Cut budgets, increase class size

2012-Mar-16

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The Texas Two-Step -- Cut budgets, increase class size: The Texas Two-Step -- Cut budgets, increase class sizebyMike Klonsky"I try to meet their needs. I'm not sure I am anymore," says Sara Estrada, who has been teaching for 27 years, says of her pre-kindergarten class at Lion Lane School in Houston, which has grown to 25 students even as it lost its full-time teacher's aide.--Houston ChronicleRahm Emanuelloves the way they do schooling in Texas. Time and ...

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Beyond personal pain, teacher layoffs have rippling effects on schools | EdSource Extra!

2012-Mar-16

Beyond personal pain, teacher layoffs have rippling effects on schools | EdSource Extra!: ""Beyond personal pain, teacher layoffs have rippling effects on schoolsMarch 15th, 2012 |Add a CommentBySue FreyandLouis Freedberg~ EdSource ExtraOf all the budget-cutting remedies that school districts have to undertake, laying off teachers — or even the threat of being laid off — has a rippling effect on schools and students that goes far beyond the pain being experienced by individual teachers faced with losing their jobs.Layoffs create ...

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New York’s Common Core Pre-K Standards: They’re Not Kidding Around | Dailycensored.com

2012-Mar-16

New York’s Common Core Pre-K Standards: They’re Not Kidding Around | Dailycensored.com: New York’s Common Core Pre-K Standards: They’re Not Kidding AroundWritten bysusanoDaily Journal (Opinion),Education,Media,PoliticsMar 16, 20120diggShareAn angry New York City parent of a preschooler got my attention on Twitter. “Are you f**king kidding me?” she wrote. “I may just quit my job and home-school my daughter.”I wondered what on earth could be so terrible. I soon found out: the New York City Department of Education’s “Common Core–aligned tasks embedded ...

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For The Love of Self, Get Yourself Checked Out | The Jose Vilson

2012-Mar-15

For The Love of Self, Get Yourself Checked Out | The Jose Vilson: For The Love of Self, Get Yourself Checked OutbyJoseFor my thirtieth birthday, I got myself two ties, a blue cardigan, a metallic grey collared shirt, and an appointment for a general doctor.The latter item didn’t come so easy, either. The last time I went to the doctor, it was because I had a serious heart scare that turned out to be nothing … but stress, and too ...

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Harvard Business Review asked what could be done to improve education. So I Responded. | The Classroom Sooth

2012-Mar-15

Harvard Business Review asked what could be done to improve education. So I Responded. | The Classroom Sooth: Harvard Business Review asked what could be done to improve education. So I Responded.byclassroomsoothHere’s my response to Sarah Green’sarticle. We’ll see if it get’s approved, anyway.“Here’s what I would do:1) Kill Testing Culture- high-stakes tests inhibit creativity and curricular innovation, and are used as a blunt weapon for judging students, educators, and schools leading to the label “failure.” This was the one ...

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LAUSD: WE WILL NOT SCREW TEACHERS..."EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY LAW" - Perdaily.com

2012-Mar-15

LAUSD: WE WILL NOT SCREW TEACHERS..."EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY LAW" - Perdaily.com: LAUSD: WE WILL NOT SCREW TEACHERS..."EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY LAW"byLeonard Isenberg(Mensaje se repite en Español)(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)LAUSD has issued over 9500 "rif" notices (reduction in forces) at the beginning of this week. If other threatened LAUSD employees are added to this number of rifs, that number balloons to well over 11,000. While the mainstream media soft ...

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MomsRising Blog #parents

2012-Mar-15

MomsRising Blog: I can sleep again thanks to health reformDeidre BagockiatMomsRising Blog-9 minutes agoMy son was born with a genetic disorder called Williams syndrome. His health care costs totaled $1 million before he turned two. The night the Affordable Care Act passed was the best night’s sleep I’d had since he was diagnosed. Shame on any presidential candidate who says he will repeal this act if elected. We [...]Thanks to the ACA, my daughter is safe from losing coverageElaine CornettatMomsRising ...

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Education Research Report: Beyond The #Classroom: Drexel University Study Looks at Teachers on Twitter

2012-Mar-15

Education Research Report: Beyond The #Classroom: Drexel University Study Looks at Teachers on Twitter: Beyond The #Classroom: Drexel University Study Looks at Teachers on TwitterΩTeachers are stretching Twitter’s reach to more than just 140 character quips according to a new study by The iSchool at Drexel University researchers. The study, entitled “Grassroots Professional Development: How Teachers Use Twitter” suggests that teachers are molding Twitter from its common perception as a social medium for sharing personal information and observations, to a .