Saturday, April 21, 2012

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Commissioner King Statement on The Hare and the Pineapple

oms.nysed.gov - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 20, 2012For More Information Contact: Tom Dunn, Jonathan Burman or Jane Briggs (518) 474-1201www.nysed.gov STATEMENT FROM EDUCATION COMMISSIONER JOHN B. KING ON THE HARE...
DianeRavitch

Sending Out an SOS - Bridging Differences

blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,HELP!!! SOS!!! "Reformed" schools are literally becoming reform schools for the poor. It's a sign of "the future" as some people envision it. Although, of course, these are not the schoo...
mikeklonsky

Testing the Teachers

nytimes.com - There’s an atmosphere of grand fragility hanging over America’s colleges. The grandeur comes from the surging application rates, the international renown, the fancy new dining and athletic faciliti...
DianeRavitch

Taking Emotions Out of Our Schools

nytimes.com - FRANZ KAFKA wrote that “a book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us.” I once shared this quotation with a class of seventh graders, and it didn’t seem to require any explanation. ...
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Get rid of the 3 p.m. school day

washingtonpost.com - School hours in the United States were developed during the 19th century, in part to allow students to help their families with farm work in the afternoon. We are no longer an agrarian economy, but...
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Quick Study

courant.com - About 60 college students rallied at the state Capitol Thursday evening to support education reform as part of a national non-profit group called Students for Education Reform.When Michael Daley wa...
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Controversial Policy Group Casts Long K-12 Shadow

edweek.org - Published Online: April 20, 2012In nearly 40 years of legislative advocacy, the American Legislative Exchange Council—a free-market, limited-government group now drawing intense scrutiny for its su...
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Quinn’s pension reform: AP

iearegion28.wordpress.com - 20 Apr April 20, 2012 (SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) — Gov. Pat Quinn wants to raise the retirement age for Illinois public employees and require them to contribute more money to their retirement funds. Those...
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"Underfunded": Let's kill this poisonous euphemism

illinoisntu.ning.com - Let's stop referring to state financial obligations as "underfunded" things. The media loads our brains with euphemisms. "Collateral damage." "Mistakes were made." "We must look to the present prob...
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Dare the council stand up to autocrat Rahm?

illinoisntu.ning.com - "We've debated this long enough. I'm not in the position of analysis. I'm in the position of getting things done." -- Rahm to his council  Scientists have discovered signs of life in Chicago's city...
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Bail Hearing This Morning for Gunman in Martin Shooting

nytimes.com - SANFORD, Fla. — A bail hearing began on Friday morning for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who was arrested last week on second-degree murder charges in the shooting death of Tra...
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Missouri Teacher Forced 6-Year-Old To Sit In Her Diarrhea

huffingtonpost.com - Lisa Skidmore, mother of a kindergarten student at Southwest School in Washburn, Mo., is outraged after her daughter's teacher forced her to wrap a trash bag around herself and sit in her own diarr...
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Tragic Double-Slaying in Las Vegas Family

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 12:15 pm EST, April 20, 2012 This Monday when a 9-year-old arrived at school in the morning he told his teachers that his father had killed both his mother and older sister that very m...
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Headlines April 20, 2012 Whole Show | First Story >

democracynow.org - Levon Helm has died at the age 71 after a battle with cancer. He was a drummer and singer in Bob Dylan’s backup band, which later became the legendary musical group known simply as "The Band." Levo...
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