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Commentary: New paradigm needed for teacher training | EdNewsColorado

Commentary: New paradigm needed for teacher training | EdNewsColorado:

Commentary: New paradigm needed for teacher training

by Mark Sass

Mark Sass, a teacher since 1994, teaches at Legacy High School in the Adams Five Star School District. He is a member of the Denver New Millennium Initiative.

Many years ago, as I navigated my way through different careers before settling on education, I was a truck mechanic for Ford. I started right out of high school prepping new cars and then worked my way into the apprentice mechanic program. I wanted to work on big trucks. The career path – from apprenticeship to journeyman mechanic – was charted and guided by the union.

According to union procedures, you had to apprentice under the watchful eye of a master mechanic. The length

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Oregon seeks OK to judge schools on overall performance, not success with small groups that typically struggle | OregonLive.com

Oregon seeks OK to judge schools on overall performance, not success with small groups that typically struggle | OregonLive.com:

Oregon seeks OK to judge schools on overall performance, not success with small groups that typically struggle

Published: Sunday, January 08, 2012, 3:00 PM Updated: Sunday, January 08, 2012, 5:14 PM

Oregon schools that serve a concentration of low-income students will face a distinctly different accountability system this fall if the U.S. Department of Educationapproves the state's plan.

Under the federal No Child Left Behind law, Oregon schools that receive federal funds to help disadvantaged students have been judged since 2003 mainly by whether they got enough low-income, special education, minority or limited-English students to pass state reading and math tests.

Schools that didn't -- more than 80 in 2011 -- faced a series of escalating consequences, such as having to offer students a transfer to another school or free private tutoring.

Now Oregon, like many other states, proposes to scrap that system for one that measures success




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NYC Public School Parents: Would I Send My Child To This School? by Bari L. Katz

NYC Public School Parents: Would I Send My Child To This School? by Bari L. Katz:

Would I Send My Child To This School? by Bari L. Katz

by Leonie Haimson
This article was written by a member of the team that founded the Achievement First charter high school in NYC, cross-posted with minor changes from the WE-CAN website, an organization opposed to the opening of a new Achievement First school in Providence RI. See also the recent articles in the Providence Journal, Is this charter better? and A closer look ; as well as videos of former AF middle school parents on our blog.

“Would I send my child to this school?” This is a question I asked myself every day while working at Achievement First and helping to build their first high school in Brooklyn from 2009-2010. I served as the Director of Student Life at Achievement First Crown Heights High School (now called AF Brooklyn High School), which entailed developing and managing all after-school and summer enrichment programs, building the advisory system for both college skills and character development, counseling students, and organizing and leading
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The Politicization Of Educational Research

edwize.org - Last Friday, an analysis of the “value-added” contributions of public school teachers authored by a trio of economists, Harvard’s Raj Chetty and John Friedman and Columbia’s Jonah Rockoff, was unve...

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Chicago is Ground Zero for Attacks on Public Education

dailykos.com - A new Labor Beat video out in January 2012 adds to the growing list of videos that teachers, parents, students and supporters of real public schools can draw on to educate themselves, their colleag...

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Dutch Teachers to Strike

teachersolidarity.com - Dutch School Students demonstrating in 2007 Dutch teachers are to go on strike against a proposed increase in their working hours Dutch secondary teachers – who are members of the union Teachers in...

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Has Obama Waged A War On Religion? : NPR

npr.org - Enlarge Joe Drivas/Getty Images Some political and religious leaders say there is a White House-led war against religion. Joe Drivas/Getty Images Some political and religious leaders say there is a...

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Attack ads to target Mitt Romney's work at Bain Capital

latimes.com - Reporting from Washington— Voters in South Carolina are about to witness an attack on Mitt Romney and the work of a private equity firm that made him wealthy and has provided the underpinnings for ...

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The Gaming Industry's Girl Gamer Problem

forbes.com - Vette from Star Wars: The Old Republic in her shock collar. Last week I wrote about the option in Star Wars: The Old Republic to torture a slave companion named Vette by shocking her with a shock-c...

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Intimacy Intensifies in Women's 'Second Adulthood'

womensenews.org - Despite conventional wisdom dictating that intimacy ends at midlife for women, Suzanne Braun Levine says this is untrue in her new book "How We Love Now." In this except, she describes how love act...

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Behold the OccuPirates! | MyFDL

my.firedoglake.com - On Wednesday, January 18, the OccuPirates of Occupy MN, led by Nick Espinosa, will be making their own special variant of a Booty Call on US Bank. They demand that the US Bank pirates, who are far ...

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Linguists name 'occupy' as 2011's word of the year

us.cnn.com - By Stephanie Gallman, CNN updated 11:05 PM EST, Sat January 7, 2012"Occupy" is 2011's word of the year, winning a runoff vote by a whopping majority.(CNN) -- The linguists have spoken and they have...

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