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The KKK’s Response to the Murder of Chaney, Goodman, & Schwerner…

Prison Culture » The KKK’s Response to the Murder of Chaney, Goodman, & Schwerner…: The KKK’s Response to the Murder of Chaney, Goodman, & Schwerner… Rate ThisToday is the day on 8/4/64 that the bodies of civil rights martyrs of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were found buried in an earthen dam in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Below is a short video summarizing this

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Cheats For Change #Cheats4Change

Cheats For Change: Cheats For Change#Cheats4Change Cheats For Change#Cheats4Change are committed to putting themselves first through bold, visionary education deform that will increase their donors' profits and prepare themselves for success in politics and careers.Archive Ask us anything About This Blog Submitoccupyedueducation reformeducation policycorporate agendapublic schoolspublic educati

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Legislature's changes to Texas education go far beyond zapping of 10 STAAR tests | Dallasnews.com - News for Dallas, Texas - The Dallas Morning News

Legislature's changes to Texas education go far beyond zapping of 10 STAAR tests | Dallasnews.com - News for Dallas, Texas - The Dallas Morning News: Legislature's changes to Texas education go far beyond zapping of 10 STAAR testsStaff Writerjweiss@dallasnews.comPublished: 03 August 2013 11:17 PMUpdated: 03 August 2013 11:42 PMFirst in a seriesAnyone who cares about Texas schools probably knows th

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Around Florida: Education job a revolving door | jacksonville.com

Around Florida: Education job a revolving door | jacksonville.com: Around Florida: Education job a revolving doorPosted: August 4, 2013 - 7:44am | Updated: August 4, 2013 - 8:56amBy Matt DixonA word of advice to those who aspire to become Florida’s top education official: keep your resume updated.For the third time since 2011, a Florida education commissioner has resigned under less than squeaky

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Teach for America criticized for apparent stance on education policy - latimes.com

Teach for America criticized for apparent stance on education policy - latimes.com: Teach for America criticized for apparent stance on education policyCritics say Teach for America has strayed from a core mission of helping needy urban schools, favoring efforts seen as anti-teacher union.By Howard BlumeAugust 3, 2013, 7:40 p.m.Over its 24-year history, Teach for America has won accolades for taki

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All Things Education: Turtles and Hares in Modern School Reform

All Things Education: Turtles and Hares in Modern School Reform: Turtles and Hares in Modern School ReformI ended my last post with a larger point about the problem of "disruption" in modern education reform:"This is exactly what happens when you rush into big, 'disruptive' changes without thinking about them or fully understanding what you're doing. You break things that weren't already broken an

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Will liberals stand up to “corporate school reform”? - Salon.com

Will liberals stand up to “corporate school reform”? - Salon.com: Will liberals stand up to “corporate school reform”?For too long, they've assumed that schools can be "fixed" without tackling social and economic inequalityBY LOIS WEINERThis article originally appeared on Jacobin.An eloquent call to “reclaim the conversation” challenges leading liberal educators to repudiate their involvement in w

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School reform needs reform | Ocala.com

School reform needs reform | Ocala.com: School reform needs reformBy Brad RodgersEditorial Page EditorPublished: Saturday, August 3, 2013 at 10:48 p.m.Last Modified: Saturday, August 3, 2013 at 10:48 p.m.Since we here in Florida like to grade our education system, or at least our politicians do, let’s take a look at how things are going.We have been measuring our students and their schools based o

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Michelle Rhee embraces disgraced charter school advocate - Salon.com

Michelle Rhee embraces disgraced charter school advocate - Salon.com: Michelle Rhee embraces disgraced charter school advocateEducation reformers rush to defend Florida schools chief, Tony Bennett, after he resigned in a pay-to-play scandalTony Bennett, Florida’s education chief, abruptly resigned yesterday after an AP investigationrevealed that in his old job running Indiana’s schools, he frantic

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-4-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Your School Library: A Profit CenterA retired librarian spots a scam: Reference: here is another blog that is relevant to the discussion. “Apple’s iPad Textbooks Cost 5x More Than Print” By Lee Wilson —————————————- Comment: I have watched the dismantling of the public library in my district. The newest “schemes” provide some kind

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Perdido Street School: Why Are Tisch And King So Afraid To Reveal The Common Core Test Contents?

Perdido Street School: Why Are Tisch And King So Afraid To Reveal The Common Core Test Contents?: Why Are Tisch And King So Afraid To Reveal The Common Core Test Contents?The scores from the Common Core tests - the one's the kids didn't have the time to finish - are going to be released this week and NYSED Commissioner/rookie teacher John King says they are really, really bad:State education offic

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8-4-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face

SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Charleston P&C: How Media Fails EducationThe Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) has a long history of endorsing every education reform movement that doesn’t have any credibility: Teach for America? Sure. Charter schools? You bet. So it comes as no surprise that the P&C has penned an endorsement of SC’s move to reform teacher evaluation, by framing the issue

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Another View: Board should take new look at school closures - California Forum - The Sacramento Bee

Another View: Board should take new look at school closures - California Forum - The Sacramento Bee: Another View: Board should take new look at school closuresBy Mark MerinSpecial to The BeePublished: Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013 - 12:00 am | Page 2EThe July 24 editorial, "Forget the lawyers, focus on the students," which criticized the parents who brought a legal action against the Sacramento City Unifi

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Turning Around Urban Districts: The Case of Paul Vallas | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Turning Around Urban Districts: The Case of Paul Vallas | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Turning Around Urban Districts: The Case of Paul VallasLee Iaccoca, Steve Jobs, and Ann Mulcahy were CEOs that resurrected Chrysler, Apple, and Xerox from near (or actual) bankruptcy to profitability. They were turnaround heroes–saviors, if you like–to their corporate boards and shareho

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YESTERDAY

The United States Student Association Congress — The Vice Presidential Election |

The United States Student Association Congress — The Vice Presidential Election |: The United States Student Association Congress — The Vice Presidential ElectionAugust 3, 2013 in StudentsAs I noted in my previous post about last month’s US Student Assocation Congress, USSA’s presidential election attracted considerably more drama than the vice presidential, despite the fact that it was unconteste

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Bernie Sanders: Walmart family’s ‘obscene’ wealth subsidized by taxpayers | The Raw Story

Bernie Sanders: Walmart family’s ‘obscene’ wealth subsidized by taxpayers | The Raw Story: Bernie Sanders: Walmart family’s ‘obscene’ wealth subsidized by taxpayersSenator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) appeared on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” on Saturday and scoffed at the idea that major corporations like Walmart can’t afford to pay their workers a living wage and that to raise the U.S. minimum wage would be ba

by mike simpson / 13h

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Boundary Talk with Marty McLaren

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Boundary Talk with Marty McLaren: Boundary Talk with Marty McLarenI attended the Growth Boundaries meeting hosted by Director McLaren this morning and two themes stood out. One came from the District and the other from the community.The District's theme was mystery. There is simply no telling who would make the decisions about schools and buildings, no clue about h

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Attend the SURPRISE 40th Birthday Party for ALEC. | Reclaim Reform

Attend the SURPRISE 40th Birthday Party for ALEC. | Reclaim Reform: Attend the SURPRISE 40th Birthday Party for ALEC.Posted on August 3, 2013by Ken PrevitiAttend the SURPRISE 4oth Birthday Party for ALEC.(The surprise is – they didn’t invite you, peasants. However, attend anyway.) Since billionaires and multimillionaires pay ALEC to write the legislation for every state and the federal government,

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Performance Test for New Teachers A Forum on the edTPA Rethinking Schools

Rethinking Schools: VOLUME 27, ISSUE 4 — SUMMER 2013COVER THEME:PERFORMANCE TEST FOR NEW TEACHERSA FORUM ON THE EDTPAIn this special forum, we highlight three perspectives on the edTPA (Teacher Performance Assessment), the test for credential candidates now being piloted in teacher education programs around the country.The Role of Performance Assessment in Developing Teaching as a ProfessionBy Lin

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Nite Cap 8-3-13 #BATsACT #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2 #Cheats4Change

James Baldwin said it best: "For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAPTODAYDaily Kos: Why?Daily Kos: Why?: Why?byteacherkenFollow Sometimes I think about certain things I perceive or encounter that upset me and ask that simply question -Why?Therein begins a process of expanding my understanding, and thus my humanity.In Dece

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Daily Kos: Why?

Daily Kos: Why?: Why?byteacherkenFollow Sometimes I think about certain things I perceive or encounter that upset me and ask that simply question -Why?Therein begins a process of expanding my understanding, and thus my humanity.In December of 1956 in the Miami airport I saw my first whites only sign and asked my motherWhy?From that came awareness, that was honed the following Fall with the events

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I stand with the IEA and with the NCAE. | Fred Klonsky

I stand with the IEA and with the NCAE. | Fred Klonsky: I stand with the IEA and with the NCAE.AUGUST 3, 2013North Carolina Moral Monday protest in June.I’ve always been a proud member of the Illinois Education Association.Never prouder than this week to read their statement in support of our brothers and sisters in North Carolina.The president, vice president and executive director of the North C

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Five Messages About Public Education That Don't Sell (and Ones That Will) Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública

Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública: Five Messages About Public Education That Don't Sell (and Ones That Will)By Jeff Bryant, Campaign for America's Future Op-EdWednesday, 31 July 2013-- truthout.orgThe following is from a talk given at a meeting of the Young Elected Officials last week in Washington, D.C.Thanks for having me here today. I'm feeling a little out of co

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Perdido Street School: Do Not Allow The Education Reform Corporatists To Play Their "Divide And Conquer" Strategies Against Common Core Opponents

Perdido Street School: Do Not Allow The Education Reform Corporatists To Play Their "Divide And Conquer" Strategies Against Common Core Opponents: Do Not Allow The Education Reform Corporatists To Play Their "Divide And Conquer" Strategies Against Common Core OpponentsThere's a steady barrage of attacks against the Common Core coming from the right these days.Just this week we have Michelle Malkin

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On Vallas and Education Reform: CT Post’s Hugh Bailey calls it like it is…(again!) - Wait, What?

On Vallas and Education Reform: CT Post’s Hugh Bailey calls it like it is…(again!) - Wait, What?: On Vallas and Education Reform: CT Post’s Hugh Bailey calls it like it is…(again!) Once again, Hugh Baily has produced a commentary piece worthy of national attention.In it, Bailey writes, “Bridgeport didn’t ask to be a microcosm for the national education debate, but that’s part of the deal when a

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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Alliance for Education Continues Drive to Shape the Seattle School Board

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Alliance for Education Continues Drive to Shape the Seattle School Board: Alliance for Education Continues Drive to Shape the Seattle School BoardThe Alliance recently had an press "event" during a national urban school board directors convention held here in Seattle in late July. The theme of the convention was "Building Educational Communities to Close the Achie

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Jersey Jazzman: Bennett Whines About "Tone"

Jersey Jazzman: Bennett Whines About "Tone": Bennett Whines About "Tone"From one guy who impugns the motives of teachers and their unions...No one has been a bigger critic of Chris Christie than yours truly. But if you go back through this blog, you'll find I've never once made a crack about his weight. Part of that is simple decency; part is my being close to Christie's age and knowing first hand

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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Council PTSA Clarifies Fundraising Issue

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Council PTSA Clarifies Fundraising Issue: Seattle Council PTSA Clarifies Fundraising IssueNot completely (more on that at the end) but better. (Notes in red are mine.)From SCPTSA;Why the sudden change in policy of the new 10% fee for fundraising on school grounds by the district?It not really a new policy, but more accurately a policy the district should h

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Saturday coffee. | Fred Klonsky

Saturday coffee. | Fred Klonsky: Saturday coffee. Indigenous Chicago cuisine. Yesterday’s humidity is gone and it is a beautiful Saturday morning in Chicago. Half the Brooklyn family contingent is in town, including my grandkids. Yesterday we introduced the grandchildren to indigenous Chicago food: A Chicago hotdog at the Weiner’s Circle on Clark Street. I overlooked their decision to eschew the

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Opening the tap on the School-to-Prison Pipeline: KIDS BULLIED FOR YEARS MORE LIKELY TO GO TO PRISON

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Opening the tap on the School-to-Prison Pipeline: KIDS BULLIED FOR YEARS MORE LIKELY TO GO TO PRISON: Opening the tap on the School-to-Prison Pipeline: KIDS BULLIED FOR YEARS MORE LIKELY TO GO TO PRISONBY JANICE WOOD, ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR.PSYCH CENTRAL NEWS (THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION) REVIEWED BY JOHN M. GROHOL, PSY.D. | HTTP://BIT.LY/16R

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Bad Week for The Anthony's: 2 Summer Hot Dogs #Cheats4Change

Bad Week for The Anthony's: 2 Summer Hot Dogs 2nd Banana 8-3-13 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #soschat #p2 #1uBIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANA RECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POSTSpecial Big Education Ape Salute to Tony Bennett Greatest Hits- rags to richesSpecial Big Education Ape Salute to Tony Bennett Greatest Hits- rags to riches School Report Cards? Not In Our Name. | Parents United

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Schooling in the Ownership Society: The selling of Chicago

Schooling in the Ownership Society: The selling of Chicago: The selling of ChicagoCFO Lois Scott refuses to reveal specifics of Midway privatization. Like Daley's selling of the city's parking spaces, Rahm is doing his sell-off of Midway Airport in the dark, until after the deal is done.He's using the manufactured pension crisis to justify the further looting and burning of Chicago the same way t

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Oregon helps lead the way in online testing | OregonLive.com

Oregon helps lead the way in online testing | OregonLive.com: Oregon helps lead the way in online testingView full sizeTom Birch, a student at Western Governors University, takes a tax accounting final exam at his Southeast Portland home. He drapes his windows and aims a web cam at his face and hands so a remote proctor can see that he is not cheating on the all-important exam.Betsy Hammond / The

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Missouri Education Watchdog: Economics Assignment Questions Educational Local Control and Radical Far Right Wingers

Missouri Education Watchdog: Economics Assignment Questions Educational Local Control and Radical Far Right Wingers: Economics Assignment Questions Educational Local Control and Radical Far Right WingersEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookWhat are your college students learning? This is from an Economics Assignment at Lansing (MI) Community College : What do you think the aim of t

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2nd Banana 8-3-13 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #soschat #p2 #1u

BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANA RECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POSTSpecial Big Education Ape Salute to Tony Bennett Greatest Hits- rags to richesSpecial Big Education Ape Salute to Tony Bennett Greatest Hits- rags to riches School Report Cards? Not In Our Name. | Parents United for Public EducationSchool Report Cards? Not In Our Name. | Parents United for Public Education: School Report Cards? Not In Our

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Morning Wink 8-3-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #edreform #EDCHAT #P2

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSTODAYThis Week 8-3-13 SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACESCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Have you heard of Blue Engine? Well, take a seat.I want you to read the following poem by Shel Silverstein, one that is the inspiration for a new “reformy” organization called Blue Engine. The little blue engine looked up at the hill. His light was weak, his whistle was s

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