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With first new money in years, school labor negotiations grow complicated SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources

SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources:  Print this articleWith first new money in years, school labor negotiations grow complicatedBy Tom ChorneauMonday, August 12, 2013Uncertainty over how schools can spend billions of new state dollars delivered under a new funding formula is generating both conflict and complication between labor and management as districts statewide seek new collectiv

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Choosing Democracy: Stand Up for Students

Choosing Democracy: Stand Up for Students: Stand Up for StudentsWill you join youth who are standing up for civil rights? On August 14, youth from different parts of California will lead a rally in Sacramento to ask Governor Jerry Brown to meet with young people to understand why it is critical that he stand with them to fix our inequitable school discipline laws and sign legislation that will hel

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Class Size and the Seattle Education Association Contract Negotiations | Seattle Education

Class Size and the Seattle Education Association Contract Negotiations | Seattle Education: Class Size and the Seattle Education Association Contract NegotiationsIt’s contract bargaining time again for Seattle Public School teachers and one important aspect on the table this year is class size.The district wants to increase class sizes, not for budgetary reasons, but as they put it, due to issues

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The costs and profits of school closings: 2 dead, 14 wounded on one Sunday alone | Reclaim Reform

The costs and profits of school closings: 2 dead, 14 wounded on one Sunday alone | Reclaim Reform: The costs and profits of school closings: 2 dead, 14 wounded on one Sunday alonePosted on August 11, 2013by Ken PrevitiHow much profit is being made by closing schools? Yes, profit.In Chicago as 50 schools are being closed for lack of funds, Mayor Emanuel is giving away hundreds of millions of dollar

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Diane in the Evening 8-11-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools Hardcover – Deckle Edgeby Diane Ravitch  (Author)What’s Not to Like About Exeter? Sidwell? Lakeside? Dalton?The folks at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute are struggling to come to terms with the New York testing disaster. They certainly

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Lumina Foundation: working to reduce and standardize regulations: More on Obama’s Race to the Top for higher ed | DailyCensoredcom

Lumina Foundation: working to reduce and standardize regulations: More on Obama’s Race to the Top for higher ed | DailyCensored.com - Breaking Censored News, World, Independent, Liberal News: Lumina Foundation: working to reduce and standardize regulations: More on Obama’s Race to the Top for higher edBy Danny Weil on August 11, 2013 6:26 pm / no comments According to InsideHighered, online, from

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50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

Albert Shanker Institute » 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington: 50th Anniversary of the March on WashingtonHIGH SCHOOL LESSON PLANSWashington, DuBois, Garvey, Randolph Strategies, by L. CaseyWhose strategy for advancing the African-American freedom struggle – that of Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey or A. Philip Randolph – was most effective?What the 1963 March was Real

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NC Teachers are fed up | Editorials | NewsObserver.com

NC Teachers are fed up | Editorials | NewsObserver.com: NC Teachers are fed up North Carolina, a right-to- work state, doesn’t have teachers unions, but as teachers return to their classrooms this month they’ve never been more united.In their recent session, lawmakers did nothing to lift North Carolina’s teachers from near the bottom of national pay rankings. They also cut funding for thousands of

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Candidates See Cincinnati as Model for New York Schools - NYTimes.com

Candidates See Cincinnati as Model for New York Schools - NYTimes.com: Published: August 11, 2013FACEBOOKTWITTERGOOGLE+SAVEE-MAILSHAREPRINTSINGLE PAGEREPRINTSConnect With NYTMetroFollow us on Twitterand like us onFacebook for news and conversation.They are told stories of schools that escaped years of dysfunction by becoming “community learning centers,” replete with dental clinics, mental health

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8-11-13 Wait, What? - Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics

Wait, What? - Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics: A powerful and breathtaking statement about public education in the face of NY’s Common Core Testing fiascoCategories: Education ReformTags: Education ReformRobert RendoRobert Rendo is a Nationally Board Certified Teacher in New York and teaches low incom

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Short Notes: Rustin Would Have Snickered At Clinton Onstage - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson

Short Notes: Rustin Would Have Snickered At Clinton Onstage - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson: Short Notes: Rustin Would Have Snickered At Clinton Onstageby JOSE VILSON on AUGUST 11, 2013Barack Obama with Bill RussellA few notes:This week, President Obama awarded Bayard Rustin with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, with notables such as Arturo Sandoval, Loretta Lynn, and Bill Clinton. I’m almos

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…And there is Hope! | Truth in American Education

…And there is Hope! | Truth in American Education: …And there is Hope!Filed in Uncategorized by chascherrie on August 11, 2013 • 0 Comments1Awhile back the mother of a 13 year old girl sent Truth in American Education a logo her daughter, Hope, designed.  Since providing the initial design it has been put into a few other forms.  In addition, Hope, who created the design, has this to say about why

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Teacher who left: Why I am returning to school

Teacher who left: Why I am returning to school: Teacher who left: Why I am returning to schoolBy Valerie Strauss, Published: August 11 at 11:30 amE-mail the writer5CommentsMoreEarly this year I published a piece by award-winning veteran teacher Kenneth Bernstein, entitled “A warning to college profs from a high school teacher.” It went viral when it was first posted and has done so again, and has

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Maria Shriver | Powered by Inspiration

Maria Shriver | Powered by Inspiration: I’VE BEEN THINKINGRemove the MuzzleAs the newest trustee of the Sundance Institute, I recently had the great privilege of attending our theater labs in Park City with artists from all over the world.I observed, spellbound, as writers and directors and actors and composers freely presented their theatrical works in progress.It is an act of bravery to put your

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8-11-13 teacherken at Daily Kos

teacherken at Daily Kos: A follow-up to Something weird has happenedIn this piece i remarked on the strange phenomenon of a piece originally posted in February again going viral on the Washington Post website.  Because in that original piece, I noted that what I was observing was a part of the reason I had retired from the classroom, and as regular readers here know I have decided to "un-retire" I

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8-11-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Summer Sunday reads.Two more shooting deaths in Chicago last night. Note the “Safe Passage” sign at the shooting on West Fullerton. NY school boss Dennis Walcott bans dinosaur, birthday, halloween, poverty and divorce. The Madison, Wisconsin state representative infiltrates the ALEC meeting in Chicago

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8-11-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face

SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: First NCTQ and now CAEP: Nightmares for Teacher Education.I have posted about NCATE and the CAEP a few times.  But here it is: The new standards, finalized by the CAEP Commission on Standards and Performance Reporting in June after a public comment period, contain controversial new requirements such as minimum program-entry standards and consideration of graduates’

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Twittery Jeb Bush: trying to kill #PublicEducation in 140 characters or less | teacherbiz

Twittery Jeb Bush: trying to kill #PublicEducation in 140 characters or less | teacherbiz: Twittery Jeb Bush: trying to kill #PublicEducation in 140 characters or lessIf there’s anyone left who’s not convinced that Jeb Bush is one of the biggest enemies of public education in the United States, a quick glance at his twitter page should confirm what the rest of us already know.The first clue is thi

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Morning Wink 8-11-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #edreform #EDCHAT #P2 #Cheats4Change

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSTODAYMissouri Education Watchdog: A Teacher's Experience with Common CoreMissouri Education Watchdog: A Teacher's Experience with Common Core: A Teacher's Experience with Common CoreEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookIs this the explanation of Common Core? The post below is from a teacher about her first few days teaching Common Core.  She

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Missouri Education Watchdog: A Teacher's Experience with Common Core

Missouri Education Watchdog: A Teacher's Experience with Common Core: A Teacher's Experience with Common CoreEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookIs this the explanation of Common Core? The post below is from a teacher about her first few days teaching Common Core.  She writes about the training received on CCSS teaching methods and bursts the CCSSO talking points that CCSS doesn't

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8-11-13 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: Bronx Success Academy 2 Ranks 3rd In State On Test ScoresIn the middle of this Michael Goodwin propaganda piece on Eva Moskowitz in today's NY Post, we get this:The numbers tell the tale. Success Academy Bronx 2 was the top-performing nonselective school in the city and ranked third out of more than 3,500 schools across the state. Some 97 percent of its students passed math

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ONLY ON 3: Low pay forces teacher of the year candidate to quit | WWAY NewsChannel 3 | Wilmington NC News

ONLY ON 3: Low pay forces teacher of the year candidate to quit | WWAY NewsChannel 3 | Wilmington NC News: ONLY ON 3: Low pay forces teacher of the year candidate to quitSubmitted by Holden Kurwicki on Fri, 08/09/2013 - 5:58pm.BOILING SPRING LAKES, NC (WWAY) -- We’re just weeks away from the start of school and the Brunswick County school system is losing one of its top educators.Richie Brown is l

by mike simpson / 9h 

Let’s Not Expect Everyone to Run a 4 Minute Mile - School Leadership 2.0

Let’s Not Expect Everyone to Run a 4 Minute Mile - School Leadership 2.0: Let’s Not Expect Everyone to Run a 4 Minute MilePosted by David A. Gamberg on August 11, 2013 at 7:28amView BlogI don’t know about you but when I occasionally run in 5K a 9 minute mile average pace is pushing it for me. Now I’m sure there are some very fit, athletic 50 year olds who can do much better, but clearly if we expe

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Chicago Teachers Union to Washington to fight for Trayvon | The Daily Caller

Chicago Teachers Union to Washington to fight for Trayvon | The Daily Caller: Chicago Teachers Union headed to Washington to fight for Trayvon, against foreclosures The Chicago Teachers Union has announced that it will send a bus to the 50th Anniversary March on Washington, a full week of events to be hosted by the four children of Martin Luther King, Jr. and several organizations including Al Sha

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Thinking About Schools: Testing: Here's What. So What? NOW What?

Thinking About Schools: Testing: Here's What. So What? NOW What? (19 suggestions): Testing: Here's What. So What? NOW What? (19 suggestions)Here’s WhatSchools have always used standards, designed curriculum, taught kids, and assessed learning and acknowledged there is a lot of room for improvement. Still, SAT, ACT, and AP participation and scores are up as is college attendance and hundreds of tho

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Arthur Getzel: Small Lies, Big Lies, and School Statistics - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Arthur Getzel: Small Lies, Big Lies, and School Statistics - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Arthur Getzel: Small Lies, Big Lies, and School StatisticsBy Anthony Cody on August 11, 2013 8:59 AMGuest post by Arthur Getzel.Over the past few days, I was torn whether or not to publish a letter I wrote to Michael Mulgrew. I was hesitant for several reasons. First, I hold a position with th

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-11-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Losing the Heart of the CommunityWhat happens when privately managed charter schools replace public schools? when experienced teachers are replaced by TFA temporary teachers? A reader comments: “From what I can tell, Arizona’s TFA teachers are thought of as rock stars in education. Knights in shining armor to save the school day. I

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Philly state lawmakers to Corbett: Give extra money to schools now | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Philly state lawmakers to Corbett: Give extra money to schools now | Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Philly state lawmakers to Corbett: Give extra money to schools nowby thenotebook on Aug 10 2013 Posted in Latest news="" style="color: rgb(76, 153, 72); cursor: pointer; float: left; padding: 0px 2px;">Share on emailCOMMENTS (19)PRINTby Holly OtterbeinMoney is so tight in the Philadelphia Scho

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When Charter Schools Are in Churches, Conflict Is in the Air - NYTimes.com

When Charter Schools Are in Churches, Conflict Is in the Air - NYTimes.com: By MORGAN SMITHPublished: August 10, 2013SEnlarge This ImageMichael Stravato for The Texas TribuneLatisha Andrews hopes to convert her private elementary school, which is housed at an Assembly of God church in Houston, into a charter school.Expanded coverage of Texas is produced by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news organ

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NYC Educator: Education, Cajun Style

NYC Educator: Education, Cajun Style: Education, Cajun StyleUS Education Secretary Arne Duncan famously stated that Katrina was the best thing to happen to education in New Orleans. But hey, you can't just flood the whole country. First of all, even if you have a very important job like Arne does, you still don't get power over time, space, and nature.Unfair though that is, you have to deal with i

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Nutter, Clarke disagree on solution for schools - Philly.com

Nutter, Clarke disagree on solution for schools - Philly.com: Nutter, Clarke disagree on solution for schoolsBy Troy Graham, Inquirer Staff WriterPOSTED: August 10, 2013At the heart of the impasse that Philadelphia School Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. says is threatening his ability to start class on time this fall are two men - Mayor Nutter and City Council President Darrell L. Clarke - who

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Tony Bennett Emails Jeb – Count the Errors #HugeFail | Continuing Change

Tony Bennett Emails Jeb – Count the Errors #HugeFail | Continuing Change: Tony Bennett Emails Jeb – Count the Errors #HugeFail This is an email written by our former Florida Commissioner of Education, Tony Bennett. The email is addressed to Jeb Bush. Both men call for higher standards in public schools and for more accountability.Read one paragraph from the email below.  Answer the questions that

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Education - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

Education - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress: Bill Introduced: H.R.2930 Transition-to-Success Mentoring ActTo amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to award grants to eligible entities to establish, expand, or support school-based mentoring programs to assist at-risk middle school students with the transition from middle school to high school.49min Bill Introduced: H.R.2943 Schoolch

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Jersey Jazzman: Scoring NY Tests With the Triple Lindy!

Jersey Jazzman: Scoring NY Tests With the Triple Lindy!: Scoring NY Tests With the Triple Lindy!One of my guilty pleasures is screwball comedies, and one of my favorites stars the great Rodney Dangerfield: Back To School. In the climatic scene of the movie, Rodney wins the big diving meet ("Hey gang, forget about the football game; let's get pumped for the big diving meet!") by flawlessly executin

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A Democratic Alternative Legacy within Command & Control Public Education | Lefty Parent

A Democratic Alternative Legacy within Command & Control Public Education | Lefty Parent: A Democratic Alternative Legacy within Command & Control Public EducationAugust 10th, 2013 at 15:47Public education in the U.S. has featured state control of human development since Horace Mann and other educational “reformers” within the New England Protestant elite brought this novel approach of Pru

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Want to be successful? Be a sponge. | Connected Principals

Want to be successful? Be a sponge. | Connected Principals: Want to be successful? Be a sponge.August 10, 2013By George Couroscc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by George CourosI have worked with some brilliant leaders and educators and I have noticed the same things about all of them.They listen.No matter their position, they are successful because they see every opportunity as an oppor

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Nite Cap 8-10-13 #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 CAPTODAYThree Cheers for School! Building a Better School DayThree Cheers for School! Building a Better School Day: Three Cheers for School! Building a Better School DayBy MICHAEL BRICK7 inspiring ideas to deepen learning, engage students, close achievement g

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