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James Baldwin said it best: 

"For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."


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ASCD Leaders on Reflection: Christina Yuknis — Whole Child Education
ASCD Leaders on Reflection: Christina Yuknis — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGASCD Leaders on Reflection: Christina YuknisAugust 13, 2013 by ASCD Whole Child BloggersA defining trait of leadership is a passion for success and continuous improvement. With progress comes new vistas and new goals, as well as new challenges to overcome in our never-ending quest for knowledge and excellence
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Accrediting commission threatened with possible withdrawal of federal recognition | EdSource Today
Accrediting commission threatened with possible withdrawal of federal recognition | EdSource Today: Accrediting commission threatened with possible withdrawal of federal recognitionAugust 13th, 2013 | Add a Comment | By Louis FreedbergIn an unexpected turn of events, the U.S. Department of Education is threatening to “limit, suspend or terminate” federal recognition of the accrediting commission t
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Capitol Weekly: Senate leader’s online education bill draws fire*
Capitol Weekly: Senate leader’s online education bill draws fire*: Senate leader’s online education bill draws fire*By Robert Thompson | 08/13/13 12:00 AM PST Email PrintA bill closely watched by Coursera, a high-flying online education company, that would extend academic credit opportunities for California public university students is likely to be put on hold, the bill author’s office says.On a
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Organizing the disorganized
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Organizing the disorganized: Organizing the disorganizedThe cover of USA Weekend says it all. Doesn't it. Organizing the beleagueredWord is that CTU organizers are kicking around the idea of organizing beleaguered CPS staff. BBB's non-union minions lately have been bombarded with memos and directives ordering them to work off hours for the mayor's political projects.
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Where Education Is ‘Sold to the Highest Bidder’ | toteachornototeach
Where Education Is ‘Sold to the Highest Bidder’ | toteachornototeach: Where Education Is ‘Sold to the Highest Bidder’by Alexander Reed KellyThe attack on the spirit of higher education is exemplified in the installation of former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a neoliberal archfiend of public schooling, as president of Purdue University.Daniels is the Republican sweetheart who made waves two weeks ag
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Teachers For Social Justice: Help restore the CPS budget cuts. Two things you can do this week to get Mayor Emanuel to return money to CPS Schools.
Teachers For Social Justice: Help restore the CPS budget cuts. Two things you can do this week to get Mayor Emanuel to return money to CPS Schools.: Help restore the CPS budget cuts. Two things you can do this week to get Mayor Emanuel to return money to CPS Schools.AUGUST 13, 2013 LEAVE A COMMENTCall the Mayor and Demand TIF Restoration-Rally Sunday, Logan SquareCall Mayor Emanuel's office to dem
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Statement on Philadelphia delegation call for $45 million: It’s not enough | Parents United for Public Education
Statement on Philadelphia delegation call for $45 million: It’s not enough | Parents United for Public Education: Statement on Philadelphia delegation call for $45 million: It’s not enoughPosted on August 13, 2013 by PARENTSUNITEDPHILALeave a comment“It’s not enough.”Parents United for Public Education supports the call of the Philadelphia delegation for the state to immediately release the $45 m
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Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Fort Wayne School Board Votes to Disregard Bennett A-F GradesThe Fort Wayne Community School Board passed a resolution by a vote o 6-1 to discontinue using the A-F grading system created by disgraced former State Superintendent Tony Bennett. The South Bend, Indiana, school board is considering the same resolution:   RESOLUTION OF T
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How To Define ‘Success’? | Gary Rubinstein's Blog
How To Define ‘Success’? | Gary Rubinstein's Blog: How To Define ‘Success’?The new and improved New York State tests have arrived and the higher standards have taken much of the air out of many charter chain’s balloons.  Schools, in particular, from KIPP and Democracy Prep have seen their status change from ‘above average’ to ‘below average’ overnight, at least based on the ‘reform’ definition of
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WATCH: Common Core State Standards: Part 1 - Teaching | Learning Matters
WATCH: Common Core State Standards: Part 1 - Teaching | Learning Matters: WATCH: Common Core State Standards: Part 1 - TeachingProduced by: Cat McGrathStandards only describe what students should know by the end of each grade level. How these standards are taught–what happens in the classroom–is the curriculum, and that is the responsibility of states and school districts. In this segment we see h
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Missionary Zeal and the Paradox of Paternalism | the becoming radical
Missionary Zeal and the Paradox of Paternalism | the becoming radical: Missionary Zeal and the Paradox of PaternalismPosted on August 13, 2013 by plthomaseddThe United States of America fails Allie Fox, pushing him to abandon his homeland and to drag his family to the coast of Honduras in Paul Theroux’sMosquito Coast, popularized by the Harrison Ford and River Phoenix film adaptation:“That’s busin
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Failing To The Top
Failing To The Top: Failing To The TopI have this recurring nightmare – one that, I fear, is about to become reality for most of America’s school children.In my dream, I’m back in elementary school. It’s testing day and I’m struggling to remember my locker combination and get to class on time. My backpack implausibly opens and spills its contents into the hallway. Indifferent schoolmates rush by.F
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“I See Bad Teachers…” | EduShyster
“I See Bad Teachers…” | EduShyster: “I See Bad Teachers…”Posted on August 13, 2013“I see bad teachers…. Walking around like excellent teachers….”Reader: when viewing the latest blockbuster at my local megaplex, I often find myself wondering whether the director of said film has any ideas for reforming our failed and failing public schools. That’s why I was so pleased to learn that M. Night Shyamal
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Court ruling limits fees schools can collect for replacement housing SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources
SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources: Court ruling limits fees schools can collect for replacement housingBy Kimberly BeltranTuesday, August 13, 2013California districts may not impose school-impact fees on new projects built to replace existing housing, a California appeals court ruled late last month.A recent analysis of the decision in developer Cresta Bella’s lawsuit against Poway Un
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Comfortable Baby Steps? | My Island View
Comfortable Baby Steps? | My Island View: Comfortable Baby Steps?August 13, 2013 by tomwhitbyI think everyone has certain phrases, or catchwords that tend to set them off. Some of us, of the more passionate persuasion, have phrases that send us over the edge. I am not talking about the conference clichés like “that’s where the tire meets the road” or “Let’s not kick that can down the road” and the
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8-13-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum:  Washington State Charter Law Case UpdateThe charter school law case has been assigned to King County and to Judge Jean Rietschel.  I was amused to read elsewhere that the lawyers for the plaintiffs were accused of going "court and judge shopping."For the record, most cases involving statewide issues are either heard in Olympia (state capital) or Seattle (largest c
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8-13-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face
SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Paul Toner, MA TURNcoat, Leads Charge for Common Core and PARCCLawyer, corporate stooge, and MTA President, Paul Toner has sold teachers down the river in Massachusetts with support for test score based teacher evaluations, more segregated corporate reform schools, and now the Common Core testing delivery system. Toner has a propaganda piece at the MTA site that on
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Stephen Colbert adds new subject to science education
Stephen Colbert adds new subject to science education: Stephen Colbert adds new subject to science educationBy Valerie Strauss, Published: August 13 at 11:48 amE-mail the writerStephen Colbert (By Mark Wilson / The Washington Post)Stephen Colbert had some fun Monday night talking about science education with guest Rep. Rush Holt. The New Jersey  congressman and Jeopardy winner is one of four candi
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8-13-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: A Weekend (not with Bernie) in ChicagoMoi, Yelena, AJ, James, Camille, Megan, Julie, Gloria, Jia (Sean caught a flight)I have so much to say about the trip to Chicago I made with a big crew from MORE this past weekend but so much of it would be boring -- like you don't really want to know just how much beer I drank. And how much fun it was to hang out with year old Jack who can no
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Empathy? An Ethos Born in the Staffroom — Whole Child Education
Empathy? An Ethos Born in the Staffroom — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGEmpathy? An Ethos Born in the StaffroomAugust 13, 2013 by Start EmpathyPost written by Vinciane Rycroft for Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative, a whole child partner organization. Originally published in The Times Educational Supplement Pro.Ian, aged 8, throws his younger brother Robin on the ground. Tears and scre
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8-13-13 Jersey Jazzman
Jersey Jazzman: NY State Tests: Misguided Mixing of Norms and CriteriaBefore I go any further, I think I need to regroup. Most of you probably have a good familiarity with what I'm going to discuss; however, I think it may be helpful to step back for a moment and think about some of the basics before we proceed. I know it will be helpful to me. When we last left our discussion of the crashing of N
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Parent trigger laws divide communities: Opposing view
Parent trigger laws divide communities: Opposing view: "Parent trigger laws divide communities"Parent trigger laws divide communitiesToxic tactic allows parent petition drives to close schools, fire staff members or allow takeover by private charter operators.Parental involvement plays a critical role in student success. Teachers know that students whose parents take an active part in their educat
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Education Grants - Fall 2013 | The Pollination ProjectThe Pollination Project
Education Grants - Fall 2013 | The Pollination ProjectThe Pollination Project: Education Grants – Fall 2013The Pollination Project, in partnership with the Institute for Humane Education, is offering up to 20 grant awards in Fall, 2013, for educators to create projects that support their students in making a positive difference in the world.We are seeking educators who are committed to bringing fo
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Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: Schools don't need licensed nurses to give medications, court rulesEducation HeadlinesTuesday, August 13, 2013Back to school means big changes, challenges at LAUSDThe start of classes Tuesday will launch a watershed year for Los Angeles Unified as it rolls out a new curriculum, toughens its graduation requirements and launches an innovative s
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A question about (the change in) testing | JD2718
A question about (the change in) testing | JD2718: A question about (the change in) testingAUGUST 13, 2013 AM31 11:19 AMtags: education reform, hypocrisyThe frequency of tests in schools probably hasn’t changed much in the last few generations… but the type of tests, their nature, duration, consequences… those have changed.“Was your education harmed by the lack of today’s testing program?”When I w
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Selective Schools Select Experience | InterACT
Selective Schools Select Experience | InterACT: Selective Schools Select ExperienceAUGUST 13, 2013by David B. CohenExperienced teachers in a stable school, working as a team to promote student learning in a positive environment (photo by the author).One of my favorite parts of a new school year is meeting new colleagues. I’m always impressed at the variety of experience and talent added to the roo
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Morning Wink 8-13-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #edreform #EDCHAT #P2 #Cheats4Change
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSTODAYCommon Core Tests are Not Good for Children or Other Living Things - Living in Dialogue - Education Week TeacherCommon Core Tests are Not Good for Children or Other Living Things - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Common Core Tests are Not Good for Children or Other Living ThingsBy Anthony Cody on August 13, 2013 10:09 AMLast week I wrote
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Common Core Tests are Not Good for Children or Other Living Things - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Common Core Tests are Not Good for Children or Other Living Things - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Common Core Tests are Not Good for Children or Other Living ThingsBy Anthony Cody on August 13, 2013 10:09 AMLast week I wrote an essay that suggested that the entire obsession with test score-based accountability is a scam, aimed at discrediting public education in order to create opp
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Jason Stanford: Is a Wall Street crash coming to public schools? | The Baxter Bulletin | baxterbulletin.com
Jason Stanford: Is a Wall Street crash coming to public schools? | The Baxter Bulletin | baxterbulletin.com: Jason Stanford: Is a Wall Street crash coming to public schools?Just like AAA ratings on mortgage-backed securities led to Wall Street’s 2008 disaster, a rash of accountability scandals might be precursors to a similar public school crash. After years of promises that test-driven accountabi
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8-13-13 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: America’s Most Un-American Tradition: Racial ProfilingCategories: Connecticut Community Party Connecticut General Assembly Malloy Racial ProfilingTags: Connecticut Community PartyConnecticut General AssemblyMalloyRacial ProfilingA court decision in New Yo
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New York State Of Mind
Shanker Blog » New York State Of Mind: New York State Of MindPosted by Matthew Di Carlo on August 13, 2013Last week, the results of New York’s new Common Core-aligned assessments were national news. For months, officials throughout the state, including New York City, have been preparing the public for the release of these data.Their basic message was that the standards, and thus the tests based up
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NYC Educator: More Vital Info on the Perfidy of Teachers
NYC Educator: More Vital Info on the Perfidy of Teachers: More Vital Info on the Perfidy of TeachersToday's Rise and Shine at Gotham led me to yet another hard-hitting education story from the Daily News. Apparently, some website that hooks up young women with "sugar daddies" claims to have attracted 472 teachers since last year. Naturally the claim is not verified. As I learned from the rash of C
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Q &A with Leroy Clemons: Nearly 50 years after Freedom Summer, education is key to change in Mississippi | Hechinger Report
Q &A with Leroy Clemons: Nearly 50 years after Freedom Summer, education is key to change in Mississippi | Hechinger Report: Q &A with Leroy Clemons: Nearly 50 years after Freedom Summer, education is key to change in MississippiBy Liz WillenLeroy Clemons, president of the Neshoba County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was only two years ol
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8-13-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: McGraw Hill Loses Regents Exams, NYCDOE Makes Students Retake The TestsJust outrageous:Students from a Chelsea high school have to retake their English Regents exams today after their original tests fell off the back of a truck on their way to be graded, the teachers union said last night. The United Federation of Teachers said about 75 11th-grade students from Chelsea Caree
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8-13-13 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.: The in box. Support for Logan Square TIF – Schools rally Sunday.From Will Guzzardi: Many of you joined with us in our struggle this past winter to keep Brentano Elementary open. Principal Salgado and the rest of the Brentano family are thrilled that the school will be opening its doors for another sch
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Diane Ravitch, other Common Core opponents to testify in Michigan | MLive.com
Diane Ravitch, other Common Core opponents to testify in Michigan | MLive.com: Diane Ravitch, other Common Core opponents to testify in Michigan LANSING -- Prominent education expert and Common Core opponent Diane Ravitch is one of several high-profile witnesses scheduled to testify Wednesday on the standards before a Michigan House subcommittee studying the math and language arts guidelines.Ravit
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-13-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Chile: The Most Pro-Market School System in the World, Part 2This is the second is a series of three articles written by Professor Mario Waissbluth of Chile for this blog. In this series, he describes the school system in Chile, which is based on testing and choice. Chile´s Education (II): The results of the most neoliberal system
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Educating Our Teachers — A Community’s Unappreciated Right | toteachornototeach
Educating Our Teachers — A Community’s Unappreciated Right | toteachornototeach: Educating Our Teachers — A Community’s Unappreciated Right by Murali BalajiGrowing up in the Philadelphia suburbs, I was often peppered with questions from both classmates and teachers about my religion. A teacher asked me once if Hindus performed animal sacrifices while numerous classmates — including friends — asked
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Indiana District Abandons A-F Grading System; Are Others About to Follow? | Scathing Purple Musings
Indiana District Abandons A-F Grading System; Are Others About to Follow? | Scathing Purple Musings: Indiana District Abandons A-F Grading System; Are Others About to Follow?Posted on August 13, 2013by Bob SikesFrom 21Live reporters Rachel Martin and Eric Dutkeywicz:Fort Wayne Community Schools will no longer use a statewide A-F performance system to determine schools’ achievement.The school board
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8-13-13 teacherken at Daily Kos
teacherken at Daily Kos: Eugene Robinson asks "What NSA reforms?"In this Washington Post op ed Robinson notes The modest reforms Obama proposed do not begin to address the fundamental question of whether we want the National Security Agency to log all of our phone calls and read at least some of our e-mails, relying on secret judicial orders from a secret court for permission. The president indica
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LAUSD- STILL ROTTEN TO ITS "COMMON CORE" - Perdaily.com
LAUSD- STILL ROTTEN TO ITS "COMMON CORE" - Perdaily.com: LAUSD- STILL ROTTEN TO ITS " rel="bookmark" href="http://www.perdaily.com/2013/08/lausd--still-rotten-to-its-common-core.html">(Mensaje se repite en Español)Barbara Jones is not a reporter, but rather an unquestioning conduit for the Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) irrational propaganda that clearly has no basis in fact. In her
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One Teacher's Perspective: A Lesson George Zimmerman Never Learned
One Teacher's Perspective: A Lesson George Zimmerman Never Learned: A Lesson George Zimmerman Never LearnedUsually I trend toward indifference on high-profile court cases, like the George Zimmerman trial, when the constant media coverage kicks in.However, this case was different. I was and continue to be enthralled on many levels.My anger toward Zimmerman and his supporters persists. Regardless of
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Are reformers reviving ‘reading wars’?
Are reformers reviving ‘reading wars’?: Are reformers reviving ‘reading wars’?By Valerie Strauss, Published: August 13 at 4:00 amE-mail the writer0CommentsMoreMary Sullivan reads at Charles E. Beatley Jr. Central Library in 2012. (By Katherine Frey / The Washington Post)In June a group called the National Council on Teacher Quality published ratings of teacher education schools that garnered a lot
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Clergy Calls for Philadelphia School Boycott
Clergy Calls for Philadelphia School Boycott: Clergy Calls for Philadelphia School Boycott, say “$50 Million not Enough!”Touting Moses as the first Civil Rights Leader, Pastors calls for an “Exodus Experience”www.techbookonline.comClergy Calls for Philadelphia School Boycott, say “$50 Million not Enough!”Touting Moses as the first Civil Rights Leader, Pastors calls for an “Exodus Experience”Accord
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Stop And Frisk These Test Scores - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson
Stop And Frisk These Test Scores - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson: Stop And Frisk These Test Scoresby JOSE VILSON on AUGUST 12, 2013Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray KellyI’d rather have a tall glass of “innocent until proven guilty,” whether it’s about my standing as a citizen in NYC or my students’ test scores.This month has been rather unsuccessful for Mayor Bloomberg and two
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Part Three: Summer, 2013 | Bill Ayers
Part Three: Summer, 2013 | Bill Ayers: Part Three: Summer, 2013Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, is as important as the killing of white men, white mothers’ sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.** Ella BakerA dominant narrative in contemporary school reform is once again focused on exclusion and disadvantage, race and class, Black and white. “Across the US,
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Portland Association of Teachers considers unfair labor practice complaint as negotiations continue at anemic pace | OregonLive.com
Portland Association of Teachers considers unfair labor practice complaint as negotiations continue at anemic pace | OregonLive.com: Portland Association of Teachers considers unfair labor practice complaint as negotiations continue at anemic pace Contract negotiations for Portland Public Schools and the Portland Association of Teachers continued its sluggish pace Monday, with the union threatenin
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AFT Nows Asks for Bennett’s Florida Emails | Scathing Purple Musings
AFT Nows Asks for Bennett’s Florida Emails | Scathing Purple Musings: AFT Nows Asks for Bennett’s Florida EmailsPosted on August 12, 2013by Bob SikesFrom Orlando Sentinel reporter Leslie Postal:The AFT’s president, Randi Weingarten, is to be in Miami this afternoon and will speak about the email request then.The union wants a wide-range of emails from players not specifically linked to the Bennett
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Online Learning: How do We Achieve it? Join the Discussion Tonight 8:30 EST/7:30 CST #StuVoice Student Voice
Student Voice: Online Learning: How do We Achieve it? Join the Discussion Tonight 8:30 EST/7:30 CST #StuVoice Have you ever been sitting in class or online, listening to your teacher, and not understanding anything? Gotten into a program you can’t afford?Technology, specifically the internet, has proven to be extremely helpful to students that run into these problems. There are thousands of resour
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Sometimes, you just have to cry…
Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Sometimes, you just have to cry…: Sometimes, you just have to cry…It was a difficult week. Once again I find myself at the center of school reform in my professional life. I won’t go into a lot of detail, but car issues have affected my transportation choices on and off this summer, and last week brought more troubles. When a friend asked a group of us to a
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Dewhurst supports parent group in CSCOPE lawsuit | Education Blog
Dewhurst supports parent group in CSCOPE lawsuit | Education Blog: Dewhurst supports parent group in CSCOPE lawsuitBy Terrence Stutztstutz@dallasnews.com5:12 pm on August 12, 2013 | Permalink120Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst gave his support Monday to a group of parents who have gone to court to block use of a controversial series of lesson plans in a central Texas school district. Dewhurst said parents
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Nite Cap 8-12-13 #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 CAPTODAYGet in Gear for the New School Year: Back-to-School Tips for Parents | ED.gov BlogGet in Gear for the New School Year: Back-to-School Tips for Parents | ED.gov Blog: Get in Gear for the New School Year: Back-to-School Tips for ParentsPosted on August
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