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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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End Discrimination in Our Schools, Not Just in the Workplace
End Discrimination in Our Schools, Not Just in the Workplace « MomsRising Blog: End Discrimination in Our Schools, Not Just in the WorkplacePosted November 14th, 2013 by Liz WatsonBy Lara S. Kaufmann, Senior Counsel & Director of Education Policy for At-Risk Students at the National Women’s Law CenterCross-posted from NWLC’s blogLast week, the U.S. Senate passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) with strong bipartisan support. If ENDA becomes law, employers across the nation will be barred from discriminating against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender workers because of the
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The Match that Started a Blaze | EduShyster
The Match that Started a Blaze | EduShyster: The Match that Started a Blaze Tutors at a no-excuses charter school learn some hard lessonsBy Mr. SmithLast December, I drove down to Boston from Middlebury College in Vermont where I was finishing my senior year. On a crisp Monday morning, I parallel parked, straightened my tie and walked into an interview to become a tutor at a “no excuses” charter school. A week later I had an offer sitting in my inbox, inviting me to become a member of the “Corps,” so called because the program used to be part of AmeriCorps. I was the first of my roommates to r
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Chicago Teachers Union | Chicago Parents: Beware of inBloom
Chicago Teachers Union | Chicago Parents: Beware of inBloom: Chicago Parents: Beware of inBloomBY MORE THAN A SCORE  |  11/14/2013Don’t let CPS send your child’s “permanent record” out into cyberspace!Demand your right to protect your child’s confidential school information!Say NO to private vendors making money with your child’s data!Next year, CPS plans to join a state database of private student information created by inBloom. This program was partly built by a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation which was involved in the phone-hacking scandal and illegal violations of privacy i
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The battle over cursive wages on - The Denver Post
The battle over cursive wages on - The Denver Post: The battle over cursive wages onBy Julie Carr Smyth, Associated PressPOSTED:   11/14/2013 12:02:23 AM MST | UPDATED:   ABOUT 2 HOURS AGO This image provided by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum shows a letter written to Seymour Stein by Madonna. In years gone by, penmanship helped distinguish the literate from the illiterate. But now, in
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Study links physical fitness with test scores among poor students | Al Jazeera America
Study links physical fitness with test scores among poor students | Al Jazeera America: Study links physical fitness with test scores among poor studentsby Joseph Brownstein  @joebrownstein  November 14, 2013  4:00PM ETResearchers say cutting physical education classes for more classroom time could have adverse academic effectTopics: EducationNeil Robinson/Getty ImagesATLANTA — As the national dis
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Kentucky Parent Files Common Core Lawsuit | Truth in American Education
Kentucky Parent Files Common Core Lawsuit | Truth in American Education: Kentucky Parent Files Common Core LawsuitFiled in Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level by Shane Vander Hart on November 14, 2013 • 0 Comments576David Adams, a parent from Nicholasville, KY, filed a lawsuit against the Governor Steve Beshear, Senate President Robert Stivers, the Kentucky Board of Education, Co
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solidaridad: Marshall Tuck: despised by community, but always welcome at the Chamber of Commerce
solidaridad: Marshall Tuck: despised by community, but always welcome at the Chamber of Commerce: Marshall Tuck: despised by community, but always welcome at the Chamber of CommerceShow right-wing business-banker Marshall Tuck and his billionaire backers that Californians want a professional educator, not a venture capitalist, as our State Superintendent of Instruction — support Tom Torlakson!Toge
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When Adults Play Games With Kids’ Money – redqueeninla
When Adults Play Games With Kids’ Money – redqueeninla: When Adults Play Games With Kids’ MoneyWritten by redqueeninla in Education Whatever happened at Tuesday’s 11/12/13 LAUSD school board meeting?  It went on long enough:  8+ hours.  That should have been enough time to catch an understanding.But no amount of time would clarify the opaque politicking and grandstanding and surrogate conversation
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What exactly does ‘blended learning,’ look like? This video explains | Hechinger Report
What exactly does ‘blended learning,’ look like? This video explains | Hechinger Report: What exactly does ‘blended learning,’ look like? This video explainsBy Liz WillenThe term “blended learning,’’ is fast-becoming one of the education buzzwords that you will hear at conferences and in news articles.Some call it digital learning or “personalized learning,’’ which is another way of describing how
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Chicago Teachers Union urges parents to oppose standardized tests for young kids Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública
Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública: Chicago Teachers Union urges parents to oppose standardized tests for young kidsBY BECKY SCHLIKERMANStaff ReporterNov 8, 2013The Chicago Teachers Union Thursday urged its members and parents to take a stand against standardized tests.CTU President Karen Lewis announced the "Let us Teach" campaign in Chicago as similar mea
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11-14-13 The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education
The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education: Daily, Simple Ways to Support LearningIt's hard to believe that the trees are just about absent of leaves and the school year is well under way. As a parent of a three-year-old, I spend time talking about the change of seasons as we listen to the sound of the leaves as they crunch beneath our feet. My husband and I take any opportunity that comes our w
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11-14-13 National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Advice for Boston's New Mayor on Education |
Advice for Boston's New Mayor on Education | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity:  mark  readAdvice for Boston's New Mayor on EducationWarren Simmons, Executive Director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, has some advice for Boston's Mayor-Elect Marty Walsh: to improve the city's schools, focus on equity and wraparound student supports. W
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Voters Gave Corporate Education "Reform" a Big Defeat on Election Day | Money & Politics, What Matters Today | BillMoyers.com
Voters Gave Corporate Education "Reform" a Big Defeat on Election Day | Money & Politics, What Matters Today | BillMoyers.com: Voters Gave Corporate Education “Reform” a Big Defeat on Election DayNovember 14, 20132Noa Bashuk uses a tablet to follow along with her teacher in an eighth grade Spanish class at Autrey Mill Middle School in Johns Creek, Ga. on Thursday, May 9, 2013. (AP Ph
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LA Unified sponsors promotional video for iPad program | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC
LA Unified sponsors promotional video for iPad program | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC: LA Unified sponsors promotional video for iPad programAnnie Gilbertson | November 14th, 2013, 9:28amGrant Slater/KPCCKids at KIPP Comienza Community Prep elementary school in Huntington Park are glued to their iPads.L.A. Unified's troubled iPad program is getting an image makeover – Hollywood style.The the school dis
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Path to Thought Leadership Today | My Island View
Path to Thought Leadership Today | My Island View: Path to Thought Leadership TodayNovember 14, 2013 by tomwhitbyA question that I often get from educators is: How do I get to do what you do?  Always intrigued by that question, I continually have to consider what it is that I do, that would appeal to anyone other than me? In reflection, I love what I do in this second career that I stumbled into a
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Where democracy goes to die...
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Where democracy goes to die...: Where democracy goes to die...Chicago's City CouncilProgress Illinois PhotoThe Mayor's toadies were on full display in yesterday's Council meeting. When the Progressive Caucus moved to get two important measures out on the floor for a vote, Rahm put the hammer down. He even cut off the mic when Caucus leader and Rahm's possible opponen
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39% Think Common Core Standards Likely to Improve Student Achievement - Rasmussen Reports™
39% Think Common Core Standards Likely to Improve Student Achievement - Rasmussen Reports™: 39% Think Common Core Standards Likely to Improve Student Achievementin LifestyleEmail thisShareThisRELATED ARTICLES17% Say U.S. Public Schools Provide World-Class Education56% Oppose Use of Standardized Tests as Chief Measure of School Performance35% Think School Performance Would Improve with More Funding
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Quick update on some of my current projects | Crazy Crawfish's Blog
Quick update on some of my current projects | Crazy Crawfish's Blog: Crazy Crawfish's BlogZesty Louisiana Education PoliticsQuick update on some of my current projectsPosted on November 14, 20131I know it’s been a little while since I produced anything particularly original on my blog other than a few insights into other people’s work, but that’s not because I’m not doing anything. I’ve been asked
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Fightback Against Common Core State Standards Grows and Grows Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública
Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública: Fightback Against Common Core State Standards Grows and GrowsThis video was taken at the Common Core Forum on 11-12-13; held at Ward Melville High School on Long Island. This educator is taking Commissioner King to task for what she feels is his reckless implementation of the Common Core in New York State.
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HISD magnet schools get reprieve - K-12 Zone
HISD magnet schools get reprieve - K-12 Zone: HISD magnet schools get reprievePosted on November 14, 2013 | By Ericka MellonHISD Superintendent Terry Grier has decided to give 20 struggling magnet programs another year before eliminating all their special funding, delaying the politically tough budget cuts.Instead, the 20 programs will get half their funding next year, and the rest — a combined $2
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Cali Education Headlines Thursday, November 14, 2013
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: San Diego schools lag on tech programEducation HeadlinesThursday, November 14, 2013Ventura schools look to broaden ban on tobacco productsVentura schools are taking steps to expand their anti-tobacco policies to prevent students from getting hooked on devices that mimic smoking, such as electronic cigarettes.Simi Valley school board approves
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Charter execs: Pay up! | Edwize
Charter execs: Pay up! | Edwize: Charter execs: Pay up! Top 16 NYC charter school executives earn more than Chancellor Dennis Walcott - NY Daily News http://bit.ly/1gTQsRY[This editorial originally appeared in the November 14 issue of the New York Teacher.]You would think that if Success Academy Charter Schools can pay Eva Moskowitz a salary of $475,244, they could also afford to pay rent for thei
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Morning Wink 11-14-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTS mark as readWow: I Got the Chance to Visit our Community’s High School Yesterday | janressegerWow: I Got the Chance to Visit our Community’s High School Yesterday | janresseger: Wow: I Got the Chance to Visit our Community’s High School YesterdayPosted on November 14, 2013 by janressegerYesterday through a lucky coincidence I spent the morning visiting Cl
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Demanding 'no excuses' of schools and 'grit' of poor children... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com
Demanding 'no excuses' of schools and 'grit' of poor children... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com: Demanding 'no excuses' of schools and 'grit' of poor children while ignoring the real problem COMMENT(18) 0 9 12 26Poor children fall behind in education race.Previous PostsWhat can be measured can be managed. Does it apply to education and can it be managed well? November 13, 2013Emory professor and can
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Wow: I Got the Chance to Visit our Community’s High School Yesterday | janresseger
Wow: I Got the Chance to Visit our Community’s High School Yesterday | janresseger: Wow: I Got the Chance to Visit our Community’s High School YesterdayPosted on November 14, 2013 by janressegerYesterday through a lucky coincidence I spent the morning visiting Cleveland Heights High School.  Ours is an inner-ring Cleveland suburb whose high school serves close to 2,000 students.  I jumped at the o
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11-14-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Happy Early Birthday, Arne Duncan, on Your 52nd BirthdayI know, I know, you just turned 49 on November 6, but since I missed your birthday (sorry), I thought I would get ahead of the game and wish you the best on the one birthday that all of America's teachers and parents will celebrate, just days before your departure from the U. S. Department of Education on November 6, 2016.And
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Before 'What' (We Teach) Comes 'Why' - Bridging Differences - Education Week
Before 'What' (We Teach) Comes 'Why' - Bridging Differences - Education Week: Before 'What' (We Teach) Comes 'Why'By Deborah Meier on November 14, 2013 10:23 AMDeborah Meier's conversation with Robert Pondiscio continues today.Dear Robert,Welcome to you, and your many friends and fans!  This should be fun.I have been doing a lot of school visiting lately—private, charter, public (traditional), pub
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 11-14-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: A Wonderful Review of “Reign of Error”This is one of the best reviews of “Reign of Error” that I have read. Because it was written as an editorial, it didn’t go into close detail, as others have, but it went right to the point:   What she claims is that many tried-and-true practices work; many new-fangled innovations now favored by
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11-14-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: NEWS FLASH: Hartford’s Sands Elementary School Next Takeover Target – to be handed to Steve PerryWith the fires caused by Hartford Superintendent of Schools Christina Kishimoto’s disastrous plan to close Clark Elementary School and hand it over to Achievement First are still raging, out-going Hartford Superintendent is headed to Sands Elementary School today tell parents and staff ther
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11-14-13 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: A new college theology course on Bruce SpringsteenIt’s been quite a week for me. First I had a somewhat reasonable educational excuse to write about John Lennon — school  records showing that he was quite adept at getting detentions were being put up for sale. And now, thanks to Rutgers University, I get to write about a new Bruce Springsteen course. Here, […]    7 by Valerie Str
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11-14-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Live Blogging from Growth BoundariesAs Blogger is quite wonky on my iPad, not a lot here.One thing is clear - there will be no delay.  They are going through the 21 amendments and no one is saying, hit pause. The district has a sheet on Assumptions.  One is a change from 10-year planning to 5-year planning.  Two is APP projections and how the program has grown.  Th
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11-14-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Nice Spanish-Language Instructional Math Video CollectionYesterday, I posted how I was working with our Geometry teacher to help support math instruction for my Beginning English Language Learners. As part of that post, I referred to The Best Multilingual & Bilingual Sites For Math, Social Studies, & Science. Today,
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11-14-13 Jersey Jazzman
Jersey Jazzman:We Don't Need a NJ Version of Race To The TopFor the life of me, I can't think of one good reason why New Jersey needs this: State Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex) has filed a bill to be heard on Thursday that would create an Innovation Fund and appropriate $5 million in its first year to help schools trying new programs in scheduling, technology and other areas. [emphasis mine] The propo
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11-14-13 Fred Klonsky | Running for our pensions. | VOTE 4 Fred Klonsky
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Our pensions with no apologies. Pony up.Pony Up: A Contribution & Letter by Joni Lindgren to Gary Elmen & IRTA. From John Dillon’s blog. Pony Up: (Verb) The pony in question, a slang term for a twenty-five pound note in Britain, is certainly an idiom describing the making of a monetary payment
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11-14-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Norm in The Wave: Rockaway Election Results Paint Tale of Two CitiesPublished in The Wave, Friday, Nov. 15, 2013www.rockawave.com Rockaway Election Results Paint Tale of Two Cities By Norm ScottTuesday, November 12, 2013There was some good news for Rockaway Democrats in the race for City Council. Lew Simon almost kicked Erich Ulrich’s ass, losing by a few points in the closest con
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11-14-13 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: AMENDED LANGUAGE FORTHCOMING: Everything you need to know about the iPad compromise reached yesterdayby e-mail from Board Agenda BoardAgenda@LAUSD.NET Wed, Nov 13, 2013 3:34 pm Attached is the Stamped Order of Business indicating actions taken by the Board of Education at the Regular Board Meetings of November 12, 2013. smf: Twenty-six hours (and more)
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11-14-13 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: 21st Century Numbers GamesI remember vividly the moment I fell out of love with numbers. First semester of my freshman year of college, I sat in the weekly fourth hour of calculus set aside as a test period. I was reading a question that was something about shooting a bullet in a vacuum, and the only response I […]3 by plthomasedd / 1h Shhh: No Yelling AllowedHave you ever worked
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11-14-13 With A Brooklyn Accent
With A Brooklyn Accent: School Reform: A Discourse Of Lies Parading Behind Honorable IdealsI have been fighting since I was an 8 year old growing up in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood and the battle to defend public education in the US may be the hardest one I have ever been in. Never has so much big money been amassed behind an effort to control, discipline and regulate the children of this nation.
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11-14-13 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): 21st Century Numbers Games21st Century Numbers Games.by plthomasedd / 1h empathyeducates – The Central Issue at the Heart of America’s Growing Education Gapempathyeducates – The Central Issue at the Heart of America’s Growing Education Gapby P. L. Thomas / 3h  11-13-13 R
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11-14-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: NYSED Commissioner King Compares Himself To Martin Luther King Jr.I bet you're thinking, nah, he didn't do that.Yeah, he did - on Tuesday.Jessica Bakeman had the story at Capital NY.Here's the set-up:ALBANY—In a keynote speech to teachers on Tuesday, education commissioner John King began by describing a cartoon about turkeys who revolt to avoid becoming Thanksgiving dinner,
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What can be measured can be managed. Does it apply to... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com
What can be measured can be managed. Does it apply to... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com: What can be measured can be managed. Does it apply to education and can it be managed well?  COMMENT(18) 6 47 9 63RelatedView Larger Jon Krause/NewsArttestingartPrevious PostsEmory professor and cancer researcher: Study of science may finally evolve with Common CoreNovember 13, 2013Is high school named for a Con
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When Parents Yank Their Kids Out of Standardized Tests - Alexander Russo - The Atlantic
When Parents Yank Their Kids Out of Standardized Tests - Alexander Russo - The Atlantic: When Parents Yank Their Kids Out of Standardized TestsA small but influential group is protesting the role of testing in education today by refusing to let their children participate.Teachers at Seattle’s Garfield High School voted unanimously earlier this year not to give the district’s required reading and m
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The Wrong Way To Publish Teacher Prep Value-Added Scores
Shanker Blog » The Wrong Way To Publish Teacher Prep Value-Added Scores: The Wrong Way To Publish Teacher Prep Value-Added ScoresPosted by Matthew Di Carlo on November 14, 2013As discussed in a prior post, the research on applying value-added to teacher prep programs is pretty much still in its infancy. Even just a couple of years of would go a long way toward at least partially addressing the man
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Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Education - OpenCongress
Education - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress: Bill Introduced: H.R. 3325: Technology-Enabled Education Innovation Partnership ActTo award grants to improve equality of access to technology-enabled education innovations and understanding of how partnerships of educational agencies and research institutions design and implement such innovations in ways that improve student outcomes, and for other purpos
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Teachers Designing Instructional Materials: A Unit on the Assassination of Kennedy (Part 1) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Teachers Designing Instructional Materials: A Unit on the Assassination of Kennedy (Part 1) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teachers Designing Instructional Materials: A Unit on the Assassination of Kennedy (Part 1)As a novice U.S. history teacher in Cleveland (OH) in the mid-1950s, I began designing lessons that contained sources absent from students’ textbooks. While I use
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Special Education Budget Cuts, Sequestration, Hurt America's Most Vulnerable Students
Special Education Budget Cuts, Sequestration, Hurt America's Most Vulnerable Students: Special Education Budget Cuts, Sequestration, Hurt America's Most Vulnerable Students For American students with disabilities, class sizes are increasing, services are waning and providers are disappearing. More than half of parents who have children with disabilities and responded to a survey say their schools
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Witness tells how charter's documents were doctored - Philly.com
Witness tells how charter's documents were doctored - Philly.com: Witness tells how charter's documents were doctoredBy Martha Woodall, Inquirer Staff WriterPOSTED: November 13, 2013PHILADELPHIA A teacher who was on the boards of two charter schools founded by Dorothy June Brown told a federal court jury Tuesday about how statements and actions came to be attributed to her in meeting minutes even
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Children Psychologically Imprisoned?: Whistleblower Reveals High-States Testing Preparation | Cloaking Inequity
Children Psychologically Imprisoned?: Whistleblower Reveals High-States Testing Preparation | Cloaking Inequity: Children Psychologically Imprisoned?: Whistleblower Reveals High-States Testing PreparationI’ll admit it. When A Terrifying Report about Child Abuse in Texas Schools–and in Your State Too first ran about a month ago on Diane Ravitch’s blog— it flew under my radar. The post detailed the
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NYC Public School Parents: Lawsuit filed today in NY State Court to block inBloom and protect student privacy
NYC Public School Parents: Lawsuit filed today in NY State Court to block inBloom and protect student privacy: Lawsuit filed today in NY State Court to block inBloom and protect student privacyThis morning, the law firm Pitta & Giblin LLP sued Commissioner King and the Board of Regents in NY State Supreme Court on behalf of twelve NYC parents, and asked for a restraining law to stop the unnece
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YESTERDAY

Vallas, Quinn and Duncan: Haiti and Illinois Vultures | Reclaim Reform
Vallas, Quinn and Duncan: Haiti and Illinois Vultures | Reclaim Reform: Vallas, Quinn and Duncan: Haiti and Illinois VulturesPosted on November 13, 2013by Ken PrevitiFifty schools were closed and several thousand teachers were fired in Chicago as “FAILING” schools. Who were the superintendents of those schools for 14 years prior to this decision?Arne Duncan (2001-2009) and Paul Vallas (1995-2001).
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SKrashen: Test your public ed savvy
SKrashen: Test your public ed savvy: Test your public ed savvyTest Your Public Ed Savvy: Are you Ed Wise or Prey to Popular Myth? Susan Ohanian and Stephen Krashen
Published in The Progressive, Jan 26, 2013 http://www.progressive.org/test-your-public-ed-savvy1. US  international test scores aren’t at the top because:a)    we lack common standards and valid tests.b)    many teachers are not doing t
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Hundreds raise questions, protest at Mineola HS forum
Hundreds raise questions, protest at Mineola HS forum: Hundreds raise questions, protest at Mineola HS forumOriginally published: November 13, 2013 11:22 AMUpdated: November 13, 2013 6:26 PMBy CANDICE FERRETTE AND JOAN GRALLA  candice.ferrette@newsday.com,joan.gralla@newsday.comPhoto credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams, Jr. | Parents and teachers opposed to state standardized testing and Common C
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Free preschool? 50,000 Washington children could qualify under proposed bill | Education Lab Blog | Seattle Times
Free preschool? 50,000 Washington children could qualify under proposed bill | Education Lab Blog | Seattle Times: Free preschool? 50,000 Washington children could qualify under proposed billPosted by Linda ShawPhoto by Ken Lambert/The Seattle TimesSen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), along with 11 other lawmakers, today proposed a bill that would help carry out President Obama’s pledge to offer every chi
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Schooling in the Ownership Society: Look who's running the Broad Foundation
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Look who's running the Broad Foundation: Look who's running the Broad FoundationBruce ReedOne of the characteristics of the Ownership Society is the fluid movement of key personnel back and forth between government and corporations. Carry this over into the world of ed reform and what's been called the education/industrial complex and you find similar movement b
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Teacher Advice: The Good, the Bad, and “That Would Never Happen in MY Class” | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights
Teacher Advice: The Good, the Bad, and “That Would Never Happen in MY Class” | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights: Teacher Advice: The Good, the Bad, and “That Would Never Happen in MY Class”By Roxanna Elden on November 13, 2013Editor's note: Our guest blogger today is Roxanna Elden. She is a National Board Certified teacher in Miami, Florida. Her book, See Me After Class: Advice
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Nite Cap 11-13-13 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
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 CAP mark as readDavid Coleman Again Demonstrates He Doesn’t Get Education | Truth in American EducationDavid Coleman Again Demonstrates He Doesn’t Get Education | Truth in American Education: David Coleman Again Demonstrates He Doesn’t Get Education
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