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News Analysis: Then and Now, a Test That Aims to Neutralize Advantages of the Privileged
The people who first designed the SAT decades ago wanted to identify a new elite based on brains rather than heredity, not necessarily to expand access to college.
Contributing Op-Ed Writer: Save Us From the SAT
The SAT is a mind-numbing, stress-inducing ritual of torture.
The Story Behind the SAT Overhaul
How the College Board revolutionized the most controversial exam in America.
Oregon immigrants, allies head to California border supporting undocumented group attempting to cross
The border crossing effort is part of the Bring Them Home project led by the National Immigrant Youth Alliance to unite families separated by deportation.
Principals hear contract pitch that includes major salary reductions
by Kevin McCorry for NewsWorks In the Philadelphia School District, Friday might be an especially bad day to be called to the principal's office. Thursday night, the union representing District principals and other school administrators heard the details of a tentative deal struck between union leadership and the District. If accepted, the deal would cut salaries by as much as 17 percent in additi
The Common Core© Denial of Little Evan Stone
Little Evan Stone from Educators 4 Excellence has a new mouth piece. He is Josh Goodman of the SKDKnickerbocker. Josh wrote a press release with the usual E4E propaganda deriding the New York State legislature from putting the brakes on the Common Core©.communications firm, CommonCoreE4ESo much wrong with this statement The Crack Team was roiling on the floor laughing that EMS came and carted t
The "Fight" of the Century that Wasn't: What the Promoters Might Have to Do to Pull it Off!
Listening to the NPE Conference this past weekend I was reminded that a 75-year old Grandma who "kicks butt" (apparently wearing Tony Lama boots for a second time) can make the likes of Michelle Rhee seemingly quake in her boots. The Ravitch-Rhee debate was scheduled for February 6, 2014 at Lehigh University. Hopes ran high! To me, it seemed on the scale of the Frazier-Ali fights that
Vergara witness says state laws governing teachers work
Cal-Berkeley professor Jesse Rothstein The battle of the experts continued today in Vergara vs. California as an expert in labor economics and public policy called by the defense provided rationales for keeping in place the state laws governing teachers that are under challenge in the case. Jesse Rothstein, a professor at Cal-Berkeley and a former senior economist on the U.S. Council of Economic A
Video: Bringing Syria’s Civil War Home
I’m adding this video to The Best Resources For Learning About What’s Happening In Syria:
Excellent Updated Resources On Ukraine
Here are some excellent new additions to The Best Resources On The Protests (& Crisis) In Ukraine: Ukraine embroiled in East-West divide is an Associated Press interactive. Ukrainian crisis: Situation maps is from The Washington Post. What’s Going On in Ukraine? An Up-to-Date Guide is from ABC News.
Nite Cap 3-6-14 #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 CAPSPECIAL Mid Day Banana Break 3-6-14 #RealEdTalk #edreformBig Education Ape - Mid Day Banana BreakDe Blasio, in Radio Interview, Defends His Position on Charter SchoolsBy Kate Taylor | Originally Published at The New York Times. March 6, 2014 Batt
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Big Education Ape - Mid Day Banana BreakDe Blasio, in Radio Interview, Defends His Position on Charter SchoolsBy Kate Taylor | Originally Published at The New York Times. March 6, 2014 Battered in the press over his position on charter schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday took to a friendly news outlet to defend himself and argue that his actions were being distorted. […]by empathy / 58minRat
Community Forum on the CORE Waiver | The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education
Community Forum on the CORE Waiver | The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education: Community Forum on the CORE WaiverPlease join the Sacramento City Teachers Association, Hmong Innovating Politics, the Black Parallel School Board and the Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education atthe Sierra II Community Center's Curtis Hall (24th St. and 4th Ave.)for a forum on the California Office to R