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Special Nite Cap: Catch Up on Today's Post 6/27/17 - *Special Nite Cap: Catch Up on Today's Post 6/27/17* *Featured Post* *NEA Today: Supreme Court Ruling Sidesteps Questions Regarding State Constitutional P...
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It’s Time for Medicare for All - Mitch McConnell is delaying a vote on the Senate Republican version of Trumpcare because he doesn’t...57 minutes ago
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In Senate ‘Better Care’ Act, Kasich Tastes His Own Bitter Medicine - How soon history is forgotten when a governor tries to burn both ends of the candle at the same time without lighting themselves on fire in the process. ...1 hour ago
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Parents Deserve to Know Who Is Being Appointed to State Board of Ed - I spent a rather surreal day at NJ Senate's Judiciary Committee meeting yesterday. This Committee, headed by Democrat Nick Scaturi, is responsible for ap...
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A New NY Times “Copy-Edit This” Interactive Just Published - The New York Times has been periodically publishing a neat ten-question interactive challenging readers to identify grammar errors that have appeared in Th...1 hour ago
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New Early Education and Support Division Director - State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson appoints new Early Education and Support Division Director.2 hours ago
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Why osteoarthritis is more common in females - Researchers have more evidence that males and females are different, this time in the fluid that helps protect the cartilage in their knee joints. They ha...2 hours ago
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Help wish Diane a Happy Birthday - July 1st is Diane’s birthday. She asks for only one gift: the hope that America’s public education system will thrive for the sake of our children – all...3 hours ago
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Our co-chair Rachael testifies before Congress tomorrow! - Rachael Stickland, co-chair of the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy is the lead off witness tomorrow Wednesday June 28, 2017 before the US House subco...3 hours ago
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Rep. Briggs-King Wants To Get Rid Of Delaware Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education - House Bill 261 would remove the Delaware Advisory Council on Career and Technical Education in legislation introduced today by State Rep. Ruth Briggs-King....4 hours ago
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Dozens of Democratic Senators Express Concerns About DeVos and Civil Rights - Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and 33 other Democratic senators have major concerns with the direction of the civil rights enforcement under U.S. Secretary of...4 hours ago
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TRS Is Converting Our Bond Fund To A Balanced Fund On January 1, 2018. Should You Invest In It? - My sources tell me that the Teachers Retirement System (TRS) is finally throwing in the towel and eliminating the poorly subscrib...
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Linda Weber Needs Your Help: She Is Running for Congress - Linda Weber is a staunch friend of public education. She is running for Congress in New Jersey, seeking a seat now held by a Republican. She needs our help...5 hours ago
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Pipeline Fights are a Fight for Our Lives - By Julie Dermansky for DeSmog Blog. astor Harry Joseph of the Mount Triumph Baptist Church in St. James, Louisiana, is taking legal action to prevent the ...
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Today’s News and Commentary—June 27, 2017 - On June 23, the Supreme Court decided Perry v. Merit Systems Protection Board. The court held that when a government employee’s “mixed case” is dismissed ...6 hours ago
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School Finance 101: The Sweeny-Prieto School Aid Proposal: An Analysis - School Finance 101: The Sweeny-Prieto School Aid Proposal: An Analysis Source: The Sweeny-Prieto School Aid Proposal: An Analysis Mark Weber Doctoral Cand...7 hours ago
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Supreme Court Paves the Way to Taxing Churches - Now that the state is responsible to support the church, the church is responsible to support the state.7 hours ago
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We have become too Permissive, not Progressive. - Defined as granting or inclined to grant permission as in permissive parents; characterized by freedom of personal behavior or a … Continue reading →
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Tuesday Open Thread - Ah, the first day of summer vacation and, of course, it's overcast. Checking the PDC for school board candidate contributions, I see this: District IV: Ede...8 hours ago
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PA: Charter Transparency Fail - Last night, my district's school board voted to raise taxes. They did it at a public meeting. I could have attended it easily (they meet just across the s...
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The Proper Thing To Do With Money - I've never watched the television program called *Hoarders*, but I understand it's a rather painful realty show that looks at the personal tragedies of...
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Morris Kight was the first Gay activist I ever knew. - Listen or download our Hitting Left podcast here.12 hours ago
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AM News: ESSA Plans, Voucher News, & Minority Parent Poll Results - ESSA Education Plans Lack Clarity on Disadvantaged Students, Worst Schools | Education News | US News usnews.com/news/education… Review of ESSA Plans Rates...12 hours ago
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#iste17 trends: Google, Touch Screen Chromebooks and More - An interview with Kasey Bell in episode 107 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Tw...13 hours ago
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Japan's Regional Universities Struggle - Many regional universities in Japan -- especially private institutions -- are struggling to meet enrollment goals, *The Japan Times* reported. The popula...16 hours ago
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Cartoons on Teaching English - Over the years, I have run cartoons on teaching different subjects from math, science to social studies. This collection of cartoons looks at the teaching ...16 hours ago
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Today's Class - Today, after having given our Regents exams, after having finalized and turned in all our grades, NY City high school teachers will face our students. Wel...
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Some Fed Ed Regulations Under the Microscope - At readers' request, we provide some links to U.S. Department of Education regulations that our readers can read and comment on before August 21, 2017. T...20 hours ago
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A Catalogue of Trump’s Lies from the New York Times - *Jan. 21 *“I wasn't a fan of Iraq. I didn't want to go into Iraq.” (He was for an invasion before he was against it.) “A reporter for Time magazine — ...
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COCO FUSCO - https://hyperallergic.com/368290/censorship-not-the-painting-must-go-on-dana-schutzs-image-of-emmett-till/1 day ago
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Reading Politics in a Time of Crisis: A book review - Reading *Politics in a Time of Crisis* – A view from the Left. By Duane Campbell As we know, the economic crisis of 2008-2012 disrupted the U.S. economy. ...
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Would a Berniecrat Have Won Ossoff’s Georgia Race? - Do you have to run like a Republican to win in a district like the Georgia 6th? The answers lie in the Census Bureau's free database, which very few seem t...1 day ago
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Will the Supreme Court’s Trinity decision lead to the spread of school voucher programs? - [image: Will the Supreme Court’s Trinity decision lead to the spread of school voucher programs?] (Update: Adding DeVos quote) The U.S. Supreme Court rule...1 day ago
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Supreme Court Ruling Sidesteps Questions Regarding State Constitutional Protections for Public Education - NEA President: Ruling is big setback for advocates of voucher programs that take taxpayer dollars out of public schools to divert them to private religious...1 day ago
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Diane Ravitch News Archives 1975-86 - This past week has been eventful for me. One major challenge involves renovating in my house the one room that took water during the August 2016 Louisiana ...1 day ago
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WEEKEND QUOTABLES - Gov. Rauner brimming with success while IL burns *"“Well, I take long walks with our dog and ride my motorcycle. I head out alone and explore roads or fi...
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The Sweeny-Prieto School Aid Proposal: An Analysis - Source: The Sweeny-Prieto School Aid Proposal: An Analysis Mark Weber Doctoral Candidate Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey POLICY BRIEF: Weber_Sw...1 day ago
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New educators ready to step up! - I hope I will learn about the experiences of teachers across the country who are fighting for their profession, their schools, and their students. More…1 day ago
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SoCal colleges scramble to make new financial aid available for summer students - *; Credit: Linda Briney/Courtesy of Fullerton College* Adolfo Guzman-Lopez After having been cut in cost-saving measures five years ago, the U.S. Depar...1 day ago
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Healthcare? We Do Not Care: Blood from a Turnip - Over the past two weeks, my mother had a stroke and resides now in a rehabilitation facility, and my father died sitting beside her over this weekend, afte...1 day ago
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REVIEW OF MNPS NEXT AND A LOOK AT THE WEEK AHEAD. - It was the week before vacation and all through the house people were scrambling to make arrangements for the morning departure. That’s right the Dad Gone ...1 day ago
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Feeling good about something - I write this in a hotel room in Madison WI, where I have just returned after attending the wedding/reception of the youngest of my wife’s four siblings, ...1 day ago
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Our 2017 Skinny Award dinner; a wonderfully joyful and inspiring evening! - *Our Class Size Matters Skinny award dinner was held last Tuesday, June 20, and it was terrific, despite a last minute change of venue because the restaur...
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How The Democratic Party Fatally Damaged Itself By Attacking Public Education - Ever since the Clinton Presidency, the Democratic Party has been an advocate of top-down school reforms whose goal has been to make the nation more econom...1 day ago
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Ravitch for "eventual absorption" of Charter Schools - Diane Ravitch's Network for Public Education (NPE) recently published a position statement on charter schools that directly challenges her widely-heralded...2 days ago
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Trend in NYC class sizes through Nov. 2016 - Here is data on the increase in class size since 2007, including class sizes of 30 or more, and the long term trend since 1998.2 days ago
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Jeff Bryant: Why Is There Bipartisan Support for Charter Scams and Corruption? - Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Jeff Bryant points out an irony that should enrage every taxpayer and citizen: Both major political parties love...2 days ago
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Not Data-Driven But Student-Driven And Future-Driven - I gave an assignment to one of the graduate classes I teach to consider a technology purchase a school has made recently. Was there a good return on the ...2 days ago
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Who Is Really Responsible For the Summer Slide? - Who is really responsible for summer slide?2 days ago
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Lewiston Mom Knocks it Out of the Park - The following letter, written by Karen McClure-Richard of Lewiston, Maine, appeared in our local newspaper this morning. It was written in response to the...3 days ago
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Putting the ‘i’ in School - TweetHave You Heard Episode #20: Personalized Learning and the Disruption of Public Education Fantastic news, listener. The cure for what ails our long fai...3 days ago
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Personalized Learning Is NOT Inclusion! - One is the loneliest number that you will ever do…. ~Three Dog Night Personalized learning must not be mistaken for inclusion. The reality is that it’s stu...3 days ago
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An Open Letter to the Mukilteo School Board: Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Means Breaking the Rules and Allowing Kids to Walk in Graduation with Their Peers. - Dear Mukilteo School Board members, Over the two weeks before our district graduations, I wrote and implored you to allow students who have not yet met sta...
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Chriropractic really is BS - I’ve always been skeptical of the practice of chiropractic, even though I’ve used a few for actual back pain. Some seemed to me to be out-and-out money-gru...4 days ago
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Success - I met Ahmed when he came to my class in the middle of the term. He was newly arrived from Pakistan and barely spoke English and his bathing habits were...
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Trying to Sort Out All the Concerns about Charters and Vouchers - After today, this blog will take a two week summer break. Look for a new post on Tuesday, July 11. I recently spent far too much time slogging through the...4 days ago
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6/22/2017 – Charter Schools Do Bad Stuff Because They Can - June 22, 2017 Subscribe THIS WEEK: Segregation By Secession … Childhood Gun Deaths … Big Oil’s Curriculum … DeVos Helps For-Profit Colleges … DeVos Dumps T...4 days ago
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Who is Responsible for the Demise of Mayoral Control? Eva - Years ago I served on the teacher union negotiating team in New York City. We started with formal meetings across the table with thick briefing books; eac...4 days ago
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June 22, 2017 newsletter brief - Thumbnail of the 6/22/17 newsletter (full issue here) Action of the week: Share PAA’s new 1-page fact sheet exposing the truth about Stand for Children Twe...5 days ago
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Students, Communities in Mourning and Fear Coast to Coast - From Sand Point Elementary in Seattle, WA, to South Lakes High School in Fairfax, VA, violent, fear-inducing incidents on one day, suggest it is time to mo...
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Pay for Success: Main Streets’ Payout to Wall Street - “Pay for Success” sounds good. And the argument for Pay for Success is made more inviting because federal, state, and local governments are cash-strapped...5 days ago
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LET’S DO EDUCATION FUNDING REFORM THE RIGHT WAY (BY JIM FINLEY) - Despite all the fiscal and other challenges paralyzing Connecticut, there is an opportunity in the 2017 special legislative session to take the first rea...6 days ago
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This Week in Education Organizing - June 16, 2017 - *Baltimore City Council Stands Up for Community Schools* The Baltimore City Council and the Mayor reached a deal on a new city budget late last week, aft...6 days ago
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This is also who we are - I needed this story. Maybe you need it, too. This is also who we are. This is how we find one another. This is how we resist. Continue reading…6 days ago
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Society’s Commitment is Reflected in Tests - We continue to punish students, teachers, and schools with punitive standardized testing. One could argue that all this testing is worth it if it actually ...6 days ago
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June’s (2017) Useful Parent Engagement Resources – Part One - [View the story “June’s (2017) Useful Parent Engagement Resources – Part One” on Storify]6 days ago
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Washington Grabs Power=Dog Bites Man - Big surprise: Washington ain’t letting go of its authority to run public education! That’s the gist of news about Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the ...6 days ago
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Where Have All the Democrats Gone? Part I - This post is the start of a series. I don't know how many parts it will eventually be. Guess that depends on how long Democratic elected officials at the s...6 days ago
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San Diego Schools Embrace Untested “Depersonalized” Learning - San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) is spending lavishly on technology despite their budgets being decimated by California’s unaccountable charter sc...6 days ago
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What Philando Castile Taught Me About Fatherhood [Medium] - Recently, I put a post on Medium about Philando Castile and Father’s Day, which I think will be useful for any day: “Castile’s name comes ... Read More ...6 days ago
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Well-Funded Non-Profits Pave the Way to Privatization - By John Thompson. David Callahan’s The Givers begins with the first politicized think tanks of the 1960s and 1970s, such as the American Enterprise Insti...1 week ago
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Supporters of charters have to take responsibility for all their fraud and failure - The founder of two Duval and fifteen Florida charter schools, Marcus May is in big trouble, accused of stealing money from Florida's taxpayers and children...1 week ago
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Seattle educators demand justice for Charleena Lyles; pledge to rally and wear “Black Lives Matter” shirts to school on Tuesday - For Immediate Release: Monday, June 19th, 2017 Contact: Social Equality Educators, or Jesse Hagopian: Seattle educators demand justice for Charleena Lyles...
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A Charter School Violates Student Privacy to Shame Parents Into Volunteering - When work is required, it’s not voluntary. It’s wrong and unlawful to punish a child for what his or her parents can’t or won’t do.” – Hilary Hammell, Publ...1 week ago
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Coop Goes to Europe Part 41 – London - It was Friday December 7th and I was in the friendly confines of the American Express office in London. The place was full of people including some of my b...1 week ago
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Military Vouchers: Choice Comes to Our Defense - Inspired by Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, and her school choice agenda, Secretary of Defense James "Mad Dog" Mattis has declared that we are doing ...
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Support Room 134! - *Friends, family, even public education supporters I don't know on social media are always asking about how they can help given the constant madness of the...
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BustED Pencils on Vacation! - The post BustED Pencils on Vacation! appeared first on BustED Pencils.1 week ago
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Cowardice in the Face of Hate – or how someone made me miss Randi Weingarten - Fernando Cabrera peddles hate.... Which is more likely? The UFT president momentarily forgot a procedure? Or he was afraid to allow delegates to vote on Ca...1 week ago
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What TFA Tells The New Recruits About ‘The System’ - The Teach For America mission statement does not mention the word teacher. It reads “Our mission is to enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible o...1 week ago
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CPE update and other miscellany - Dear Colleagues and friends, On the Central Park East front. The interim appointed without consulting the school community is a good guy whose sympathies s...1 week ago
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The Church of Choice - There are many reasons why various advocates representing different constituencies support school choice policies. Some of them argue from a civil rights ...1 week ago
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The War on Teachers and the End of Public Education - We have genuinely reached a tipping point, one where we're struggling to get young people to go into teaching as professional career (as opposed to two-yea...1 week ago
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Sometimes, Financial Market Predictions Are Correct By Jonathan D. Glater - The price of shares of for-profit higher education provider Apollo Education Group, owner of the University of Phoenix, rose nearly 7 percent the day after...1 week ago
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An Open Letter to NC Lawmakers - An Open Letter to NC State Lawmakers and NC State Superintendent Mark Johnson: I am a NC native, voter, and public school teacher. I am addressing you all ...1 week ago
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As Climate Change Threatens Food Supplies, Seed Saving is an Ancient Act of Resilience - Originally posted on The Revolution Where You Live: In Norway, a high-tech seed vault flooded from melting permafrost. In Montana, locals share their seeds...1 week ago
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I want to report a case of child abuse. No, thousands of cases. - I want to report a case of child abuse. Well, no. Not just one case. Thousands of cases. Maybe tens of thousands. One for every child in New Jersey who at...1 week ago
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Lena Taylor and Jason Fields Unite With Republicans to Weaken Voucher Accountability - Wisconsin lawmakers fast track catch-all school-choice bill Annysa Johnson and Erin Richards, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel June 13, 2017 A school choice bill...1 week ago
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Lena Taylor and Jason Fields Unite With Republicans to Weaken Voucher Accountability - Wisconsin lawmakers fast track catch-all school-choice bill Annysa Johnson and Erin Richards, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel June 13, 2017 A school choice bill...1 week ago
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Should Families Really Have to "Choose" Healthy Schools? - Looks like it's going to be a big week for school "choice." The National Charter School Convention is in full swing (I've been following the hashtag #ncsc1...
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Higher order thinking about HOTS - All hail Higher Order Thinking Skills! HOTS (gotta love the acronym) conjures up images of Einstein, Hawking and Holmes. Who wouldn’t want to be them? Who ...2 weeks ago
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Diversity Is A Good Thing - But what is it? Like pornography, it seems to be something folks “know” when they see, but aren’t very comfortable…2 weeks ago
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UPDATED: Perriello's ties to problematic education reformers - As I wrote a month ago, I am supporting Ralph Northam in the Democratic primary for the Virginia gubernatorial race. I agree with much of Tom Perriello's p...2 weeks ago
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The $50,000 ATR Question - We've been offered $50,000 to go away and not be to heard from again. As many know by now, there is a new ATR agreement bestowed upon the unsuspecting, th...
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Charter schools harm students - Remediation costs from charter high school “graduates” getting into college, but not having basic proficiency are astronomical both in terms of economics...
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Telling NYSED Commissioner Elia to Trash the NYSESLAT: My Testimony from the Brooklyn ESSA Hearing - Last night a large crowd gathered at Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights Educational Campus to hear feedback on the New York State Education Department’s (NYSED) p...
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Career Opportunity! - The Coalition for Educational Justice and the Urban Youth Collaborative are seeking an Education Justice Director. Click below to see the job description. ...2 weeks ago
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With Police Reform Flip-Flop, Mayor Emanuel Fails Leadership Test - Having lived and worked under a flawed system of school accountability institutionalized by the Bush administration in 2002, and wholly embraced by Rahm Em...
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The Louisiana Math Standards in Our Middle Schools Are a Disaster! - Louisiana is attempting to teach Common Core math. The recent legislatively mandated revision resulted in a change of only 5% of the standards. But the mid...3 weeks ago
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Remade Pile of Words: Will ‘conscious’ charters fail? - About this time 16 years ago I was sitting on the lawn listen to Professor Ray McDermott talk about the work of bees in a hive and the application of their...
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Bigfoot and Public Education - Approximately 35% of Americans believe that President Trump is doing an acceptable job. The same percentage, though not necessarily the same people, believ...3 weeks ago
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Demand … or Be Damned - I was invited by Kevin Zeese to contribute something to Popular Resistance a while back, to contribute a call for an action in response to current educatio...4 weeks ago
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“Everybody’s It!” – Building Relationships With Play! - I can’t join in because of my knees, but I watch. I stand on the sidewalk, outside our back door, and watch them engage in our Morning Meeting activity, “E...4 weeks ago
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"Tell Me About Your Number!" Adding a Little Somethin',Somethin' with QR Codes! - I try to switch up what we do for Morning Meeting activities. And once it warms up, I try to make whatever we do take place outdoors. So I came up with thi...
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The case against heavy phonics - Sent to the Sydney Morning Herald, May 28, 2017 Monica Dux claims the evidence supporting explicit systematic instruction is "overwhelming" and that whole...4 weeks ago
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Class of 2017: When you see a chance… - The price to pay for never acting on the things you want out of life can be heavy. You miss opportunities. You wonder what might have been. Regretting inac...
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Don't Like Chris Christie? Blame the Democrats. - Yesterday Diane Ravitch published a piece in The New Republic, titled Don't Like Betsy DeVos? Blame the Democrats. If you care about public education at al...
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Let’s Make History - Efforts to improve K-12 education over the past 30 years have been a bipartisan mess. Here’s a description, written by Diane Ravitch, of how we got into th...4 weeks ago
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Are Tech & Learning Compatible? - I recently read yet another article that questioned the effect of using technology in education. I believe it stated that there are 3.6 million educators u...5 weeks ago
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The New York Times on “The Little Known Statistician” Who Passed - As many of you may recall, I wrote a post last March about the passing of William L. Sanders at age 74. Sanders developed the Education Value-Added Assessm...5 weeks ago
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Chapter One: From Under Trump’s “Landslide” - The book can be purchased here. What Is This ‘America’? What is this “America” David Brooks was talking about when he wrote the following?: When America is...
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Paul Ryan Comes To Harlem - In a sense, the visit of such a person to such an institution made perfect sense, that much the more in the Age of Trump. After all, here you had Speaker o...1 month ago
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A Watergate Refresher for 2017 - *Whether or not you like President Trump or not, even if you’re ambivalent, I thought a few teachers might be interested in this story of Watergate which I...1 month ago
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Create a Culture of Communication in Your Districts - [image: Teacher meeting in office] *By Rich Bagin, NSPRA executive director* Recently, I spoke before a group of superintendents when I received an Outst...1 month ago
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We Opted Out, Now What? - Your family made the decision to "refuse" or opt out of the state assessments. By taking this action you are standing up for your child's education. You ...1 month ago
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Anger doesn’t describe it - New York State assessments conclude today. Half of my fifth grade students will have sat through over 9 hours of abusive assessments while the other half o...1 month ago
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PARCC TEST MEMBERSHIP DOWN TO SIX STATES AND D.C. - I'm remembering back to 2015 when Arne Duncan's SUV took a wrong turn on the way to Ariel Community Academy in Chicago, and he was forced to get out and w...
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A Poem in Favor of Humanity - 2017 – it’s 2017 Who would think that in 2017 I would feel the need to have you read a poem in favor of humanity? I look out at my students what do I see? ...
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TRUMP AS OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION OF THE BODY POLITIC - Comparable rules apply In dealing with the human body or the body politic. When the threat of sickness and dysfunction is present in either of these system...1 month ago
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Rosanne Wood on the March for Science: a powerful blueprint for what education should be - Tens of thousands of scientists and supporters in 600 cities across the world participated in a Global March for Science on … Continue reading →2 months ago
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CANCER IS BACK AND THIS TIME IT HURTS RIGHT OFF THE BAT! - APRIL IS STILL POETRY MONTH AND LIBRARY MONTH. MANY WONDERFUL THINGS TO CELEBRATE. But in the middle of the month I received some bad news about my can...
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Damaging Frontal Lobe Development: THE END OF EMPATHY? - For my friends who follow my blogs. I apologize. Over the past year most of my observations and comments have been shifted to Podcasts titled Insights Int...2 months ago
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Schools as Civic Centers - Introduction to Dewey Lecture - This introduction for Harry Boyte's forthcoming Dewey Lecture (April 27, 2017, San Antonio), growing from the Meier-Boyte conversation, argues the need to ...2 months ago
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The Secret to Fixing Schools (My Next Bestseller) - The Secret to Fixing Schools (My next bestseller) Prologue I just finished watching a fascinating documentary on Netflix entitled, “The Secret”. The film p...
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Campbell Brown’s newest nanny state - She flamed out at network news. She’s flamed out at cable news. So what’s a washed-up ex-this, ex-that, to do? Campbell Brown is now going to tell you how ...2 months ago
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Farewell, Sleep - Today is the official last day of my spring break. I've done a scientific survey: My natural bedtime is 2 AM, and my natural wake up time is 9:41 AM. Tom...2 months ago
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World School - Introducing our educational adventure, world schooling. Continue reading →
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New Local Businesses in Sacramento - Starting a new local business in Sacramento is a monumental task, but can be accomplished with footwork, perseverance and knowledge. One must learn the loc...3 months ago
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Educator Resources for Transgender Students - Chapter Reference: Hudson Valley Chapter Preview Tooltip: View More3 months ago
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Newsletter #12 – Community and School Struggles Unite! - Welcome to our March 2017 edition of our Newsletter. In this issue we cover two pressing and current topics: the fight to establish Sanctuary Schools and ...3 months ago
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IBO REPORT: NYC Charter School Costs To Grow More Than Budgeted! - *New York City Charter School Costs To Grow More Than Budgeted!* Although the preliminary budget forecast of charter school enrollment is lower than project...
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Jewell Elementary & Aurora Public Schools Skirt Law - Letter sent to Colorado State Board of Education, as well as media, senators who sponsored bill, Aurora Education Association, Aurora superintendent office...3 months ago
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All those things that don’t change - Well, I saw a cardinal hopping around the trees this past weekend at a local state park. Spring winds are blowing but the winds of winter still doesn’t wan...3 months ago
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Education Bloggers Daily Highlights 3/2/2017 - Education Bloggers Daily Highlights 3/1/2017 Education Bloggers Daily Highlights Courtesy of Big Education Ape A special thank you to education blogger Mik...3 months ago
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What Works Can Hurt: Side Effects in Education - This medicine can reduce fever, but it can cause a bleeding stomach. When you buy a medical product, you are given information about both its effects and s...4 months ago
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In Ukraine….”there will be thousands of people killed and this blood of children and adults will be on Trump’s hands.” - President Donald Trump’s deeply disturbing airy comparison last night of Russian president Vladamir’s Putin’s record as a killer to our own is still getti...4 months ago
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Hitting Left: The Klonsky Brothers on Lumpen Radio in Chicago - Tune in every Friday at 11 a.m. (CDT) for the Klonsky Bros. Hitting Left, live on Lumpen Radio. The show is also available on MixCloud and via podcast.
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Bad Hair Day - It’s winter time. It’s cold — okay, not for anyone outside California and Florida, but still — I’m wearing hats in the morning. Lovely knitted hats that I’...5 months ago
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Betsy DeVos’s Institutional Racism Problem - As have no doubt heard, the State School Reform Office of the state of Michigan has released the names of the 38 schools that are slated for possible closu...5 months ago
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Attitude Determines Altitude* (*conditions apply)… and the Importance of Humane District Themes - It has been a tumultuous few years in the South Brunswick community, specifically the South Brunswick School District. All you have to do is google the dis...
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WWJD to Public Schools? - Public education supporters have legit reasons to be worried about President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos. Living t...
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The Invasion of the Public School Snatchers - Public schools are in danger. The public school, that long-standing symbol and foundation of democracy, is threatened by people who either sincerely beli...
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Lessons Learned - Our children receive so much direct instruction from their parents, schools and institutions. Day in and day out, the lessons are specific with measurable ...7 months ago
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Capturing the Spark - It’s been a long time since InterACT was an active education blog, though I remain quite proud of what we did here. Those of us who wrote blog posts here h...7 months ago
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What Is To Be Done? Trump, the Election, and the Student Loan Crises - President-elect Donald Trump delivering acceptance speech in New York, NY on November 9 (Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Ever since now Preside...
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Rocketship is a gross place - I’ve always thought Rocketship was a really gross model for a charter school. It’s a terrible experiment for poor black and brown children, one that more a...9 months ago
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Random Musings and Observations. . . . - I’ve been gone a while from the blogging scene. Some of my more regular readers no doubt noticed but did not hassle me about it. Thank you for that. Sinc...10 months ago
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Thanks & Gratitude from the SOS Coalition for Action - On behalf of the SOS Coalition members, we want to thank all those who helped make the People’s March for Public Education and the SOS Coalition Activists ...10 months ago
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PCAPS Community Schools Task Force Celebrates the Announcement of The First Cohort of Philadelphia Community Schools - photo credit: Craig Robbins. Then candidate Jim Kenney at an ACTION United, PCAPS rally at Comegys Elementary in April last year announcing his committmen...11 months ago
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WTU Peterson Slate: Not a 1 Woman Dictatorship - Candi Peterson & GeLynn Thompson Candidates for WTU Prez & GVP 2016By Candi Peterson, WTU Gen. Vice President *Statements or expressions of opinions herein...
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WHY SCHOOL START TIMES PLAY A HUGE ROLE IN KIDS’ SUCCESS - Teens are severely sleep-deprived. This needs to change. Rebecca Klein Editor, HuffPost Education| https://t.co/zInVJoy29W evgenyatamanenko via Getty Image...1 year ago
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Feminism-in-Schools Featured at First International Girls’ Studies Association Conference - Leaders in the feminism-in-schools movement recently made history at the inaugural International Girls’ Studies Association (IGSA) conference when we were ...1 year ago
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To simply say you have a growth mindset does not mean you actually have one - By definition, you cannot have a growth mindset when learning is anchored to standardized tests. Standardized tests are a one … Continue reading →1 year ago
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MY NEW BLOG - My new blog will consist of fictitious headlines, meant to be a blend of humor and satire. I apologize ahead of time if any other satirical site has simila...1 year ago
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Dear White Educators - Dear White Educators, I struggle with you. I struggle with me. I struggle with how, if, and when to write us this letter. There is no perfect time, no perf...1 year ago
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Breaking Down Barriers in Sexual and Reproductive Health Reporting in Africa - *This is a guest post by Humphrey Nabimanya, founder of Reach a Hand Uganda. * [image: 2016-04-15-1460736651-1435623-huffpo1.jpg]*Journalists and bloggers...1 year ago
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Random House published my new book SCHOOLS ON TRIAL - On February 16th, Doubleday, an imprint of Random House, published my new book SCHOOLS ON TRIAL: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malprac...1 year ago
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NYS Tests: Has anything really changed? - When I wrote my blog post last year, The Truth about New York State Testing, I thought to myself… if only I could really tell the whole truth about the tes...1 year ago
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Thank you - Dear Readers, Thank you for visiting *The Perimeter Primate*. This blog is being retired for the time being. Although I no longer post here, I do still s...1 year ago
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I am Retiring - I have some news: I am retiring from the PBS NewsHour and Learning Matters. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other conte...1 year ago
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All Aboard the Opt Out Bus - The #OptOutBus is currently traveling the country giving away free books to children! Follow their progress at their Facebook page and donate to their FR...1 year ago
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Time To Say Goodbye - As some of you may have already noticed, I'm shutting down District 299. I created the blog way back in the day (2005) when when I realized that Chicago ed...2 years ago
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New Titles Help Students Cope With High Stakes Testing - As students around the country prepare to take and fail a battery of state exams based on the Common Core standards, Amazon.com has compiled a list of book...
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A Teacher Tries Opting Out - This is my first blog post and kind of the reason I decided to create my own blog: to keep people updated on what is going on with my request, as a teacher...2 years ago
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Flaws at the Heart of Current Education Reforms - Originally posted on Creative by Nature: “Teaching is an art form rooted in the wise and careful use of educational research and assessment tools. When gove...2 years ago
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Educating Children Is an Essential Public Enterprise - Notes from the Field Submitted by Frank Murphy In the olden times of the Twentieth Century, education tales made for boring stories. Those were the days wh...2 years ago
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Revised Policy Statement Released - On the eve of the Chicago mayoral election, Chicagoland Researchers and Advocates for Transformative Education (CReATE), a network of education researcher...2 years ago
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Who's to Blame for Oil Waste in Californians' Drinking Water? - *By Briana Mordick* Natural Resources Defense Council New information from the California Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) reveal...2 years ago
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my response to john merrow - In response to What a Difference a Dash Makes! by John Merrow Dear Mr. Merrow, I believe you know EXACTLY what is going on; you are simply too smart and ...2 years ago
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Joanne Barkan: One of my favorite writers on #EdReform… - I’ve been going through some of my Twitter “favorites” and retweeting them. I thought I would pass on to you some information about one of my favorite writ...2 years ago
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Spanish Readers’ Blog: 2014 en resumen - Spanish Readers’s blog con la ayuda de WordPress ha preparado su reporte anual para el año que termina (Vea el 2013): Un resúmen: La sala de conciertos de ...2 years ago
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Pay Teachers Less to Improve School Efficiency - hmmm! - As I was reading through education news on several of the news sites I regularly visit, I came...2 years ago
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A Call for the Next Phase in the Resistance - Originally posted on the becoming radical: Teachers at every level of schooling have struggled against two powerful social claims: (i) education has always...2 years ago
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Seven of Campbell Brown's Funders Come Clean - Campbell Brown's courageous stand to take on teacher tenure protections has recently come under some fire because her Partnership for Educational Justic...
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Please share this testing survey with 5th-6th grade parents/students - PLEASE SHARE THIS IMPORTANT SURVEY WITH CPS 5th and 6th grade PARENTS AND STUDENTS! Deadline April 23. Dear Parent or Guardian, I am conducting a research ...3 years ago
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Free as in speech. Free as in beer. Free as in Huey. Free as in lunch. Free as in bird. Free as in love. - I’d like to say a little more about what I meant last week when I advocated for free public higher education, and I’d like to say it in the form of a serie...3 years ago
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Kimberly Olson, Broad Superintendents Academy Class of 2005 - Kimberly D. Olson, Colonel, USAF (retired), is currently the Executive Director of *Grace After Fire*, an online social support network for women veteran...6 years ago
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