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8 D.C. area schools win National Blue Ribbon award for academic achievement

8 D.C. area schools win National Blue Ribbon award for academic achievement

8 D.C. area schools win National Blue Ribbon award for academic achievement

Sarah Hillware talks with Mayor Adrian M. Fenty at the School Without Walls, where Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced the National Blue Ribbon School award winners.
Sarah Hillware talks with Mayor Adrian M. Fenty at the School Without Walls, where Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced the National Blue Ribbon School award winners. (Bill O'leary/the Washington Post)
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Friday, September 10, 2010

Eight public and private schools in the Washington area received one of the highest distinctions in U.S. education Thursday as Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced the 304 winners of the National Blue Ribbon School awards.

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Duncan spoke at the District's School Without Walls on Thursday, citing the school -- the only one in the District to receive the award -- for its progress in raising achievement levels among disadvantaged and minority students.

The school, on the campus of George Washington University, requires an application for admission and

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voiceofsandiego.org: Schooled: The Education Blog

voiceofsandiego.org: Schooled: The Education Blog
Why Teens Fall Short of College Requirements 2 articles

Inequitable class offerings, poor grades and other problems have prevented San Diego Unified students from meeting the minimum requirements to apply to the University of California or California State University system, a long-awaited report on college readiness has found.

The issue looms larger for African American and Latino students, who are less likely to meet the bar than their white or Asian classmates.

To even apply for public universities in California, students must take 15 courses that meet specific requirements and get a C or better in each, a set of classes known as the A-G sequence. The San Diego Unified school board has pledged to make those classes part of its

Schools Budget for Bigger Energy, Water Bills

San Diego Unified is projecting that it will spend nearly $4 million more on gas, electricity, water and sewer charges this school year than last. The budgeted increase in utility bills comes as the school district faces another year of state budget cuts, pressuring it to findmore savings outside the classroom.

School officials say their budget just reflects the worst case scenario. They hope schools and district offices will ultimately conserve and spend less than budgeted. Several factors led the school district to plan for higher bills, said Jay Naish, energy management supervisor for

Three County Schools Get National Honor

Three public schools in San Diego County were tapped for national honors today. Otay Elementary in Chula Vista, the School of Digital Media and Design (one of the schools-within-a-school at Kearny High)and Preuss School UCSD, a charter school on a university campus that targets disadvantaged students, were chosen as National Blue Ribbon Schools.

The national awards honor schools that are either high performing -- in the top 10 percent in the state on both reading and math tests -- or greatly improved, especially when it comes to the academic performance of disadvantaged children. Private schools are also eligible.

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The "Buy-In" Tar Pit :: Frederick M. Hess

The "Buy-In" Tar Pit :: Frederick M. Hess

The "Buy-In" Tar Pit

by Frederick M. Hess • Sep 10, 2010 at 10:53 am
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The "buy-in" tar pit is located adjacent to other similar geographical oddities, like the "consensus-seeking" sinkhole and the "capacity-building" briar patch. These are all easy ways to blame process rather than substance when the complaint is really about substance. So efforts to close lousy schools, trim benefits, or toughen up evaluation are inevitably attacked for a lack of buy-in or stakeholder support, no matter how much time was spent on just those things. (Meanwhile, you hardly ever hear any complaints that across-the-board pay raises were decided with insufficient input.)

Right now, the Washington Teachers Union (the AFT's D.C. local) is throwing everything it has behind D.C. City Council Chairman Vincent Gray in a push to unseat Mayor Adrian Fenty. The media have reported mass mailings, nightly phone banks, and big bucks, in addition to the hard-to-miss radio ads. This all follows, by just a few months, the groundbreaking collective bargaining deal between the WTU and Fenty's schools chief

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Collecting spare change for the schools

Collecting spare change for the schools

Collecting spare change for the schools

Andrew S. Ross

Friday, September 10, 2010

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Starting Monday, your pennies, nickels and dimes will be gratefully received in collection boxes at public schools in San Francisco and South San Francisco, and Walgreens stores in both cities.

In another sign of the economic times, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce is teaming up with local businesses, banks and the two cities' school districts in a three-week campaign cheerfully called "The Coin Rush!"

"If you do the math," said Chamber of Commerce CEO Steve Falk, citing a U.S. Mint estimate that $80 million worth of pennies alone are circulating or unaccounted for in the Bay Area, "we can see that collecting pennies, nickels and dimes can add up to a significant amount for our schools."

Yes, it has come to this. "There's a bittersweet aspect, certainly," said Chris



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9/11 Resources | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

9/11 Resources | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
9/11 Resources Just a reminder that I’ve added a whole lot of resources recently to The Best Sites To Help Teach About 9/11. Additional suggestions are welcome.
Info Released On President Obama’s Upcoming Speech To Students The White House has announced that President Obama will deliver his second annual Back to School speech on Tuesday, September 14 at Julia R Masterman Middle-High School in Philadelphia, PA at 1:00 PM ET. It will be will be streamed live here and on ...
DocDroid Has Interesting Take On Document Conversion docDroid is an interesting take on document conversion. You upload a document in pretty much any format you want (Word, PDF, etc.). Then you email the link to someone, who can then download the document in any format you want. In other words, if you ...
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Obama to give back-to-school speech Tuesday at Masterman Notes from the news, Sept. 10 | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Notes from the news, Sept. 10 | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Notes from the news, Sept. 10

by Erika Owens

notes from the news imageObama to give back-to-school speech Tuesday at Masterman The Inquirer
Big get for the Philly schools! President Obama is giving an address during the school day again this year.

See also: Obama Chooses Phila. School for Speech Site KYW

Philadelphia is our city - and they're our schools Daily News (opinion)
The legislative director of ACTION United writes about how the community is a "substantial resource" for the District.

False goals for city schools The Inquirer (opinion)
Chalk and Talk blogger Christopher Paslay writes that maybe every student isn't going to get high test scores.

Changing Skyline: Philadelphia learns a lesson in school design The Inquirer
A look at the new Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High School, which YUC students were heavily involved in designing.

Filling the Need for Skilled Workers Requires Smarter Education Huffington Post
Philadelphia Education Fund board chair Diane Melley writes about "the pressing need to keep students in school."

What Comes Before Filtering, Fearlessness and Foresight Practical Theory blog
Those are the top three leadership skills, which SLA principal Chris Leahmann describe in a Technology and Learning magazine article.

Superintendent Ackerman to make first visit to Imhotep Institute Charter High School The Examiner

Training for School Cops WHYY

public school teacher bashing in local media Young Philly Politics

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Education Week American Education News Site of Record

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Jobs Money Flowing, but Not Smoothly

Texas saw its $830 million request rejected by the Department of Education, and charter school advocates are dismayed that some may have trouble tapping the $10 billion layoff-prevention fund.(September 10, 2010)

Race to Top Winners Embed STEM Projects in Plans

The winning states proposed in their applications a variety of ways to improve science, technology, engineering, and math in schools. (September 9, 2010) | Comments (1)

INSIDE SCHOOL RESEARCH BLOG

Extra Reading Class Boosts Pupil Skills, but Not Permanently

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Learning-Disabled Enrollment Dips After Long Climb

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College & Career Transitions

The Math Lab at Valencia Community College West Campus in Orlando, Fla., offers students enrolled in developmental math courses individualized tutoring by professors, open work areas and flexibility in fulfilling lab components.
—Hilda M. Perez for Education Week

Community Colleges Get Creative With Remedial Ed.

With 60 percent of their students needing remedial classes, the colleges are experimenting with new support structures and better assessments in high school and college. (September 9, 2010) | Comments (3)

THE SCHOOL LAW BLOG

Court Upholds Background Checks for School Visitors

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This Week In Education: Media: National Journal's New Education Reporter

This Week In Education: Media: National Journal's New Education Reporter

Media: National Journal's New Education Reporter

by Alexander Russo

image from www.pbs.orgFawn Johnson (pictured) is replacing Eliza Krigman as National Journal's education reporter and blog moderator. Krigaman is off to bigger, better things (the telecommunications beat, I think). Strange since Johnson was the telecom correspondent at the WSJ before NJ hired her. But I don't really care that much. Congrats, condolences. Welcome to the beat.



Bans: 17 Strange Things Schools Have Banned

by Alexander Russo

Idealbookshelf16_jm"In general, our schools tended to ban anything cool, for fear that kids would fight over it. But kids will always find something to fight over, as our ball-free rugby games attest. And while it obviously makes sense to keep kids

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Ramon Cortines, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, is in Denver today The Daily Churn: Friday | EdNewsColorado

The Daily Churn: Friday | EdNewsColorado

The Daily Churn: Friday

by EdNews staff

Daily Churn logoWhat’s churning:

Ramon Cortines, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, is in Denver today for a talk titled “How L.A. Unified is Moving Forward: Public release of teacher performance, parental control, new school operators.” Seating for the Hot Lunch talk sponsored by the Donnell-Kay and Piton foundations is full but, as

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The Educated Reporter: We won RTTT! So now what?

The Educated Reporter: We won RTTT! So now what?

We won RTTT! So now what?

by Linda Perlstein
Here are suggestions for those of you covering states that won Race to the Top money. This comes from advice I gave someone whose state won in the first round, so some of it is specific to that application, but I’ll reheat it and toss it with a bit of fresh parsley and see if it gives you a little food for thought.

1. If your state is creating a separate school district to manage turnaround schools, you need to need to cover this as you would any other district. Does it have a school board? What kind of oversight/public accountability will be built in?


2. I think a fairly decent if simplistic template for a few of these issues is: How are things done now? How will they be done? What is gained or lost in going from point A to point B—potential unintended consequences, intended
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ASCD Inservice: HechingerEd Blog

ASCD Inservice: HechingerEd Blog

HechingerEd Blog

Are you concerned about the state of education journalism in a time of closing newspapers, crunched reporting budgets, and fleeting attention spans? The Hechinger Report, a new nonprofit education news organization focused on in-depth investigative journalism, attempts to fill these gaps. Although the main website contains longer-form stories, HechingerEd Blog focuses on current trends and controversies in education.

The blog also features daily roundups and analysis of education news from other

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