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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Tax Breaks for the Rich/Cuts for the Poor « Larry Miller's BlogTax Breaks for the Rich/Cuts for the Poorby millerlfInfographic: Tax Breaks vs. Budget CutsBy Donna Cooper | February 22, 2011House le...

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blogs.abcnews.com - « Previous | Main February 27, 2011 10:12 PM ABC News' Chris Marderosian reports:At the Academy Awards tonight, best cinematography winner Wally Pfister made a point during his acceptance speech of...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Examiner: Anonymous targets Koch bros with #OpWisconsin | www.kochwatch.orgThe Examiner: Anonymous targets Koch bros with #OpWisconsin *February 26, 2011- *Anonymous, the notorious collective o...

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front.moveon.org - On Saturday, February 26th, Americans in all 50 states rallied to show solidarity with the people of Wisconsin, and to save the American Dream. It was a beautiful, powerful sight. 1. Calls of solid...

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millermps.wordpress.com - Infographic: Tax Breaks vs. Budget CutsHouse leaders are unfortunately restricting their proposed budget cuts for the remainder of fiscal year 2011 to nonsecurity discretionary spending in an attem...

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workinprogress.firedoglake.com - I’m collecting live coverage of events as police prepare to clear out the Wisconsin Capitol Building in Madison, WI on the 14th day of protests against Gov. Walker’s unionbusting bill. Police are s...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Tax breaks for the rich v. Budget Cuts for the poor: Wisconsin | Dailycensored.comTax breaks for the rich v. Budget Cuts for the poor: WisconsinWritten by Danny WeilBusinessFeb 27, 20110diggShareBy...

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dailykos.com - Updated by badger1968 at Sun Feb 27, 2011, 07:39:47 PM Dale Schultz is a Republican. The first defection I know about. Updated by badger1968 at Sun Feb 27, 2011, 08:11:05 PM All props to brandzel ...

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mizmercer.edublogs.org - The Huffington Post asked this question in a recent article. You have the usually commentary on how good teacher have it, pensions, vacations, etc. The other night as we were drifting off to sleep,...

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jsonline.com - Feb. 27, 2011 2:35 p.m. | Gov. Scott Walker said he plans to introduce statewide school reforms after the release of his 2011-'13 budget, which is scheduled to be unveiled Tuesday. "There are going...

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millermps.wordpress.com - By Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel Feb. 27, 2011 Madison — The doors of the state Capitol may have been shut at 4 p.m. but the protests continued Sunday night as several hundred demonstrators ...

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latimes.com - Reporting from Madison, Wis. — Wisconsin authorities backed away Sunday from a threat to evict hundreds of labor rights demonstrators who have occupied the state Capitol for nearly two weeks. Horde...

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larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Feb 27 2011 Larry Ferlazzo Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources For Learning About Attacks On Teachers & Other Public Sector Workers In Wisconsin: Rethinking Schools has an excellent...

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millermps.wordpress.com - Sunday, Feb 27 – 1:00pm to 3:00pm – AFT 212 – Rally at MATC Downtown Campus, Cooley Auditorium, 1015 N. 6th St. – may include live chat with Wisconsin 14. * Monday, Feb 28 – 4:00pm to 6:00pm – Sena...

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Data milestone for foster care | Thoughts on Public Education
Data milestone for foster care - by Kathryn Baron Researchers have linked two California databases in a rare undertaking that holds promise for helping the state’s 62,000 foster youth. The cross-pollination, announced earlier this month at the California Foster Youth Education Summit, connects ...
Santa Clara County Court is first to focus on education of foster youth - by Daniel Heimpel In pockets across the nation, a wide range of agencies and stakeholders are coming to the realization that if they want to level the educational playing field for students experiencing foster care, they will have to collaborate on a level never ...
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Arab Protest Update | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
Arab Protest Update Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources To See Who Might Fall Next After Mubarak…: Timeline: Recent Middle East unrest is a very good interactive from MSNBC. How wrong we were: Five surprising lessons from the Middle East upheaval is ...
Two Good Online Video Games Here are two neat online video games that can be used for language learning and which may, with luck, *may* not even be blocked by school content filters. I’ve written about how I use these games, along with their walkthroughs (instructions on how to ...
Good Comic Strips For IB “Theory Of Knowledge” Classes In addition to teaching English Language Learners and mainstream classes, I also teach an IB Theory of Knowledge class. I thought I’d share some cartoons that I’ve used in that class. You might also be interested in: The Best Comic Strips For ...
Evolution Interactives You can find NPR interactives related to evolution at How Evolution Gave Us The Human Edge. I’m adding the link to The Best Sites For Learning About Human Evolution.
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Rachel's Rants, Raves, and Recollections: Why I Stand with Wisconsin Workers #WIunion

Rachel's Rants, Raves, and Recollections: Why I Stand with Wisconsin Workers

Why I Stand with Wisconsin Workers

by Rachel Levy

Since Madison, Wisconsin is burning as I blog, I must to take a moment to support teachers unions and unions in general. And I want to explain that support. Despite my own teaching and union/non-union experiences, I don't think I understood and appreciated the role of unions until just recently. These two pieces, one by award-winning Maryland social studies teacher blogger Kenneth Bernstein and the other by California English teacher blogger David Cohen, helped me to understand the importance of unions.

My parents and their parents before them, were not wealthy, but nor were they workers, unionized or otherwise (although my maternal grandfather's father was very active in the railroad telegraphers union in Illinois). My father's parents were the children of Eastern European immigrants and owned a stationary store in Brooklyn,
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And the Children Shall Lead « InterACT

And the Children Shall Lead « InterACT

And the Children Shall Lead

by Kelly A. Kovacic

I have been to rock concerts and I have been to town halls. But, on an overcast morning in downtown Los Angeles, at one of this mega-district’s newest public high schools, I was about to experience an interesting hybrid of the two. It was a seamless combination of celebrity and the cerebral, pomp and the circumstance, all in the name of education. A human soundtrack of chatter, laughs, and greetings filled the auditorium at theEdward A. Roybal Learning Center, which was packed with students, educators, community members, elected officials, and media. At the front of the room, several large TV screens played interviews with people sharing stories about the difference teachers had made in their lives. As cameras flashed, and the crowd cheered, boxer and local hero Oscar de la Hoya took the stage, followed by recording artist and actor John Legend. Students

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Daily Kos: A partial response to Bill Gates' op ed about teachers

Daily Kos: A partial response to Bill Gates' op ed about teachers

A partial response to Bill Gates' op ed about teachers

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Today's Washington Post features an op ed by Bill Gates titled How teacher development could revolutionize our schools. Teachers are the latest focus of Gates and his foundation. Before I respond to anything in this particular piece, let me remind readers that the last time Bill Gates got enthused about something in education, it was small schools. His foundations sank a huge amount of money into getting districts to create small schools while ignoring the research that had been done by those who had focused on the issue for years. The result was that the endeavor was not all that successful, the foundation has now pulled out of the effort, in some cases pulling the plug on ongoing efforts it had encouraged, and unfortunately tarnishing the concept and making it more difficult for those attempting to do it right.

Gates is now pushing a focus on teachers and teaching. That in itself would not be bad, except that as seems

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The Brad Blog: Gov. Walker's Wisconsin 'Union Busting' Exposes 'Tea Party' Scam, Duped Americans | www.kochwatch.org #WIunion

The Brad Blog: Gov. Walker's Wisconsin 'Union Busting' Exposes 'Tea Party' Scam, Duped Americans | www.kochwatch.org
Daily Mail: Reclaiming the banks: Activists turn British banks into creches, classrooms and launderettes in protest over public service cutsFebruary 26, 2011- Activists stormed more than 40 banks across Britain in protest over executive bonuses and public service cuts - and turned them into a variety of ad hoc walk-in centres. UK Uncut said demonstrators set up creches, laundries, school ...
The Brad Blog: Gov. Walker's Wisconsin 'Union Busting' Exposes 'Tea Party' Scam, Duped Americans Time for those formerly hoaxed by duplicitious corporate schemes to wake-up and smell what billionaire sociopaths are shoveling... *Guest editorial by Ernest A. Canning* *February 27, 2011-* "This is not a budget issue," the policeman speaking to ...
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The Answer Sheet - Debating Michelle Rhee

The Answer Sheet - Debating Michelle Rhee

Debating Michelle Rhee

My guest is Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, a nonprofit public policy research organization, writes about education, equal opportunity and civil rights. This appeared on the foundation's blog. By Richard D. Kahlenberg I reviewed in Slate Magazine a new biography of former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee called The Bee Eater, written by former USA Today editorial writer Richard Whitmire. In my review, I noted that Rhee is wildly popular among members of the elite media, even though there is very little evidence to back up Rhee’s claim that low quality teachers, and their union protectors, are bigger impediments to equal educational opportunity than poverty and segregation. I was critical of Whitmire’s highly favorable treatment of Rhee’s tenure. In the old days, authors took their lumps when their books were reviewed, but now they routinely respond, which is a healthy development. Whitmire, who is a

'Brain-based' education: Run from it

This was written by Larry Cuban, a former high school social studies teacher (14 years, including seven at Cardozo and Roosevelt high schools in the District), district superintendent (seven years in Arlington, VA) and professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, where he has taught for 20 years. His latest book is "As Good As It Gets: What School Reform Brought to Austin." This appeared on his blog. By Larry Cuban The history of searching for a cancer cure began with “radical surgery” for breast cancer–hailed as a “cure” in the early 1920s.* The restless search then moved to radiation for different cancers including Hodgkins disease in the 1950s, feeding the hope that the lethal disease had found a “cure.” Then in the 1960s researchers bent their microscopes to chemotherapy searching for toxins to “cure” a child-killing leukemia. Medical researchers and physicians heralded each therapy–cutting, burning, and poisoning–as, finally,

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The Wisconsin Fight: What People of Color Have at Stake - Hispanically Speaking News #StateSOS #WIunion #SolidarityWI

The Wisconsin Fight: What People of Color Have at Stake - Hispanically Speaking News

The Wisconsin Fight: What People of Color Have at Stake

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February 28, 2011 | by HS News Staff
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Photo Credits: Rally in Madison

Todays guest blogger is Folayemi Agbede . Folayemi is the Special Assistant for Progress 2050, a project of the Center for American Progress that develops new ideas for an increasingly diverse America.


Images of Latino, Native American, black, and Asian Wisconsinites are proving elusive in the media coverage of the fight for workers’ rights beyond a week-old appearance by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Despite this visual absence it remains evident to many that people of color have much to lose in Gov. Scott Walker’s recently passed state “repair” bill. The bill unnecessarily eliminates workers’ collective bargaining rights while cutting state health care contributions, pensions contributions, and protected leave. This fateful move will especially

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Schools Matter: A Suggestion: Dump Striving Readers, Give the Money to School Libraries in High Poverty Areas

Schools Matter: A Suggestion: Dump Striving Readers, Give the Money to School Libraries in High Poverty Areas

A Suggestion: Dump Striving Readers, Give the Money to School Libraries in High Poverty Areas

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A Suggestion: Dump Striving Readers, Give the Money to School Libraries in High Poverty Areas

Stephen Krashen

The House of Representatives has recommended cutting the Striving Readers program, a program aimed at adolescents. I think this is a good idea. Striving Readers costs 200 million per year, and has not produced impressive results.

To get an idea of the effectiveness of Striving Readers, take a look at a 239 page document, Summary of 2006 Striving Readers Projects, by Abt, submitted to the US Department of Education A full description of the programs used is presented starting page 224. The programs are clearly skill-

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NYC Educator: If You Believe the Mayor...

NYC Educator: If You Believe the Mayor...

If You Believe the Mayor...

by NYC Educator
Because he hasn't yet created sufficient fear and loathing, Mayor4Life Bloomberg has released a list ofschools in which layoffs will occur. It's very important to panic not only the teachers, but kids and parents as well.

This is a man who's made his motto "Children First." How does he put children first? Apparently, by letting them know precisely which of their teachers are to be fired. Likely he will explain how getting rid of an objective layoff system will reduce the layoffs--by
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Guest blogger: Wisconsin might be an omen for the public employees of Illinois « Fred Klonsky's blog

Guest blogger: Wisconsin might be an omen for the public employees of Illinois « Fred Klonsky's blog

Guest blogger: Wisconsin might be an omen for the public employees of Illinois

by Fred Klonsky

The confrontation between freedom and power has an indeterminable history. One hundred and fifty-two years ago, John Stuart Mill, in his famous essay, On Liberty, examined the “struggle between Liberty and Authority… between subjects, or some classes of subjects, and the Government” (Mill 1). A question he might have asked today is, what should be the limits of power that legislators have over their constituents, such as public employees, when some of these lawmakers’ decisions border on political despotism?

How can public employees guard against such arrogance, self-interest, prejudice, and prevarications? In a democracy, there must be dialogue, for “[the] silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility” (17). This revival of absolutism today forecloses the right to be heard and exiles truth from being openly canvassed.

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