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Breaking News: ED Secretary Duncan Speaks Daily

ED Secretary Duncan Speaks Daily

ED Secretary Duncan Speaks Daily


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helmutzermin.blogspot.com - US-President Obama Talks Education in Boston: “A Moral and Economic Imperative to Give Every Child the Chance to Succeed” | The White HousePosted by Jesse Lee on March 08, 2011 at 05:38 PM EST“I wa...

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blogs.edweek.org - As we reported here last month, the White House was having trouble getting high schools to submit their applications for the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge, in which the grand prize is a gr...

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ed.gov - Monday, November 8No public events Tuesday, November 91:30 p.m. Secretary Duncan will announce the National Education Technology Plan at the State Educational Technology Directors Association's Edu...

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ed.gov - Cross-posted from the White House blog. This afternoon, President Obama will visit Miami Central Senior High School in Miami, Florida, along with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and Secretary of ...

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ed.gov - We know that one of the keys to effective learning is a healthy child, and we also know that a key to a child’s health is healthy eating and exercise. On an average school day in this country, our...

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jdarrollhall.blogspot.com - March 8, 2011 With the spiraling downturn of one of Americas brightest stars I felt compelled to comment, I (we) have seen this show before. I wrote about it in my bestselling book: “OCTOMOM! AMER...

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jdarrollhall.wordpress.com - March 8, 2011 With the spiraling downturn of one of Americas brightest stars I felt compelled to comment, I (we) have seen this show before. I wrote about it in my bestselling book: “OCTOMOM! AME...

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educationfinders.com - by Admissions on March 8, 2011 Find the Right Education for YouPresident Obama will today call on government, business, philanthropists, educators, and local communities to band together to improve...

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artsjournal.com - Last week Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sent a letter and three policy letters to the Governors:Key Policy Letters to The Governors, March 3, 2011What you will find most interesting comes from...

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ed.gov - Wouldn’t it be cool if a well-designed videogame could provide a compelling learning environment, grab a student’s attention and teach critical thinking? Or how about a virtual learning laboratory...

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thehill.com - President Obama placed special emphasis on education in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, mentioning it 10 times in all. With Congress set to renew the ‘No Child Left Behind’ law this y...

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realclearpolitics.com - "People started to realize what is needed is not either, or -- not either more money or more reform, it's both and. Both more money and more reform," President Obama said at a technology school in ...

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Twenty questions. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Twenty questions. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Twenty questions.

by Fred Klonsky

Retired teacher Glen Brown writes that there will be a legislative forum of the West Lake Shore Unit of the IRTA (Illinois Retire Teacher Association).

March 28 at 10:00 a.m., WLSU will be holding a legislative forum. Three legislators have agreed to attend—Kimberly Lightford, Ron Sandack, and Jim Durkin. The moderator will be Andrew Bodewes, the part-time contractual lobbyist for IRTA and the lobbyist for TRS. It is important that we present a strong and united front even though these three legislators may not be yours. They will take back to Springfield an impression of our concern with regard to the loss of our pensions. If we do not have a healthy turnout, they may assume that we have rolled over and accepted the loss of what we have earned. Come early to write your question on 3 x 5 cards that will be provided. Try to make your question personal—indicating what the loss of your pension will mean to you. We

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Naomi Klein on Anti-Union Bills and Shock Doctrine American-Style: "This is a Frontal Assault on Democracy, It's Kind of a Corporate Coup D'Etat"

Naomi Klein on Anti-Union Bills and Shock Doctrine American-Style: "This is a Frontal Assault on Democracy, It's Kind of a Corporate Coup D'Etat"

Naomi Klein on Anti-Union Bills and Shock Doctrine American-Style: "This is a Frontal Assault on Democracy, It’s Kind of a Corporate Coup D’Etat"

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As a wave of anti-union bills are introduced across the country in the wake of Wall Street financial crisis, many analysts are picking up on the theory that award-winning journalist and author Naomi Klein first argued in her 2007 best-selling book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. In the book, she reveals how those in power use times of crisis to push through undemocratic and extreme free market economic policies. “The Wisconsin protests are an incredible example of how to resist the shock doctrine,” Klein says.
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Americans Oppose Republican Attack on Unions in Poll - Bloomberg #WeAreWI #WIUnion

Americans Oppose Republican Attack on Unions in Poll - Bloomberg

Americans Oppose Republican Attack on Unions in Poll

By William Selway - Mar 8, 2011 9:00 PM PT
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Ohio Governor John Kasich is seeking to roll back the collective bargaining rights of government workers. Photographer: David Maxwell/Bloomberg

Poll Shows Americans Oppose Republican Attack on Unions
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March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Americans reject Republican efforts to curb bargaining rights of unions whose power they say is dwarfed by corporations, a Bloomberg National Poll finds. As battles rage between state workers and Republican governors in Wisconsin and Ohio, 63 percent don’t think states should be able to break their promises to retirees, and respondents split over whether governors aim to balance their budgets or weaken unions that back Democratic foes, according to the poll conducted March 4-7. Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Americans reject Republican efforts to curb bargaining rights of unions whose power they say is dwarfed by corporations, a Bloomberg National Poll finds.

As battles rage between state workers and Republican governors in Wisconsin and Ohio, 63 percent don’t think states should be able to break their promises to retirees, and respondents split over whether governors aim to balance their budgets or weaken unions that back Democratic foes, according to the poll conducted March 4-7.

The poll shows that political challenges to government workers are failing to draw broad support from a public more concerned about unemployment than government deficits. Respondents are divided over whether public employees should sacrifice to

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ASCD Inservice: Failing Schools

ASCD Inservice: Failing Schools

Failing Schools

by Ben Licciardi
So much of the conversation surrounding struggling schools often ends in finger-pointing and frustration, with the public wondering why students aren't succeeding and teachers feeling attacked despite their hard work and dedication. It's exactly this adversarial dynamic that inspired the...

Administrators: What's In Your Time Management Toolbox?

by Chris Canter
Let's face it, as administrators (and all educators for that matter), we have very limited time. Every second counts. So, how do we make the most of our time? This week alone, I have learned some very valuable resources administrators...

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This Week In Education: HotSeat: Controversial Washington Post Blogger Tells All

This Week In Education: HotSeat: Controversial Washington Post Blogger Tells All
HotSeat: Controversial Washington Post Blogger Tells All [image: Picture 109]It's hard to remember that when Washington Post veteran Valerie Straus first started The Answer Sheet it was mostly about kids and classsrooms. Over the past few months she's featured a widely-admired/-derided stream of her own ...
AM News: Memphis Votes To Merge City & County Schools [image: image from webmedia.newseum.org] Memphis Votes for County to Run Schools NYT: Memphis residents voted Tuesday to transfer the administration of the city’s schools to the county, supporting earlier moves by city officials and effectively ...
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Schools Matter: It's Not About School Achievement, and It's Not Even About the Budget

Schools Matter: It's Not About School Achievement, and It's Not Even About the Budget

It's Not About School Achievement, and It's Not Even About the Budget

by Jim Horn
We know now, even those among us who have been too busy working to notice, that for the past 30 years the real agenda by big money has been about privatizing public institutions, advancing fundamentalist ideology to control behavior, and snuffing out the public space in favor of a corporate state.

All the hype about bad schools and greedy teachers and militant gays and evil Muslims has masked the poison on the tip of spear aimed at the heart of American democracy. It has always been, as Grover Norquist has crowed for so long, about weakening government enough so that it can dragged into the bathtub and drowned.

As Rachel Maddow documents in the clip below (please watch both sides of the break), what is going on now is the fabrication of a crisis through the magnification of a problem that was created by the same big money that now wants to use the effects of that
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