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parentsacrossamerica.org - Apr 19, 2011 leoniehaimson THE BROAD FOUNDATION’S TRAINING PROGRAMS AND PREFERRED EDUCATION POLICIES: A GUIDE FOR PARENTS The question I ask is why should Eli Broad and Bill Gates have more of a sa...

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blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah,What a pleasure to discover we were on the same plane to New Orleans for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. It gave me a chance to wish you a happy bi...

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catalyst-chicago.org - New schools CEO, education team: analysisPosted By The Staff of Catalyst On Monday, April 18, 2011 In CPS Administration In announcing his new education team, Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel emphasized th...

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techlearning.com - Dr. Jim Taylor I am not a fan of the Obama administration’s public education initiatives, including Race to the Top. The programs are, in my view, mislabeled, misdirected, and misguided. Here are m...

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huffingtonpost.com - When districtwide layoff notices hit every one of Detroit Public Schools’ 5,466 unionized employees late last week, an American Federation of Teachers spokeswoman called the move the largest “one f...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: NC Court of Appeals Rules 3-0: Wake School Board Broke LawNC Court of Appeals Rules 3-0: Wake School Board Broke Lawby Jim HornThis state ruling should add impetus to the grassroots...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: Support the National Board for Professional Teaching StandardsSupport the National Board for Professional Teaching Standardsby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)I have benefited from the proc...

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13wham.com - Rochester, N.Y. – Rochester City School District board member Van White says the departing superintendent should pay the cost of the search to find a new leader.Jean-Claude Brizard sent a text mess...

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mathequality.wordpress.com - I surprised many of my students when I used the F-word in class today. They started snickering and smiling unlike I have ever seen of them. And, no, I did not use ‘that’ F-word! But the one tha...

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speakingofeducation.blogspot.com - NCLB isn't a failure as much as it reflects and sustains failure...failure of trust and civility. It's no coincidence that as the fabric of social relations began to unravel lawyering rose. Rober...

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slate.com - Posted Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:31 AM | By David Weigel I've yet to see a poll that asks this question the right way. The Washington Post's poll found a lot of public readiness for small Medicare...

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preaprez.wordpress.com - My stalker, Ben Velderman. People often ask me why Ben Velderman, who has the chief responsibility of fetching his boss Kyle Olson some coffee, filed an Illinois FOIA request for my emails. Andrew ...

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americablog.com - Senator Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Democrat in the U.S. Senate, used to be a fairly reliable liberal voice. Not anymore. He's now part of the Senate "gang of six" working on the budget, defici...

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sacbee.com - Sacramento State students who held a three-day sit-in before being ousted by police early Saturday morning are protesting again today on the campus quad.They're holding a mock funeral to symbolize ...

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nyceducator.com - IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER - by Erma Bombeck (written after she found out she was dying of cancer). I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holdi...

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green.blogs.nytimes.com - In a story in The Times on Sunday, our colleague Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote of growing displeasure in Britain over the use of the name “British Petroleum” by top federal officials in the United Stat...

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history.com - On April 20, 1980, the Castro regime announces that all Cubans wishing to emigrate to the U.S. are free to board boats at the port of Mariel west of Havana, launching the Mariel Boatlift. The first...

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With His Credibility Destroyed, Mike Bloomberg Again Selcts By Himself The Next NYC Chancellor - ParentAdvocates.org

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With His Credibility Destroyed, Mike Bloomberg Again Selcts By Himself The Next NYC Chancellor, Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott
Bloomberg is oblivious to public disdain and the vagaries of public opinion, and it is clear that no one can convince him of the value of a true democratic process. He picked Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott as the next Chancellor, and we should all be grateful that Cathie Black is gone and leave it at that. Raginghorseblog has posted an excellent article about all this, except for the reference to the UFT. If the UFT had not signed on to the Bloomberg agenda in 2002, none of the education disaster would have happened. Betsy Combier

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There Can Be No Change Under the Reign Of Bloomberg (Except In Ourselves )
April 15, 2011 , Raginghorse Blog
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In a sense, insofar as she so perfectly embodied the hubris, idiocy and recklessness of so much of the education reform campaign and particularly the educational vision of Mike
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Mass Teacher Layoffs and School Closures Hit Detroit | Labor Notes

Mass Teacher Layoffs and School Closures Hit Detroit | Labor Notes

Mass Teacher Layoffs and School Closures Hit Detroit

Howard Ryan
| April 19, 2011
Detroit teachers union members will soon be replaced with charter school teachers, if emergency manager Robert Bobb has his way. Photo: Jim West.

Detroit is now a trendsetter in the dismantling of public schools and stripping of teachers’ union rights.

The school district’s emergency manager Robert Bobb announced in late March that 45 academically struggling schools, or roughly one-third of the district, would be bid out to private charter operators. Eight other schools are closing, and dozens more will be closed or privatized in the coming year. The district cites a $327 million deficit and a declining student population.

Bobb dropped another bomb last Friday, issuing 5,466 layoff notices—one for every teacher and staff member in the district. The notices do not constitute final layoff decisions, and many teachers may ultimately keep their jobs. But union contract language providing that teachers be recalled in seniority

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Public education needs public discussion - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Public education needs public discussion - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Public education needs public discussion

By Valerie Strauss

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Diana Senechal’s book, “Repu blic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture,” will be published by Rowman & Littlefield Education this November.

By Diana Senechal

One of the phrases that I hear often in education discussions is “behind the scenes.” Curriculum may be a controversial subject, but “behind the scenes,” educators are busy discussing it and devising new proposals. Policymaker X declares that online learning is the future, but “behind the scenes,” she expresses misgivings about its costs and complications

The school reform fantasy

by Valerie Strauss


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More Easter Resources | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

More Easter Resources | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
More Easter Resources Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About Easter And Passover: From Indian Jews to Jewish Bears: A Passover Photo Gallery is from The Atlantic. Easter By The Numbers is a fun infographic. Splash! Men throw buckets of water ...
Bitesize Bingo Bitesize Bingo is a game from BBC Schools. It’s played like…bingo, and you can choose questions from pretty much any subject. It provides a short explanation, and then the question you have to answer refers back to it. It’s particularly accessible to ...
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Convicted inspector monitored safety at dozens of schools | California Watch

Convicted inspector monitored safety at dozens of schools | California Watch

Convicted inspector monitored safety at dozens of schools

by Erica Perez

Richard Vale is shown here on the day he was served with a search warrant in 1991.Courtesy Doug Devine/Los Angeles Department of Building and SafetyRichard Vale is shown here on the day he was served with a search warrant in 1991.

A school construction inspector previously convicted of a felony in a construction safety related case has worked on at least 15 school projects in Southern California in the last few years, records show.

California Watch reported April 9 that the Division of the State Architect – the chief regulator of public school construction – certified inspector Richard Vale in 2005 without checking his background.

Vale had been kicked out of the city of Los Angeles inspector program in 1991. Documents show prosecutors had accused Vale of conspiring with a contractor to overlook makeshift, faulty seismic anchors installed in

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One more stab at P-20 data structure | Thoughts on Public Education

One more stab at P-20 data structure | Thoughts on Public Education

One more stab at P-20 data structure - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Call him Senator Sisyphus. With two years before he’s termed out, Sen. Joe Simitian keeps pushing against inertia and bureaucratic resistance to create an effective education database that can track students from preschool to the workplace. Other states without Silicon Valley savvy have already done so. California committed to establish such a system when it agreed [...]

Money for green-tech academies - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Gov. Jerry Brown this week signed legislation that at least will protect high school green-tech career academies from a state budget implosion and will even expand the number over the next few years. Doing so took some creative thinking from the bill’s sponsor, Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg. SBX 1-1 will direct $40 million over [...]
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Schools Matter: NC Court of Appeals Rules 3-0: Wake School Board Broke Law

Schools Matter: NC Court of Appeals Rules 3-0: Wake School Board Broke Law

NC Court of Appeals Rules 3-0: Wake School Board Broke Law

by Jim Horn
This state ruling should add impetus to the grassroots efforts in Wake County to vote out the resegregationist Koch-Heads who have the Wake County Public Schools in total disarray. From the Progressive Pulse:

From the N.C. Justice Center and the UNC Center For Civil Rights:
Court Decision: Wake School Board Violated State Open Meetings Law
Advocates say the ruling is a “victory for open and transparent government”

RALEIGH (April 19, 2011) — The North Carolina Court of Appeals today found that the Wake County School Board violated the state Open Meetings Act by intentionally excluding the public from meetings about the county’s diversity policy last year.
The ruling formally affirms a previous Wake County Superior Court decision, and

The Continuing Bailouts of Wall Street (Wives, Too) That You Never Were Supposed to Know About

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