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Big Education Ape: 4-22-11 It's Spring and the Vultures are returning to Ed Reform

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latimes.com - By James Oliphant, Washington Bureau April 22, 2011 Reporting from Washington — As free speech goes, it was anything but.Protesters disrupted a big-ticket fundraiser for President Obama at a San Fr...

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ednotesonline.blogspot.com - ...were teachers to be rewarded for their classroom's performance on the state test or alternatively, sanctioned for low performance many of these teachers would have demonstrated quite differen...

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post-gazette.com - Emily Van Camp, right, portrays teacher Stacey Bess in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production "Beyond the Blackboard," airing at 9 p.m. Sunday on CBS. In "Beyond the Blackboard," Emily VanCamp plays ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - New CPS chief owes us $100K for quitting, Rochester schools say - Chicago Sun-TimesNew CPS chief owes us $100K for quitting, Rochester schools sayBy ROSALIND ROSSI and Fran Spielman Staff Reporter...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Public Policy Blogger: NCLB reauthorization. Is there common ground?NCLB reauthorization. Is there common ground?by Anne GeigerThe fate of former President George W. Bush's baby, the No Child Left ...

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nj.com - PRINCETON — Gov. Chris Christie today called himself an ally of President Obama on education reform.Christie gave a brief statement along with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who is visiting ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Hechinger Report | For many adults, basic-skills classes are the best hope for a brighter futureFor many adults, basic-skills classes are the best hope for a brighter futureby Sarah ButrymowiczAna,...

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nepc.colorado.edu - Review of: Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector’s Best by Emily Ayscue Hassel, Bryan C. Hassel and Joe Ableidinger Progressive Policy Institute February 15, 2011 This Progressive Po...

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dnaindia.com - Pro-government troops intensified the shelling of the western besieged town of Misrata even as NATO air strikes targeted the capital Tripoli while Libyan rebels today took control of a key post on ...

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blog.aflcio.org - JoAnne Kloppenburg, who ran for a seat on the Wisconsin State Supreme Court against Republican David Prosser, is calling for a recount of the election results. Days after the April 5 election, with...

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nj.com - TRENTON — Most New Jersey voters want more education spending, but nearly as many don't want the Supreme Court to force the state to pump more money into schools, according to a new Quinnipiac Univ...

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blog.angryasianman.com - Kollaboration has taken the show on the road! Or, um, Monterey Park. If you're in Southern California, you're invited to check out a series of free concerts they're producing to spread the Kollabor...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Michelle Rhee - The 2011 TIME 100 - TIMEMichelle RheeChampion of StudentsBACK NEXTBy DAVIS GUGGENHEIM Thursday, Apr. 21, 2011ENLARGE PHOTO+PETER YANG/AUGUSTCommentPrintEmailDiggFacebookTwitterMORES...

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nydailynews.com - Exclusive Craig Warga/News Special-education student Joseph Anderson, 7, has been 'really traumatized' since he was put in handcuffs at his Maspeth, Queens, school, says his mother, Jessica Anderso...

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wepartypatriots.com - Apr 2011 21The Orlando Sentinel reports that unions in central Florida have organized a campaign to collectively pull $10 million out of banks that support the Florida Chamber of Commerce. The FL C...

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The Institute for Research on Poverty produced an issue of Fast Focus based on an article in the fall 2010 issue of The Future of Children, Vol. 20, No.2, Fragile Families. Click here to read Fast Focus.

Fragile Families, Vol. 20, Number 2, Fall 2010.

The Fragile Families Study, which is part of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, follows a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000, roughly three-quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents. The families are referred to as “fragile families” to underscore that they are at greater risk of breaking up and living in poverty than more traditional families. The study was the subject of The Future of Children’s recent volume on Fragile Families, and recently published a report, which summarizes key findings from the study from its baseline year through year five. Click here to read the report.

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Public Policy Blogger: A school reform story. Are we losing something precious and fundamental?

Public Policy Blogger: A school reform story. Are we losing something precious and fundamental?

A school reform story. Are we losing something precious and fundamental?

by Anne Geiger
A huge thank you to the writer of the blog, An Urban Teacher's Education, for this post. Shares this story fromThis American Life, narrated by the great Ira Glass of NPR, about a Chicago public school, Washington Irving Elementary School, that led its own education reforms. The story is in two chapters. One in 1994 when things were going phenomenally well. And then. 2004 when everything was unraveling.

I took notes as I listened...but please listen to the story yourself. I lasts for just under an hour.

1994.

In Cathy La Luz's classroom. Building a team. Encouraging ideas. Setting higher standards than the school board, the rest of the school district. Relaxed, dedicated personalities leading engaged students to love learning, building a community, a family. Active lessons. Projects. Lots of movement, independent actions, discussions. Conversation. Prodding stragglers to work harder to keep up, and be comfortable asking for help. Learning how to be pro-active, taking responsibility for themselves. Getting involved in the process. Talking about their own
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Solidarity Is Morality, Our Future | Dissident Voice

Solidarity Is Morality, Our Future | Dissident Voice

Solidarity Is Morality, Our Future

by Ron Ridenour

The revolutionary [is] the ideological motor force of the revolution…if he forgets his proletarian internationalism, the revolution which he leads will cease to be an inspiring force and he will sink into a comfortable lethargy, which imperialism, our irreconcilable enemy, will utilize well. Proletarian internationalism is a duty, but it is also a revolutionary necessity. So we educate our people.

– Che Guevara in Socialism and Man

“Castillo de MORAL” read the label. Wine named Moral, that’s what Carsten gave me.

That was big of him, a strident Marxist-Leninist who sides 100% with the victims of invasions by imperialists. For him that means no criticisms of those who resist these invasions, such as the current ones in the Middle East and Libya. No admonishment of Taliban, al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein and his Baath party and Iraqi soldiers combating the invaders and their Iraqi collaborators.

Incidentally, among the first collaborators was the Iraqi Communist Party, followers of the old Moscow line. They

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The Draft There’s a new push to reinstate a Selective Service draft again. Two mainstream authors familiar with military history have put forth the reasons a re-instituted draft could solve a major problem facing this country – mainly, the loss of connection ...

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State of Emergency - California Teachers Association

State of Emergency - California Teachers Association

State of Emergency

By Dina Martin

state of emergency

"We haven’t had a GATE [Gifted and Talented Education] program since 2008.Class sizes in K-3 have increased to 25 students per class and will be going up to 30 next year. We haven’t had any field trips since 2008. We no longer have assemblies. We have no funding for after-school tutoring. Our intervention aides have been cut. Our site office staff has been cut . Maintenance has cut back. We haven’t had any furniture replaced for the past several years. And our library books are wearing out."

This is how fifth-grade teacher Danielle Stigthans describes the impact of budget cuts on Kendrick Elementary in Bakersfield. That’s why Stigthans, co-president of the Greenfield Educators Association, will be urging the 400 members of her chapter to participate in CTA’s “State of Emergency” week of action May 9-13.

Greenfield is not alone. School districts throughout California are eroding in all sorts of ways. It’s going on three years that California’s schools have been drained of the resources they need to carry on. In that

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Parents spell out detailed school reform blueprint - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Parents spell out detailed school reform blueprint - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Parents spell out detailed school reform blueprint

By Valerie Strauss

A national grassroots organization called Parents Across America — a leading group in a young, growing protest movement against test-based school reform — just released its own blueprint for the rewriting of No Child Left Behind.

If only President Obama would read it.

The document provides detailed positions on the main issues in public education today, taking positions counter to many of the school reform policies of the Obama administration.

The organization’s founders and chapters are in states from Florida to California, New York to Washington, and members are meeting with U.S. legislators to try to get them to understand why there is opposition to reform based on standardized tests, an expansion of charter schools,

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High school senior leads Louisiana fight against anti-evolution law - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

High school senior leads Louisiana fight against anti-evolution law - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
High school senior leads Louisiana fight against anti-evolution law A 17-year-old Baton Rouge high school senior is leading the fight to repeal a Lousiana law that gives teachers license to equate creationism with evolution -- and now he is doing it with the support of more than 40 Nobel laureates.
‘I am a bad teacher’ *--*
Myths of Standardized Tests’ authors respond to readers Last week I published excerpts of a new book called “The Myths of Standardized Testing: Why They Don’t Tell You What You Think They Do,” that prompted a number of comments from readers. Below, the authors of the book, Phillip Harris, Bruce M. Smith ...
Public school facilities: New data on condition, funding, impact You almost never hear in debates about student achievement and school reform how the condition of school buildings affects a child’s ability to learn, but it is a very real issue.
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