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A standardized path to school ruin

tampabay.com - By Diane Ravitch, special to the Times In Print: Sunday, June 12, 2011 ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENTGov. Rick Scott seems determined to ruin public education in Florida. Not only is he devastating sc...
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AFT - A Union of Professionals

aft.org - Are We Testing Too Much?NY Times, June 12, 2011 For all the efforts to improve education that are made in classrooms, school board meetings, research institutions, congressional chambers and else...
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Arne Duncan's 'Plan B' May Leave 'No Child' Behind : NPR

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Arne Duncan's 'Plan B' May Leave 'No Child' Behind : NPRArne Duncan's 'Plan B' May Leave 'No Child' Behindby NPR STAFF AND WIRESSecretary of Education Arne Duncan is signaling that he's prepared to...
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Astroturf and Education « Education Is…

educationis.info - June 12, 2011 by Education IsPoison A threat to democracy In the past, conservative groups like FreedomWorks have been pilloried for organizing and advocacy tactics called astroturf. These organiza...
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Things Joel Klein Doesn't Notice

nyceducator.com - I marvel that Joel Klein gets major publication to post the nonsense he writes, but being a corporate-backed celebrity, one can place op-eds fairly easily. This week, Joel is amazed that candidates...
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Feingold Fires Up Protestors Over The Weekend

wtaq.com - MADISON, Wis. (WHBL) - Former U-S Senate Democrat Russ Feingold fired up the Walker protest campers near the State Capitol last night. He told supporters that Republicans quote, “went right for the...
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We Must Rally | The Mayoral Tutorial

mayoraltutorial.com - Many of us feel the President Obama has let us down and that the political system has failed us all. The truth is that this is always the way it's been. As my grandfather said: "Democracy is the ba...
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Great Depression Deux and Fukushima

alleducationmatters.blogspot.com - Folks, if you have been following the news about Fukushima, it becomes grimmer by the day. One political official there said that Japan might end up being 'unlivable.' Apparently, TEPCO has admitte...
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UK, Gates pledge $2.3 billion for vaccines for poor

reuters.com - By Adrian Croft and Kate Kelland LONDON | Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:48am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and billionaire Bill Gates pledged $2.3 billion at an international donor conference on Monday to fu...
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Obama bid to cut pediatrician training draws fire

washingtonpost.com - But children’s hospitals officials say ending the 12-year program, called the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education payment program, or CHGME, could cause a raft of problems. “I can certai...
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chicagotribune.com - Janusz Kopycinski (Police photo) By Carlos Sadovi and Andy Grimm Tribune reporters 2:00 p.m. CDT, June 12, 2011 A Northwest Side man was ordered held on $100,000 bail today for spitting at people a...
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    National High School Graduation Rates Improve - High School Notes (usnews.com)

    National High School Graduation Rates Improve - High School Notes (usnews.com)

    National High School Graduation Rates Improve

    By JASON KOEBLER

    Posted: June 13, 2011

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    After two years of discouraging news, the nation's high school graduation rate is improving, according to a new report released Tuesday by Education Week.

    About 72 percent of public school students from the class of 2008 graduated on time, a 6 percentage-point increase from the 1997 rate, and a 3 percentage-point increase from the 2007 rate. The reported graduation rate is the highest it's been since the mid 1980s.

    Improvement has been widespread. Graduation rates jumped in three fourths of states between 1998 and 2008, and a higher percentage of all racial and ethnic groups are graduating now than a decade ago.

    Asian and white students still have the most success in high school—8 in 10 Asians and 78

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    CPS to use parent ‘report cards’ to help evaluate schools - Chicago Sun-Times

    CPS to use parent ‘report cards’ to help evaluate schools - Chicago Sun-Times

    CPS to use parent ‘report cards’ to help evaluate schools

    By David Roeder Staff Reporter/droeder@suntimes.com June 13, 2011 12:56AM

    Updated: June 13, 2011 2:07AM



    Chicago Public School officials are designing a “report card” for parents to help them evaluate each school’s performance.

    A CPS official said Jean-Claude Brizard, the system’s chief executive officer, is gathering input from parents about what to include in the report card.

    A mock-up shows that the system is aiming for easy-to-read charts that would cover graduation and attendance rates, school safety and the percentage of students working at grade level in reading and math, among other indicators. The report card would let parents compare their school with the prior year’s findings and with the system as a whole.

    The plan is to issue the report cards to parents when school resumes in the fall, a CPS official

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    A response from KIPP - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    A response from KIPP - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    A response from KIPP

    by Valerie Strauss

    Last week I ran a post by Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation and author of “All Together Now: Creating Middle-Class Schools through Public School Choice,” about the KIPP charter schools. He criticized KIPP, arguing that KIPP “skims motivated students and yet is pointed to as a segregation success story.” Here Ryan Hill, executive director of four KIPP charter schools in Newark, N.Y., responds.

    By Ryan Hill

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    The best commencement speechs that never happened

    by Valerie Strauss

    One of the most frequently quoted commencement speeches is the one by Winston Churchill in which he stood up, said, “Never give up, never give up, never give up,” and then sat down.

    Except it never happened.

    Did you ever hear about the commencement address that Kurt Vonnegut gave at MIT in which he started out by saying, “Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ‘97: Wear sunscreen.”

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    George Miller at Stanford: Become a ‘disrupter’ | Thoughts on Public Education

    George Miller at Stanford: Become a ‘disrupter’ | Thoughts on Public Education

    George Miller at Stanford: Become a ‘disrupter’ - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

    by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
    In his nearly 40 years representing Northern California voters from the East Bay, Congressman George Miller had turned down all invitations to speak at commencements – until Sunday, when Miller, the ranking Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, came down from The Hill to offer a deal to graduates of Stanford University’s [...]

    Legislature should follow gutsy districts challenging seniority-based layoffs - by Arun Ramanathan

    by Arun Ramanathan
    When the Governor waved his May Revise wand, a lot people who were holding their breath expecting a “doomsday budget” exhaled in relief and breathed in the magic budget dust. With a sudden influx in revenue, Jerry Brown lopped $6.5 billion off the budget deficit and convinced Californians that education would be spared. Of course, school districts and communities have been down this yellow brick road before, only to find that the great and powerful Oz doesn’t really have the power to fix the budget. In [...]
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    40 years after explosive leak of Pentagon Papers, secret Vietnam war study coming out in whole - Winnipeg Free Press

    40 years after explosive leak of Pentagon Papers, secret Vietnam war study coming out in whole - Winnipeg Free Press

    40 years after explosive leak of Pentagon Papers, secret Vietnam war study coming out in whole

    By: Calvin Woodward,Richard Lardner, The Associated Press


    FILE - In this Saturday, April 1, 1972 file picture, Daniel Ellsberg, chief defendant in the Pentagon Papers case, addresses a crowd at the State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. following an anti-war parade that ended at the Capitol. The rally was also held in support of the seven defendants in the Harrisburg conspiracy trial. Forty years after the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study chronicling deception and misadventure in U.S. conduct of the Vietnam War, the report is coming out in its entirety on Monday, June 13, 2011. The 7,000-page report was the WikiLeaks disclosure of its time, a sensational breach of government confidentiality that shook Richard Nixon's presidency and prompted a Supreme Court fight that advanced press freedom. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy)

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    FILE - In this Saturday, April 1, 1972 file picture, Daniel Ellsberg, chief defendant in the Pentagon Papers case, addresses a crowd at the State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. following an anti-war parade that ended at the Capitol. The rally was also held in support of the seven defendants in the Harrisburg conspiracy trial. Forty years after the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study chronicling deception and misadventure in U.S. conduct of the Vietnam War, the report is coming out in its entirety on Monday, June 13, 2011. The 7,000-page report was the WikiLeaks disclosure of its time, a sensational breach of government confidentiality that shook Richard Nixon's presidency and prompted a Supreme Court fight that advanced press freedom. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy)

    WASHINGTON - Forty years after the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study chronicling deception and misadventure in U.S. conduct of the Vietnam War, the report is coming out in its entirety on Monday.

    The 7,000-page report was the WikiLeaks disclosure of its time, a sensational breach of government confidentiality that shook Richard Nixon's presidency and prompted a Supreme Court fight that advanced press freedom. Prepared near the end of Lyndon Johnson's term by Defence Department

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    NYC Educator: Things Joel Klein Doesn't Notice

    NYC Educator: Things Joel Klein Doesn't Notice

    Things Joel Klein Doesn't Notice

    by NYC Educator
    I marvel that Joel Klein gets major publication to postthe nonsense he writes, but being a corporate-backed celebrity, one can place op-eds fairly easily. This week, Joel is amazed that candidates backed by billionaires are appointed with such regularity. What a shock, to see money and power working hand in hand.

    Joel, of course, left his post to make millions from Rupert Murdoch, who cares so deeply about schoolchildren he's backed every move to destroy the middle class their parents hope they will enter. His company's most recent foray is the receipt of a 27 million no-bid contract to replicate ARIS, the crappy boondoggle of a computer program that Klein managed
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    Schooling in the Ownership Society: A much better way for Gates fund to spend his billions.

    Schooling in the Ownership Society: A much better way for Gates fund to spend his billions.

    A much better way for Gates fund to spend his billions.

    by Mike Klonsky
    (Reuters) - Britain and billionaire Bill Gates pledged $2.3 billion at an international donor conference on Monday to fund vaccination programs to protect children in poor countries against diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia. -- Guardian

    It's actually hard to imagine that the Gates Foundation invests 10X more than this each year in
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    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

    WEEKEND QUOTABLES

    by Mike Klonsky

    Duncan Rules

    Ed sec. Arne Duncan says he will use his executive authority to impose rules on schools and districts if congress doesn't reauthorize NCLB by the fall.
    “We’re not going to sit here and do nothing. Our first priority is to have Congress rewrite the law. If that doesn’t get done, we have the obligation to provide relief in exchange for reform.” ”-- NYTza
    Cleaning up Daley's reform mess

    New Chicago schools CEO Jean Claude Brizard says he's busy cleaning up the “collateral damage” of past reforms.
    “I think the New Schools work so far has been good, but what it’s done, from what I’ve seen so far, is it’s created two different school systems,” he said. “That’s what I meant by collateral damage.” --NYT
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    Many of us feel the President Obama has let us down and that the political system has failed us
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    Confessions of an Urban Principal/Vampires « City School Stories

    Chapter Ten: June « City School Stories

    Confessions of an Urban Principal/Vampires

    by Frank Murphy

    This book provides a first hand account of the life of an urban elementary school principal in the era of No Child Left Behind. On Monday and Wednesday, I post an installment of the current month’s chapter. The complete text for previous chapters can be found listed under Categories.

    The names of all students and parents who are described in this story have been altered in order to protect their privacy.

    Installment 4 of 8

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    Where is everyone? This first heat wave of early summer still holds us in its sweaty grip. There were barely any students in the schoolyard when it was time to enter the building this morning. We have many children who spend the summer in the South with their extended family. I figured these children had already begun to depart. Many more most likely have stayed home rather than bake in the oven which our school has become.

    I could feel the apprehension gnawing at my stomach as I continued to worry about making our NCLB

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