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The Future of EDU in SIX Hours « My Island View

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Future of EDU in SIX Hours « My Island ViewThe Future of EDU in SIX Hoursby tomwhitbyEvery three years I force myself to do something that, although it is geared to save me money and provide fo...

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Kasich on Meet the Press Sunday

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Kind of depressing, isn't it?Tomorrow corporate stooge Ohio Gov. John Kasich will be on the Sunday bobbleheads show Meet the Press. There are lots of questions we'd like to ask him, including the o...

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244 mega-fund-raisers rake in the money for Obama

suntimes.com - LYNN SWEET lsweet@suntimes.com July 16, 2011 2:14AM Updated: July 16, 2011 8:17AM WASHINGTON — The Obama re-election team released the names of more than 244 mega-fund-raisers Friday — including 31...

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nypost.com - The government gravy train just keeps rolling for the contractor at the center of the massive CityTime payroll scandal. Virginia-based Science Applications International Corp. won two more federal ...

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Murdoch moves on public education in Indiana, N.Y.

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - KleinMurdochWith former N.Y. Chancellor Joel Klein fronting for him, Rupert Murdoch is expanding his criminal communications conglomerate into public education in the U.S. Murdoch isn't a philanthr...

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Some Republicans Want 51st State « CAFFEINATED POLITICS

dekerivers.wordpress.com - Can mimicking Jefferson Davis be far behind for these conservatives? Southern California’s Riverside County has voted to host a statewide summit on governance to discuss, among other topics, the po...

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parentadvocates.org - NYCLU: Appellate Division Rulings a Victory for Open GovernmentLINK * Petition in Saratoga Springs Case (248.56 KB) * Decision in Saratoga Springs Case (87.10 KB) * Petition in State Police Case (2...

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“Watch Your Mouth!” « Diary of a Public School Teacher!

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - “Watch Your Mouth!” « Diary of a Public School Teacher!“Watch Your Mouth!”by Oldschoolteach In my last post, “Sit Your A** Down…” I used the expression, “Excuse My French“. A reader took me to ta...

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Day Two: Assange Legal Team Catches Fire

tomhayden.com - LONDON. Lawyers for Julian Assange appeared to shred the prosecution case against the WikiLeaks founder in London’s Royal Court today in a climactic end to a two-day appeal of his extradition to S...

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The Future of EDU in SIX Hours « My Island View

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Future of EDU in SIX Hours « My Island ViewThe Future of EDU in SIX Hoursby tomwhitbyEvery three years I force myself to do something that, although it is geared to save me money and provide fo...

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    Universities or Visa Mills? - San Jose Mercury News

    Universities or Visa Mills? - San Jose Mercury News

    Universities or Visa Mills?

    By Lisa M. Krieger

    lkrieger@mercurynews.com

    © Copyright 2011, Bay Area News Group

    Posted: 07/16/2011 07:30:03 PM PDT
    Updated: 07/17/2011 05:30:59 AM PDT

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    Prasanth Goinaka was shot and killed in a robbery which occurred at an Oklahoma City convenience...

    With his new student visa, Prasanth Goinaka was on a path toward his dream: an MBA from an American university in the heart of Silicon Valley.

    That's why his parents back in India were stunned when their 28-year-old son was killed while manning a cash register at a convenience store in Oklahoma City -- 1,500 miles from campus.

    A Bay Area News Group investigation has found that Goinaka -- as well as thousands of other foreign students enrolled in schools here -- probably should not have been in the country at all. They're being lured by unaccredited universities that promise help getting a prized student visa. But it turns out that these universities' legal right to assist with visas is in question.

    Once here, students like Goinaka often have to go to extraordinary lengths to pay the bill.

    But how he ended up losing his life halfway across the country from San Jose's International Technological University is part of a much larger story of the U.S. government's failure to catch up to a growing problem in America's higher education system.

    Little-known and less-watched, a group of schools -- including San Jose's ITU, Sunnyvale's Herguan University and until recently Pleasanton's now-shuttered Tri-Valley University -- are building lucrative businesses by assembling

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    Newark public schools to remain under state control indefinitely despite improvements | NJ.com

    Newark public schools to remain under state control indefinitely despite improvements | NJ.com

    Newark public schools to remain under state control indefinitely despite improvements

    Published: Saturday, July 16, 2011, 6:36 PM Updated: Saturday, July 16, 2011, 6:36 PM

    NEWARK — The Newark Public schools, which have been under state control for the past 16 years, will remain that way indefinitely despite significant improvements over the past 15 months, according to the results of a recent review.

    Under state law, the Department of Education reviews all districts every three years in five performance categories, including academic achievement and school board governance.

    For the first time, Newark scored above 80 percent in four of the five categories, a threshold that could have triggered the state to allow tens of thousands of Newark parents to elect board members with authority to run the city’s schools. The state now has final say over nearly all decisions the board makes.

    Newark and Paterson are the only districts statewide with advisory school boards.

    In a letter to Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson obtained by The Star-Ledger, acting Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf said one round of high marks on the state review is not enough to

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    In Millburn, N.J., a Revolt Against Charter Schools - NYTimes.com

    In Millburn, N.J., a Revolt Against Charter Schools - NYTimes.com

    Charter School Battle Shifts to Affluent Suburbs

    Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

    Founders of a proposed Mandarin-immersion charter school meeting in a South Orange, N.J., home. From left, Jutta Gassner-Snyder, Nancy Chu, Tom Piskula and Tiffany Boyd Hodgson.

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    Published: July 16, 2011

    MILLBURN, N.J. — Matthew Stewart believes there is a place forcharter schools. Just not in his schoolyard.

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    Mr. Stewart, a stay-at-home father of three boys, moved to this wealthy township, about 20 miles from Midtown Manhattan, three years ago, filling his life with class activities and soccer practices. But in recent months, he has traded play dates for protests, enlisting more than 200 families in a campaign to block two Mandarin-immersion charter schools

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    At the heart of my classroom? Student agency and continuous renewal | Dangerously Irrelevant | Big Think

    At the heart of my classroom? Student agency and continuous renewal | Dangerously Irrelevant | Big Think

    At the heart of my classroom? Student agency and continuous renewal

    by dr.scott.mcleod@gmail.com (Scott McLeod)

    Riley Lark asks, 'What's at the heart of your classroom?' At the heart of mine are the concepts of student agency and continuous reflection, revision, and renewal.

    I teach graduate students: adult teachers and administrators who want a principal or superintendent credential. I've always prided myself on being a student-centered instructor. I include my teaching philosophy in every syllabus:

    With deference to all of the educational authors whom I may paraphrase, I believe that

    • The teaching-learning process is primarily for the benefit of the learner, not the teacher.
    • All students want to, can, and will learn given the proper learning environment.
    • Students actively and individually make sense of what they learn by connecting and integrating it with what they already understand. Teaching cannot occur without learning. I should always seek and value
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    Updated List Of My Best School Reform Posts | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

    Updated List Of My Best School Reform Posts | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

    Updated List Of My Best School Reform Posts I finally got around to updating My Best Posts On “School Reform.” You might want to take a look…

    “International Day Of The World’s Indigenous People” The United Nations has declared August 9th to be The International Day Of The World’s Indigenous People. I’ve recently updated The Best Sites For International Day Of The World’s Indigenous People. Additional suggestions would be appreciated.

    This Week’s “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t” I have a huge backlog of resources that I’ve been planning to post about in this blog but, just because of time constraints, have not gotten around to doing. Instead of letting that backlog grow bigger, I regularly grab a few and list them here with ...
    Can You Help Me Out With Movie Clip Suggestions Demonstrating The Qualities Of A Good Language Learner? I am amazed, touched, and very grateful for all the helpful suggestions readers made to my request yesterday, Can You Think Of A Funny Movie/TV Scene Where A Bilingual Character Uses Two Languages To Get Out of Trouble? People generously shared their ...

    The Best Posts & Articles About The Atlanta Testing Scandal I haven’t been wildly impressed by much of what has been written about the Atlanta testing scandal. But there have been a few that I thought were particularly thoughtful, and so another “The Best…” list is born… Let me know if you think I’m missing ...

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    The pedagogy of poverty « Cooperative Catalyst

    The pedagogy of poverty « Cooperative Catalyst

    The pedagogy of poverty

    by stevemiranda

    My friend Rachel sent me a link to an essay by the always feisty Alfie Kohn in which he condemns “the pedagogy of poverty.” That’s when schools serving low-income kids of color focus the curriculum on drill-and-skill, repetition, and maintaining a tightly controlled routine. Kohn advocates a pedagogy centered on “meaning and understanding.” He writes,

    Rather than viewing the pedagogy of poverty as a disgrace, however, many of the charter schools championed by the new reformers have concentrated on perfecting and intensifying techniques to keep children “on task” and compel them to follow directions. (Interestingly, their carrot-and-stick methods mirror those used by policy makers to control educators.) Bunches of eager, mostly white, college students are invited to drop by for a couple of years to lend their energy to this dubious enterprise.

    Is racism to blame here—or perhaps behaviorism? Or could it be that, at its core, the corporate version of

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    For-Profit College CEOs Reap Rewards of Weak Regulation - Hispanically Speaking News

    For-Profit College CEOs Reap Rewards of Weak Regulation - Hispanically Speaking News

    For-Profit College CEOs Reap Rewards of Weak Regulation

    For-Profit College CEOs Reap Rewards of Weak Regulation

    John Sperling, the CEO of the University of Phoenix, has cashed out $59 million in the company’s stock, according to the Huffington Post. Sperling’s shares have increased in value by almost twenty percent in the six weeks since the Department of Education issued a weaker-than-anticipated “gainful employment” rule governing the for-profit education industry.

    While many for-profit colleges promise increased earnings after graduation, evidence shows that students at the institutions default on federal loans at a significantly higher rate than their counterparts at public universities. Student advocates expected that the gainful employment rule would force the

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    Today only 2 CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS Yeah!

    CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS
    Abramson Science and Technology Charter School *"Records show glaring faults at school with ties to Turkish charter network.”* Times-Picayune (LA) 7/15/2011 Inci Akpinar, the vice president of a company called Atlas Texas Construction & Trading, sat down with an official from the Louisiana ...
    Gulen charter schools in Louisiana *STATE* *# ACTIVE* *# PENDING * *# INACTIVE* * *TOTAL* LA 2 0 6 8 * Denied, withdrawn, closed, or unknown status ================================================================== *SCHOOLS* ...

    CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS

    A compilation of news articles about charter schools which have been charged with, or are highly suspected of, tampering with admissions, grades, attendance and testing; misuse of funds and embezzlement; engaging in nepotism and conflicts of interest; engaging in complicated and shady real estate deals; and/or have been engaging in other questionable, unethical, borderline-legal, or illegal activities. This is also a record of charter school instability and other unsavory tidbits.

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    Schools Matter: Good Reads

    Schools Matter: Good Reads

    Good Reads

    by Ken Libby
    Some good reads:

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    Lessons from Atlanta | The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education

    Lessons from Atlanta | The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education

    Lessons from Atlanta

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    By Cosmo Garvin

    cosmog@newsreview.com

    The Atlanta public school system is feeling the consequences of the obsession with high-stakes educational testing.

    There, some 178 teachers and principals and teachers, at 44 different schools, are accused of cheating to raise standardized test scores. And no wonder.

    Educators told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of enormous pressure to raise scores, and a “culture of fear” where teachers whose students got low marks could be fired. Same for teachers who blew the whistle.

    Can’t happen here? Well, at least a few of the major ingredients needed for a testing scandal are already on hand here in Sacramento.

    Here, the daily newspaper has already called for evaluating Sacramento teachers based on student test scores. That echoes the philosophy of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson and his (still) fiancée, education reform celebrity Michelle Rhee.

    Rhee chose Sacramento for her StudentsFirst lobbying group, which has test-score based evaluations at the top

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    Daily Kos: July 17, 1954

    Daily Kos: July 17, 1954

    July 17, 1954

    by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

    Is a date that all baseball fans should know, but probably don't.

    Let me help you.

    Pitcher Don Newcombe
    Catcher Roy Campanella
    2nd Base Jim "Junior" Gilliam
    3rd Base Jackie Robinson
    Left Field Sandy Amoros

    On that day, for the first time in Major League history, a baseball team took the field with a majority of its players being black. Of course it was the Brooklyn Dodgers, who had broken the color line with Jackie Robinson in 1947.

    The opponents were the Milwaukee Braves, in County Stadium, Milwaukee. Oh, and that team also had a Black player of some note, rookie Right Fielder Henry Aaron.

    Later that year a second Black pitcher, Joe Black, joined the team.

    Jackie Robinson was Rookie of the Year in 1947, MVP in 1949 , and is in the Hall of Fame. His record is well

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    Saturday, July 16, 2011

    In Millburn, N.J., a Revolt Against Charter Schools - NYTimes.com

    In Millburn, N.J., a Revolt Against Charter Schools - NYTimes.com

    Battle Over Charter Schools Shifting to Affluent Suburbs

    Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

    Founders of a proposed Mandarin-immersion charter school meeting in a South Orange, N.J., home. From left, Jutta Gassner-Snyder, Nancy Chu, Tom Piskula and Tiffany Boyd Hodgson.

    By
    Published: July 16, 2011

    MILLBURN, N.J. — Matthew Stewart believes there is a place forcharter schools. Just not in his schoolyard.

    Mr. Stewart, a stay-at-home father of three boys, moved to this wealthy township, about 20 miles from Midtown Manhattan, three years ago, filling his life with class activities and soccer practices. But in recent months, he has traded play dates for protests, enlisting more than 200 families in a campaign to block two Mandarin-immersion charter schools from opening in the area.

    The group, Millburn Parents Against Charter Schools, argues that the schools would siphon money from its children’s education for unnecessarily specialized programs. The schools, to be based in nearby Maplewood and Livingston, would draw students and

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