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NYC test scores; small and unreliable gains

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Yesterday, the state finally released school test scores; for NYC schools they are posted here. Individual student test scores will only be made available August 17 – through the ARIS system, for...

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nypost.com - The city's plan for more than $255 million in federal Race to the Top funds has something for everyone -- especially educrats, data analysts and consultants, a Post review has found. The 32-page do...

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nypost.com - Barely one in three city eighth-graders met the bar for reading standards on state tests this year -- the lowest mark for that group since tests were changed in 2006, new data show. The alarming 35...

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Accountability: Test Prep vs. REAL Teaching

americasfutureinsidestory.blogspot.com - As we all know, the word "accountability" is thrown around like a baseball at a little league game. It's like this new mantra that we hear from the mouths of policy makers and common people quite o...

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Yetis, UFOs and Term Papers « The Core Knowledge Blog

blog.coreknowledge.org - Ask a high school student – any high school student – when they were last required to submit a research paper. Not a five paragraph essay or a “personal response,” but a paper – an in-depth piece ...

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Educators cheer Dayton's NCLB waiver move

minnpost.com - Yesterday, Gov. Mark Dayton made it official: Minnesota will apply for a waiver from compliance with No Child Left Behind. In fact, even though they know only the broad parameters of U.S. Education...

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thecrimereport.org - Sunday, February 07, 2010 09:08 More than 100 retired New York Police Department captains and higher-ranking officers told surveyors that the intense pressure to produce annual crime reductions led...

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Malcolm Gladwell: Tobacco Industry Shill? - By Yasha Levine

exiledonline.com - Malcolm Gladwell has described himself as a “conversation starter” who likes to “ask questions” and “follow-up” with more questions. Well, here’s a question for Malcolm Gladwell: When you wrote all...

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Democrats Challenging Administration on Medicaid

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — In an unusual break with the White House, the Democratic leaders of Congress told the Supreme Court on Monday that President Obama was pursuing a misguided interpretation of federal Me...

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Heavy turnout seen in Wisconsin Senate recall fight

latimes.com - Reporting from Milwaukee— Republicans and Democrats were locked in a furious and expensive battle for control of the Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday as voters went to the polls in a series of recall el...

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Reid Said to Appoint Three to Deficit Panel

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Kimble Short Bus Tour Kicks Off In Lexington, KY

kimbleforcongress.blogspot.com - Staying in Washington long enough to insure that the Democrats promised to cut the budget and not raise taxes was very difficult for me because it meant delaying getting to know little Ayn Reagan K...

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What We Talk About When We Talk About School Reform

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - What We Talk About When We Talk About School ReformWhat We Talk About When We Talk About School Reformby SamWith all due respect to Flannery O’Connor, my vote for greatest American short-story writ...

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For-Profit College Group Sued as U.S. Lays Out Wide Fraud

nytimes.com - The Department of Justice and four states on Monday filed a multibillion-dollar fraud suit against the Education Management Corporation, the nation’s second-largest for-profit college company, char...

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For-Profit College Group Sued as U.S. Lays Out Wide Fraud

nytimes.com - The Department of Justice and four states on Monday filed a multibillion-dollar fraud suit against the Education Management Corporation, the nation’s second-largest for-profit college company, char...

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Study: Boston schools' sugary drinks ban paid off

boston.com - BOSTON—A new study indicates that the Boston public schools' ban on sugary drinks has paid off, with high school students drinking less of such beverages even when they're not at school.In 2004, Bo...

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Breathing For Two « MomsRising Blog

momsrising.org - Early in my pregnancy I developed a bloodhound’s sense of smell: even the faintest of odors overwhelmed me. It’s a common phenomenon during the first trimester of pregnancy, yet my new nasal superp...

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What We Talk About When We Talk About School Reform

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Fire Dept. Reduced Bias Unit While Being Sued for Bias

nytimes.com - The New York Fire Department office that handles discrimination complaints shrank during a period when the federal government was suing the agency on the grounds that its hiring tests were biased, ...

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    Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Preparing Future Teachers

    Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Preparing Future Teachers

    Preparing Future Teachers

    by Melissa Westbrook

    From the Grand Rapids, Michigan Press, comes a story about Arne Duncan and what he thinks should happen for teachers and teacher training:

    U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says teachers should be paid between $60,000 to $150,000 – but should be held more accountable.

    Duncan also told the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards last week that it should be more difficult for prospective students to enter college teacher preparation programs.

    The latter sentence is part of a bigger discussion over whether colleges of education in this country do a good job of attracting good students and if they are training them properly. Indeed, a big worry expressed among

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    by Melissa Westbrook
    Colorado is awaiting the outcome of its trial on school funding by the state. This article from the Denver Post lays out other states' and their court cases.

    According to the National Access Network, as of June 2010, there had been 33 decisions on adequacy claims since 1989. The courts ruled for plaintiffs in 21 of those cases, the organization said, and against them in 11. There were eight cases still pending.


    In almost every state where an adequacy challenge has been filed, the decision has been appealed to the state's highest court. And those decisions don't always go the way people think they will, Griffith said.
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    What We Talk About When We Talk About School Reform

    What We Talk About When We Talk About School Reform

    What We Talk About When We Talk About School Reform

    by Sam

    With all due respect to Flannery O’Connor, my vote for greatest American short-story writer goes to Ray Carver. And with all due respect to America’s current crop of leaders, my hope is that they convene a summer book club to read Carver’s stories – and heed his central message.

    I’m thinking specifically of his collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. As with all of Carver’s work, it’s a collection filled with a cast of characters best suited for the island of misfit toys – or the town in which you live. These are people who are down on their luck, who have fallen out of love, and who are struggling to find the right words to communicate their feelings, their thoughts, and their sense of how (and where) it all went wrong. Reflected in Carver’s spartan prose are the surface realities of life – the quotidian desperation of the things we sometimes say, see and do. But his genius comes from his ability to surface the submerged emotions of living – the weight of grief, the insufficiency of the words we live by, the slow acknowledgement of seeing what we don’t want to see. Carver’s stories are always about what we know, what

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