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On the Road « Student Activism

studentactivism.net - Lots of student-related news recently for a sleepy early August — Chile’s campus activists have intensified their campaign, youth riots are spreading across Britain, Wisconsin’s progressive uprisin...

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edchat / FrontPage

edchat.pbworks.com - Open, collaborative, focused discussion can open and expand minds. But let's not stop there- let's harness this wisdom of the many to crowdsource possible solutions to some of the major issues th...

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Wisconsin Recall Elections: Live Results

motherjones.com - The polls close at 8 pm CST on Tuesday night in Wisconsin's recall elections targeting six GOP state senators from around the state. Democrats need to win at least three seats if they hope to regai...

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Handicapping the Wisconsin Recall Elections

motherjones.com - Mon Aug. 8, 2011 3:00 AM PDTNever before in American politics have voters recalled more than two state legislators in a single year. That record could be broken on Tuesday, when Wisconsinites vote ...

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Teacher Sued for Defamation Wins Free Speech Claim

voiceofsandiego.org - Posted: Friday, August 5, 2011 4:25 pm | Updated: 5:27 pm, Fri Aug 5, 2011. A San Diego court violated a retired teacher's right to free speech when it barred her from mentioning on her website t...

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Jewish Brother Michael Teaches Muslims

queenstribune.com - Interfaith Education: Jewish Brother Michael Teaches Muslims Michael Berman writes on the board. Tribune Photos by Dikla Kadosh By DIKLA KADOSHWhen Michael Berman told his relatives that he had b...

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How to Post Images to Your Blog with Ethics!

blogbloke.com - One of the best blog resources you are going to have is the knowledge of knowing how to do things properly. Hi everyone, Diane here and as always, a big thank you to Blogbloke for letting me share ...

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Research Studies Of The Week

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Aug 10 2011 Larry FerlazzoI often write about research studies from various field and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially signi...

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Math, science focus of new 'Sesame Street' season

usatoday.com - NEW YORK (AP) — More than three dozen celebrities, including Nicole Kidman and Robin Williams, athlete Carmelo Anthony and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor , are set to appear on the new seaso...

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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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California PE.com | Southern California News

pe.com - California tax revenue fell nearly $539 million below projections last month, pushing the state closer to automatic, mid-year budget cuts to schools, universities and social services, State Control...

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edchat / FrontPage

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Teach 'Em Until They Learn - Teacher in a Strange Land

blogs.edweek.org - (From the airport in Memphis) The Teacher in a Strange Land has been crisscrossing the country for the past couple of weeks, bouncing from the inspiring, once-in-a-generation experience of the Save...

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Why I'm Against For-Profit Schools

practicaltheory.org - I think it is important to articulate why I am against for-profit organizations running schools. This isn't to say that there aren't good people working in some of those schools, and this isn't to ...

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Look At "Race" To See How Waivers Will Turn Out

scholasticadministrator.typepad.com - #nclb #waiver Despite the lack of details and the fact that they made pretty much the same announcement a couple of months ago, here's a steady flow of news coverage and analysis of the Duncan wai...

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    All Education Matters: Conversations with Candidates: David Hunsicker

    All Education Matters: Conversations with Candidates: David Hunsicker

    Conversations with Candidates: David Hunsicker

    by C. Cryn Johannsen
    If you are a candidate running for office (city, state, or at the national level) and would like to be promoted by AEM, please contact me at ccrynjohannsen@gmail.com. All candidates will have the opportunity to review the material I publish about them, so none of your words will be misconstrued. I'm happy to be of assistance in spreading the word about your candidacy, your values, and what you intend to do once elected. Last year, I interviewed Kevin Bradley (who ran as a Democrat for the House of Representatives, Rick Staggenborg,, and Jim Holbert.

    David Hunsicker will do all the talking in this post. Let's here what he has to say about who he is, why he's running, and what he wants to do to help solve the significant crises that the U.S. is currently facing. David is a
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    Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: No Child Left Behind - What Should It Be Called Now?

    Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: No Child Left Behind - What Should It Be Called Now?

    No Child Left Behind - What Should It Be Called Now?

    by Melissa Westbrook
    I do want to write up a thread on No Child Left Behind. The poor program is now in a bit of a netherworld limbo as Congress decides what the heck to do with it (they haven't reauthorized it since 2007).

    In the meantime, Arne Duncan is preparing to allow states waivers from AYP (annual yearly progress) as many states would have whole districts that are completely failing under it.

    According to Duncan, the law has encouraged states to lower their standards. For example, he said, congressional inaction allowed a state like Tennessee to delude itself into deeming 91 percent of its students as
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    4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Schools that Expel, Suspend, Deny (Update): SCHOOL DISCIPLINE OFTEN METED OUT UNEVENLY

    4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Schools that Expel, Suspend, Deny (Update): SCHOOL DISCIPLINE OFTEN METED OUT UNEVENLY

    Schools that Expel, Suspend, Deny (Update): SCHOOL DISCIPLINE OFTEN METED OUT UNEVENLY

    NPR TALK OF THE NATION + ADDITIONAL COVERAGE

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    And the problem is, right now, the shift that we've seen, in my lifetime - not only as a student but as a teacher - away from an era when we could call home, to an era when we're suspending, expelling or arresting students for things that don't warrant it, is placing our students on the wrong track. And until we solve this problem, we will not end the dropout crisis or close this achievement gap.

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    IL teachers. If you wait on pensions, it will be too late. « Fred Klonsky's blog

    IL teachers. If you wait on pensions, it will be too late. « Fred Klonsky's blog

    IL teachers. If you wait on pensions, it will be too late.

    by Fred Klonsky

    I received this from Glen Brown this morning. Pass it on.

    Dear colleague and friend,

    John Dillon and I (both retired teachers from Lyons Township High School) have met with many legislators throughout the state during the last three months.

    I am asking you to talk to just your two state legislators about the injustices perpetrated by a few powerful and wealthy organizations in Illinois and to also educate them about the conflicting data regarding sustainability of our defined-benefit pension plan. What is at stake is the protection of

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    Tom Torlakson’s blueprint | Thoughts on Public Education

    Tom Torlakson’s blueprint | Thoughts on Public Education

    Tom Torlakson’s blueprint - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

    by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
    Create a Commission on Educator Excellence to jump-start policies on teacher and principal development; increase the adoption of digital materials; incorporate phys ed into a school’s API score. These are among dozens of recommendations in Superintendent Tom Torlakson’s “Blueprint for Great Schools,” a 25-page report released on Tuesday. Seven months in the making, it’s the product [...]

    Fiscal year starts off stumbling - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

    by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
    Districts that haven’t started negotiating with teachers for furlough days next spring should probably start now. Based on July revenues, districts could face the unpleasant need for them. Figures released by Controller John Chiang on Tuesday showed that the state took in 10.3 percent less than expected: $538.8 million below the $5.2 billion budget projections. That’s [...]

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    A sneak preview of GOP contenders’ brag sheets on education - by Peter Schrag

    by Peter Schrag
    The year ahead will see no end of blather about the education records and policies of the major presidential contenders, but few assessments are likely to be as much of a curiosity as “The 2012 Republican Candidates (So Far)” in the next issue of the magazine Education Next. Education Next calls itself a “scholarly journal [...]
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    State education chief: Time to invest in schools is now | California Watch

    State education chief: Time to invest in schools is now | California Watch

    State education chief: Time to invest in schools is now

    by Corey G. Johnson

    U.S. Census Bureau

    State Superintendent for Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said yesterday that California can become more competitive and stop a future shortage in college-trained professionals by simply investing more to improve the public school system.

    Torlakson cited findings from "A Blueprint for Great Schools," a 31-page report with a myriad of long-term and


    For-profit college company admits inflated job placement success

    by Erica Perez

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    A for-profit education company with five locations in California has admitted that some of its health education campuses reported inflated job placement rates for its graduates.

    The announcement comes as the Illinois-based Career Education Corporation has tentatively agreed [PDF] to pay $40 million to settle a class-action lawsuit involving another of its subsidiaries, the California Culinary

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    What I’m doing to change schooling in my classroom – and how it’s worked « Cooperative Catalyst

    What I’m doing to change schooling in my classroom – and how it’s worked « Cooperative Catalyst

    What I’m doing to change schooling in my classroom – and how it’s worked

    by alanthefriesen

    Lesson plan. Lecture. Notes. Test. Rinse. Repeat.

    We’ve all seen classrooms that operate like this. In fact, I’m sure that we’ve all been in classrooms that have operated like this. Mine wasn’t so different when I started teaching. I still vividly recall my first year: part of our drama 9 curriculum was to teach the history of drama. Wet behind the ears and grinning with the knowledge that I had a full-time job where most of my university cohort had only substitute teacher positions, I set to work.

    I developed a series of riveting lectures on the history of drama, from old fertility rituals enacted to bring about fecundity in fallow soil, all the way to absurdist American drama of the late 20th century. I lectured, and some of my students wrote some of it down. Mostly they talked, and chatted with each other, and kept on interrupting me by telling me that what we were doing was boring. This made me alternatively furious and amused: furious that my authority was being questioned by a group of fourteen-year-olds, and amused because if they didn’t pay

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    NYC Educator: The "Well Balanced Teacher" and Other Admirable Goals

    NYC Educator: The "Well Balanced Teacher" and Other Admirable Goals

    The "Well Balanced Teacher" and Other Admirable Goals

    Sometimes it's pretty difficult to conceive of life-work balance for teachers. Our jobs, more so than many others, tend to follow us home in unexpected, inconvenient, joyful, and painful ways. One of my goals for the coming year is to continue to improve as a professional educator while also maintaining a better sense of that balance. To that end, I recently read the book pictured at left, The Well-Balanced Teacher by Mike Anderson.

    One of Anderson's best pieces of advice in the book is to take what happens in the classroom less personally. He uses the example of homework: He can try to make the homework engaging and helpful; he can provide meaningful feedback; he can offer students assistance and make-ups after school; but, if they're still not doing
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    Poverty and the Achievement Gap | Seattle Education

    Poverty and the Achievement Gap | Seattle Education

    Poverty and the Achievement Gap

    by seattleducation2011

    A few issues are touched upon in this Democracy Now interview with Barbara Ehrenreich, author of “Nickle and Dimed” that have much to do with education in this country and why some students succeed and others do not. Don’t let anyone lead you to believe that a few recruits from Teach for America and charter schools are going to bridge the so-called “achievement gap”. That idea is simplistic at best and erroneous on many levels.

    The Waltons, owners of Wal-Mart for instance, are big believers in charter schools which is basically the privatization of public funded public schools. They also rely on the government to subsidize their exceptionally profitable business by expecting the government to provide their employees with food stamps and health care

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    An Urban Teacher's Education: On Data, Part Six: Data-Driven Disruption

    An Urban Teacher's Education: On Data, Part Six: Data-Driven Disruption

    On Data, Part Six: Data-Driven Disruption

    by James Boutin
    Over the past six days, I've aired my thoughts on data use in public schools. I hope I've made it clear that I think quality data deserves strong consideration when schools make decisions about instruction. I hope I've also been clear, however, that data-informed decisions are far superior to data-driven decisions, particularly when we've clearly overshot creating quality data in the name of promoting its use no holds barred. Today, in my final post in this series, I will explore the reasons behind the cheating scandals we've recently seen in school districts across the country and draw two last comparisons between Wall Street and public education.

    When you read about the pitfalls of standardized testing today, it's difficult to avoid coming across reference toCampbell's law; it's been popping up everywhere over the past few years.
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    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: New images of Britain

    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: New images of Britain

    New images of Britain

    Oppression breeds resistance
    But the riots also reflect the alienation and resentment of many young people in Britain, where one million people from the ages of 16 to 24 are officially unemployed, the most since the deep recession of the mid-1980s.-- New York Times
    Whether it's London, Cairo, or Chicago, sooner or later oppression produces resistance. The current "riots" in London are, in large part, a response to the obscene widening British (world) gap between rich and poor, black, brown and white. For months, all we saw coming out of Britain were the images of the $60 million dollar
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    School Tech Connect: I Think We Did Fine

    School Tech Connect: I Think We Did Fine

    I Think We Did Fine

    by noreply@blogger.com (Tim)
    Typical Waukesha Voter
    Two outta three* ain't bad, and that's how it looks as of now. I have family in Waukesha. Even my otherwise fabulous, gay-friendly, Unitarian sister-in-law there hates unions. Hates them. She'd look at this graph and blame the union. To say that the area is to the right of the Taliban on the labor issue is a frank understatement. Its not an area penetrated by diverse opinions, let me just put it that way.

    I do feel like we're going to get that governor out of office, though. Most of the rest of the state is less Fox
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    Reforming the Science Curriculum Yet Again (Part 1) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

    Reforming the Science Curriculum Yet Again (Part 1) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

    Reforming the Science Curriculum Yet Again (Part 1)

    by larrycuban

    “Creating new curriculum standards for science doesn’t reform teaching and learning any more than standing in a garage makes you a car or a truck.”*

    The top research body in the U.S., the National Research Council, recently released its Framework for K-12 Science Education. An 18-member committee of top scientists and educational experts drawn from the National Academy of Sciences identified key concepts, scientific practices, and ideas that every student should learn by the time they graduate high school. It is intended as a guide for those who are now developing national Common Core Standards in science (Standards in English Language Arts and Math are already out and 44 states have

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    Schools Matter: R Lucido: price of NCLB waiver - agree to much worse Race to the Top

    Schools Matter: R Lucido: price of NCLB waiver - agree to much worse Race to the Top

    R Lucido: price of NCLB waiver - agree to much worse Race to the Top

    by skrashen

    Rog Lucido: The feds are offering "a waiver from an oppressive and failed NCLB policy only to be switched to a much more sinister and stifling program."

    Sent to the Fresno Bee:

    Yesterday Education Secretary Duncan admitted that this year 82% of America’s schools will have failed under NCLB’s test and punish provisions, which he called an ‘impediment’. So, he is going to offer waivers so that our 100,000 schools who are receiving federal funds (approx. 5-10% of their budgets) will not have to meet NCLB’s

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    Schooling in the Ownership Society: Will the Rahm/Rauner axis pave billionaire's path to the governor's mansion?

    Schooling in the Ownership Society: Will the Rahm/Rauner axis pave billionaire's path to the governor's mansion?

    Will the Rahm/Rauner axis pave billionaire's path to the governor's mansion?

    by Mike Klonsky
    Billionaire Republican charter school patron, Bruce Rauner brought Josh Edelmanand Stand For Children to Chicago. He bankrolled many of the Democratic Party politicians who in turn, voted for and passed anti-union legislation in Illinois. He also made Mayor Rahm Emanuel a multi-millionaire and poured millions into Rahm's campaign war chest. Now it's time for the Chicago machine to reciprocate and help make Rauner the next governor of Illinois.
    Jonah Edelman, chair of Oregon-based Stand for Children, gave a very frank
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    Day 4 – The AERO Education Conference in Portland | Lefty Parent

    Day 4 – The AERO Education Conference in Portland | Lefty Parent

    Day 4 – The AERO Education Conference in Portland

    by Cooper Zale

    The last day of the conference, with just a short morning session. I did not attend any of the workshops but was there for the final keynote by Linda Stout and her closing call out to the youth at the conference to have their moment to speak.

    Linda told her story of being the daughter of poor white agricultural workers in North Carolina, and how she managed somehow to get an education and go on to become a grassroots organizer. An organizer who built and led an organization that brought people together across racial, gender and class lines to help over 40,000 people overcome the obstacles of racist Jim Crow laws and vote for the first time.

    Linda is a Baby Boomer like me, representing a generation that fought the battles for civil rights, women’s rights,

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