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Sharpton's Racket - Page 1 - Columns - New York

villagevoice.com - The Reverend Al Sharpton has proven that it's a waste of ink to detail his decades of bad behavior: the payoffs, shakedowns, conflicts of interests, campaign violations, and legal problems that hav...

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National child welfare survey examines recession

news.yahoo.com - LAS VEGAS (AP) — Karla Washington worries how she will afford new school uniforms for her five-year-old daughter.Washington, an undergraduate student, earns less than $11,000 a year from a part-tim...

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Shame of a nation

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Millions of children growing up in poverty A couple of new reports caught my eye yesterday. The first was a new study on child well-being put out by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. It found that c...

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Suspension Stories

whatkidscando.org - Suspension Stories: Young Activists Challenge the “School-to-Prison” Pipeline by Barbara Cervone CHICAGO, IL—“He who opens a school door closes a prison,” Victor Hugo wrote in his 19th-century mast...

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Verizon Strike Solidarity Fund

afl.salsalabs.com - Amid the larger national context of attacks on public employee unions, Verizon has adopted a page from Scott Walker’s playbook to launch an assault on collective bargaining rights and the middle cl...

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Rick Perry has a funny definition of "miracle"

dailykos.com - You know how the national health care law is modelled after Romneycare in Massachusetts? So if such laws kill jobs, as conservatives claim, then Massachusetts should be in dire straits, correct? If...

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The Persistent Failure of Steven Brill

gawker.com - Steven Brill has a reputation for being a media wise man—a deep-thinking mogul who's always spotting the opportunities of The Future. Which is kind of strange, since the majority of his projects ha...

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School Panel, Over Protests, Backs a Deal With Verizon

nytimes.com - The Panel for Educational Policy on Wednesday approved a $120 million contract with a Verizon subsidiary to provide phone and Internet services for two years at city schools, despite calls for post...

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Las maestras y los maestros importan

vidayfamilia.univision.com - Una maestra efectiva puede adelantar el conocimiento de sus estudiantes por el equivalente de un grado y medio en el espacio de un aรฑo acadรฉmico, mientras que una inefectiva los hace crecer solamen...

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Secretary Duncan to Hold #AskArne Twitter Town Hall

ed.gov - The Department of Education announced today that Secretary Arne Duncan will participate in the first-ever #AskArne Twitter Town Hall on August 24, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. EDT. Veteran education journalis...

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    SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Jackson Pollock Comes To The NYC DOE

    SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Jackson Pollock Comes To The NYC DOE

    Jackson Pollock Comes To The NYC DOE

    by noreply@blogger.com (Bronx Teacher)
    Years ago, I think around 1996, my wife and I were passing through Austerlitz NY on Labor Day weekend and came upon a yard sale. At this yard sale my wife, who happens to be an artist, noticed this watercolor of a beach seen. She wanted it really bad, and easily shelled out the $2 to purchase it.

    A friend of mine that just proudly decorated his living room with an oil painting bought at the Galleria Mall in White Plains derided us for buying art at a yard sale. He said, "you need to be careful who you buy art from. You should know the name of the person to make sure it will have value."

    Whenever my wife and I go to MoMA or to the Met, I am like a little kid when I see anything of Jackson Pollock's. It must be the neurons in my ADD mind that go off or something like that. I just stared and study
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    On The Future of Teaching: Evaluating the Evaluators, Part 1 | The Jose Vilson

    On The Future of Teaching: Evaluating the Evaluators, Part 1 | The Jose Vilson

    On The Future of Teaching: Evaluating the Evaluators, Part 1

    by Jose

    Here’s an excerpt from The Future of Teaching:

    Your choice of Renee Moore speaks volumes of what you believe about the profession. Yes, her voice demonstrates the awesome possibilities of having someone who understands the inner workings of teaching from a policy standpoint that’s ripe with depth about all types of children, not just the ones that stand to benefit from our current policy. She amalgamates the best from the past, present, and future of education, certainly. What we most appreciate about Renee is that she is a teacher’s teacher. I’ve never had a chance to traverse the Mississippi Delta, but I’ll put all my

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    Brill Book: Race to Top Scores Sparked 'Near-Panic' at Ed. Dept. - Politics K-12 - Education Week

    Brill Book: Race to Top Scores Sparked 'Near-Panic' at Ed. Dept. - Politics K-12 - Education Week

    Brill Book: Race to Top Scores Sparked 'Near-Panic' at Ed. Dept.

    by Michele McNeil

    Louisiana and Colorado take heart: Senior staff members at the U.S. Department of Education really wanted you to win the Race to the Top. So much, that when the round-two scores came in, and your states were inexplicably scored out of the winners' circle, the staff was in a "near-panic," while Education Secretary Arne Duncan was "surprised and upset."

    "There are problems ... Big problems," then-Race to the Top Director Joanne Weiss told Duncan when the scores came in, writes journalist Steven Brill in his new book, Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools.

    The Education Department staff chewed over whether Duncan should handpick the winners, choosing out of

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    State Special Schools Director Named - Year 2011 (CA Dept of Education)

    State Special Schools Director Named - Year 2011 (CA Dept of Education)

    State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Announces New Director to
    Head Department's State Special Schools and Services Division

    SACRAMENTO — State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today announced that Scott D. Kerby has been selected as Director of the California Department of Education's State Special Schools and Services Division.
    "I am pleased that Scott is coming on board as our director of State Special Schools, bringing with him more than 30 years of teaching and administrative experience," said Torlakson. "Scott has already spent several years at the California School for the Deaf in Riverside so he is well-situated to understand and support the culture, issues, and structure of these vital communities."
    In addition to the Riverside school, Kerby will be responsible for the California School for the Deaf in Fremont; the California School for the Blind in Fremont; and Diagnostic Centers located in Fremont, Fresno, and Los Angeles that provide a variety of direct services to individuals with special needs, their parents, and local educational agencies.
    "I enthusiastically embrace this opportunity with an abiding faith in our State Special Schools and a confident conviction in the future of the students we serve," said Kerby. "I look forward to supporting the schools in their dedicated efforts in providing quality education and services to exceptional individuals."
    Most recently, Kerby served as the Student Services Specialist at the School for the Deaf, Riverside; where from 1980 to 1989 at the beginning of his career he was the Athletic Director and Adapted Physical Education Specialist. For the past decade, he also has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Redlands. Prior, he has served as principal or vice principal at several elementary and middle schools in San Bernardino.
    Kerby received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cal Poly, Pomona, and a Masters of Education from Azusa Pacific University. He holds a Life Single Subject Teaching Credential in Physical Education, a Clear Adapted Physical Education Specialist Credential, and a Clear Administrative Services Credential.
    He is succeeding Dr. Ron Kadish, who retired last year after serving 16 years as Director.
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    • Diagnostic Centers - Provides comprehensive assessments to special education students and staff development and training services to local educational agencies (LEAs).
    • School for the Blind - Provides intensive, disability specific educational services for pupils who are blind, visually impaired or deafblind, ages 3-22.
    • Schools for the Deaf - Provides comprehensive educational programs to deaf and hard of hearing pupils, ages 3-22.
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    Tom Torlakson — State Superintendent of Public Instruction
    Communications Division, Room 5206, 916-319-0818, Fax 916-319-0100
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    Subverting The National Conversation: A lesson on how it is done! - Perdaily.com

    Subverting The National Conversation: A lesson on how it is done! by Susan lee Schwartz with thanks to Kevin Gosztola - Perdaily.com

    Subverting The National Conversation: A lesson on how it is done! by Susan lee Schwartz with thanks to Kevin Gosztola

    by Leonard Isenberg
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    (For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)

    "Media is the nervous system of a democracy" Jeff Cohen.

    David Brock of Media Matters, concludes in "Outfoxed" that through the campaign cycle the American people are subjected to false, distorted caricatures that are echoed off cable and radio, and so the wrong pieces of information are repeated until no one knows the source-- where the information is coming from: "This is the environment we are living in, and it's fundamentally undermining democracy which is based on knowing some
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