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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Lost in Detention - A FRONTLINE Documentary With Correspondent - Hispanically Speaking News

Lost in Detention - A FRONTLINE Documentary With Correspondent - Hispanically Speaking News:

Lost in Detention - A FRONTLINE Documentary With Correspondent Maria Hinojosa (VIDEO)

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Published at 1:19 am, October 15, 2011
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The documentary, “Lost in Detention,” will air on the evening of October 18th on PBS. Immigration has been a key issue across the political arena, but despite all the promises, the prospects for comprehensive immigration reform are scarce. Last year, President Obama’s administration set a new record for detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants under the Secure Communities enforcement program.

The program was set up to target and deport dangerous criminal immigrants, but has that always been the case? In her upcoming FRONTLINE documentary “Lost in Detention,” Maria Hinojosa takes an in-depth look at the enforcement of the Secure Communities program, and explores the hidden world of immigration detention. What she and the FRONTLINE Investigative team found is shocking and unimaginable.
Co-sponsored by:

Immigrant Defense Project
Make the Road NY
National Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP)
New York Immigration Coalition
New York & Long Island Civic Participation Project
Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights

Watch Lost in Detention Preview on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.
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La Ley No Child Left Behind - Univision Vida y Familia

La Ley No Child Left Behind - Univision Vida y Familia:

La Ley No Child Left Behind

Univision.com | Fecha: 10/14/2011

La ley No Child Left Behind

La ley establece nuevos estándares para los estudiantes, profesores y escuelas e incrementa el dinero destinado a la educación para cumplir con las nuevas obligaciones.

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Lo que significa para los padre

Muchos padres habrán oído hablar de la Ley No Child Left Behind (Ningún niño dejado atrás). La ley fue noticia cuando el Congreso de Estados Unidos la aprobó en 2002 porque requiere que se efectúen importantes modificaciones en la educación pública. Pero a pesar de tanta atención, los padres pueden tener preguntas. ¿En qué exactamente afecta la ley? ¿Cómo se detectan los cambios?

Básicamente la ley establece nuevos estándares para losestudiantes, profesores y escuelas e incrementa el dinero destinado a la educación para cumplir con las nuevas obligaciones. Para los padres, el cambio más notable es que su hijo tendrá que pasar tests estandarizados casi cada año, algo que contrasta con la ley anterior, que exigía tests muchos menos frecuentes. La ley también da a los padres más información y, en algunos casos, más opciones acerc
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Revisiting the legacy of busing, hoping to close old wounds - The Boston Globe

Revisiting the legacy of busing, hoping to close old wounds - The Boston Globe:

Conversations on busing

By Adrian Walker
Globe Columnist / October 15, 2011

You think of it as ancient history until you hear the pain and the hurt 35 years later, the buried legacy of busing.

“We lost the most important part of our education,’’ said Regina Williams, who said she dropped out of school at the height of busing, demoralized over the anger and hate she was facing. “We lost the experience of the prom and the whole high school experience. Even if you take classes [later], you never get that back.’’

A generation after the city was nearly torn apart by the effort to desegregate Boston’s schools, an activist group - the Union of Minority Neighborhoods - is trying to spark a new discussion about what it all meant. The centerpiece of its effort is a 53-minute film, “Can We Talk?’’ In it, people who lived through the era - students, parents, a school bus driver, a beat cop - reflect on their experiences

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PUNISHMENTS IN THE ATLANTA TEACHING SCANDAL « Teachers Fight Back

PUNISHMENTS IN THE ATLANTA TEACHING SCANDAL « Teachers Fight Back:

PUNISHMENTS IN THE ATLANTA TEACHING SCANDAL

by alkleen

The first punishments are being handed down in the Atlanta test cheating scandal. Several teachers had their certificates suspended for two years. Many more cases are pending and the suspensions are just the beginning. The teachers might also face permanent dismissal as well as criminal charges.

What do you think about the punishments ? The teachers had changed answers on the achievement tests in order to show progress under the No Child Left Behind standards. Are the punishments too severe? Not severe enough ? Were the teachers victims of the ridiculous pressures of No Child Left Behind ? Should the ultimate punishment be reserved for administrators who encouraged the teachers to cheat ? I would be interested to hear

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All Education Matters: Letter of Support from Australia: "Your work is resonating far and wide"

All Education Matters: Letter of Support from Australia: "Your work is resonating far and wide":

Letter of Support from Australia: "Your work is resonating far and wide"

by Cryn Johannsen
Last week, I received a great letter from a gentleman in Australia. While the majority of my readers are from the U.S., I actually am receiving more and more hits outside of the country. I receive a lot of letters of support, but those will be followed by hate mail and attacks. So it was quite nice to hear from an Australian who supports my work - that's to say, the timing was just right. This indicates, again, that we're getting LOUDER and LOUDER and LOUDER.

Here's what he had to say:

G'day Cryn,
I'm a regular reader of yours and some of the other blogs on American student debt, out of Australia. I was stunned when I first stumbled across this issue, which later gave way to outrage - it blows me away.
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Schooling in the Ownership Society: Why is Murdoch speaking at an "education summit" in the first place?

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Why is Murdoch speaking at an "education summit" in the first place?:

Why is Murdoch speaking at an "education summit" in the first place?

by Mike Klonsky
Teachers want to know

Teachers in the San Francisco Bay area picketed Thursday outside an education conference that features News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch as a keynote speaker, saying they believe he and other business leaders are out to profit from the so-called "reforms" discussed at the summit.

More than 100 demonstrators marched outside the Palace Hotel, which was hosting Jeb Bush's National Summit on Education Reform. The protesters, joined by activists from the Occupy Wall Street movement, chanted, banged drums and held signs with pictures of Murdoch and slogans such as "Hey Murdoch! Our Schools are Not For Profit."
"Corporations own all the media in the world. Why should they not own all the
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Friday, October 14, 2011

Modern School: Are Boys and Girls Really That Different (Part II)?

Modern School: Are Boys and Girls Really That Different (Part II)?:

Are Boys and Girls Really That Different (Part II)?

by Michael Dunn
In honor of the one-year anniversary of Modern School, I'm reposting some of my favorite articles from the past year. The following is a a follow up to the quiz in Are Girls and Boys Really All That Different? which I recommend reading first (reposted yesterday)

Same Upbringing, Different Outcomes?

Kids in Gender Specific Costumes, by EpSos.de
Several friends have told me that boys and girls are inherently different from each other. Their evidence was that their own boys and girls came out so differently despite being raised in the same environment and in the same manner.

Even when the same parents raise two children in the “same” house and in the “same” manner, there are always slight differences in both. The furniture, decorations and toys
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