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3 Men Sought in Zuccotti Park Death Threat

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - October 25, 2011, 7:06 pm By ANDY NEWMANNYPD One of the suspects.Two days after a man accused of assaulting three female protesters in Zuccotti Park was arrested, some friends of his threatened to ...

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Lawrence :: Federal visit could mean money for schools

6lawrence.com - By Theo Hayes on October 21, 2011 LAWRENCE - The U.S. Department of Education's Assistant Secretary of Special Education, Alexa Posney, promoted President Obama's Jobs Act on Friday during a tour o...

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Bill Gates: Popping Up with Compulsory Proactive Help

dailycensored.com - Remember the obnoxious, hyperactive paperclip that popped up in Word when you were trying write a letter? As soon as you typed “Dear,” up popped up Clippy:It looks like you’re writing a letter. Wou...

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nypost.com - An administrator at a Brooklyn high school that saw an unusual surge in Regents test scores last year violated state grading policies by urging teachers to re-score exams that fell just shy of pass...

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Teachers put pressure on North Boone School Board

wrex.com - Poplar Grove (WREX) - The North Boone Education Association pickets outside the North Boone School District's headquarters for what they call a fair contract. They've been working without a contrac...

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Police disobey orders to arrest Occupy Albany Protesters

economicvoice.com - Albany Police refused to enforce a curfew by Albany Mayor, Gerald Jennings and Governor Andrew Cuomo. The police have refused to interfere with the 700 peaceful protesters who moved to and assembl...

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The Bonus Army – Zinn Education Project

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Pension "Reform" Must Be Fair

camajorityreport.com - Steven Maviglio Public employees will testify at a special legislative hearing in Carson on Wednesday that they welcome fair and thoughtful changes to assure California's public pension system stay...

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The grade-in at #OWS. Going viral. « Fred Klonsky's blog

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Afghan Women. Another Perspective. « MomsRising Blog

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Watchdogs take aim at MSNBC, Buchanan - On Media

politico.com - Main Content October 25, 2011 Both Media Matters for America and Color Of Change are petitioning MSNBC this week to either fire or sanction former GOP presidential candidate and MSNBC contributor P...

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Albany Occupy protesters to push 'millionaire tax'

online.wsj.com - Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. — The Occupy Wall Street protesters camped out in Albany plan a rally supporting the state's 'millionaire tax,' as some organizers lash out at Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo...

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Smarter Kids and How They Got That Way

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Training Parents Effective for Treating Young Children with ADHD

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Cancer prevention - California Teachers Association

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SAT officials testify at NY cheating hearing

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The grade-in at #OWS. Going viral. « Fred Klonsky's blog

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Occupy LA: Now Approaching Its Fourth Week Anniversary

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The Bonus Army – Zinn Education Project

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    Rumors (and denials) of a rogue charter school opening next week - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

    Rumors (and denials) of a rogue charter school opening next week - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:

    Rumors (and denials) of a rogue charter school opening next week

    By Katy Murphy
    Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 at 5:25 pm in charter schools, elementary schools,families.

    American Indian Public Charter School

    Sometimes when I write about the American Indian Public Charter School I feel like I’ve entered an alternative reality. This is one of those times.

    For that reason, I can’t tell you definitively whether an unauthorized elementary charter school will open on American Indian’s downtown campus on Halloween, as rumored — though it’s looking unlikely. I’ll just share the information I’ve collected so far.

    Evidence that suggests a school affiliated with American Indian is (or at least was) slated to open two months into the school year:

    - I called the receptionist at the school last week, told her I was a news reporter, and asked if American Indian was opening a new elementary school in October, as I had heard. She said, “Yes it is.”

    - An OUSD mother who attended a recent informational meeting at American

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    Protesters Affiliated With Occupy Wall Street Disrupt Department Of Education Meeting

    Protesters Affiliated With Occupy Wall Street Disrupt Department Of Education Meeting:


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    Protesters Affiliated With Occupy Wall Street Disrupt Department Of Education Meeting

    Occupy Wall Street Education New York

    First Posted: 10/25/11 10:25 PM ET Updated: 10/26/11 08:06 AM ET


    NEW YORK -- When New York City schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott stood up to face a full Seward Park High School auditorium on the Lower East Side Tuesday evening, he found himself confronted by the shrill sound of the "people's mic," a consensus-building tactic that has become a hallmark of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

    "Mic check!" a group screamed the second Walcott started talking. "We invite anyone here to use the human mic to express their concerns ... to save public education in our city," an organizer yelled. The crowd repeated back each phrase. "If you want your voice heard, all you have to do is say 'mic check.'"

    The approximately 200 protesters, loosely affiliated with a new public education committee offshoot ofOccupy Wall Street, called for increased participation and democracy in education at a meeting originally organized to facilitate conversation with stakeholders about the New York City Department of Education's new curriculum.

    "The true irony tonight is that this is about interacting with the panel," Walcott said, trying to speak over the clamor in the auditorium at Seward, a building

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    Modern School: This is What Democracy Looks Like--No, Really!

    Modern School: This is What Democracy Looks Like--No, Really!:

    This is What Democracy Looks Like--No, Really!

    by Michael Dunn

    This is What Democracy Looks Like—Literally!
    “This is what democracy looks like!” the occupy movement has been proclaiming proudly.

    The irony is that while they demonstrate direct democracy and people power in the streets and in their encampments, they are also demonstrating the complete and utter failure of official
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    Districts are still fearful of YouTube | Dangerously Irrelevant

    Districts are still fearful of YouTube | Dangerously Irrelevant:

    Districts are still fearful of YouTube

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

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    Yesterday it was Facebook. Today it's YouTube. Here's an email exchange between two district technology coordinators...

    TC1: I have recently completely blocked youtube in our network. Does everyone block youtube? As soon as I blocked it, teachers started complaining. What other websites can they go to that will serve the same purpose as youtube?

    TC2: It is blocked here as well!!! I know there is some good to it BUT it is my responsibility to monitor, block, etc. I do not have time to monitor students all day long every day of every week. We have a product called LanSchool and it is awesome. You can view every student that is logged on at any given time and can take over their computer and shut it down as well BUT I cannot do that every day all day long. The teachers

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    After the Attack on the Oakland Commune « occupy california #ows

    After the Attack on the Oakland Commune « occupy california:

    After the Attack on the Oakland Commune

    by *

    LETTER FROM AN ANONYMOUS FRIEND
    AFTER THE ATTACK ON THE OAKLAND COMMUNE

    We knew that it would happen.

    If you live with others in a public space in a city, if you set up shelters in which people can live without owning or renting property, if you set up an outdoor kitchen with which to feed anyone who wants food, if you establish a free school at which anyone can read and learn, if you set up bathroom facilities provided by organizations supporting your activities, if you show solidarity with struggles against police killings and police violence against people of color, against the poor, against women, against queers and transpeople, if you state your determination to defend the space you have created against the threat of eviction, in short—if you work toward organizing ways of living and relating to one another that might challenge those mandated by capitalism, your efforts will eventually be crushed by the police.

    We know this because we know that the question is not whether the police are “part of the 99%,” on the basis of


    Letter from Cairo

    by *

    A bit delayed due to the #OccupyOakland raid, here is a letter we received from some folks in Cairo, Egypt:

    To all those in the United States currently occupying parks, squares and other spaces, your comrades in Cairo are watching you in solidarity. Having received so much advice from you about transitioning to democracy, we thought it’s our turn to pass on some advice.

    Indeed, we are now in many ways involved in the same struggle. What most pundits call “The Arab Spring” has its roots in the demonstrations, riots, strikes and occupations taking place all around the world, its foundations lie in years-long struggles by people and popular movements. The moment that we find ourselves in is nothing new, as we in Egypt and others have been fighting against systems of repression, disenfranchisement and the

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    Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - Only Four Days Left To Contribute To The ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival!

    Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - Only Four Days Left To Contribute To The ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival!:

    Only Four Days Left To Contribute To The ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival!

    Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 6 hours ago
    The next edition of the EFL/ESL/ELL Blog Carnival will be published on November 1st by Berni Wall Here are the details: The theme for this carnival is: The Most Popular Posts on your Blog So, go and search through your archives, dust off that post that got you the most visitors, comments, retweets and let [...]

    Time Change Resources

    Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 7 hours ago
    Here in the United States, we’ll be reverting to Standard Time from Daylight Savings time on the second Sunday in November. I’ve just updated The Best Sites For Learning About Daylight Savings Time, including adding this video:

    Helping Theory Of Knowledge Students Understand “Knowledge Issues”

    Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 7 hours ago
    As most International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge teachers know (I teach TOK as well as multiple ELL and mainstream classes), helping students understand what “knowledge issues” are can often be a bit challenging. Today, after providing an introduction to them yesterday, I asked students to read this post and complete the listed assignment at our [...]

    The Seven Wonders….Of The Neighborhood?

    Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 7 hours ago
    One of my favorite lessons each year is one where our students compare our school neighborhood with the most wealthy section of Sacramento, the “Fabulous Forties.” I’ve written extensively about this lesson of highlighting assets instead of deficits in A Lesson Highlighting Community Assets — Not Deficits. I also have the complete lesson plan, including [...]
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    NYC Educator: Governor One Percent

    NYC Educator: Governor One Percent:

    Governor One Percent

    by NYC Educator
    NY Governor Andrew Cuomo does not much care for those who'd occupy Albany. So he directed the police to arrest them. No namby-pamby tolerance of First Amendment tolerance for him. Oddly, the police, perhaps cognizant of the fact they are working people, decided it was a bad idea, and declined to follow up. The protesters moved and they decided causing a riot might not be of ultimate benefit, despite the Governor's druthers to the contrary.

    Why is Governor Andy so miffed with the protesters? Well, it could be their new nickname for him, Governor One Percent. After all, Governor Andy hastaken a principled stand against taxing the richest one percent, opting instead to cut schools, services for the poor, and cap salaries for people who actually need to work. After all, how will he get tens of thousands of
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    The Seattle School Board Incumbents, Stand for Children and Other Corporate Reform Backers | Seattle Education

    The Seattle School Board Incumbents, Stand for Children and Other Corporate Reform Backers | Seattle Education:

    The Seattle School Board Incumbents, Stand for Children and Other Corporate Reform Backers

    by seattleducation2011

    As I posted previously about Stand for Children (SFC) and their support of school board candidates in the articleStand for Children, School Board Elections, Washington State PTA and Charter Schools, Jonah Edelman, co-founder of Stand for Children, states in regards to school board and legislative candidates that SFC supports:

    I’m being quite blunt here, the individual candidates were essentially a vehicle to execute a political objective…

    Later in the post I write:

    By the way, during my information search, I came across this on the Stand for Children website. Three of our very own school board incumbents are receiving financial assistance and on-the-ground support from SFC. Buyers beware. From the Stand for Children website:

    A number of our chapters have developed endorsement committees to support education champions running for school board this fall. These committees created an endorsement process, developed questionnaires, and interviewed candidates for these important public service positions. Check out the profiles of our education champions below:

    Seattle Announcement:

    Sherry Carr

    Harium Martin-Morris

    Steve Sundquist

    And now more information on the financing
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    Last night in NY, mayoral control of the schools becomes the latest target of the occupation. « Fred Klonsky's blog

    Last night in NY, mayoral control of the schools becomes the latest target of the occupation. « Fred Klonsky's blog:

    Last night in NY, mayoral control of the schools becomes the latest target of the occupation.

    by Fred Klonsky

    Photo: Anna Philips

    From NY1:

    The Occupy Wall street movement expanded to classroom politics, as a group disrupted a special meeting of the panel for education policy in Manhattan on Tuesday night.

    The public meeting at Seward Park High School at 350 Grand Street was supposed to be a meeting for parents to learn about new curriculum standards.

    But as soon as Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott began speaking through his

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    Jersey Jazzman: "Mrs. Smith, If You Want Johnny To Get an "A'..."

    Jersey Jazzman: "Mrs. Smith, If You Want Johnny To Get an "A'...":


    "Mrs. Smith, If You Want Johnny To Get an "A'..."

    by Duke
    Reforminess is making us all more stupiderish:
    TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Teacher bonuses will hinge on how well they engage parents in some south-central Idaho schools.

    Districts in the rural farming communities of Wendell, Jerome and Gooding have adopted merit pay plans for some employees that tie bonuses to the level of participation in parent-teacher conferences, the The Time-News reports .

    [...]

    The Wendell district decided to base merit pay bonuses on parental involvement at high school conferences because participation has been a problem in the past, Superintende


    "Who Cares If Good Teachers Are Fired?"

    by Duke
    Stop your whining, already:
    Jacobs listed what the NCTQ considers the key "early lessons" for states embarking on these sorts of policy changes. Among other things, she said:
    • "Teacher effectiveness measures don't have to be perfect to be useful. Some people are concerned that not every i is dotted and they're rolling out these systems. But keep in mind how unsatisfactory the [previous] systems have been." She added that an evaluation system "doesn't have to grind to a halt to be fine-tuned." (See my recent story on Tennessee's teacher-evaluation system, which is causing an uproar among teachers 
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