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Why I did TFA, and why you shouldn’t

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - There was a time, not very long ago, when I was an active volunteer alumni recruiter for TFA. And, as you might expect, I was great at it. One year, I think it was 1998, I did a recruitment session...
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Tennessee Teachers Find It Hard To Make The Grade : NPR

npr.org - Enlarge Blake Farmer for NPR Janna Beth Hunt, a first-grade teacher at Nashville's Norman Binkley Elementary, is disappointed with how she scored on her first observation under the new system. Blak...
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WEEKEND QUOTABLES

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - John Adams' 276th birthday“The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square,...
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Charter School Push Grows - WSJ.com

online.wsj.com - BY LISA FLEISHER The rancor that has followed former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz's attempts to open charter schools across New York City is coming to a place that hasn't experienced it before: ...
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After 7 weeks, Occupy still going strong

democraticunderground.com - Source: CBSThe economic protest movement that claims to represent 99-percent of Americans shows little sign of slowing down this weekend.Stormy weather kept "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations quie...
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twitter 102 for educators - The Educator's PLN

edupln.com - Once upon a time there was a little 2nd grade boy. He was new to a school, and he brought with him, all his problems and issues. Sent to live with dad after mom "couldn't take it any more", a...
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Love your Library -- Come to City Hall Monday, Oct. 31

afscme31.org - 10/22/2011AFSCME members who work in the Chicago Public Libraries are fighting back against Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposed budget, which would slash 363 library staff positions and reduce library ho...
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Unions Look To 'Occupy' For Supporters

democraticunderground.com - Source: NewsCore (FoxNY)(NewsCore) - Union members who descended on "Occupy Wall Street" encampments armed with tents, food and organizational expertise hope to turn young demonstrators into enduri...
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Testing the conventional wisdom | EdNewsColorado

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Testing the conventional wisdom | EdNewsColorado:Testing the conventional wisdomby Todd EngdahlWill hard-nosed political assumptions be upended on Tuesday when the votes are counted on Proposition ...
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38 arrested at Occupy Austin

cnn.com - From Maria P. White, CNN updated 7:24 AM EST, Sun October 30, 2011(CNN) -- Dozens of Occupy Austin members accused of criminal trespassing were arrested early Sunday, police in the Texas capital sa...
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Occupy Iowa braces for icy winter

omaha.com - DES MOINES, Iowa — Add another concern for Occupy Wall Street protesters in Des Moines and Iowa City — an icy Iowa winter.In Des Moines, up to two dozen people have camped most nights at a park abo...
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Occupy Oakland's return spells trouble to top cop

sfgate.com - Mathew Sumner / Special to the Chronicle Oakland mayor Jean Quan and interim Police Chief Howard Jordan update the city's position on Occupy Oakland. In remarks that may put him on a collision cour...
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Casting a spell - Boston.com

articles.boston.com - “What is not to love about a system that pushes a book that is a great series and also results in your kids having pride about their classroom and their group and binds them together?’’ noted Brynn...
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San Francisco protesters march in Halloween rally

sfgate.com - Paul Chinn / The Chronicle An Occupy SF protester, wearing a fat cat Halloween costume carrying a politician puppet, marches on Market Street in San Francisco on Saturday. (10-29) 16:11 PDT San Fra...
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Mic Check (Mic Check) GA Albuquerque

my.firedoglake.com - Mic Check! (Photo: studiolxv, flickr) Mic Check (Mic Check) Lew Wallace, author of Ben Hur and governor of the territory of New Mexico (repeat chorus, crowd) once said something like, “Whatever wor...
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38 arrested at Occupy Austin

cnn.com - From Maria P. White, CNN updated 7:24 AM EST, Sun October 30, 2011(CNN) -- Dozens of Occupy Austin members accused of criminal trespassing were arrested early Sunday, police in the Texas capital sa...
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Big Education Ape: 10-30-11 PM #OWS #CNN #edreform

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    Karen Heller: Vouchers are not for the kids - Philly.com

    Karen Heller: Vouchers are not for the kids - Philly.com:

    Karen Heller: Vouchers are not for the kids

    October 30, 2011|By Karen Heller, Inquirer Columnist
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    • File photo: Students leave Spring Garden School in North Philadelphia in June. A school voucher bill is not about the students, says Inquirer columnist Karen Heller. (AKIRA SUWA / Staff Photographer)
    File photo: Students leave Spring Garden School in North Philadelphia in June. A school… (AKIRA SUWA / Staff Photographer)
    • File photo: Students leave Spring Garden School in North Philadelphia in June. A school voucher bill is not about the students, says Inquirer columnist Karen Heller. (AKIRA SUWA / Staff Photographer)
    • State Sen. Daylin Leach: "The organizations that are funding the pro-voucher movement are very open that they want to eliminate public schools."

    Harrisburg is bankrupt in so many ways, and not just officially. When it comes to helping Philadelphia, funding public schools and social services, or banning assault weapons that have zip to do with hunting Bambi, state legislators barely look up from their BlackBerrys.

    Then, lo and behold, lawmakers started wringing their hands over the plight of our city's neediest, suggestive of a massive conversion experience or, barring that, something hinky in the Capitol's drinking water.

    The state Senate passed SB 1 last week, the voucher bill that appears to serve our poorest children attending Pennsylvania's worst public schools, the majority in Philadelphia, the very institutions whose funding the GOP-controlled legislature sliced and diced earlier this year.

    But appearances can run contrary to the truth.

    "This has nothing to do with helping the poor children of Philadelphia," said State Sen. Daylin Leach.

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    Preschool Peers May Boost Language Skills in Kids - Hispanically Speaking News

    Preschool Peers May Boost Language Skills in Kids - Hispanically Speaking News:

    Preschool Peers May Boost Language Skills in Kids

    Preschool students with poor language skills show much greater improvement if they’re placed in a classroom with higher-achieving children, compared to being in a class with other low-achievers, researchers say.

    The findings are important because many preschool programs in the United States are targeted to poor children, whose development of language skills may be lagging, according to lead author Laura Justice, a professor at Ohio State University’s School of Teaching and Learning.

    “The way preschool works in the United States, we tend to cluster kids who have relatively low language skills in the same classrooms, and that is not good for their language development,” she said in a university news release. “We need to pay more attention to the composition of preschool classrooms.”

    She and her colleagues looked at 338 children in 49 preschool classrooms and found that, among children with

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    FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN: You, me — any parent — would risk it all to cross the border to secure a better future for our families.

    4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN: You, me — any parent — would risk it all to cross the border to secure a better future for our families.:

    FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN: You, me — any parent — would risk it all to cross the border to secure a better future for our families.

    OP-ED BY SUSAN STRAIGHT IN THE LA TIMES | HTTP://LAT.MS/VTEHVE

    danziger immigration

    30 Oct 2011 - In 1979, in my hometown of Riverside, my father came home one evening with news from the linen plant where he worked. A group of women whose job it was to wash, dry, iron and stack hospital linen had been taken away by immigration officials that day. They were undocumented workers from Mexico and would be deported.

    I was 18 when I heard this, and I couldn't stop thinking about the likelihood that the deported women had left children behind. What if one had been forced to leave her children with a neighbor she didn't like or trust, just for that morning,

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    Hechinger Report | New Jersey greatly slows charter school growth

    Hechinger Report | New Jersey greatly slows charter school growth:

    New Jersey greatly slows charter school growth

    by Sarah Butrymowicz

    Students at the Charter School of Wilmington (Photo by Ruokai Chen)

    The New Jersey Department of Education surprised many this fall when state administrators approved only four new charter schools out of an applicant pool of 55. In a different round of applications just nine months earlier, the Office of Charter Schools had trumpeted its decision to grant 23 charters—or about half of applicants—as part of Gov. Chris Christie’s pro-charter education reform agenda.

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    Proposition 13: Tax Breaks For The Big Boys | California Progress Report

    Proposition 13: Tax Breaks For The Big Boys | California Progress Report:

    Proposition 13: Tax Breaks For The Big Boys

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    By Peter Schrag

    It’s been just a third of a century since the passage of Proposition 13 in June, 1978. In that time few of its offspring have caused more damage than the great loopholes allowing corporations to evade hundreds of millions in local property taxes that they’d owe in any fair and economically rational revenue system.

    Exact numbers are hard to come by, but as schools, cities, counties and other local agencies scratch for funds to pay cops, firefighters, teachers, librarians, and park and street maintenance workers, the cost becomes more glaring by the day.

    In county after county, as Lenny Goldberg of the California Tax Reform Association has been trying to tell us for years – and as he demonstrated again in a 2010 report written with David Kirsten – Proposition 13, which was supposed to protect homeowners, has become a great gusher of benefits for banks, drug and grocery chains, hotel corporations, oil companies, and real estate speculators.

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    Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - October’s Best Posts

    Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - October’s Best Posts:

    October’s Best Posts

    by Larry Ferlazzo

    I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see my previous Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month.

    These posts are different from the ones I list under the monthly “Most Popular Blog Posts.” Those are the posts the largest numbers of readers “clicked-on” to read. I have to admit, I’ve been a bit lax about writing those posts, though.

    Here are some of the posts I personally think are the best, and most helpful, ones I’ve written during this past

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    The Educated Reporter: Taking the Bully By the Horns

    The Educated Reporter: Taking the Bully By the Horns:

    Taking the Bully By the Horns

    by Emily Richmond
    Some stories are tough to read. But that doesn't make them any less valuable. One example is Rebecca Golden's recent piece on Salon.com, about trying to make peace with her childhood bullies.

    Golden's first-person account is effective for the naked honesty and bravery it took to even attempt such a reconciliation, never mind write about it. But where the story rings most true is in her minimal lack of success -- both at getting her past tormentors to talk to her, and her ability to fully let go of her past pain.

    I've blogged about my own history as a "mean girl", as well as my experiences being the one who was picked on. If any of the kids I pushed around were to seek me out now, I think I would have enough respect for the
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    NYC Educator: Class in a Box

    NYC Educator: Class in a Box:

    Class in a Box

    by NYC Educator
    The ATR agreement, negotiated last year by the UFT and the DOE, has proven to be money-saving bonanza for city high schools. For example, it appears schools no longer need to invest their precious budget dollars on art teachers. In fact, one high school now simply gives a box of assignments that can be handed out to kids by any ATR teacher--art, English, science, or whatever.

    The teacher distributes the assignment, and the kids do it. Or they don't. Or they copy it from a kid who does do it. Or whatever. When they're finished, the assignment goes into the magic box. From there, all that happens is someone, somewhere, checks off a name, and Voila! Instant art credit!

    Think of the possibilities. Why should this process be
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    Occupy Oakland, the General Strike on November 2, 2011 and An Introduction | Seattle Education #ows

    Occupy Oakland, the General Strike on November 2, 2011 and An Introduction | Seattle Education:

    Occupy Oakland, the General Strike on November 2, 2011 and An Introduction

    by seattleducation2011

    You might be wondering why I am posting so much about the Occupy Movement. It’s because of the transference of wealth from the hands of the many to the pockets of a few that our public school systems have been suffering for at least three decades. My first post on the original Seattle Education 2010 blog written in

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    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES:

    WEEKEND QUOTABLES

    John Adams' 276th birthday
    “The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.” -- The New Civil Rights Movement
    Anthony Cody
    "Bill Gates can produce the most elaborate teacher evaluation system in the world, but any system built upon the two
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    Learning Civics through Digital Engagement: An Oxymoron? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

    Learning Civics through Digital Engagement: An Oxymoron? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:

    Learning Civics through Digital Engagement: An Oxymoron?

    by larrycuban

    Left far behind in the wake of No Child Left Behind has been the teaching of Civics. Once a ninth grade fixture in social studies since World War I–yes, a century ago in a surge of enthusiastic curricular change, educational progressives in the U.S. established Civics to prepare students to be responsible citizens. By the 1950s, U.S. students took Civics, Problems of American Democracy, and U.S. Government in high school. Since then, these courses have shrunk considerably.

    The decline in course-taking has occurred over decades as policy elites have replaced the civic mission of public

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    Antitrust: The New Monopoly Frontier – Education and The Legacy of Bill Gates « Living Behind the Gates

    Antitrust: The New Monopoly Frontier – Education and The Legacy of Bill Gates « Living Behind the Gates:

    Antitrust: The New Monopoly Frontier – Education and The Legacy of Bill Gates

    By livingbehindthegates

    In a 2001 film loosely based on the life of mega-mogul Bill Gates, “Antitrust” packs a punch against the very idea of a “MONOPOLY”. I can’t help but think about Steve Job’s recent death and do a little comparison of personality traits between rival tycoons Gates and Jobs; how one seemed to want to create things that benefit humanity which in turn created power for himself that he often chose not to wield while the other seems to wants to

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