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Shanker Blog » The Evidence On Charter Schools

shankerblog.org - In our fruitless, deadlocked debate over whether charter schools “work,” charter opponents frequently cite the so-called CREDO study (discussed here), a 2009 analysis of charter school performance ...

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TCRecord: Article

tcrecord.org - Of the following three statements, which refer to the Soviet Union in the 1930s and which refer to America today? 1. “Teachers are asked to achieve significant academic growth for all students at ...

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The Money Behind the School Board Incumbents

publicola.com - This guest editorial was written by Seattle School Board challenger Sharon Peaslee (District 1, North Seattle) and Peaslee volunteer Christina O’Sullivan, a school mom in Peaslee’s district. PubliC...

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Why do we let the right define our message?

dailykos.com - Today's diary begins with a "Local Comment" by the Mackinac Center in the Detroit Free Press. But before I begin, I have to vent, calling commentary by the Mackinac Center "local" is a a complete ...

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On the Rise in Alabama

mobile.nytimes.com - Alabama's ruling class has dug in against the storm it caused with the nation's most oppressive immigration law. Some of the law's provisions have been blocked in federal court; others won't take e...

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On the Rise in Alabama

nytimes.com - Alabama’s ruling class has dug in against the storm it caused with the nation’s most oppressive immigration law. Some of the law’s provisions have been blocked in federal court; others won’t take e...

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The 99% - Who Should Be TIME's Person of the Year 2011?

time.com - On Sept. 17, about 2,000 people amassed on Wall Street to protest corporate greed and influence in government. They didn't succeed in occupying all of the financial district, or even all of Wall St...

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Cuomo Tries to Shore Up the Support of Minorities

nytimes.com - SAN JUAN, P.R. — The crowd of Hispanic legislators and business leaders from New York, sipping cocktails at a sleek hotel overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, abruptly halted their conversations as Gov....

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Vt.'s Champlain College teaches digital forensics

boston.com - BURLINGTON, Vt.—College students and Vermont law enforcement professionals have a new resource to help them hone their skills at conducting criminal investigations on computers, smartphones and oth...

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Occupy Eureka camp raided, 32 arrested

democraticunderground.com - Source: SF ChroniclePolice in Eureka arrested 31 adults and one juvenile early this morning when they cleared out the Occupy Eureka camp for the second time in as many weeks.The early morning raid ...

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UC regents cancel meeting, fearing violent protest

democraticunderground.com - Source: SF ChronicleThe University of California regents have canceled this week's meeting in San Francisco, citing "a real danger of significant violence and vandalism."UC leaders said Monday that...

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Study proves regulations killed practically no jobs

rawstory.com - By David EdwardsMonday, November 14, 2011 In three straight recent weekly addresses, Republicans have asserted that “excessive government regulations” are keeping businesses from creating jobs. O...

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Google reportedly close to launch of TV

northjersey.com - SEOUL, South Korea — Google and LG Electronics may unveil a television using the search giant's software at the January Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, according to two people with knowledg...

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Hand Sanitizer in Schools Helps Prevent Some Cases of Influenza

educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - Ī©Hygiene Program for Kids Reduces Influenza A and Missed School Days, Study FindsA hand and respiratory hygiene program including frequent use of alcohol-based hand sanitizer helps reduce illness c...

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We Listen. We Care. « MomsRising Blog

momsrising.org - Leaders in the care of patients who face serious and life-limiting illness have designated November as National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, prompting more stories about both options. The Mil...

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Headlines for November 14, 2011

democracynow.org - Unelected Technocrats Take Control in Italy, Greece, as Debt Crisis GrowsUnelected technocrats have taken over Italy and Greece as the two countries continue to battle a growing debt crisis. In Ita...

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Thousands Rally to Resist Occupy Portland Evictions

owsnews.org - 10,000 filled the areas around the Occupy Portland encampments last night as the deadline approached for eviction. 12:01 am came and went but the cops could do nothing: too many supporters blocked ...

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    Yowza!! Joins the Second Annual Small Business Saturday® to Drive Business to Small Businesses - PR Newswire - sacbee.com

    Yowza!! Joins the Second Annual Small Business Saturday® to Drive Business to Small Businesses - PR Newswire - sacbee.com:

    Yowza!! Joins the Second Annual Small Business Saturday® to Drive Business to Small Businesses

    Aims to Unite and Inspire Consumers to Shop Small(SM) on November 26, 2011

    By Yowza!!
    Published: Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 - 8:54 am

    WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Nov. 14, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Yowza!!, the leading location-based mobile coupon app, today announced its participation in the second annual Small Business Saturday® on November 26, 2011. Yowza!!! is supporting the Small Business Saturday Coalition by offering two free months of service followed by a 50percent discounted monthly rate to the first 15,000 merchants who join by Nov. 26, 2011. Details can be found at getyowza.com/amex. Small Business Saturday is a day for dedicating a portion of holiday shopping to local, independently owned small businesses.

    American Express, founding partner of Small Business Saturday, is gearing up for the second annual event that is built on last year's inaugural program. Last year, small businesses saw a 28-percent increase in sales on American Express Cards on Small Business Saturday compared to the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 2009.(1)

    Yowza!! recognizes the importance of small businesses throughout North America, the jobs they help create and the culture they instill in local communities. As of 2007, small businesses had



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    Koch Brother Front Group Americans For Prosperity Pushes Smear Campaign Against Me | ThinkProgressBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-2 hours agoKoch Brother Front Group Americans For Prosperity Pushes Smear Campaign Against Me | ThinkProgress:Koch Brother Front Group Americans For Prosperity Pushes Smear Campaign Against MeBy Lee Fang on Nov 9, 2011 at 5:30 pmLevi Russell, Americans for Prosperity Director of Public Affairs, contributed to a blog post calling Lee a "liar." Russell, however, erroneously quoted the conversation and has ... more »

    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES:

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    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES::Monday, November 14, 2011WEEKEND QUOTABLES:Fred Shavies"That’s our Birmingham. So, twenty years from now this movement could be the turning point, the tipping point, right. It’s about time your generation stood up for something. It’s about time young people are in the streets. [...] Ya’ll don’t need to throw

    Schools are like businesses – with students as knowledge workers | Thoughts on Public Education

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    Schools are like businesses – with students as knowledge workers | Thoughts on Public Education:Schools are like businesses – with students as knowledge workers - by Jeff Campby Jeff CampSchools are like businesses, but not in the way most think. I frequently find myself in conversations comparing “how it works in business” with “how it works in education.” A popular version goes something like this: Schools are like factories. They take raw materials (kids and textbooks) and, through years of ... more »

    Monday morning. A Wisconsin teacher story. « Fred Klonsky

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    Monday morning. A Wisconsin teacher story. « Fred Klonsky:Monday morning. A Wisconsin teacher story.by Fred KlonskyHere’s a good story to get your blood flowing and start the week. From Mr. Helper on Daily Kos.I just got off the phone with my wife. She and another Wisconsin teacher are actively subverting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s plans to demoralize and discourage Wisconsin teachers from doing their jobs.Like ALL Wisconsin teachers, my wife is making considerably less money this year. For a while, ... more »

    Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Turn Me to We: Get Along, Work Together, Protect Kids from Adult Arguments

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    Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Turn Me to We: Get Along, Work Together, Protect Kids from Adult Arguments:Turn Me to We: Get Along, Work Together, Protect Kids from Adult Argumentsby coolcatteacher@gmail.com (Victoria A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher)Image via WikipediaTrue organizational greatness is about turning Me into We.It is sad when you see a team take their eye of their goal and turn upon each other. When you're busy fighting each other, you lose sight of the main mission and cannot achieve ... more »

    The Innovative Educator: Teaching Generation Text Goes Global! TODAY!

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    The Innovative Educator: Teaching Generation Text Goes Global! TODAY!:Teaching Generation Text Goes Global! TODAY!by noreply@blogger.com (The Innovative Educator)Join Lisa Nielsen and Willyn Webb, authors of Teaching Generation Text, as they present two sessions at the free online Global Education Conference today!The Texting Teacher 4:00 ESTjoin hereBreak the Ban on Cell Phones and Open the Door for Global Connections: A 6 Part Plan6:00 ESTjoin hereLearn about all of the exciting ways you can empower students, using only the cell phone in ... more »

    Proof there is no proof for education reforms - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

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    Proof there is no proof for education reforms - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:Proof there is no proof for education reformsby Valerie StraussThis was written by Carol Corbett Burris, principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York State.By Carol Corbett BurrisMy three daughters loved Miss Levin. Each of them had Gail Levin in elementary school. Whenever she was their ... more »

    NYC Educator: Why the Push for Teacher Evaluation?

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    NYC Educator: Why the Push for Teacher Evaluation?:Why the Push for Teacher Evaluation?by NYC EducatorThere is a crisis in this country. A crisis of unprecedented proportions. Apparently, there are billions of dollars being poured into this education thing, and many hedge fund managers are not getting even a fraction of this cash. What to do? Most importantly, we have to get rid of this whole union thing so we can stop frittering away vital resources on salaries for teachers. Of ... more »

    Concern Over Changing Teacher Evaluations - Chicago News Cooperative

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    Concern Over Changing Teacher Evaluations - Chicago News Cooperative:Concern Over Changing Teacher Evaluationsby REBECCA VEVEAFor the first time next year, thousands of Chicago Public Schools teachers will be evaluated based partly on how well their students are doing academically. Many fear they will face dismissal if the standards are not applied fairly.“It’s going to make people really angry,” said Ruth Resnick, a librarian at O’Keefe Elementary School, who spoke last week at a public forum about carrying out a new ... more »

    Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Week 10: Why teach narrative writing?

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    Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Week 10: Why teach narrative writing?:Week 10: Why teach narrative writing?from Reflections on Teaching by alicemercerSo, I did last week’s post late, and it was more about the beginning of this week (which didn’t get much better by the way) than week 9. Rather than focus on the FUBAR that week felt like (it wasn’t that bad, just felt that way),a post by Dina Strasser seemed relevant to a discussion about writing that ... more »

    Bob seger - Old Time Rock And Roll (LYRICS)

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    Just take those old records off the shelfIll sit and listen to em by myselfTodays music aln t got the same soulI like that old time rock n rollDont try to take me to a discoYoull never even get me out on theIn ten minutes Ill be late for the doorI like that old time rockn rollStill like that old time rockn rollThat kind of music just soothes the soulI reminisce about the days of oldWith that old time rock ... more »

    Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Global Ed Conference Nov 14-18 #globaled11

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    Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Global Ed Conference Nov 14-18 #globaled11:Global Ed Conference Nov 14-18 #globaled11Posted by Vicki Davis Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Global Ed Conference is this week! Online! Free! Helpful. In this post, I'm going to give you a few things: the overall calendar, my personal calendar, and the calendar for our entire Flat Classroom community (coming soon.) My friend Julie Lindsay has done a lot of work on the student summit end as part of our ... more »

    Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Shorter School Year Coming?

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    Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Shorter School Year Coming?:Shorter School Year Coming?by Melissa WestbrookFrom the Everett Herald comes a story about superintendents around the state coming together in agreement about having fewer school days for all districts rather than the Governor's idea of getting rid of levy equalization which favors districts able to pass levies versus those that can't.The superintendents are saying that while it may end up being detrimental to students in the long run, they want the cuts ... more »

    Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts #ows #edreform

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    What The Founding Fathers Thought About Corporations | Addicting InfoBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-17 minutes agoWhat The Founding Fathers Thought About Corporations | Addicting Info:What The Founding Fathers Thought About CorporationsNovember 13, 2011By Stephen D. Foster Jr.Citizens United. This is the 2010 Supreme Court case that shocked America, influenced an election, and reversed over 100 years of campaign finance laws. In this case, corporations were declared as people and as such declared to have the same rights as ... more »

    Occupy Wall Street’s commitment to nonviolence | OWSnews.org

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    Occupy Wall Street’s commitment to nonviolence | OWSnews.org:Occupy Wall Street’s commitment to nonviolenceby Waging NonviolenceAt various times in the past, Occupy Wall Street has had trouble coming to consensus on a statement of nonviolence (as opposed to, say, the October 2011 movement in DC, whichpublicized one at the outset). This was an issue both in the planning process and in the early days of the occupation. In my essay on the notion of “diversity of tactics” for Occupy Wall Street, ... more »

    Simon and Garfunkel The Boxer (Original)

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    Simon And Garfunkel The Boxer LyricsI am just a poor boyThough my story's seldom toldI have squandered my resistanceFor a pocket full of mumbles such are promisesAll lies and jestsStill a man hears what he wants to hearAnd disregards the restWhen I left my home and my familyI was no more than a boyIn the company of strangersIn the quiet of the railway station running scaredLaying low, seeking out the poorer quartersWhere the ragged people goLooking for the places only ... more »

    Jersey Jazzman: The Two Worlds of Ed Reform

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    Jersey Jazzman: The Two Worlds of Ed Reform:The Two Worlds of Ed Reformby DukeI want to recommend this great piece teacher/blogger Katie O about this weekend's conferences in Chicago. Read the whole thing (us teacher/bloggers need that click-through love), but here's the takeaway:To me, the moral of this tale of one city’s schizophrenic day of education is this: Sure, we love progressive education practices, but only for the rich white private schools. When it comes to the vast majority of ... more »

    Above and Beyond | The Jose Vilson

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    Above and Beyond | The Jose Vilson:Above and Beyondby JoseOften, people make me question what the words “above and beyond” mean in an age when we’re obsessed with overworking and overstating. When Carmen told me that she will not go above and beyond in her activism, I started to think about what that meant based on what I knew about her. When someone approaches her about her hair, her dress, or her passions, she’s not likely to say, “Because I ... more »

    Daily Kos: Music

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    Daily Kos: Music:Musicfrom Daily Kos by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)Consider this an addendum to what I posted this morning. Today was a full day. We spent three hours at a gathering of Old Members of Univ - University College Oxford, where my beloved spouse got an M. Litt while on a Marshall. From there we went to a concert at the Kennedy Center.It was the initial concert of what will be Norman Scribner's final year of directing the Choral Arts Society, a ... more »
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    State Names Lawyer to Investigate Cheating – SchoolBook

    State Names Lawyer to Investigate Cheating – SchoolBook:

    State Names Lawyer to Investigate Cheating

    by Anna M. Phillips

    Following cheating scandals in several major American school districts and a rise in complaints of tamperingwith New York State’s exams, Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. announced on Monday that he would name a veteran lawyer to analyze how the state handles reports of cheating.

    Hank Greenberg, a former assistant United States attorney and senior legal adviser to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo when he was attorney general, will review how the state’s Education Department receives and investigates complaints of alleged test tampering.

    The appointment of Mr. Greenberg, a lawyer with Greenberg Traurig LLP, is one of several steps Mr. King has taken to try to strengthen the public’s confidence in the state exam results, which are now used as indicators of schools’ and teachers’ success.

    The Board of Regents has already voted to ban teachers from grading their own students’ exams, a change that

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