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The Battle of Jersey - Opening Salvos

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - And so it begins: with the mid-term elections out of the way, the war over education reform commences in Trenton. I hope those of you who follow me from other places around the country forgive me o...

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Town Hall: 140 Characters at a Time

ed.gov - “I love my job,” Secretary Duncan said at the close of yesterday’s second #AskArne Twitter Town Hall, moderated by education journalist John Merrow. Merrow covered a wide-range of education topics ...

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Reporters Say Police Denied Access to Protest Site

mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com- As New York City police cleared the Occupy Wall Street campsite in Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning, many journalists were blocked from observing and interviewing protesters. Some called it a “m...

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Billionaires for Education Reform - Bridging Differences

blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah,We have often discussed the problems of establishing democratic practices in our schools today. This is something you have written about extensively, and it is integral to your pedagog...

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Taxpayers Pay for Wealthy Kids at Charter School

bloomberg.com - Enlarge image Bullis Charter School A student walks past portable classrooms at the Bullis Charter School in Los Altos, California, on Nov. 9, 2011. A student walks past portable classrooms at the ...

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Engaging Parents In School… - Parent Trigger R.I.P.

engagingparentsinschool.edublogs.org - November 14th, 2011 by Larry Ferlazzo Today, The Los Angeles Times published an editorial reflecting on the parent trigger’s lack of success, and described Parent Revolution’s retooling effort: Ins...

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Campain Kicks Off To Recall Scott Walker

thinkprogress.org - NEWS FLASH Campain Kicks Off To Recall Scott Walker | More than 100 events planned across Wisconsin last night marked the beginning of a campaign to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R). Activists have six...

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The Torture Candidates

nytimes.com - As hard as it is to believe, the Republican candidates for president seem to have learned very little from the moral calamities of the administration of George W. Bush. Three of the contenders for ...

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Naming him.

goldietaylor.com - Pat Sullivan. I will never forget his name. He was my abuser. Somewhere inside, I feel a deep sense of shame, regret. Not for what he did to me, but for never telling anyone. There were other victi...

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Recall Walker Photo Contest | Defend Wisconsin

defendwisconsin.org - – November 15, 2011Posted in: Announcements The Photo Contest you don’t want to miss! Scott Walker has been a train wreck, but his corrupt reign is nearly over! Celebrate the beginning of the recal...

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Ag spending bill retreats on school meal standards

thehill.com - The joint House-Senate agriculture spending bill unveiled Monday night blocks stringent school meal standards following intense lobbying from the pizza and French Fry industries.The bill bars the D...

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Congress Blocks New Rules on School Lunches

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — A slice of pizza still counts as a vegetable. In a victory for the makers of frozen pizzas, tomato paste and French fries, Congress on Monday blocked rules proposed by the ...

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Science Is Sure: Smart People Love Drugs - Technology

theatlanticwire.com - With over 40 years of research to support their findings, a team of British scientists was slightly surprised to learn that people with higher IQs are much more prone to drug use. "It's counterintu...

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Journalists detained at NYC Occupy protests

online.wsj.com - Associated Press NEW YORK — Journalists have been detained by police while covering Occupy Wall Street protests in New York. Associated Press writer Karen Matthews was taken into custody Tuesday al...

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Shooting Reported at the UC Berkeley Campus - National

theatlanticwire.com - Update 6:24 p.m. The Chronicle now reports that it was actually a gunman who was shot by police, according to a university spokesman. The man was alive when he was taken to the hospital, the paper ...

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Shanker Blog » Explaining The Consistently Inconsistent Results of Charter Schools, Part One

Shanker Blog » Explaining The Consistently Inconsistent Results of Charter Schools, Part One:

Explaining The Consistently Inconsistent Results of Charter Schools, Part One

by Matthew Di Carlo

As discussed in a previous post, there is a fairly well-developed body of evidence showing that charter and regular public schools vary widely in their impacts on achievement growth. This research finds that, on the whole, there is usually not much of a difference between them, and when there are differences, they tend to be very modest. In other words, there is nothing about “charterness” that leads to strong results.

It is, however, the exceptions that are often most instructive to policy. By taking a look at the handful of schools that are successful, we might finally start moving past the “horse race” incarnation of the charter debate, and start figuring out which specific policies and conditions are associated with success, at least in terms of test

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NYC Educator: Heckuva Job, Barackie

NYC Educator: Heckuva Job, Barackie:

Heckuva Job, Barackie

by NYC Educator
For about 20 years I've lived very close to the water. Sometimes it comes to visit us, so we've got two sump pumps in our crawl space to discourage it. That usually seems to work. In case it doesn't, I've been paying FEMA for flood insurance for, oh, 20 years. I'm a pretty good customer.

So when Hurricane Irene came calling, I wasn't too worried. After all, I was insured. My little family evacuated that night and went to visit my brother,
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Lawsuit Against New Orleans Charters: Does New Orleans Welcome Disabled Students? « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

Lawsuit Against New Orleans Charters: Does New Orleans Welcome Disabled Students? « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!:

Lawsuit Against New Orleans Charters: Does New Orleans Welcome Disabled Students?

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National Public Radio by Larry Abramson November 15, 2011

To listen to the to the Story go to: All Things Considered /go to search in top right corner and type in special education in New Orleans)

New Orleans has become the center of an education revolution, where more than 70 percent of students attend a charter school.

The number of students taught in traditional district-run schools is shrinking fast. That’s because parents in post-Hurricane Katrina can pick and choose from a smorgasbord of schools with different approaches and cultures.

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Jersey Jazzman: Tenure and Vouchers and Charters

Jersey Jazzman: Tenure and Vouchers and Charters:

Tenure and Vouchers and Charters

by Duke
John Mooney - one of the best reporters in NJ - says it comes down to the bug three:
Gov. Chris Christie yesterday put out his now-familiar call for the Democratic-controlled legislature to act on what he said are the state's priorities, starting with his package of proposals on teacher tenure, charter schools, and school vouchers.
The Democratic leadership, for its part, put out its schedule for the next two months, starting next Monday.
And for all of Christie's prodding, which is expected to continue today with an education event in Secaucus, the legislature is actually pretty far along on several of the governor'
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Online Learning – Another Misguided Mandate | Connected Principals

Online Learning – Another Misguided Mandate | Connected Principals:

Online Learning – Another Misguided Mandate

by Patrick Larkin


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Idaho recently became the fourth state to add an online learning requirement for students to graduate from high school. As is typical with these types of bureaucratic decisions, this initiative makes for great headlines but its impact on student learning remains questionable.

There’s a big rush to add online learning opportunities for students without really defining what quality online learning looks like. This really comes as no big surprise when our country struggles so mightily with what

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