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Sun-Times Editorial Board Disses Joe Berrios: Chicagoist

chicagoist.com - Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios "He said, she said" stories rarely land on the editorial pages. And it is pretty unusual to see newspaper opinion editors make personal attacks on a powerful citize...

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BronxNet - Perspectives | Nov. 2011 (Episode 1)

bronxnet.org - BronxNet | Perspectives, an award-winning show, is a live half-hour interactive call-in television program geared to discussing contemporary topics affecting the African-American community on both ...

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The New Teacher Project's weird & crazy teacher survey

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - The New Teacher Project, an organization which Michelle Rhee once ran, is closely aligned with DOE, and which strongly advocates against seniority protections and for merit pay and evaluations link...

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Gryphon: New and Selected Stories

barbarasbookstore.com - DescriptionEver since the publication of The Harmony of the World in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America’s finest short-story writers. Each subsequent collection—T...

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michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Students from Cleveland High visit the Occupy L.A. site at City Hall to ask questions for their civics class. Occupy L.A."It fits in with everything we're doing," said Rebecca Williams, an Englis...

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Finnish educational safety net is wide, strong

jsonline.com - Eastern Helsinki - If it weren't tucked into a forest more than 4,000 miles from Wisconsin, Vesala Comprehensive School could stand in for a public school in Milwaukee. The industrial-looking build...

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NYPD Orders Officers Not To Interfere With Press

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Am I...

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sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com - ... of such delicious ironies...Was told a few hours ago, in no uncertain terms, to leave as soon as possible from where we are staying because our presence is causing friction between the husban...

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Talkin’ Protest Song Blues | Firedoglake

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Power philanthropy: 'Influence peddling writ large'

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Political reporter Nicholas Confessore has an important piece in today's Times, "Policy Making Billionaires" which reveals the disproportional power over public policy and institutions held by and ...

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Condi Rice: U.S. will never be "race blind"

cbsnews.com - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on "Face the Nation," November 27, 2011. (CBS) (CBS News) Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said America has come a long way in confronting raci...

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INEFFICIENT USE OF A TEACHER’S TIME « Teachers Fight Back

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - INEFFICIENT USE OF A TEACHER’S TIME « Teachers Fight Back:INEFFICIENT USE OF A TEACHER’S TIMEby alkleenI would like to see education reformers insist that school districts make efficient use of a ...

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First Amendment hijacked by moneyed interests #ows

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    Even principals think IEA and Audrey’s Law is wrong. « Fred Klonsky

    Even principals think IEA and Audrey’s Law is wrong. « Fred Klonsky:

    Even principals think IEA and Audrey’s Law is a bad professional practice.

    by Fred Klonsky

    People who know me know not to bring up the topic of school principals as dinner conversation.

    Better to ask about religion and politics, Cubs or White Sox, Al’s or Mr. Beef.

    I have worked for a dozen principals in my three decades as a teacher. Since I am still an employee for six more months, let’s just leave it at that. I’m not naming names yet.

    I have previously pointed out that these days the career path for many appears to be to teach a couple of years, discover that they don’t really like the classroom, get their Type 75 administrative certification and then become a principal.

    They then no longer just make two dozen kids miserable. They make dozens and dozens of teachers miserable

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    Dueling N.J. rallies planned on taxpayer-funded scholarships for private schools | NJ.com

    Dueling N.J. rallies planned on taxpayer-funded scholarships for private schools | NJ.com:

    Dueling N.J. rallies planned on taxpayer-funded scholarships for private schools

    Published: Monday, November 28, 2011, 6:57 AM Updated: Monday, November 28, 2011, 6:59 AM

    TRENTON — Dueling rallies are planned this week by foes and supporters of a New Jersey bill that would use taxpayer money to fund scholarships to send students to private schools.

    The events come as education takes over one of the top spots on Gov. Chris Christie's agenda for the coming weeks.

    The governor supports a law that would use 100 percent tax credits for corporations to pay for scholarships that students in some underperforming school districts could use to pay tuition at private schools or public schools in other communities.

    Opponents, including the ACLU of New Jersey and The Latino Institute, will rally against the bill on

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    General Strike at UC Davis Today - Davis, CA Patch #ows

    General Strike at UC Davis Today - Davis, CA Patch:

    General Strike at UC Davis Today

    UC Davis will be shut down today, at least for some.

    A General Strike was planned for Monday, Nov. 28 and will take place throughout today. Many students and faculty members will not attend classes or partake in their normal academic schedule. Most of them will instead participate in a series of Occupy-related workshops that will last from morning to night.

    Events will take place in the quad and on other sites across campus. The full schedule can be found at the Bicycle Barricadeor in the image that accompanies this article. Here’s a brief

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    Students lose individual attention as class sizes swell across the metro area | OregonLive.com

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    Students lose individual attention as class sizes swell across the metro area | OregonLive.com:Students lose individual attention as class sizes swell across the metro areaby Nicole Dungca, The OregonianHAPPY VALLEY -- After walking into Carl Sander's algebra class with a late pass in hand, Alex Gonzales, 13, found himself alone at a side table. It wasn't punishment. The Happy Valley Middle School classroom simply doesn't have enough desks for 47 students. In many school districts across Oregon, this year's classes ... more »

    NYC Public School Parents: A message from Parents to Improve School Transportation: Relax about bus strike but not about safety

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    NYC Public School Parents: A message from Parents to Improve School Transportation: Relax about bus strike but not about safety:A message from Parents to Improve School Transportation: Relax about bus strike but not about safetyby Leonie HaimsonPIST was an invited guest at the monthly membership meeting of school bus drivers’, escorts’, and mechanics’ Local 1181 ATU on November 22. This was clearly NOT a meeting to hold a strike vote. The president went over the union’s position on Employee Protection ... more »

    Schools Matter: A Look at Finnish Schools and Teacher Preparation

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    Schools Matter: A Look at Finnish Schools and Teacher Preparation:A Look at Finnish Schools and Teacher Preparationby Jim HornThe Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has an excellent piece on the Finnish system, including the video that you see below. As you watch the short video, listen for how the special education teacher in the poor Finnish school talks about the basic skills that all their children get--it's a very different conception of what is "basic" when compared to endless test-prep worksheets that non-privileged ... more »

    Oklahoma Gazette News: Shaping social studies group that includes an influential nonacademic religious adviser

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    Oklahoma Gazette News: Shaping social studies:Shaping social studiesCurriculum for an interdisciplinary field gets revised by a group that includes an influential nonacademic religious adviser.Clifton AdcockNovember 16th, 2011 The state Department of Education is beginning the process of formulating new curriculum for public social studies classes.Sixty-five individuals are tasked with reviewing and rewriting the curriculum. At least one name on the list has drawn fire in the past for controversial statements: David Barton, the founder of WallBuilders, a group that bills ... more »

    INTERACTIVE: The Privatization of Education | The Nation

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    INTERACTIVE: The Privatization of Education | The Nation:INTERACTIVE: The Privatization of EducationThe Nation November 17, 2011 Legislative changes to: Online coursework Charter schools Online schools Both charter schools and online schools Online coursework, charter schools and online schoolsFor years, privatizing education has been a hobby horse for conservatives of all stripes. But they met with little success until very recently. What accounts for the sudden change in fortune? As Lee Fang reports in this week's issue, under the banner of ... more »

    Coordinated West Coast Port Shutdown « occupy california #ows

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    Coordinated West Coast Port Shutdown « occupy california:Coordinated West Coast Port Shutdownby *CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON – A Coordinated US West Coast port shutdown for Monday, December 12th has been called for by the occupation movement in solidarity with longshoreman, particularly in Longview, WA. RSVP here.A Call from Occupy Oakland:Greetings and Solidarity from Occupy Oakland!We present this call to you because we believe it is time the occupation movement begins to work together to carry through coordinated, pinpointed actions. We want ... more »

    Modern School: The Not So Shocking Truth About the Crackdown on Occupy Wall Street #ows

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    Modern School: The Not So Shocking Truth About the Crackdown on Occupy Wall Street:The Not So Shocking Truth About the Crackdown on Occupy Wall Streetby Michael DunnImage from Flickr, Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.comNaomi Wolf’s expose on the federal role in the crackdown on the Occupy Wall Street movement, “The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy,” has been making the rounds in the liberal blogosphere, getting replayed here and here, for example. In her piece, Wolf calls the violent crackdown on ... more »

    URGENT: Occupy LA Prepares for Eviction | OccupyWallSt.org #ows

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    URGENT: Occupy LA Prepares for Eviction | OccupyWallSt.org:URGENT: Occupy LA Prepares for Evictionby OccupyWallStPopoutThe mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, has ordered Occupy LA to pack up and leave Solidarity Park (formerly City Hall Park) by 12:01AM tonight or face arrest. Villaraigosa – who initially claimed to support the Occupation and has lauded OWS for "awakening the country's conscience" – is now citing "public health and safety" as justification to evict the encampment, even as LA police chief Charlie Beck ... more »

    Education Petition: Open Letter: Defend CA Public Education | Change.org #ows #edreform

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    Education Petition: Open Letter: Defend CA Public Education | Change.org:Open Letter: Defend CA Public EducationWhy This Is ImportantThis Open Letter is an indispensable tool to reverse the attacks on public education in California. It gives the authorities an ultimatum: either cede to our demands or we will begin a massive wave of actions beginning on February 1, 2012.Please help us gather hundreds of thousands of signatures, including from all major labor, student, and community organizations, by forwarding this out widely. ... more »

    Schools need to have a voice | EdNewsColorado

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    Schools need to have a voice | EdNewsColorado:Schools need to have a voiceby Guest ColumnistEditor’s note: This article was submitted by teacher Mark Thorsen from Ponderosa High School in Douglas County.Our school now enters a critical period, and a recent conversation with a well-respected colleague helped to keep some of my angst in perspective. He mentioned that he felt like we were in a period of mourning; we were dealing with a loss. It is a process, and we enter ...more »

    Looking for a few good mentors | Ideas and Thoughts

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    Looking for a few good mentors | Ideas and Thoughts:Looking for a few good mentorsby Dean ShareskiFrom January to April I'll be teaching a course called ECMP 455. It's an advanced course on using technology in education. Whatever that means. Actually what it means is I want my students to dig deep into what teaching and learning looks like in 2012 as great teachers and great ideas come together to make learning better and richer and even transformative. I've taught ... more »

    Fact Sheet: Multiple Measures: A Definition and Examples from the U.S. and Other Nations | FairTest

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    Fact Sheet: Multiple Measures: A Definition and Examples from the U.S. and Other Nations | FairTest:Fact Sheet: Multiple Measures: A Definition and Examples from the U.S. and Other NationsSubmitted by fairtest on July 28, 2010 - 12:51pm fact sheets k-12 whats newMultiple Measures: A Definition and Examples from the U.S. and Other NationsSummaryDefinition. Multiple measures: the use of multiple indicators and sources of evidence of student learning, of varying kinds, gathered at multiple points in time, within and across subject ... more »

    SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Little Evan Stone And Princess Sydney Morris Are Do-Gooders (Thank God!)

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    SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Little Evan Stone And Princess Sydney Morris Are Do-Gooders (Thank God!):Little Evan Stone And Princess Sydney Morris Are Do-Gooders (Thank God!)by noreply@blogger.com (Bronx Teacher)Let's try this. Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat (sound of teletype)rat-tat-tat-tat....From the newsroom of Educators4Excllence, breaking news!!!!E4E, Little Evan Stone, and Princess Sydney Morris have been featured onthedogooder.com as a couple of gosh diddly darn do gooders! Yes, in an article entitled, "Educators 4 Excellence: An Independent Voice for Teachers" (notice the major typo when you ... more »

    Schooling in the Ownership Society: For-profit teacher certification is booming

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    Schooling in the Ownership Society: For-profit teacher certification is booming:For-profit teacher certification is boomingby Mike KlonskyThis, according to a Nov. 26 New York Times report.As you might expect, Texas leads the way in for-profit teacher certifications. More than 110 alternative certification programs — including iteachTexas, and nonprofits like Teach for America — produce 40 percent of all new teachers in Texas, according to an analysis of Texas Education Agency data by Ed Fuller, a Penn State University education professor and ... more »

    Many Lenses, But Little Focus. « My Island View

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    Many Lenses, But Little Focus. « My Island View:Many Lenses, But Little Focus.by tomwhitbyTo understand why certain decisions are made, we need to understand the decision maker and the pressures under which certain decisions are made. This is sometimes referred to as looking through the lens of the decision maker. It takes into view many of the factors pushing and pulling on an individual responsible for making a decision. Sometimes decisions of some magnitude may require a number of individuals ... more »

    Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Through M.I.T.’s Male Math Maze will be at the University of Washington | Seattle Education

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    Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Through M.I.T.’s Male Math Maze will be at the University of Washington | Seattle Education:Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Through M.I.T.’s Male Math Maze will be at the University of Washingtonby seattleducation2011From the Truth Values website:Created as a response to former Harvard President Lawrence Summers’ now infamous suggestion that women are less represented than men in the sciences because of innate gender differences,Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Through M.I.T.’s Male Math Maze is a true-life ... more »

    Occupy Philly Facing Eviction TODAY | OccupyWallSt.org #ows

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    Occupy Philly Facing Eviction TODAY | OccupyWallSt.org:Occupy Philly Facing Eviction TODAYby OccupyWallStOccupy Philadelphia has announced they are facing imminent eviction:[Mayor] Nutter has joined the chorus of Mayors nationwide to silence and render invisible this movement against Wall Street greed. The City told us to leave City Hall with all of our belongings by 5pm today. At 5pm let's show them how much support this movement has. Come to City Hall and stand with the 99%! Chances are police will not ... more »

    NYT: Policy-Making Billionaires – Their policy is to make billions off our kids. Shut the school house gates on Gates. « Continuing Change

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    NYT: Policy-Making Billionaires – Their policy is to make billions off our kids. Shut the school house gates on Gates. « Continuing Change:NYT: Policy-Making Billionaires – Their policy is to make billions off our kids. Shut the school house gates on Gates.by gatorbonbcPolicy Making Billionaires Boys Club making education their pet project.Wanna bet their policy is to make sure they make billions…

    Is the Job of a Teacher 24/7 | Connected Principals

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    Is the Job of a Teacher 24/7 | Connected Principals:Is the Job of a Teacher 24/7by Akevy GreenblattPicture from: nysut.orgI haven’t blogged for a while and have been thinking about what to blog about. I am jealous of all of those in my PLN that blog daily and sometimes more than once a day. After thinking about this for a while I decided to put my thoughts down on “paper”.Today we talk about child centered learning and the teacher as ... more »

    Library group denounces book destruction at Occupy Wall Street - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post #ows

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    Library group denounces book destruction at Occupy Wall Street - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:Library group denounces book destruction at Occupy Wall Streetby Valerie StraussThe American Library Association has denounced the destruction of books at a library set up by Occupy Wall Street when New York police raided a park where protesters were staying earlier this month.The ALA, the oldest and largest library association in the world, issued a release that said some of its members who had ... more »
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