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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Big Education Ape: 12-20-11 PM Florida parents win round #1 in court vs. budget cuts EDition #OWS #1 #edreform

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Taking It to the Next Level With CPS and AUSL

huffingtonpost.com - Did I miss a recent press conference at Chicago's Collins Academy? You know, the shindig where Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard announced that Collins, as of November 2011, was no...
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Malloy outlines broad principles for education reform

ctmirror.org - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today outlined six broad principles that he says will guide the debate on education reform next year, including "intensive interventions" by the state in troubled school syste...
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Charting a course for charter schools

dothaneagle.com - At Pataula Charter Academy, they do things differently. At the K-7 school in Edison, Ga., teachers use an education philosophy called expeditionary learning, where real-world applications of school...
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Turnaround cronyism at Collins High

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Be sure and read Matt Farmer's excellent Huffington post on Chicago turnarounds. He lays bare the crony relationship between venture capitalist Mike Koldyke's Academy for Urban School Leadership (A...
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Throwing Angels Under a Bus

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - Everyone working in a schools knows the hardest job is teaching special education - especially to the most challenging children. Like all elementary music teachers, I work with special education te...
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Overworked, understaffed and still broke. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Which state has the lowest number of government workers per capita in the nation? Scott Walker’s Wisconsin? Chris Christie’s New Jersey. Florida? Ohio? Michigan? Certainly not patronage rich Illino...
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Tells the Facts, Names the Names

counterpunch.org - My arrest, or, more accurately, my assault was personal. I was taking photographs of the police arresting Occupy Wall Street demonstrators at the December 12 Winter Garden flash mob, which had been...
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On Women and Guilt « MomsRising Blog

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - On Women and Guilt « MomsRising Blog: On Women and Guilt Misty McLaughlin at MomsRising Blog - 26 minutes ago Another smart post from our friends at Role/Reboot. -Eds. I’m on the board of a...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 20, 2011 James S. Brady Press Briefing Room1:26 P.M. ESTMR. CARNEY:  Good afternoon, everyone.  Thanks for being here.  ...
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Signs of a Broken American Democracy

elections.firedoglake.com - Paul Krugman posts a very interesting piece on his blog today by Kim Lane Scheppele about the current state of politics in Hungary.  Scheppele notes that after winning the last election the Fidesz ...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 20, 2011 James S. Brady Press Briefing Room1:59 P.M. ESTTHE PRESIDENT:  Hello, everybody.  Sorry to interrupt. MR. CARNE...
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Council Mandates City Alerts on PCB Dangers – SchoolBook

nytimes.com - Dec. 19, 2011, 5:39 p.m. The City Council voted on Monday to require the city to notify parents when toxic chemicals are discovered in the fluorescent light fixtures illuminating many of the classr...
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Occupy's Reach Exceeds the Media's Grasp

my.firedoglake.com - “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated” — Mark Twain The corporate steno pool media is anxious to write the obituary for the occupations around America.  Early drafts of the predict...
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Response: Classroom Management Advice From Readers Of Ed Week Teacher - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Response: Classroom Management Advice From Readers Of Ed Week Teacher - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher:


Response: Classroom Management Advice From Readers Of Ed Week Teacher

By Larry Ferlazzo on December 20, 2011 8:08 AM
(Part Four Of A Four-Part Series)
Brittany Peppers asked:
I am excited to follow this blog and learn many things about it as I graduate from college and begin my teaching career. My question to you is "In your opinion, what is one thing to remember about classroom management if you don't remember anything else you are taught about it?"
Brittany has asked a great question, and this post is the final installment of a four-part series responding to it.
Part One appeared two weeks ago and shared guest responses from several authors of books about classroom management and other education issues.
Part Two was composed of answers from other educators who I know and, in most cases, with whom I have worked.
In Part Three, I shared my own advice and thoughts from Katie Hull-Sypnieski, who is the best teacher I've ever seen.
Today's final installment will provide a sampling of suggestions offered by readers....
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Having to Defend Rejecting Charter Schools in Florida (Part 3) | Scathing Purple Musings

Having to Defend Rejecting Charter Schools in Florida (Part 3) | Scathing Purple Musings:


Having to Defend Rejecting Charter Schools in Florida (Part 3)

by Bob Sikes
From Orlando Sentinel reporter Lauren Roth:
Two school boards in Central Florida were faced with a similar dilemma this fall — either approve a charter school application that board members felt was lacking, or face a fight with the state.
Seminole County embraced the fight, filing suit against the state Board of Education and rejecting the applicant, a school that would be managed by Charter Schools USA.
Orange County, by contrast, grudgingly accept an application backed by charter management company Academica after being told by their lawyers that they had little chance to win an expected appeal by the company.
Both Seminole and Polk county schools filed suit in Leon County earlier this month, asking a 
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Income, Parental Education Linked To Pre-School Learning Gaps

Income, Parental Education Linked To Pre-School Learning Gaps:


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Income, Parental Education Linked To Pre-School Learning Gaps

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Posted: 12/20/11 05:35 PM ET

As states revamp their early childhood education to grab a slice of federal education dollars, some education experts are urging policymakers to look outside the classroom to improve educational opportunites for the country's youngsters.
Just as Obama awarded over $500 million in state grants to improve pre-K, the Brookings Institutionreleased a report arguing more attention paid to family background factors such as poverty and maternal education would help improve educational outcomes for our littlest learners.
The report argued that gaps in children's ability to learn begin long before they enter the classroom -- and that those gaps can have lasting effects on class mobility.
"If you look at kids with parents in the bottom 20 percent, their chances of remaining in the bottom 
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