Geaux Teacher!: SOMEBODY IS PULLING OUR LEG ON VOUCHERS

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SOMEBODY IS PULLING OUR LEG ON VOUCHERS

by noreply@blogger.com (Lee Barrios, M.Ed., NBCT)

WWLTV reported this evening that Governor Jindal claims his research proves that New Orleans voucher students have outperformed their peers in the New Orleans RSD schools from whence they came.

http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/137816058.html

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"Jindal dismisses such complaints.

He cites a lengthy list of 2010-2011 statistics showing voucher students outperform their peers in New Orleans RSD schools that are academically unacceptable. Some examples: 45 percent of third-graders in the voucher (or "opportunity scholarship") program were on grade level in 2010-11 in

Missouri Education Watchdog: The Sunday Education Weekly Reader 01.22.2012

Missouri Education Watchdog: The Sunday Education Weekly Reader 01.22.2012:

The Sunday Education Weekly Reader 01.22.2012

by stlgretchen

Welcome to the Sunday Education Weekly Reader for January 22, 2012.

This week we thought we'd pass on some interesting tweets pertaining to Education for you to review.

• Sit down with a cup of coffee and read about the meaning of "choice". Do these opinions on education and what determines a good education remind you of "what IS the meaning of IS?".....Charter schools. Vouchers. Choice. That's all good, right? Or maybe not... http://bit.ly/zHKDVR

• Oh my goodness, are students now going to be held accountable for their success....or failure? We

“Describe What It Means To Be A Great Teacher In Six Words” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

“Describe What It Means To Be A Great Teacher In Six Words” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…:

“Describe What It Means To Be A Great Teacher In Six Words”

by Larry Ferlazzo

I guess it’s a “storifying” weekend for me….

Michelle Rhee’s organization, StudentsFirst, is sponsoring a contest to “describe what it means to be a great teacher in six words.” Educators on Twitter who have a decidedly different vision of teaching created the hashtag of #6wordessay to share their own perspective. I’ve used Storify to show a sample of what people are coming up with. If you’re on Twitter, contribute your own there. If you don’t tweet, feel free to leave a comment on this blog post.

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Blog for Choice 2012: hctiB G: A(nother) title I wish I’d thought of first | The G Bitch Spot

Blog for Choice 2012: hctiB G: A(nother) title I wish I’d thought of first | The G Bitch Spot:

Blog for Choice 2012: hctiB G: A(nother) title I wish I’d thought of first

by G Bitch

originally posted January 22, 2000

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Read I’m Pro-Choice and I Fuck. I just wish I’d come up with the title first. It so sums up my feelings and philosophy….

According to Cristina Page, vice president of NARAL Pro-Choice New York, pro-life groups not only want to end all abortions they are also “opposed to anything that leads to people having sex and not having a baby.” They are anti-abortion and anti-sex and see abortion as “birth control” (as a conservative WASPy male student once told me—he never made that damn mistake again), as women getting away with sex, as women being cold-blooded and slutty. That sex is bad and good people save sex for babymaking. When in 2002, data indicated that the rate of abortion had risen among low-income women, pro-choice commentators saw it as a sign that low-income

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