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Big Education Ape: 1-27-12 PM Diane Ravitch Undresses Education Reform EDition #CORPREFORM #edreform

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Tackling Business Problems - Harvard Business Review

hbr.org - Tackling Business Problems Stop Tying Pay to Performance The evidence is overwhelming: It doesn’t work.by Bruno S. Frey and Margit Osterloh Time frame: next week | Degree of difficulty: operational...

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There’s One Big Worm In Checker Finn’s Apple

edwize.org - On the Fordham Foundation’s Flypaper blog and in the electronic pages of the Hoover Foundation’s Education Next, Checker Finn is bemoaning the state of the American work ethic, and blaming American...

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A Score Card for Changing Schools – SchoolBook

nytimes.com - Jan. 27, 2012, 10:52 a.m. Sixty-two New York City schools are on a path to be closed or otherwise re-shaped this year. Here’s a score card to help you keep track of what schools are affected and ho...

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The Econometrics of Rwandan Pear Blossoms at Duke University

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - I rarely post anything of this length. But this piece by my friend and Duke Univ. prof Tim Tyson, was much too compelling and beautifully written to pass up. Had to post it in full. Enjoy. ****** ...

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Is It a Conflict of Interest? Yes, but It’s Legal

nytimes.com - In most states and municipalities, government officials who vote to spend taxpayer dollars on proposals that also put money in their own pockets as lobbyists could be accused of illegal conflicts o...

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Jobs, Jobs and Cars

nytimes.com - Mitch Daniels, the former Bush budget director who is now Indiana’s governor, made the Republicans’ reply to President Obama’s State of the Union address. His performance was, well, boring. But he ...

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At Davos, Debating Capitalism’s Future

nytimes.com - Davos, Switzerland IS 20th-century capitalism failing 21st-century society? Members of the global elite debated that unusual question on Wednesday at the annual World Economic Forum. ...

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Parents 4 Teachers says, “Call Brizard.” « Fred Klonsky

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Parents 4 Teachers says, “Call Brizard.” « Fred Klonsky:Parents 4 Teachers says, “Call Brizard.”by Fred KlonskyHi Fred,My name is Erica–I’m a CPS parent (going on 14 years in the system!), an avid ...

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Activists and bloggers fear Twitter censorship

democraticunderground.com - Source: APActivists and bloggers fear Twitter censorshipBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology WriterSAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Thursday's announcement that Twitter had refined its technology to censor...

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Tax Cut Extender: Boon to Charter Schools

citypragmatist.com - Illustration: FRBSF Charter schools are among the big winners in the tax cut extender deal signed into law on December 17 by President Barack Obama. Section 733 of H.R. 4853 provides for an additio...

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Billionaires Occupy Davos as 0.01% Bemoan Inequalities

bloomberg.com - Enlarge image Davos Patrons at the annual Klosters Snow Polo event on Jan. 20, 2012. Patrons at the annual Klosters Snow Polo event on Jan. 20, 2012. Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg Enlarge ima...

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Jersey Jazzman: Merit Pay Fails Outside of Schools

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: Merit Pay Fails Outside of Schools:Merit Pay Fails Outside of Schoolsby DukeMerit pay is a disaster wherever it goes:We’ve talked about this since the financial meltdown. Now it’s t...

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Pop Star's Next Act Is Educational

online.wsj.com - BY NICK NEYLAND Björk turned her last album into an app. Now she's turning her music into a science exhibit for city students, with an unusual three-week run at a Queens museum better known for its...

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Daily Kos: WAM

dailykos.com - Mozart could have a sense of humor, which is why I offer this duet in English:We saw this opera perhaps the best way to see - the voices of great singers but done by marionnettes in Salzburg Mozart...

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Jersey Jazzman: Miss Laura Frets About Charters

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: Miss Laura Frets About Charters:Miss Laura Frets About Chartersby DukeWell, fiddle-de-dee! Miss Laura Waters is so very upset by the nasty tone of those who object to having charter...

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Feed-up, Feedback, Feed Forward: Making Formative Assessment Come Alive « The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education

Feed-up, Feedback, Feed Forward: Making Formative Assessment Come Alive « The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education:

Feed-up, Feedback, Feed Forward: Making Formative Assessment Come Alive

by Klea Scharberg

A comprehensive formative assessment (FA) system should fit seamlessly within the daily flow of the classroom. But in many places, FA requirements signal an end to instruction so that students can be tested. In a recent webinar, Nancy Frey discussed an ongoing approach to FA that enhances the give-and-take relationship between teachers and students to promote learning and will share examples from elementary and secondary classrooms.

Watch the archived presentation below, download the handouts, and listen to Frey and other guests talk about assessment on the Whole Child Podcast.

Frey is a professor of literacy in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and a classroom

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Unschooling in the Art of War | Lefty Parent

Unschooling in the Art of War | Lefty Parent:

Unschooling in the Art of War

by Cooper Zale

This is quite a long piece (over 7000 words) weaving a narrative thread through my young life that I think illustrates a key principle of unschooling. That principle is that the natural desire and capability of a young human being to learn and the opportunity to take a “deep dive” into the subject of interest results in a profound degree of broad learning and development beyond the perhaps narrow area of exploration. Note that though the subject of my youthful interest was the “art of war”, the impact and benefit of my learning pursuing that interest was much broader than the narrow and arguably non-progressive subject matter. Also note that very little of this tale involves anything that I learned in school (beyond learning how to read and basic math).

As far as I understand it, the premise of sending kids to school is that they will be given an opportunity to learn things, and in particular, the things that the larger community feels are important for kids to learn to become

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Diane Ravitch Addresses Sacramento, and Undresses Education Reform « InterACT

Diane Ravitch Addresses Sacramento, and Undresses Education Reform « InterACT:

Diane Ravitch Addresses Sacramento, and Undresses Education Reform

by David B. Cohen

While my main purpose in traveling to Sacramento last week was for an event I helped plan and present, the added benefit was seeing some excellent speeches at the Sacramento Convention Center that evening. The main draw was Diane Ravitch, who delivered a vigorous call to action for the audience of a few thousand like-minded educators and allies. I was positioned to capture some of the event on video, though without a tripod or a proper video camera, I couldn’t capture the whole speech. I’ll be posting some clips of Ravitch, and also some clips from the speech by Linda Darling-Hammond, which was similarly well-received by the teachers I spoke to after the event. I have already posted a short clip of my friend and ACT co-founder Anthony Cody speaking at

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Jersey Jazzman: Miss Laura Frets About Charters

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Miss Laura Frets About Charters

by Duke
Well, fiddle-de-dee! Miss Laura Waters is so very upset by the nasty tone of those who object to having charter schools shoved down their throats; I'm afraid she's going to get the vapors!
Perhaps the biggest rap against charters is that the local community must pay for them -- at least for tuition and transportation -- a fact that's trotted out at seemingly every opportunity by their opponents.
In the fabric of New Jersey's public education system, the thread-count for charter schools is low. Yet their existence provokes the sort of red-faced rhetoric more suited to a Giants game than a discussion of educational options. It’s time for everyone to take a deep
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This Week In Education: Thompson: Oakland's "Mutual Consent" Unfair To Veteran Teachers

This Week In Education: Thompson: Oakland's "Mutual Consent" Unfair To Veteran Teachers:

Thompson: Oakland's "Mutual Consent" Unfair To Veteran Teachers

by john thompson

Too_old_for_your_gadgetIt's hard not to agree with the notion presented by Jill Tucker in this SF Chronicle article that "there is a particular type of teacher who wants to work in an urban environment," and that many teachers who are great "in schools with few challenges" would not make it in the inner city." That is why we have such a shortage of teaching talent in the toughest schools. That also explains why so many great teachers work their hearts out in the toughest schools for a certain time period and then use seniority rights to transfer to schools where better conditions allow for great teaching over a sustainable career. In my experience, those dedicated educators fret through months of

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