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How Charter Schools Can Hurt - NYTimes.com

nytimes.com - A few weeks ago, for three days in a row starting at 3 p.m., a representative from the Success Academy charter school that is scheduled to open this fall in adjacent Cobble Hill stood outside the d...
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In Visit, Bloomberg Defends Goldman Sachs - NYTimes.com

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Penn St says it won't become private, despite talk

philly.com - PHILADELPHIA - Though Penn State insists it is not looking to become a private institution, education experts aren't surprised the school is considering its options in light of state funding cuts t...
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How Charter Schools Can Hurt - NYTimes.com

nytimes.com - A few weeks ago, for three days in a row starting at 3 p.m., a representative from the Success Academy charter school that is scheduled to open this fall in adjacent Cobble Hill stood outside the d...
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N.J. charter-school dispute may end in church's eviction

philly.com - A controversy over a proposed charter school in Cherry Hill may soon be settled - in New Jersey Superior Court. The Regis Academy charter is scheduled to open in September, but its operator, the So...
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“Before you can fund the charter school, you have to fund an advocacy organization that can create a climate for the charter school to exist” | Seattle Education

“Before you can fund the charter school, you have to fund an advocacy organization that can create a climate for the charter school to exist” | Seattle Education:


“Before you can fund the charter school, you have to fund an advocacy organization that can create a climate for the charter school to exist”

by seattleducation2011
It looks like it’s going to be a Gates kind of weekend.
We are, in the state of Washington, once again having the battle over charter schools. The good people in our state have voted it down three times but it has come up again due to the “let’s go around the voters” shenanigans of a former Republican turned Democratic Senator from the upscale suburbs of Bellevue who has determined what is best for the rest of us in terms of charter schools. These charter schools staffed with TFA temps would of course  not be proliferating in Bellevue but in the Central District of Seattle, a place that I dare say Senator Tom rarely ventures.
He and his LEV /SFC and now even PTA posse have been beating the drum for charter schools for about two 
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At the PTA, Clashes Over Cupcakes and Culture - NYTimes.com

At the PTA, Clashes Over Cupcakes and Culture - NYTimes.com:


‘It’s Never Just About the Cupcake’

Dave Sanders for The New York Times
FUND-RAISING At Public School 295 in Brooklyn, bake sales raise money for good causes. But they can also cause tension between affluent and less-well-off parents.
By KYLE SPENCER
Published: March 16, 2012
THE Cupcake Wars came to Public School 295 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, in October.

What Did You Spend on Public School This Year?

Supplies, trips, fundraisers and activity costs add up. Help us figure out how much public school parents are spending by completing our online form.
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HELPING Carmen Reyes, a PTA president in Harlem, helped families afford a fund-raising fair.
The Parent-Teacher Association’s decision to raise the price of a cupcake at its monthly bake sale — to $1, from 50 cents — was supposed to be a simple way to raise extra money in the face of city budget cuts.
Instead, in a neighborhood whose median household income leaped to $60,184 in 2010 from $34,878 a decade before, the change generated unexpected ire, pitting cash-short parents against volunteer bakers, and 





How much have you spent this year on your child's school or school-related activities?

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Schoolbook-50SchoolBook Editors • March 15, 2012, 1:53 PM
Public school is rarely free. But how expensive is it, really? After five years of cuts to school budgets, New York City parents are being asked to contribute much more. Add in expenses for ambitious and enriching school and after-school activities, programs, trips, events, sports and extras like school pictures and yearbooks -- and the dollars mount.
SchoolBook’s journalists want to figure out how much New York City public school parents are spending on school-related expenses – and for what. How do your school's expenses stack up against others across the city? Are the costs higher than in the past? And what expense has taxed – or irritated -- parents the most?
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The No Play Doctrine « Cooperative Catalyst

The No Play Doctrine « Cooperative Catalyst:


The No Play Doctrine

by Jabreel Chisley
After reading the recent posts in the play and recess campaign on the Coop I began to notice the common denominator in every argument agreeing that play is crucial to a suitable public education system. We, the American public, have slowly become a society that praises and emphasizes conformity and standardization in the ultimate goal of being the “best and brightest” and that praise and emphasis has spilled over into our education system. We have so heavily praised and emphasized conformity and standardization with our nation’s children over the past few decades that they have essentially moved to remove every vehicle that inhibits a sense of altruism and individualism within their developing minds. In retrospect, it seems that society and the socially sensitive education system has started to move toward creating a second “Silent Generation”, but this time by different means.
If one were to look at the downward path that the American public and its education has taken the developing and furthering of today’s “Silent Generation” has everything to do with our twisted idea of being a smarter nation at a reduced price. Once we moved toward creating a sense of uniformity in schools that went beyond just 
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Study: With Spanking, Nature and Nurture Create More Aggression - Hispanically Speaking News

Study: With Spanking, Nature and Nurture Create More Aggression - Hispanically Speaking News:


With Spanking, Nature and Nurture Create More Aggression, Study Suggests

With Spanking, Nature and Nurture Create More Aggression, Study Suggests
Physical discipline seen to make problem worse in boys with certain genetic tendencies.

Using spanking as a method of discipline for kids who have a genetic predisposition to aggressive behavior likely makes them even more aggressive, especially boys, new research suggests.
“There’s an intricate interplay between nature and nurture,” said study co-author J.C. Barnes, an assistant professor of criminology at the University of Texas at Dallas School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences. “Most people know that genes matter, but genes and environment can coalesce, and we see things above and beyond what’s expected.”
While the study found this effect was statistically pronounced in males, Barnes said that the combination of 
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Daily Kos: considering my future as a teacher

Daily Kos: considering my future as a teacher:


considering my future as a teacher

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)
I will turn 66 in May.  I am already on Social Security.  I will find out in next week or so if I am being offered a buyout of around $16,000 should decide to accept retirement.   I have calculated that the buying power of my pension and social security (even without the one-time buyout) is more than 70% of what I currently earn (although we may get a nominal increase next year for the first time in more than 3).  I could retire and do something else.
I know that if I win a one-year fellowship to help underwrite my doing a book on teacher voice in education policy, I will take it and retire.
What if I don't?
I can stay where I am, with an increased income due to Social Security.
I can retire and teach elsewhere in a public school.
I can retire and teach in a charter or private school.
I can retire and do something else related to education.
I can retire and do something unrelated to education.
So I have to ask myself, do I still want to teach?


The Good Old Double Reverse

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)
is the title of this post at Center for American Progress  It's subject becomes more clear with the subtitle:  Rep. Ryan Clearly Targets Seniors as He Seeks Taxes Cuts for the Wealthy.
The author is Scott Lilly, currently a senior fellow at CAP, and a long-time staffer to Rep. David Bonior, including serving as Staff Director for the Dems on the House Appropriations Committee.
I wanted to call this post to your attention because with Paul Ryan again becoming highly visible, you will want the information it contains in order to push back at what Ryan is again attempting to do, and with which far too many "reasonable" Democrats seem willing to negotiate, even accept.
Ryan makes a false argument, that programs such as Social Security and Medicare, because they are not for the most part income-adjusted, have resulted in a a decreasing share of transfer payments going to the bottom 
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Missouri Education Watchdog: Judge Not a College Student on the Content of His/Her Character, Judge Him/Her on Sexual Orientation.

Missouri Education Watchdog: Judge Not a College Student on the Content of His/Her Character, Judge Him/Her on Sexual Orientation.:


Judge Not a College Student on the Content of His/Her Character, Judge Him/Her on Sexual Orientation.

by stlgretchen


College students may want to take a cue from the way  40% of judges in California answered in a voluntary, state sanctioned questionnaire on their ethnicity, race and gender:  "None of your business."

From the NY Times:

Officials of the University of California system have proposed asking incoming freshmen to identify their sexual 
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The Inadvertent Bigotry of Inappropriate Expectations (Chris Myers Asch) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

The Inadvertent Bigotry of Inappropriate Expectations (Chris Myers Asch) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:


The Inadvertent Bigotry of Inappropriate Expectations (Chris Myers Asch)

by larrycuban
Chris Myers Asch teaches history at the University of the District of Columbia and coordinates UDC’s National Center for Urban Education. This commentary appeared in Education Week, June 16, 2010.
  Several years ago, I took a group of low-income middle school students to a motivational talk at a local university. A dynamic young professor encouraged them not to settle for anything but the best. After the presentation, he asked the students what they wanted to be when they grew up. One of our girls (I will call her Shanika) answered excitedly, “Nurse!”
“Nurse?” the professor asked, disappointed. “How about doctor? Don’t you want to shoot high?”
Shanika’s face fell. Though I sympathized with the professor’s intended message, I was incensed. Not only was 
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Schooling in the Ownership Society: How P.S. 261 ran-off Success Academy charter school hustlers

Schooling in the Ownership Society: How P.S. 261 ran-off Success Academy charter school hustlers:


How P.S. 261 ran-off Success Academy charter school hustlers

by Mike Klonsky
From an opinion piece in the New York Times, "How charter schools can hurt", written by public school parent, Lucinda Rosenfeld:
A few weeks ago, for three days in a row starting at 3 p.m., a representative from the Success Academy charter school that is scheduled to open this fall in adjacent Cobble Hill stood outside the doors of P.S. 261, handing out fliers and attempting to recruit its students. On day two, outraged teachers asked the man to leave. He refused. On day three, a loose group of teachers, parents and students occupied the sidewalk next to him. Heated words were exchanged. It wasn’t 
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