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Monday, April 30, 2012

Big Education Ape: 4-30-12 PM Kenneth Cole to remove billboard EDition #PINEAPPLEGATE

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The Obama Record in Education

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National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing

timeoutfromtesting.org - WHEREAS, our nation's future well-being relies on a high-quality public education system that prepares all students for college, careers, citizenship and lifelong learning, and strengthens the nati...
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Kenneth Cole. Is it the shoes? « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - H/T NYC Educator The picture of the billboard showed up on lots of Facebook and blog sites this weekend. Kenneth Cole, shoe monger and brother-in-law of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, put up the b...
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4 children, 4 the public, 4 social justice, 4 the future

ipetitions.com - The Petition        We are education scholars, students, teachers, and citizens who support worldwide democratic efforts that demand economic and social justice.        Access to decent education i...
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Kenneth Cole gets schooled - Salon.com

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Kenneth Cole gets schooled - Salon.com: Kenneth Cole gets schooled Updated: The fashion mogul has backed off his assault on schoolteachers after a public outcry BY DAVID SIROTA [UPDATE BELOW] It...
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Romney's Advice To Students: Borrow Money From Your Parents

thinkprogress.org - If you’re young and you want to start your own business, Mitt Romney’s has some advice from you: Borrow money from your parents. At a “lecture” for students at Otterbein University in Ohio today, M...
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more errors in 2012 Mathematics Tests Scoring Materials

groups.yahoo.com - For this we're paying $32 Million? ________________________________ > > From: NYSED EXAMREQUEST [mailto:EXAMREQUEST@...] > Sent: Mon 4/30/2012 9:44 AM > Subject: Notice to Test Scoring Coordinators...
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Why Hakeem Jeffries may be Cuomo's guy in the House

capitalnewyork.com - Andrew Cuomo may soon have a new ally in the New York congressional delegation.Last month, when the governor was aggressively pushing for expansion of the state's DNA database to include informatio...
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Former Israeli Premier Assails Netanyahu on Iran

nytimes.com - Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of Israel, plunged on Sunday into the country’s growing debate over Iran policy with harsh criticism of his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu. As seve...
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Scandal and Scrutiny Hem In Murdoch’s Empire

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US May Day protests planned, may disrupt commutes

northjersey.com - May Day protests may disrupt the morning commute in major U.S. cities Tuesday as labor, immigration and Occupy activists rally support on the international workers' holiday. Demonstrations, strikes...
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Occupy SF, Oakland plan May Day rallies, pickets

sfgate.com - Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle Christy Wong of San Jose protests Wells Fargo's shareholders meeting Tuesday outside S.F.'s Merchants Exchange Building. Commuters who use the Golden Gate Bridge or take ...
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NJ nuclear plant declares 'unusual event' and shuts down

northjersey.com - LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK TOWNSHIP  — The operators of the Salem I nuclear power plant are investigating what caused a reactor at the southern New Jersey facility to unexpectedly shut down, triggering f...
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more errors in 2012 Mathematics Tests Scoring Materials

groups.yahoo.com - For this we're paying $32 Million? ________________________________ > > From: NYSED EXAMREQUEST [mailto:EXAMREQUEST@...] > Sent: Mon 4/30/2012 9:44 AM > Subject: Notice to Test Scoring Coordinators...
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Fly My Pretties | Gary Rubinstein's Blog

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The Hardest Job Everyone Thinks They Can Do | Musings on Life and Love

The Hardest Job Everyone Thinks They Can Do | Musings on Life and Love:

The Hardest Job Everyone Thinks They Can Do

By , September 13, 2010 6:30 am
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This piece was inspired by a heated discussion I had with a man who believes that teachers have an easy job. Please feel free to share it with others if you agree with the message.
I used to be a molecular biologist. I spent my days culturing viruses. Sometimes, my experiments would fail miserably, and I’d swear to myself in frustration. Acquaintances would ask how my work was going. I’d explain how I was having a difficult time cloning this one gene. I couldn’t seem to figure out the exact recipe to use for my cloning cocktail.
Acquaintances would sigh sympathetically. And they’d say, “I know you’ll figure it out. I have faith in you.”
And then, they’d tilt their heads in a show of respect for my skills….
Today, I’m a high school teacher. I spend my days culturing teenagers. Sometimes, my students get 
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Social media outrage brings down anti-union Kenneth Cole billboard. « Fred Klonsky

Social media outrage brings down anti-union Kenneth Cole billboard. « Fred Klonsky:


Social media outrage brings down anti-union Kenneth Cole billboard.

Fred Klonsky at Fred Klonsky - 17 minutes ago
The billboard, featuring a woman exposing a lot of cleavage combined with an attack on teacher unions may have baffled some. But it pissed off enough people that Kenneth Cole, the sponsor of the sign, is taking it down. The outrage on blogs, Twitter and Facebook proved too much for the shoe monger. This weekend [...]

The in box. Bob Pinkerton, VP of the IRTA.

Fred Klonsky at Fred Klonsky - 2 hours ago
Remarks by Bob Pinkerton, Vice President, The Illinois Retired Teachers Association Trust me when I say it is impossible for me to accurately and completely convey to you the flood of emotion that has been expressed by retired teachers following Mr. Ingram’s comments on teacher pensions. As a board you should be gravely concerned [...]

Kenneth Cole. Is it the shoes?

Fred Klonsky at Fred Klonsky - 7 hours ago
H/T NYC Educator The picture of the billboard showed up on lots of Facebook and blog sites this weekend. Kenneth Cole, shoe monger and brother-in-law of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, put up the billboards. They showed a picture of a woman in red with lots of cleavage and a message that teacher unions didn’t [...]

Mad men.

Fred Klonsky at Fred Klonsky - 10 hours ago
There was a scene in Mad Men last night where Don Draper’s daughter, Sally, is on the phone to her friend, the more-than-slightly-weird Glenn. Sally had just returned from a dinner where her father had received an award. Sally had inadvertently walked in on a sordid scene involving the character Roger and her stepmother’s mother. [...]

The in box. Richard Ingram in Naperville.

Fred Klonsky at Fred Klonsky - 1 day ago
From a reader who attended the TRS meeting with TRS Executive Director Richard Ingram in Naperville last week. I attended the Naperville TRS Town Hall meeting Thursday afternoon. It was “troubling.” Terrible location for a meeting. Terrible sound system. No provision for a Mic for questions — so you relied on Ingram’s re-statement as your [...]

Sunday links.

Fred Klonsky at Fred Klonsky - 1 day ago
Recall Walker phone banks in Wisconsin. NY Times photo. Apple loves Teach for America, but pays little in state taxes that support public education. John Dillon’s Pension Vocabulary lesson of the week: Doublethink. Your pension is now a benefit. Glen Brown poses some important legal questions about Illinois pensions, funding and benefits. He also asks [...]

The in box. Schools are job creators.

Fred Klonsky at Fred Klonsky - 2 days ago
Hi Fred, Your post got me thinking today. Illinois is bending over backward to provide TIF districts and corporate welfare to Illinois “job creators” who then get out of paying taxes, further enhancing Illinois’ structural budget deficit. But this is OK the theory goes, because these corporate citizens create jobs that stimulate the Illinois economy. [...]

May Day.

Fred Klonsky at Fred Klonsky - 2 days ago

The in box. The criminal behavior is not limited to Illinois.

Fred Klonsky at Fred Klonsky - 2 days ago
Good for you, Fred. Today’s attacks against teachers, their unions, and their pensions is emblematic of the disdain the elite have for those they see as beneath them. In many ways, teachers, police officers, fire fighters, and others in public service are today’s serfs for the lords of the 1%, and those they hold sway [...]

Old school.

Fred Klonsky at Fred Klonsky - 2 days ago
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