This Week In Education: AM News: Schieffer Replaces Thomas At Whitman High Graduation

This Week In Education: AM News: Schieffer Replaces Thomas At Whitman High Graduation

AM News: Schieffer Replaces Thomas At Whitman High Graduation

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Education Reform Takes Center Stage in Fight for Suburban State Senate Seat PubliCola: It’s a Republican candidate for the state Senate, investor and consultant Gregg Bennett, who’s running on Democratic President Barack Obama’s education reform platform in the 48th Legislative District (Bellevue, Redmond) this year... Global firm to pay Montgomery, Md., schools millions for elementary curriculum Washington Post: Montgomery County Public Schools could soon become a global brand..Pa. district teachers set to strike for 2nd time Boston Globe: Teachers in the McGuffey School District in southwestern Pennsylvania plan to strike for the second time this school year because the school board has rejected their latest contract proposal... Fla. District Puts 1,305 on Layoff List EdWeek: The Broward school district delivered pink slips to 568 teachers and 737 noninstructional employees in an effort to close a $130 million budget shortfall... For-Profit Colleges Fight Limits On Student Loans NPR: For-profit colleges are lobbying to kill new regulations designed to hold down student debt loads... CBS's Bob Schieffer replacing Helen Thomas as Whitman High graduation speaker Washington Post: Walt Whitman High School has chosen veteran CBS journalist Bob Schieffer to replace Helen Thomas as its commencement speaker next week after the longtime White House correspondent-columnist bowed out of the engagement amid controversy over inflammatory comments she made about Israel and Palestine... Durbin wans DC probe on misuse of federal money BND.com: The district also spent that at least $200,000 on airline tickets and hotels, as well as $10,000 for original artwork, including $4,000 for a "historical quilt."

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Education - Everything you need to know about the world of education.

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MCPS selling its reputation to Pearson

Some may call Project North Star a pretty smart deal. I would use less flattering words to describe the deal into which Montgomery County Public Schools just entered with the world’s largest for-profit educational publishing company to nationally “brand” a newly created K-5 curriculum.

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Tracking the American Epidemic of Mental Illness: Part III

6.9.10 - Evelyn Pringle - The Psychopharmaceutical Industrial Complex - For the past two decades, the

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Plan to grade teachers would take 2 to 4 years

6.9.10 - A plan to grade Iowa teachers in part by how their students do in classrooms will take up to four years to put in place, a timeline critics say is too slow and threatens the state...

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MCPS selling its reputation to 'British' owned Pearson

6.9.10 - Some may call Project North Star a pretty smart deal. I would use less flattering words to describe the deal into which Montgomery County Public Schools just entered with the...

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All-USA College Academic winners defy expectations

6.9.10 - Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAY - Julie Markham is the kind of person who refuses to give up on a dream — even if some people think it's an impossible dream. And that...

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Education Law Center motion could restore N.J. school funding cut by Gov. Christie | NJ.com

Education Law Center motion could restore N.J. school funding cut by Gov. Christie | NJ.com

Education Law Center motion could restore N.J. school funding cut by Gov. Christie

By Star-Ledger Staff

June 09, 2010, 5:15AM

TRENTON — Charging that Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed aid cuts "indisputably violated" the state’s obligation to fund schools in a manner upheld by the New Jersey Supreme Court, an education advocacy group filed a motion Tuesday seeking to force the state to abide by the existing school funding formula. The action by the Newark-based Education Law Center on behalf... Full story »

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Seton Hall faculty urges reopening presidential search to include non-priests

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June 09, 2010, 5:10AM

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Education Law Center asks N.J. Supreme Court to reverse $1B in school spending cuts

By Jeanette Rundquist/The Star-Ledger

June 08, 2010, 3:25PM

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Today’s World Cup Update | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Today’s World Cup Update | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Today’s World Cup Update Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The World Cup: The Economics of the World Cup is a useful infographic. Here’s a video about the World Cup’s “diski” dance. The Sydney Morning Herald has an excellent webpage on the ...

Is “Complicated” To “Complex” As “Puzzle” Is To “Mystery”? I’ve posted previously applying Malcolm Gladwell’s frame of “puzzles versus mysteries” to present-day school reform (See Is Figuring Out How To Make Schools Better A Puzzle Or A Mystery?). Today, Larry Cuban, I think, used a similar perspective ...

My Personal Responsibility Lesson For This Friday Yesterday, I posted about how I was thinking of using part of President Obama’s commencement speech for a lesson on not blaming others. Since that time, I’ve developed a simple hand-out that some of my colleagues and I are going to use this Friday. ...

New Analysis on Poverty and Education Quick Takes: June 9, 2010 - Inside Higher Ed

Quick Takes: June 9, 2010 - Inside Higher Ed

New Analysis on Poverty and Education

The Institute for Higher Education Policy is today releasing a report, "A Portrait of Low-Income Young Adults in Education," with data showing the education gaps between those young adults in poverty and those who are more affluent. Over all in 2008, 44 percent of young adults in the United States were from a low-income background -- and they had low levels of educational attainment, with levels even lower for black, Latino and Native Americans.

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Peabody teacher makes a Revolutionary discovery

As she leafed through stacks of papers and other material that had accumulated over the years on her classroom’s bookshelf, fourth-grade social studies teacher Michelle Eugenio found several sheets of faux parchment paper, designed to have the look and feel of a Colonial period document. (By Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff)

3,000 denied diplomas because of MCAS

In Massachusettsm 3,000 high school graduates have been denied diplomas because of MCAS. Isn't there a better solution? (By Scott W. Lang, Boston Globe)

High court won’t take up No Child Left Behind case

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday turned away a challenge by school districts and teacher unions to the federal No Child Left Behind law. (Associated Press)

Researchers study cues to predict students’ math performance

TURNERS FALLS — While Shelby Lapinski worked to solve a geometry problem on her computer screen, her seat cushion monitored fidgeting and a camera registered uncertainty or concentration flitting across her face. A bracelet measured sweat, and the mouse, fitted with pressure sensors, tracked her grip. (By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff)

Entry may tighten for exam schools

Boston school officials this week will unveil a more stringent residency policy for students applying to the city’s three exam schools, responding to growing concerns that out-of-towners are improperly gaining admission. (By James Vaznis, Globe Staff)

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Schools Matter: "We're at the mercy of the testing company."

Schools Matter: "We're at the mercy of the testing company."

"We're at the mercy of the testing company."

by Jim Horn

For a bit of history on these corporate bloodsuckers, see this piece by Bloomberg News called How Testing Companies Fail Your Kids.

The most recent failure from the St. Augustine Record:

A month-long delay in getting test results from the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test will hold up everything from hiring teachers to placing students to determining courses offered in St. Johns County schools.

"There's nothing we can do. We're at the mercy of the testing company," Superintendent Joe Joyner said Monday. "We can't do anything until they provide us with results."

The testing company is NCS Pearson, which received a $254 million contract, good through 2013, from the Florida Department of Education. Pearson is administering and scoring the exams on

The June 2010 College Assessment Challenge � The Quick and the Ed

The June 2010 College Assessment Challenge � The Quick and the Ed

The June 2010 College Assessment Challenge

by Kevin Carey

Matt Yglesias, the other guy who’s interested in the Bologna process, linked to my column about the potential virtues of deciding what college students in a given course of study should learn and then finding out if they actually learned those things. Because Matt has a bazillion more readers than I do, his post generated various responses, mostly critical, along these lines:

Matt, ever heard of “assessment of learning outcomes” in higher education? Almost all institutions of higher ed have to do a boatload of assessment already in order to stay accredited, as part of the ‘accountability’ movement. So this doesn’t sound terribly new to me, except for the attempt to create cross-institution metrics. Most academics, with a lot of justification, view assessment as a waste of time–a bunch of stupid hoops to jump though, largely devised by dim

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Education - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

College, including living expenses, costs more in California than elsewhere, study finds

By Laurel Rosenhall - Published: 12:00 am

In-state fees at California's public universities may be lower than tuition at similar campuses in other states, but when living expenses are factored in, the total cost of going to college here is more, new research by the California Postsecondary Education Commission shows.

City schools plan immersion program in Chinese at Elder Creek Elementary

Published: 12:00 am

The Sacramento City Unified School District is reaching out to parents who are interested in a Chinese immersion program that will open in the fall at Elder Creek Elementary School.

Christian Brothers High's principal is leaving to take consultant job

Published: 12:00 am

Christian Brothers High School will be looking for a new principal.

Closing of one-room school ends 157-year Napa tradition

By Hudson Sangree - Published: 12:00 am

A one-room schoolhouse has stood in the Wooden Valley since the early 1850s, educating the children of the isolated farming vale beneath the Vaca Mountains.

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