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On education speech, Palin blunders on Reagan's education
AlaskaDispatch.com - 06/28/2010 01:40 PM
Oh my. You had to figure this might happen when Sarah Palin, one-time best governor of Alaska, started pallin' around with those journalist types there at Fox News. Or any of those journalist types there in the lamestream media, you know. The makin' things up and gettin' things confused is dangerous...
	State Money Will Keep CPS Class Sizes At Normal Levels, Huberman Says
	Chicago Sun-Times - 06/28/2010 01:36 PM
	Chicago's public school elementary class sizes are expected to be restored to normal levels and high school classes will increase to only 33 instead of 35, thanks to a bump of new state money, Chicago Schools CEO Ron Huberman said today....
	Trust Us: We Are the Organization!
	John Brown - 06/28/2010 01:38 PM
	"I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member." --Groucho Marx I guess these days we all try to make sense of the corporate-provided US "news," given the bombardment of "information" that assaults us every second via the media, new and old, both social or -- I guess that's wha...
	Support An Awesome Cause With These Authentic Ethnic-Printed Bags
	Refinery29.com - 06/28/2010 01:29 PM
	For a bag that really packs a punch, check out these woven, printed cross-body bags handmade by the indigenous Wayuú women and distributed by Wayuú Taya Foundation. The Wayuú—a Latin American group that live in the Guajira region between Venezuela and Colombia—have...
	Salivating at The Summer Fancy Food Show
	Brad Balfour - 06/28/2010 01:10 PM
	Of the many events I have attended at the Javits Center, the one that really stirs the juices is the Fancy Food Show. A phantasmagoria of every style of condiment, sauce, chocolate bars and various packaged smoked salmons among the many foods sampled there, the Summer Fancy Food Show provides an i...
	OLDER WOMEN RALLY NATIONWIDE
	Ashley B. Carson - 06/28/2010 12:44 PM
	The Older Women's League (OWL) rallied this weekend. They organized rallies with members of MoveOn.org outside of "town hall" meetings in 6 cities nationwide, because they were worried. This was all part of a campaign called, "Strengthen Social Security," an effort lead by a group called Social Se...
	Does Being Fat Kill Your Career?
	E. Jean Carroll - 06/28/2010 01:34 PM
	DEAR E. JEAN: Does my being overweight really cut down on my chances of advancing at work? Today I overheard one of my managers saying about me "she's so fat, I don't think she'll get promoted. Ever." I'm angry! I've been at this firm three years as an assistant and have yet to be promoted! I've t...
	Book Review Roundup
	Caroline Eisenmann - 06/28/2010 12:24 PM
	Did you miss the weekend's big book reviews? Catch up with some of the highlights below! "Denial: A Memoir of Terror," Jessica Stern The New York Times "Denial" is a hard book to read, in part because of its subject matter, in part because Ms. Stern's id floats very near the surface. Her ang...
	Cut This: The Death Penalty
	James Clark - 06/28/2010 12:02 PM
	California's governor has proposed closing the state's $20 billion budget gap with a drastic cuts-only approach; slashing funding for vital human services without working to increase revenue. Yet one state program seems to be immune from these cuts: the death penalty. We think the time has come ...

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Do the math

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Do the math

We spend $1 billion each year for every al Qaeda member in Afghanistan while schools go broke. For every al Qaeda fighter, we have 1,000 of our troops.

Listen to this interview with CIA Director Leon Panetta:

TAPPER: How many Al Qaeda, do you think, are in Afghanistan?

A Message to Our Community The Women's Conference

A Message to Our Community

A Message to Our Community

The Women’s Conference team would like to extend our apologies again for the technical issue experienced during registration last Wednesday. We understand how disappointed and frustrated many of you are with the process.

We’ve investigated the problem and wanted to make sure we fully understood what happened. After reviewing our server records, we've discovered that the technical problems resulted when thousands of users continually refreshed their browsers. When registration began, we had about 10,000 unique users produce approximately 500,000 requests to the server. Because this same problem occurred during registration last year, causing the site to crash, we posted a warning about it last Wednesday on the homepage of the registration site informing people not to refresh more than once and to use only one browser. We now realize that the warning was not enough as our servers could not handle the load. We’re confident that this problem will be addressed and resolved so that, in the future, the entire process can accommodate the overwhelming demand by our community.

We pride ourselves on creating empowering experiences for our audience and this has clearly fallen short of that. For many years, The Women’s Conference was a one-day event. Because of popular demand, we have continued to expand it over recent years so that more and more women could attend. Now, in 2010, the conference includes three days of six amazing events with top level speakers and authors. While the Main Event is currently sold out -- and there are simply not enough tickets for everyone who wanted one -- tickets do still remain for several of our other extraordinary conference events.

A note to our Women’s Conference Facebook community -- You are part of an important forum to help us better understand what’s on your mind. The complaints and posts during the registration process were very valuable to us and, as you may have seen that day, many of the posters were contacted directly by the registration team. By Friday, we felt it was important to use our Wall to promote the other events that were available for attendees. We received calls in the office from many people unaware that these events were still open and we wanted to get that information out via Facebook without confusion. The intention was never to censor any of your posts. If you have something to say – we want to hear it.

Again, we are truly sorry about the problems encountered last week. We hope that you will consider joining the 30,000 attendees for a life-changing experience in Long Beach in October.

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: FourSquare Beginner's Guide at #iste10 with @web20classroom

Cool Cat Teacher Blog

Teaching students with new tools, enthusiasm, and belief that teaching is a noble calling.

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: FourSquare Beginner's Guide at #iste10 with @web20classroom

FourSquare Beginner's Guide at #iste10 with @web20classroom Trying to share as much as I can with "Mile High Learning" Here in the Social Butterfly cafe - some friends from Twitter congregated to teach beginners. It is this hallway learning that are best. Here, you can see beginners how to set up foursquare on ...

1:1 laptop implementation Session at #iste10 *Sorry my PC was a slow boot and the ISTE wifi won't connect to my laptop, so it took a moment to take notes. This session is with Mike Muir, Cyndi Danner-Kuhn, and Sam Farsali. Moderated by Alice Owen.* * * *1:1 Laptop Implementation* Mike - "Do not ...

This Week In Education: Media: Philly Teacher Fired For Online Remarks

This Week In Education: Media: Philly Teacher Fired For Online Remarks

Media: Philly Teacher Fired For Online Remarks

by Alexander Russo

Journalists aren't the only ones being fired for the online candor these days. Private school teacher Elizabeth Collins (right) got the sack for an entry describing a student's class presentation, according to an article in the Philly Enquirer that I found via ASBJ's Leading Source. Apparently the kid's

Intensive Induction Boosts Achievement, IES Study Says - Teacher Beat - Education Week

Intensive Induction Boosts Achievement, IES Study Says - Teacher Beat - Education Week

Intensive Induction Boosts Achievement, IES Study Says

by Stephen Sawchuk

That's the bottom line of this new study out from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. It's an important study because the experimental design allows us to conclude that it was the intensive, two-year structured mentoring that "treatment" schools received—and not some other factor—that led to these boosts.
But what's more striking is that this is the third-year report of an ongoing study, and neither of the first two yearsof study found any effect on student achievement. In fact, this year of study occurred after all the "treatment" schools no longer received the intensive support.
That leaves us with this perplexing question: Why did it take so long for the effects to show up? Does it,

Lastest Edujobs Draft Has $10 Billion To Prevent Layoffs - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Lastest Edujobs Draft Has $10 Billion To Prevent Layoffs - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Lastest Edujobs Draft Has $10 Billion To Prevent Layoffs

by Alyson Klein

House Democratic leaders are circulating a draft of a scaled-down version of the edujobs bill that would include $10 billion to prevent teacher layoffs.
For those keeping score at home, the $10 billion would be a significant decrease from the $23 billion that Rep. David R. Obey, D-Wis., and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, initially sought to stave off staff reductions. Conservative Democrats balked at the $23 billion pricetag and the fact that the bill would add to the deficit.
This time around, there's a lot less money, and the spending would be offset by about $12 billion in reductions to other programs, including an $800 million cut in funding for new discretionary programs in the U.S. Department of Education.
The $800 million question, for now, is ... where would that money come from? That's not clear yet. I can't think of many new discretionary programs, other than the ones created under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, most notably the $4.35 billion Race to the Top program, the $650 million Investing in Innovation Grants. And since we're talking about discretionary grants, it's unlikely anyone would be looking at money approved under the

Should districts keep minimum grading policies? | IRVING Blog | dallasnews.com

Should districts keep minimum grading policies? | IRVING Blog | dallasnews.com

Should districts keep minimum grading policies? 10:06 AM Mon, Jun 28, 2010 | Permalink Katherine Leal Unmuth/Reporter Bio | E-mail | News tips

I have a story in today's paperabout 11 school districts suing the Texas education commissioner for the right to boost failing report card grades to at least a 50. A law that went into effect last school year sought to ban such policies (though it only explicitly said classroom assignments).

At the beginning of last school year,Irving ISD deleted its policy that outlined that failing students could receive no lower than a 50. Many districts are angry about the law because they feel that if students receive grades as low as a zero they will never catch up to pass their classes--threatening to increase Texas' already high dropout rate. Some teachers groups say educators should be able to assign the grades they want, even if they're below a 50.

Although Irving is the process of rewriting its grading policy (SEE DRAFT HERE), that doesn't mean administrators are excited about the change. Assistant superintendent Marie Morris told me several teachers raised concerns about students impacted by the law who would fail their courses as a

NC governor elected regional education chairman - Florida AP - MiamiHerald.com

NC governor elected regional education chairman - Florida AP - MiamiHerald.com

NC governor elected regional education chairman

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. -- North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue is the new head of the Southern Regional Education Board.

Perdue was elected Monday at the board's annual meeting at The Greenbrier resort. She will succeed West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, who has been the board's chairman since 2009. Former Virginia Board of Education president Mark Emblidge was re-elected as vice chairman.

The 16-state organization is based in Atlanta

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/28/1704695/nc-governor-elected-regional-education.html#ixzz0sASCqEiL

Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Is it time for national education standards? � - CNN.com Blogs

Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Is it time for national education standards? � - CNN.com Blogs

Is it time for national education standards?

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Dave Schechter
CNN Senior National Editor

While the kids, most of them anyway, are on summer vacation, here’s an issue to consider: Has the time passed when it makes sense for each state to have its own standards for what children are taught in grades K-12?

The kids may not be thinking about school, but state education officials across the country face an August due date (some no doubt will ask for an extension) on whether to accept a proposed set of national standards for core subjects – English language arts, history, social studies, science and math, with goals specified by grade and subject. You can read them here.

Growing up in Illinois, we studied Abraham Lincoln. It makes sense to learn your state’s history. But shouldn’t students from Maine to California, from Washington to Florida, be at par with each other on the core subjects?

Once upon a time the American population was less mobile, less urban. After World War II, America was on the move; out of the small towns, into the cities, expanding the suburbs. Companies opened more offices in more states. Today, unlike the generations before them, Gen X and Millenials expect to hold multiple jobs in their lifetimes. Employers don’t want to worry that job-seekers from a particular state are not properly educated.

The proposed standards, Sam Dillon wrote in The New York Times “would replace the nation’s motley current checkerboard of locally written standards, which vary greatly in content and sophistication.”

“I’d say this is one of the most important events of the last several years in American education,” Chester

Illinois raises, unifies standards - Chicago Tribune

Illinois raises, unifies standards - Chicago Tribune

Illinois raises, unifies standards

States are moving toward one nationwide standardized test

June 27, 2010|By Tara Malone, Tribune reporter

Illinois education officials in the last week set new expectations for what every public school student should know in math and reading, joining a national push to create one set of standards.

The change could affect local classrooms as soon as this fall, officials said.

The move sets the stage for new standardized tests to measure students from state to state. Education officials said a new exam won't be ready until 2014.

State leaders and educators created the grade-by-grade guidelines by starting with a key question: What do today's high school graduates need to know when they walk onto a college campus or report for their first day of work?

They then worked backward to determine the skills students should master at every grade level, down to kindergarten. The common standards aim to be clearer, fewer and higher than what most states now require.

Here are a few examples of what Illinois now expects high schoolers to know before graduation:

MATH

Number systems: Explain why the sum or product of two rational numbers is rational; that the sum of a rational number and an irrational number is irrational; and that the product of a nonzero rational number and an irrational number is irrational.

Algebra: Solve quadratic equations in one variable.

Geometry: Prove that all circles are similar.

Statistics: Understand statistics as a process for making inferences about population parameters based upon a

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 06/28/2010

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 06/28/2010

Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 06/28/2010

by coolcatteacher@gmail.com (Victoria A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher)

• Discovery Education: Web 2.0 Tools

  Lots of incredible tools from Discovery education.

  tags: education, web2, learning, all_teachers

• ‘Generation V’ Defies Traditional Demographics

  "Generation V is not defined by age, gender, social class or geography. Instead, it is based on achievement, accomplishments and an increasing preference for the use of digital media channels to discover information, build knowledge and share insights."
  
  Additionally the percentages that create content, contribute, etc. affects classroom and project planning. Do we allow students to "lurk"
  
  Findings about these Generation V segments:
  
  * Up to 3% will be creators, providing original content. They can be advocates that promote products and