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Van Roekel Calls For 'Commission on Effective Teaching' - Teacher Beat - Education Week

Van Roekel Calls For 'Commission on Effective Teaching' - Teacher Beat - Education Week

Van Roekel Calls For 'Commission on Effective Teaching'

By Stephen Sawchuk on July 3, 2010 1:56 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
Dennis Van Roekel's Keynote, take two!
Near the end of his keynote address, National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel called for the creation of a new commission—to be called the Commission on Effective Teaching—that would address "questions that have been avoided for far too long."
"What would the profession look like if we, the union, actually controlled teacher training, induction and licensure, evaluation, and professional development? How do we ensure that all teachers are prepared to enter the profession and then are supported, especially in their first years?"
The commission, Van Roekel said, would issue a report on these topics and make recommendations to the NEA's Representative Assembly.
Not many more details about it at this point, but the creation of this commission

Van Roekel's Keynote Dodges the Obama Question The NEA president's keynote address is always the highlight of the first day of the National Education Association's Representative Assembly. This year's has got to have been a particularly difficult one to put together. A lot of delegates clearly ...
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P�rez and Steinberg: Democrats United Behind Budget Plan to Protect Jobs and Fully Fund Education | California Progress Report

P�rez and Steinberg: Democrats United Behind Budget Plan to Protect Jobs and Fully Fund Education | California Progress Report

Pérez and Steinberg: Democrats United Behind Budget Plan to Protect Jobs and Fully Fund Education

Posted on 02 July 2010
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By Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker John A. Perez
SACRAMENTO – In this Democratic weekly address, Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) and Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) discuss the guiding principles uniting Legislative Democrats as efforts to finalize a budget continue.
Click onto the following link for the English language MP3 file. The running time is 2:15.
Click onto the following link for the Spanish language MP3 file. The running time is 3:12.
Website of Speaker John A. Pérez: www.asmdc.org/speaker
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NAS - The National Association of Scholars :: Articles U.S. Founding Fathers on Education, in Their Own Words Ashley Thorne

NAS - The National Association of Scholars :: Articles U.S. Founding Fathers on Education, in Their Own Words Ashley Thorne

U.S. Founding Fathers on Education, in Their Own Words

July 02, 2010 By Ashley Thorne
Happy Independence Day from all of us at NAS!
For your inspiration as you head into a weekend of grilling and fireworks - some words of wisdom on education from our founding fathers:
"Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country."
Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788

"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, (A)nd if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."
Thomas Jefferson
"If Virtue & Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security."
Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, February 12, 1779


"It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country."

Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America

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NEA RA: Dennis gives ‘em heck. � Fred Klonsky's blog #NEARA10

NEA RA: Dennis gives ‘em heck. � Fred Klonsky's blog

NEA RA: Dennis gives ‘em heck.

by preaprez

I’m not exactly in the last row of the convention center in New Orleans. But this is my view.
In fact, the entire Illinois delegation is pretty much behind a post. Which might tell you something.
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel may not have made a red-meat speech this afternoon to open the NEA RA. But it was a good start. It stood in stark contrast to the tone of the IEA Eeyore leadership.
He never actually mentioned Arne Duncan (except once when he called on each delegate to send a postcard
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Today's Big Education Ape Posts on Parents 4 democratic Schools #education #edu #news


Today's  Big Education Ape Posts on Parents 4 democratic Schools 

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Democurmudgeon: Chicago says, Want your Guns? Take a nice long Drive to get one and don't leave the house.

Democurmudgeon


Democurmudgeon: Chicago says, Want your Guns? Take a nice long Drive to get one and don't leave the house.

Chicago says, Want your Guns? Take a nice long Drive to get one and don't leave the house.

by Democurmudgeon

While the gun lobby has used every creative way to kill 80,000 Americans every year so some immature adult can playing with hand guns, opponents haven't been sitting on their hands either. If you thought the two recent supreme court miss interpretations of the Second Amendment were partisan legislative edicts from the bench, Chicago just one up them:
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: All Hands on Deck; Don't Deck the Hands

Cool Cat Teacher Blog

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

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: All Hands on Deck; Don't Deck the Hands

All Hands on Deck; Don't Deck the Hands

by coolcatteacher@gmail.com (Victoria A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher)
Today in Vacation Bible School at the church we were wrapping up over 200 barbeque sandwiches. It took a while to work out the system. When we first started we'd run into each other and shuffle, but eventually we got the system down. We were laughing because one person saw a "quality control" issue where we'd put two bun tops together. We laughed and fixed it - but she commented:

"Wouldn't you know when that happens that the most ornery person in the whole place would have gotten that sandwich."
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Executive PayWatch 2010

Executive PayWatch 2010


Executive PayWatch
A chief executive officer of a Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 index company was paid, on average, $9.25 million in total compensation in 2009.[1] At the same time, millions of workers lost their jobs, their homes and their retirement savings in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Executive pay has taken center stage since the $700 billion government bailout of financial institutions. Americans expressed outrage as big banks helped create the financial crisis, took billions in taxpayer bailouts, paid out billions in pay and bonuses and are now lobbying on financial regulatory reform.
The case studies here focus on executive pay at six of the biggest banks that received government bailout funds and their multimillion-dollar lobbying efforts. Also in Executive PayWatch, you can find CEO compensation data for some of the country’s largest companies; learn how you, as a shareholder, can have your "Say-on-Pay"; and find out what you can do to ensure re-regulation of the financial system.
Bank of America Corp.
Thomas Montag
2009 Total Compensation: $29,930,431
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
James Dimon
2009 Total Compensation:
$9,274,494
Citigroup Inc.
John Havens
2009 Total Compensation: $11,276,454
Morgan Stanley
Walid Chammah
2009 Total Compensation: $10,021,969
The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Lloyd Blankfein
2009 Total Compensation: $9,862,657
Wells Fargo
John Stumpf
2009 Total Compensation: $21,340,547
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