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March on Alzheimer's The Women's Conference 2010 #edu #education

March on Alzheimer's

March on Alzheimer's


The Women's Conference 2010
Join Maria Shriver's March on Alzheimer's & Candlelight Vigil
Sunday, October 24, 2010 3PM - 7PM
Long Beach, CA


If you’d like to join Maria’s March, click the button below.
A minimum donation of $25 is required to participate.
“Alzheimer's is a mind-blowing disease that disproportionately impacts women – both as victims and caretakers of loved one's suffering from it. With more than 5 million people diagnosed with Alzheimer's in this country and a new diagnosis every 70 seconds, I believe it's time to pick up the pace and start marching to defeat this devastating disease. We are inviting both women and men of all ages to join us in Long Beach."
-- Maria Shriver
For the first time ever, The Women's Conference will expand to three days in 2010 with the addition of Maria Shriver's March on Alzheimer's.
The 5K march and candlelight vigil will kick off the Conference at Shoreline Village in Long Beach on Sunday afternoon, October 24 from 3pm – 7pm.

Leeza Gibbons will be the Event Emcee and actor Peter Gallagher, Dixie Chicks lead singerNatalie Maines and actress Soleil Moon Frye will serve as Event Co-Chairs. Jane Fonda will warm up marchers with stretching excercises. Additional celebrity co-chairs and event entertainment will be announced in the coming weeks.
Here is the tentative schedule for the event:

3:00pm – Registration Opens
4:30pm – Opening Ceremonies
5:00pm – The March Begins
6:00pm – Food & Entertainment
6:30pm – Candlelight Vigil

Maria Shriver has been a long-time advocate for families like hers who are struggling with Alzheimer's. The march will bring together thousands of families, friends, caregivers, concerned community members and Conference attendees to raise funds and awareness to fight the disease.
The March will benefit the Alzheimer's Association, the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research.
A minimum donation of $25 is required to sign-up for the march and all participants are encouraged to raise additional funds to support the Alzheimer's Association's work.


JOIN US!
Online registration for the march is now open - clickhere to sign up.
More details about the march, including route logistics, will be posted here in the coming weeks.
You can also become a fan on our new Facebook page to get all event updates.
For more information on Maria Shriver’s March on Alzheimer’s, contact us at: marchonalzheimers@gmail.com or 760-434-5255.
Photo credits: Alzheimer's Association
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Consensus Is Overrated | Intercepts

Consensus Is Overrated | Intercepts

Consensus Is Overrated

by Mike Antonucci
The Center for American Progress is a labor-friendly organization (NEA gave them money last year), and wants to know “Why Is the Public Suddenly Down on Unions?” Authors David Madland and Karla Walter examine this question at great length and, through the historical study of opinion surveys about unions, they find that the public likes unions when economic times are good and dislikes them when economic times are bad. They then conclude that support for unions will recover when the economy does.
This analysis is helpful, but buried inside is a point that is profound in its simplicity.
Despite their skepticism of power, however, the American public realizes that the competing interests of government, labor, and business create a system of checks and balances between
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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: ASPIRA Haugen Middle School

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: ASPIRA Haugen Middle School

ASPIRA Haugen Middle School

by The Perimeter Primate
CHARTER SCHOOL OFFERS $100 COUPON FOR EACH NEW STUDENT, July 19, 2010, Chicago Daily Observer

Charter schools, their advocates say, are designed to offer an alternative for parents and kids who have given up on regular Chicago Public Schools.

Just give us a chance, they say. Customers will be lined up out the door to move to something better.

Sometimes, maybe.

But not in the case of one Albany Park charter school. Aspira-Haugan Middle School has decided to offer what amounts to a $100 bounty for every kid lured through its doors.

The student must "attend through September to qualify for the $100 gift card," the small print on

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WSJ: “Charter Backers Flex Political Muscles” � DFER Watch

WSJ: “Charter Backers Flex Political Muscles” � DFER Watch

WSJ: “CHARTER BACKERS FLEX POLITICAL MUSCLES”

Posted by kennethlibby on July 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Here’s the intro of a recent WSJ article about charter school funders in NYC:

With the help of hedge-fund managers and other Wall Street financiers, charter-school advocates gave more than $600,000 to Albany political candidates and party committees since January, according to the latest campaign filings. That’s more than twice as much as in prior reporting periods, according to allies of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run.

and:

Frustration over Albany’s halting effort to compete for hundreds of millions of education dollars in the

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Weld: School standards plan is 'a retrograde step' - Boston.com

Weld: School standards plan is 'a retrograde step' - Boston.com

Weld: School standards plan is 'a retrograde step'

By Glen Johnson
AP Political Writer / July 20, 2010
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BOSTON—Former Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld, who signed the state's landmark 1993 education overhaul into law, is criticizing proposed changes in the public school math and English curriculum.
Weld told The Associated Press that swapping state standards for proposed national ones is "a retrograde step" and a precursor to eliminating the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS, tests in both of those subject areas.
"It would be madness to eliminate the MCAS test," Weld said Monday in a telephone interview from his New York law firm. "A lot of blood was spilled, partly during my regime and moreso when (Paul) Cellucci was governor, to preserve the MCAS."
He said that test, a key component of the 1993 law, is responsible for driving Massachusetts students to top finishes in national achievement tests.

RI ACLU wants public school preyer banner removed

The American Civil Liberties Union says a banner with a prayer on it that hangs in the auditorium at Cranston High School West may be in violation of the First Amendment and wants it taken down.


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Education Research Report: Student test scores and future proficiency

Education Research Report: Student test scores and future proficiency:

Student test scores and future proficiency

The New York State Education Department – together with testing experts Daniel Koretz and Howard Everson (both are members of the State’s Technical Advisory Group) and CTB/McGraw-Hill, the state’s assessment contractor – conducted a series of studies and surveys concerning student scores and student proficiency. Among their findings were the following:
• Nearly a quarter of students in all New York State two and four-year institutions of higher education take remedial coursework;
• Students taking more remedial courses in their first year of college are less likely to persist in higher education;
• Students who score below an 80 on their math Regents exam have a much greater likelihood of being placed in a remedial college course;
• Students who score above an 80 on their math Regents exam have a good chance of earning at least a C in college-level math;
• Students who score at least a 75 on their English Regents exam have a good chance of earning at least a C in Freshman Composition;
• Institutions of higher education around the state consider a score of 75-85 on
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Notes from the news, July 20 | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Notes from the news, July 20 | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Notes from the news, July 20

by Erika Owens
Least Restrictive Environment Practical Theory blog
The special education term got SLA principal Chris Lehmann thinking about other concepts that would work well for all students.
My high school experience, the second time around The Notebook blog
Guest blog from Microsoft employee Tony Franklin who looks back at his time at School of the Future.
New West Philly Parents Movement Launched Philly School Search blog
Looks like a group in West Philly is trying to take a cue from the parents organizing around Andrew Jackson Elementary.
What's Really New in Education? Philly Teacher blog
A lot of our theories of education still popular now are from decades or centuries ago, do they still hold true or is technology changing things?
A Tree and Its Roots: Notes from Friday and on the Spirit of Carter G. Woodson Office of Teaching and Unlearning
It only took 11 years… A Year in the Life of a Teacher
Plugging the ‘brain drain’ — Philly Fellows and community service Voice of Philadelphia
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Bleak Omens for Obama's Ed Agenda on the Hill :: Frederick M. Hess

Bleak Omens for Obama's Ed Agenda on the Hill :: Frederick M. Hess

Frederick M. Hess's Blog

Bleak Omens for Obama's Ed Agenda on the Hill

by Frederick M. Hess • Jul 20, 2010 at 9:56 am
Cross-posted from Education Week

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Congressional Quarterly reported yesterday that House Democratic leaders will accept the Senate's plan to pass a stripped-down supplemental spending bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and seek another way to funnel $10 billion in edu-aid to the states. Before turning the page on the Obey-Obama defense supplemental imbroglio, however, a postmortem is in order--especially given some worrisome portents for the administration's school reform agenda.

Last week, POLITICO's David Rogers examined just how D.C. Democrats got so far off the rails in the push for the teacher jobs bill. In a story tellingly headlined "The Dems' Education Debacle," Rogers explained how a

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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Buggy whips, railroads, and paper textbooks

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Buggy whips, railroads, and paper textbooks

Buggy whips, railroads, and paper textbooks

by coolcatteacher@gmail.com (Victoria A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher)
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We're really seeing the rise of the niche bloggers in education. Those people who know how to do a specific task and do it very well. Such is the blog, Edukindle - my "go to" place for anything about using the Amazon Kindle in Schools.

The EduKindle Blog
I point this out, because the three most recent posts are well
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This Week In Education: Debate: What Is "Ghetto Parenting"?

This Week In Education: Debate: What Is "Ghetto Parenting"?

Debate: What Is "Ghetto Parenting"?

by Alexander Russo
image from www.chicagonow.com"Ghetto parenting is cursing around, and at, a child. Ghetto parenting is letting your child roam the streets until somebody else's mother has to tell the child to go home." Shocked? Bored? Me, too. This is from a recent Mary Mitchell column from the Chicago Sun Times in which some (many) readers thought Mitchell was denigrating poor families while others thought she was doing a valuable service in calling out bad parenting. There's a


Thompson: What Statisticians Whisper

by john thompson
AnswersOver at the National Journal's education blog, Kati Haycock defined an effective teacher as an angel bending over a blade of grass who "whispers, ‘Grow, grow.’" Somewhere, I imagine, there must be statisticians sitting at their desks whispering to their growth models, "be good enough, good enough." Reformers have caused a huge mess for the Obama Administration because they raced ahead with the
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