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EVENING EDITION Feb. 12, 2011: Big Education Ape: Ed News Now

Big Education Ape: Ed News Now

Big Education Ape: Ed News Now

indypendent.org - Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System. President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan have formed an alliance with billionaire “school reformer...

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ednotesonline.blogspot.com - A GEM TFA alum is in the house.Saturday, February 12, 2011Teach for America 20th Anniversary Alumni Summit8:00 AMArrived at the convention center to register. This is a seriously huge event—11,000 ...

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denverpost.com - The unraveling of an upcoming education forum, which was to aid a 527 organization, underscores the need for transparency.It should come as no surprise that a long list of sponsors for a planned ed...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - by Rick AyersFebruary 11, 2011All changed, changed utterly:A terrible beauty is born.William Butler Yeats penned those lines after the Irish Easter uprising of 1916. And how haunting and true they ...

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grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com - Saturday, February 12, 2011Teach for America 20th Anniversary Alumni Summit8:00 AMArrived at the convention center to register. This is a seriously huge event—11,000 alumni (and some current corps ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - February 12, 2011 by tomwhitbyThis is a guest Post I did for Shelly Terrell’s Blog, TEACHER REBOOT CAMP, back on Friday, July 24th, 2009. It was one of my first toe-dipping experiences in the world...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - You Are Invited &Your Voice is Needed!What should real educational reform look like in Chicago?Dream Big for Our Public Schools.Download the FlierCaucus of Rank and File Educators presentsCORE’s 3r...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Big Education Ape: Ed News NowBig Education Ape: Ed News Noweducationnext.org - Evidence from the New York City schools | Print | NO PDF | Share Spring 2011 / Vol. 11, No. 2 An unabridged version o...

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action.aft.org - Negotiate with Teachers Now! Sulejman F. Dizdarevic--attorney with Belongia, Shapiro & Franklin, LLP--and his fellow Board members at Chicago Mathematics and Science Academy are subverting the righ...

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huffingtonpost.com - Rahm Emanuel "didn't do his homework" when he touted the supposed superiority of charter schools in a televised debate, three Chicago high school students assert in a YouTube video that's attracted...

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nepc.colorado.edu - The Education Review has been published continuously since 1998 as an "open access" (free-to-read) journal of book reviews in education. In 2010, nearly 300 new books were reviewed by more than 250...

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politico.com - Don't count Ann Coulter among Mitt Romney's fans. When she was asked for her take on the 2012 presidential field, the conservative commentator dissed Romney's chances. Continue Reading "If we don't...

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democraticunderground.com - Edited on Sat Feb-12-11 04:04 PM by Joanne98 Source: The TelegraphHosni Mubarak used the 18 days it took for protesters to topple him to shift his vast wealth into untraceable accounts overseas, We...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - picture of Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, darling of the ruling classes of the western worldGov. Scott Walker of Milwaukee, Wisconsin says he is confident state workers will continue to show up ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - I want to share some thoughts about the last few days of being a teacher in the crosshairs of the right-wing bullies who want to take away our unions and our democratic rights to speak out for what...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 11:00 am, February 12, 2011 Photo Credits: Organization of American States The Organization of American States, (OAS), Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza called for democracies to i...

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zinnedproject.org - Teaching Activity PDF. By Bill Bigelow. 7 pages. Students examine excerpts from Lincoln’s first inaugural address, the rarely mentioned original Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution that Lincol...

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depolitics1011.com - (Photo by Maham Khan) By Maham Khan Rahm Emanuel’s absence was conspicuous at the recent Pan Asian mayoral candidate forum, organized by the Pan Asian Voter Empowerment (PAVE) group of the Asian Am...

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dailycensored.com - Picture of current ‘president’ of DFT, Keith JohnsonThe Detroit Federation of Teachers membership meeting voted 84 – 49 to hold a new DFT Officers election, at its meeting last night. This is huge...

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chicagoelections.com - UPDATE: In response to the blizzard closings last week, the Election Board has worked with the City so that, weather permitting, all 51 Eary Voting locations will be open on Lincoln's Birthday, Fri...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 5:00 pm, February 12, 2011 Photo Credits: Emergency Room Cuban Immigrant, Birgilio Marin-Fuentes (61) drove himself to the hospital on Thursday night to the Portland Adventist Medical ...

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dissidentvoice.org - You don’t have to eat cattle who have worn trenbolone ear implants to end up with the growth stimulating androgenic hormone in your body reported the Associated Press in 2008. Water taken near a Ne...

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boston.com - SAN FRANCISCO—By the time today's teenagers were old enough to read, new drugs were available that meant HIV was no longer a death sentence.But with infections among youth and young adults in the U...

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chicagoist.com - For those of us who had the privilege of watching the Bulls rule the basketball world at the end of the last century, part of our brain will always believe it's 1993. Some small hunk of gray matter...

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Modern School: Crushing Unions by Any Means Necessary

Modern School: Crushing Unions by Any Means Necessary

Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Interview with Miguel del Valle--Chicago Tonight

Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Interview with Miguel del Valle--Chicago Tonight

Interview with Miguel del Valle--Chicago Tonight

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From Chicago Tonight, 2.10.2011


Bikers Ride to Support Miguel Del Valle for Mayor of Chicago

A video of bikers that support Miguel Del Valle for the next mayor of Chicago. Everyday, real citizens of Chicago discuss why they support Miguel Del Valle.

YAF Purges Ron Paul « Student Activism

YAF Purges Ron Paul « Student Activism

YAF Purges Ron Paul

Yep, that’s the word they used. “Purge.”

In a post on the Young Americans for Freedom blog, it was announced today that the group has “voted to purge Rep. Ron Paul” from its National Advisory Board because of his “delusional and disturbing

A Pedagogy of Culture and Power: School Reform for Social Justice | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

A Pedagogy of Culture and Power: School Reform for Social Justice | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

A Pedagogy of Culture and Power: School Reform for Social Justice

Should public schools in a democracy prepare students for what is or what should be?

This question has been asked repeatedly by reformers since John Dewey’s “Pedagogic Creed” appeared in 1897. The question continues in reformers’ quest for KIPP-like schooling for poor children of color or those reformers who swear by common core standards making U.S. schools competitive with Shanghai and Singapore, and, of course, advocates for transforming schools into high-tech havens. Don’t forget those who see schools as agents for reducing obesity in children.

Finally, add those champions of “critical pedagogy” to that list of what public schools in a democracy should be doing. Beyond preparing students with the language, social, and academic skills for a highly competitive labor market (e.g., KIPP, Common Core Standards), “critical pedagogy” and its various incarnations seek to equip low-income minority students with the language skills and academic content to analyze the culture and structures of power in the U.S. and use both to gain access to equal opportunities and alter the trajectories of their lives with

Not-To-Be-Missed Reports From Teach For America Celebration | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Not-To-Be-Missed Reports From Teach For America Celebration | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...


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Not-To-Be-Missed Reports From Teach For America Celebration

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Yesterday, on the eve of Teach For America’s twentieth anniversary celebration, I posted The Best Posts & Articles Raising Concerns About Teach For America.

Education Notes Online has been “live blogging” from the event, and they are not to be missed. In a tweet, Diane Ravitch called the posts “hilarious/depressing.”

Here are links to the first three updates — go directly to the blog for additional ones: