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DC Politicians Don't Care About DCPS Cheating Scandal WTU Membership Meeting - March 17, 2011 Improperly Fired DCPS Teachers Speak Out! Veteran Teachers Need Not Apply: Henderson Recruits TFA Alums Despite Budget Deficit WTU Letter To Mayor Gray Re F

thewashingtonteacher.blogspot.com - by Candi Peterson, WTU General Vice PresidentLet’s take a trip down memory lane. Remember back in 2008, OSSE (Office of the State Superintendent of Education in DC) requested that McGraw Hill Testi...

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Charter Schools Outsource Education to Management Firms, With Mixed Results

propublica.org - Excerpt from Hope Academy Broadway Campus's lawsuit against White Hat Management. Inset: Screenshot from a White Hat Management promotional video.Contrary to the idea of charters as small, locally ...

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The Deadlocked Debate Over Education Reform

nytimes.com - Few would argue that she was a good choice. But as you watched the almost giddy reception that greeted the departure of the New York City schools chancellor, Cathleen P. Black, last week — “She was...

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Sources: Budget deal includes D.C. abortion rider, money for school vouchers - D.C. Wire

washingtonpost.com - The spending deal agreed to Friday night to avert a government shutdown includes a provision banning the District from spending its own funds to provide abortions to low-income women as well as fun...

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McDonald’s Wage For Nuclear Job Shows Some Japan Towns May Fade - Bloomberg

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - McDonald’s Wage For Nuclear Job Shows Some Japan Towns May Fade - BloombergMcDonald’s Wage For Nuclear Job Shows Some Japan Towns May FadeBy John Brinsley and Aki Ito - Apr 10, 2011 9:01 AM PTinSha...

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Charter Schools Outsource Education to Management Firms, With Mixed Results - ProPublica

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Charter Schools Outsource Education to Management Firms, With Mixed Results - ProPublicaCharter Schools Outsource Education to Management Firms, With Mixed ResultsExcerpt from Hope Academy Broadway...

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Different Figureheads, Same Boss | The Jose Vilson

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Different Figureheads, Same Boss | The Jose VilsonDifferent Figureheads, Same Bossby JoseMayor Michael Bloomberg, Dennis Walcott, and Cathleen Black“YES! Cathie Black is out! Woo! Congratulations!”...

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Educational Transformation? It’s the Governance, Stupid! | Lefty Parent

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Educational Transformation? It’s the Governance, Stupid! | Lefty ParentEducational Transformation? It’s the Governance, Stupid!by Cooper ZaleIn my most recent piece “Schools: Trying to Balance Coer...

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La. education board agrees to hire new RSD leader

online.wsj.com - Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. — A new superintendent for the Recovery School District, which oversees schools taken over by the state for poor performance, will begin his job May 1, after the s...

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WEEKEND QUOTABLES michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Saturday's We Are One march & Rally in Chicago"This is no longer a state movement. This is an international movement on behalf of working families," said Betsy Kippers, vice president of the Wisc... mikeklonsky

NYC Educator: "I’m going to fire somebody in a little while. Do you want to see that?" bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NYC Educator: "I’m going to fire somebody in a little while. Do you want to see that?""I’m going to fire somebody in a little while. Do you want to see that?"by NYC EducatorSo speaks uber-"reformer... coopmike48

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TEPCO president to visit Fukushima Monday afternoon mdn.mainichi.jp - In this March 13, 2011 file photo, Masataka Shimizu, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. speaks during the press conference in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo ... mikeklonsky

[VIDEO] Unions rally in Chicago to support public workers

presstvmobile.com - Published: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:55:24 More than 5,000 Union members from 3 states attended a rally at Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago to show their solidarity in the midst of what they say is an inc...

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Workers rally in Chicago for collective bargaining rights

news.in.msn.com - Himani Kumar Chicago, Apr 9 (PTI) Thousands of Illinois teachers, carpenters and other public service workers gathered here in support of union employees against the proposal of limiting collective...

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NPR Station in LA Suspends Planned Parenthood Spots thenation.com - NPR Station in LA Suspends Planned Parenthood Spots April 10, 2011 Share | || Recommended by 0|One of two NPR stations in the Los Angeles area, KPCC-FM, suspended its regularly-scheduled Planned P... mikeklonsky

Home - Inside Higher Ed insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ... coopmike48

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No Breakfast, but Bagels for Lunch

nytimes.com - The founder and chief executive of Teach for America, Wendy Kopp, 43, is also the author, most recently, of “A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn’t in Providing an Excellent Educatio...

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School Tech Connect: Rothko, and Red Herrings bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Rothko, and Red HerringsRothko, and Red Herringsby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)Ok, we're back. In the aftermath of the burglary and the exhausting week, I've tried to stay blissfu... coopmike48

Another Brilliant Message from Bill Maher: Charlie Sheen and Class Warfare bluecheddar.wordpress.com - Maher: “If I had to pick a phrase that encapsulates the American economy in the last decade, it surely would be, “I’ve already got your money dude.”“I’ve already got your money dude.” That’s what C... coopmike48

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Union supporters rally at Capitol following stunning election reversal

host.madison.com - STEVEN VERBURG | sverburg@madison.com | 608-252-6118 madison.com | | Posted: Saturday, April 9, 2011 1:01 pm On the heels of a shocking reversal in a critical Supreme Court race, union members and ...

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: DEAR PRESIDENT OBAMA (in 338 words or less),

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: DEAR PRESIDENT OBAMA (in 338 words or less),DEAR PRESIDENT OBAMA (in 338 words or less), By Bill Ivey, Bill Ivey’s blog/Independent School Educators Net...

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U.S. Issues Travel Warning to (3) Mexican States due to Threats hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 4:31 pm, April 10, 2011 Photo Credits: Map of Mexico The United States Consulates General in Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, and Monterrey advise American citizens that the U.S. government ha... coopmike48

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Japan Set to Extend Nuclear Evacuation Zone

nytimes.com - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan plans to extend the evacuation zone around its crippled nuclear plant because of high radiation levels, local media reported Monday, with engineers no closer to regaining co...

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David J. Brenner: Fukushima's Radiation Fallout

online.wsj.com - BY DAVID J. BRENNER As the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant drags on, how worried should people living near the plant, further away in Japan, or here in America be about the radiat...

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Emerging Powers Increase Share of Scientific Research

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The Decline of American Education | China Power

The Decline of American Education | China Power

The Decline of American Education

By Jiang Xueqin

April 11, 2011

For the past year now, I’ve prettyrelentlessly criticized China’s education system. Doing so is easy and, I admit a little fun sometimes. Unfortunately, recently, I’ve been reading about an Asian-American woman who has made me think that perhaps China and the United States aren’t as different as I had naively hoped. Amy Chua may get her own movie and talk show one day, but it’s really Michelle Rhee who’s become the face of the future of US education.

A recent USA Todayinvestigation revealed what appears to be significant cheating on standardized tests in Washington schools while Michelle Rhee was overseeing them as chancellor. Responding in the

Why faith in standardized testing industry is misplaced - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Why faith in standardized testing industry is misplaced - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Why faith in standardized testing industry is misplaced

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This was written by Todd Farley, author of “ Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry.” Farley worked for 15 years in the K-12 testing business for many of the biggest players (Pearson Education, Educational Testing Service, American Institutes of Research, etc.) on many of the biggest tests (National Assessment of Educational Progress, California High School Exit Exam, Florida Comprehensive Assessment, Virginia Standards of Learning, etc.). A vesion of this appeared on The Huffington Post.

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As school reformers try to push American education towards a place where standardized tests become more important than teachers, I have to wonder why. What exactly has occurred in standardized testing over the last decade that justifies such belief in large-scale assessments, or such blind faith in the completely unregulated, massively profitable

Join Me At An Ed Week Live Online Chat On Tuesday (Plus, Info On Getting A Discount On My Book) | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Join Me At An Ed Week Live Online Chat On Tuesday (Plus, Info On Getting A Discount On My Book) | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

“Hot Spot” Interview — Teaching In The Midst Of Drug War I recently began a new regular interview series. There are always lots of “hot spots” around the world — places where there are natural disasters, political upheavals, etc. And English teachers can be found in most of those places. If you are an ...

Join Me At An Ed Week Live Online Chat On Tuesday (Plus, Info On Getting A Discount On My Book) I’ll be the guest at an Education Week online chat about my new book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves, on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 2 p.m. Eastern time. The chat box with be “open” an hour or two prior to officially beginning the chat, and you ...

“This is Your Brain on Shakespeare” This is Your Brain on Shakespeare is a pretty interesting short article on a research a professor did on what listening to Shakespeare did to people’s brain. He found that it can *“shift mental pathways and open possibilities” for what the brain can ...

“Hot Spot” Interview — Teaching In The Midst Of Drug War I recently began a new regular interview series. There are always lots of “hot spots” around the world — places where there are natural disasters, political upheavals, etc. And English teachers can be found in most of those places. If you are an ...

How We Made An Excellent Speaking Activity Even Better Last week I posted about an Excellent Speaking Activity, one that I learned from Paul Nation. Here’s an excerpt: *He calls it the “4-3-2″ Fluency Activity. In it, students line up (standing or sitting) facing each other. Each one must be prepared to ...