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Book Review: Special Interest | Class Warfare

online.wsj.com - Like so many debates in America today, the fight over public education is as polarized as it is consequential. There appears to be a general sense of agreement that the results we are getting are w...

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Just what Perry needed to save his crumbling campaign

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - ...DuncanT-bagger Gov.Perry's "Texas miracle" has been a disaster for public education. He's cut $8B from the public ed budget and fired 50,000 teachers despite a glob of state oil revenues and lot...

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PS 51 Cancer Scare Ignites Calls For Accountability

ny1.com - To view our videos, you need toenable JavaScript. Learn how.install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. Critics are calling for Schools Chancellor Denni...

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And they say the 1950's were boring!

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Check this photo from the May 8, 1950 edition of Life magazine: students "rioting" in the streets for better salaries for their teachers, after their teachers refused to take on extra duties like c...

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uppitywis.org - You may note that a petition-signing widget has shown up on some of our pages. We're carrying petitions from Care2 on our site now. You can sign these action petitions on-line (and yes, you can o...

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We Will Not Pay For Your Crisis! Workers Unite!

defendwisconsin.org - – August 19, 2011Posted in: Announcements Solidarity March and Rally with State WorkersThursday, August 25th 4:30PM Library Mall and March to the Capitol 5:00PM Rally at the Capitol On Thursday, Au...

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Ohio governor, GOP leaders stage union law meeting

boston.com - COLUMBUS, Ohio—Union leaders passed on meeting with Ohio Gov. John Kasich Friday to discuss a possible compromise over the state's new collective bargaining law, rebuffing an effort intended to rem...

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This week's healthy schools highlights

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A Fledgling Teacher-Led School Trend | Lefty Parent

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A Fledgling Teacher-Led School Trend | Lefty ParentA Fledgling Teacher-Led School Trendby Cooper ZaleAs a follow-up to Ken Bernstein’s Daily KOS diary,“Education – Moving Past Excuses: What Excelle...

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Steve Brill’s Report Card on School Reform

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    My thoughts on homework… | Connected Principals

    My thoughts on homework… | Connected Principals

    My thoughts on homework…

    by Justin Tarte

    I recently wrote a blog post titled “5 conversations to improve your school right now!” The 5 topics I recommend each school to discuss are:

    1) – Homework in schools
    2) – Cell phones and technology in schools
    3) – School public relations
    4) - Teacher and administrator relationships
    5) – Meetings

    John Spencer (@johntspencer) is an Educator I have a lot of respect for, and after reading my post he challenged me to share what I really believe about homework. I have some very strong feelings about homework, and I honestly believe each and every school should take the time to evaluate their homework policy, as well a

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    New Orleans charter testing drama casts light on how cheating allegations are handled | NOLA.com

    New Orleans charter testing drama casts light on how cheating allegations are handled | NOLA.com

    New Orleans charter testing drama casts light on how cheating allegations are handled

    Published: Friday, August 19, 2011, 10:45 PM
    Sarah Carr, The Times-Picayune By Sarah Carr, The Times-Picayune

    Last year, several teachers at Miller-McCoy Academy in eastern New Orleans told Recovery School District officials they feared someone on the school's staff had opened high-stakes exams in advance so students could be prepped on a few actual test questions.

    miller_mccoy_academy_screen_grab.jpgMiller-McCoy Academy screen grab

    An RSD investigation concluded some kind of cheating had likely occurred at the all-boys middle and high school. Then, Miller-McCoy's board of directors conducted its own investigation, which found no evidence of wrongdoing. In the end, the conflicting findings of the two probes were never fully reconciled.

    The handling of the matter raises important questions about how cheating allegations are

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    SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Mr Spock Opines On Princess Sydney Morris

    SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Mr Spock Opines On Princess Sydney Morris

    Mr Spock Opines On Princess Sydney Morris

    by noreply@blogger.com (Bronx Teacher)
    Tonight's blog welcomes a special guest blogger. We would like to welcome Mr Spock, science officer and first officer aboard the USS Enterprise, representing the United Federation of Planets. Mr Spock is actually not present, but rather on patrol along the Neutral Zone. We have been able to communicate through a temporal rift in the space time continuum. Mr Spock was gracious enough to put aside playing three dimensional chess and share is opinion on the upcoming symposium, "On Education," later next week. We turn the blog over to Mr Spock.

    Thank you. Live long and prosper Bronx Teacher and the
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    How the Science World Tells Black Kids 'Do Not Enter' - Education - GOOD

    How the Science World Tells Black Kids 'Do Not Enter' - Education - GOOD

    How the Science World Tells Black Kids 'Do Not Enter'

    by Liz Dwyer

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    Back in 2009, President Obama launched his "Educate to Innovate" program, tasked with increasing the number of students pursuing science, technology, engineering and math careers. And with students of color set to make up the majority in American schools by 2050, efforts focused on prepping them to become the next

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    Lawmakers, Insurers Battle over Coverage for Autism - The Bay Citizen

    Lawmakers, Insurers Battle over Coverage for Autism - The Bay Citizen

    Lawmakers, Insurers Battle over Coverage for Autism

    by Stephanie Sara Chong
    When Elliott Epstein was diagnosed with autism three years ago, his parents' biggest challenge wasn't finding treatment. It was finding a way to pay for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills. “We call Elliott our ‘little house,’” Elliott's father, Kevin Epstein, said with a laugh, explaining that he and his wife paid out of pocket for their son’s treatment with money they’d saved for their first home. “It takes every penny you have, and every penny you don’t have.” The Santa Clara County couple enrolled Elliott when he was 3 in Applied Behavior Analysis, or ABA, an intensive, one-on-one behavior-based therapy that has been used to treat autism since the 1960s. But their Blue Shield health plan refused to pay. Blue Shield and other health[...]
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    YOU ARE INVITED: DCPS Education Advocates Organizing Meeting

    Diary of a Social Art-tivist Mommy: YOU ARE INVITED: DCPS Education Advocates Organizing Meeting

    YOU ARE INVITED: DCPS Education Advocates Organizing Meeting

    by ART-tivist Mommy

    DC Parent Power Organizing Meeting


    Parents, teachers and education advocates are invited to an organizing meeting to look for common ground for civic engagement around public education in the District. The meeting will take place at:

    Watha T. Daniel Library (Shaw Library)

    1630 7th St. N.W.

    Washington, DC 20001

    Main meeting room

    5:30-7:30 p.m

    Wednesday, August 31st 2011

    1 block from the Shaw/Howard Metro (Green Line)

    Street parking is generally available

    This is the second gathering of a group of DCPS parents and education advocates joining together to improve public education by re-engaging DCPS, District government education agencies and elected officials with the major constituency who use the schools.

    City families, teachers & interested community members are welcome to participate.


    We initially came together inspired by the National Save Our Schools event on the Mall and SOS Conference in July. The initial gathering indicated strong sentiment for:

    · Authentic public engagement
    · Transparency at all stages of policy development
    · Less emphasis on standardized testing
    · Richer curriculum
    · Strong backing for public education, as opposed to increasing privatization
    · Decreasing racial and economic school segregation
    · Use of proven methods in all levels of school reform
    · Equitable funding for all Wards

    If interested, please contact Miriam Cutelis at Miriam.Cutelis@yahoo.com with an RSVP if you plan to attend or if you want more information.
    **Feel free to forward this invitation to other individuals or groups who might be interested.
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    Lobato 8/19: Linda Darling-Hammond witness | EdNewsColorado

    Lobato 8/19: A high-profile witness | EdNewsColorado

    Lobato 8/19: A high-profile witness

    by Todd Engdahl

    Stanford teaching expert Linda Darling-Hammond used a Denver courtroom Friday afternoon to give a seminar on teaching best practices and implementation of standards-based reforms but offered only broad comments about Colorado and its reforms.

    Darling-Hammond is perhaps the best known of the national expert witnesses for the plaintiffs in the Lobato v. State school funding case, which ended its third week.

    Linda Darling-Hammond

    Linda Darling-Hammond

    The author of numerous books and articles, Darling-Hammond is former president of the American Education

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    Charter School Controversy Roils A Predominantly Black Suburb | The Defenders Online | A Civil Rights Blog

    Charter School Controversy Roils A Predominantly Black Suburb | The Defenders Online | A Civil Rights Blog

    Charter School Controversy Roils A Predominantly Black Suburb

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    By Kenneth J. Cooper

    Charter schools are moving into the suburbs, and one of the first in Illinois outside of a big city is near Chicago in a predominately black suburb, where the school’s presence has heightened class tensions and raised questions about educational equities.

    The creation of the black-led Southland College Prep Charter High School a year ago has spawned a lawsuit and public dispute with a heavily black school system, which stands to lose millions in state aid as the school expands grade by grade to a total enrollment of 500 beginning in 2013.

    The Rich Township High School District 227 says it is facing teacher layoffs and cutbacks in courses offered to its 4,000 students. Eighty-nine percent are black, and nearly all are from low-income families, according to the state.

    Black Male Student in LibraryThe creation of Southland High was pushed by black parents dissatisfied with the three high schools in District 227, where test scores slipped in the 2009-2010 academic year, leaving the district further away from reaching federal standards under the No Child Left Behind Act.

    The small suburb of Olympia Fields, one of the most affluent black communities in the country, took a leading role in creating Southland and helped finance its first year of operation. The charter school has anothe

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    There are more successful schools than you think (see for yourself) - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    There are more successful schools than you think (see for yourself) - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    There are more successful schools than you think (see for yourself)

    By

    This was written by Sean Slade, director of Healthy School Communities at ASCD, a global association empowering educators to support the success of each learner.

    By Sean Slade

    For a while now, I have heard— and also said the words myself— that there are pockets of excellence all around the United States. This is true, there are great schools doing great things. However what is becoming clear is that there aren’t just pockets around the country, but rather excellence is everywhere: in every state, in every region, in every pocket of this country.

    If you listened just to news about public education or read some of the

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    Schools Matter: Tribune Lines Up Behind Brizard, Chicago's New Broadie

    Schools Matter: Tribune Lines Up Behind Brizard, Chicago's New Broadie

    Tribune Lines Up Behind Brizard, Chicago's New Broadie

    by Jim Horn
    Just as Booker T. Washington was groomed by white philanthropists during the first Gilded Age to advance the cause of segregation, containment, and indoctrination of African-Americans, the philanthrocapitalists of our Gilded Age 2.0 have a whole slew of Booker T.'s to push the message of miseducation, austerity, and oppression of today's minority children in America's urban centers.

    The latest trainee from Eli Broad's Big House Superintendent's Academy to be placed in charge of mangling another urban school system is Jean-Claude Brizard (Class of '07), who is fresh from a spectacularly-failed administration in Rochester, New York, where he earned an overwhelming no-confidence vote from Rochester educators (2,713 to 140).

    So now Jean-Claude is Rahm's black face for white Chicago-style corporate-run schools, and the Tribune's Wall
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    Winning the Game of Who Frames the Problem: Debt Ceilings and School Reform | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

    Winning the Game of Who Frames the Problem: Debt Ceilings and School Reform | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

    Winning the Game of Who Frames the Problem: Debt Ceilings and School Reform

    by larrycuban

    The avalanche of disgust expressed by Americans over the recent debt-ceiling compromise in Washington, D.C. and subsequent downgrading of the national credit rating highlights how perceptions, power and politics determine which problems get fixed and how. Framing a problem is subjective, not objective, and involves power far more than cool, impartial sifting of facts leading to an evidence-based decision. Those who win at this game get naming and blaming rights.

    What happened in this policy controversy? Most economists and President Obama have said that the major problem the U.S. faces is generating jobs to get 13 million unemployed Americans back to full-time work. To

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