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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Big Education Ape: 8-25-11 AM Arne Duncan and the Bourne Identity #AskArne

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Arne Duncan and the Bourne Identity. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - In what has to be among the silliest education related stories you will hear this year, the Washington Post is reporting that Education Secretary Arne Duncan tried to intercept the actor Matt Damon...

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Want to #AskArne a Question? Tweet Today

ed.gov - The response to ED’s first-ever #AskArne Twitter Town Hall has been overwhelming. The questions and comments on Twitter are rolling in, and Arne looks forward to addressing the important issues you...

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Steve Brill’s blinkered view of education

blogs.reuters.com - If you don’t have the time or inclination to read Steve Brill’s book on education reform, then his bombastic op-ed on the subject is a pretty good alternative. And similarly, if you didn’t read Dia...

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More Than Just Good Teachers « EdVox

edvox.org - by Dorothy Siegel “A good teacher is the most important factor in a child’s academic learning” Every time I hear this statement, my blood pressure goes up. I usually respond by saying that yes, a c...

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If only the unions were the problem

blogs.reuters.com - By Deborah MeierThe opinions expressed are her own. As I read Brill’s opening paragraphs I was cheering. Aha, he’s going to apologize for his New Yorker attack on the teacher unions! He’s going to ...

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KC Superintendent Covington submits resignation

kansascity.com - By JOE ROBERTSONThe Kansas City StarKansas City school Superintendent John Covington has resigned, board member Arthur A. Benson II said this evening.Covington told the board at 5:50 p.m. that he w...

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The reform movement is already failing

blogs.reuters.com - By Diane RavitchThe opinions expressed are her own. Reuters invited leading educators to reply to Steven Brill’s op-ed on the school reform deniers. We will be publishing the responses here. Below ...

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Editor Said to Receive Pay After He Took Tory Post

nytimes.com - LONDON — The former News of the World editor Andy Coulson received hundreds of thousands of dollars in severance pay from his former employer after joining now-Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conser...

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Conservative Smackdown of the Day: 8-24-2011

addictinginfo.org - They could have sent Palin to shoot him from a helicopter.Awarded to that BFF trifecta of two-facedness, John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham for offering to help train Qhadafi’s (Khadaffy...

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Boehner says, "guess who's coming to dinner?" It's Mike Madigan

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Madigan (L) & Boehner“The press never picked up on it,” Edelman said about how his group had endorsed twice as many Democratic candidates as Republicans. Those endorsements were a strong indication...

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Loophole let DOE take years to test toxic site

riverdalepress.com - The Department of Education has announced that it will relocate the Bronx New School, PS 51, which it failed to test for nearly 20 years, to a school more than two miles away because PS 51 is too t...

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BBC News - Clashes in Chile as workers stage 48

bbc.co.uk - 25 August 2011 Last updated at 04:24 ET Chile is set for the second day of a 48-hour national strike called by the main trade unions who are demanding a raft of reforms. Wednesday's stoppage began ...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release August 24, 2011 The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Iowa and ordered federal aid to supplement s...

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Forbes Power Women | Forbes 100 Media | Gallery

mediaite.com - Gallery Forbes has come out with its annual list of “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” and, as is to be expected, several recognizable names in media made the cut. According to Forbes, the women...

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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 ...

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#AskArne? Oh, will I #AskArne. |

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - #AskArne? Oh, will I #AskArne. |: #AskArne? Oh, will I #AskArne.Posted on August 23, 2011 by Save Our Schools March - WisconsinI have a lot of questions for Arne Duncan. Always have. My first an...

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Editor Said to Receive Pay After He Took Tory Post

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    Duncan: No link between cheating, NCLB - Washington Times #AskArne

    Duncan: No link between cheating, NCLB - Washington Times:

    Duncan: No link between cheating, NCLB

    Places the blame on school leaders

    Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday denied that there is a direct “causal” effect between the high-stakes testing under the No Child Left Behind law and the cheating scandals that have erupted in school systems across the country, including the District.

    While saying that pressure to meet NCLB-established benchmarks may have played a role, he blamed the problem on ineffective school leaders who “turned a blind eye” to brewing problems and refused to confront the reality that teachers were lying to students and parents.

    “I think there is a morally bankrupt culture there,” Mr. Duncan said, referring specifically to Atlanta, where a recent government probe found that 44 schools and 178 teachers and principals had been faking test scores for the past decade.

    Similar cheating charges have been leveled at

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    Michelle Rhee: What Is She Doing Now?

    Michelle Rhee: What Is She Doing Now?:

    Michelle Rhee Would Do It Again

    The former head of D.C. Public Schools wants to run a school system again one day -- and has no regrets.

    Michelle Rhee Would Do It Again
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    When Michelle Rhee joined a panel of experts on Martha's Vineyard to discuss the achievement gap in public education, there was no doubt that she would be a lightning rod in the discussion. She shared the stage with education historian Diane Ravitch, Harvard sociologist Lawrence Bobo, Yale psychiatrist James Comer and Princeton sociologist Angel Harris, and soon enough she was taking fire from all sides.

    The panel was sponsored by Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, which is headed by The Root's editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr. For the past 15 years, these summer seminars have been an annual ritual at President Barack Obama's favorite vacation island, and they draw a cross section of vacationing intellectuals -- black, brown and white. The president was a few miles away but, of course, did not attend.

    Rhee's 3 1/2-year reign as chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools ended in controversy. She

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    Is Education Reform Encouraging Cheating? - International Business Times

    Is Education Reform Encouraging Cheating? - International Business Times:

    Is Education Reform Encouraging Cheating?


    By Jeremy B. White | August 24, 2011 8:24 AM EDT

    If the education reform movement has a guiding principle, it is accountability: the belief that test scores can be trusted as an accurate gauge of progress and used to reward flourishing schools or punish failing ones.

    • (Photo: REUTERS / Hyungwon Kang )<br>Gains made by Washington D.C. public schools under former education chancellor Michelle Rhee have come under scrutiny.
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    Gains made by Washington D.C. public schools under former education chancellor Michelle Rhee have come under scrutiny.

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    But a series of prominent cheating scandals across the U.S. has exposed a potentially fatal flaw in policies stemming from that belief. Intense pressure to demonstrate rising student achievement can lead educators to fudge test results and alter grades, making the ostensible progress a mirage and undermining the idea that test scores can be relied upon as objective.

    The pressure comes partially from within school

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    Back-to-School Special: Arne Duncan Goes Off Script - TIME #AskArne

    Back-to-School Special: Arne Duncan Goes Off Script - TIME:

    Back-to-School Special: Arne Duncan Goes Off Script

    By Andrew J. Rotherham Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011


    Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2090299,00.html#ixzz1W2fTYMGH

    Arne Duncan speaks during the 2011 AAPD Awards Gala at the Ronald Reagan Building on March 15, 2011 in Washington, D.C.

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    As a new school year begins, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan plans to use waivers to rewrite parts of the nation's signature federal education law, whose reauthorization has been stalled in Congress. Meanwhile, states are struggling to meet their ambitious Race to the Top goals as they look for ways to cut spending. I sat down with the former head of the Chicago school system to talk about these issues as well as how he pressured the Iowa governor not to cut his state's pre-kindergarten program

    Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2090299,00.html#ixzz1W2fNPtlr
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    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Arne Duncan's new job at the D.O.E.? Celebrity catcher

    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Arne Duncan's new job at the D.O.E.? Celebrity catcher:

    Arne Duncan's new job at the D.O.E.? Celebrity catcher



    The ed secretary now appears to be in charge of silencing the administration's Hollywood critics. WaPo's Valerie Strauss broke the storywith a leak from inside Duncan's department.
    According to two people familiar with the efforts, the administration tried to arrange a meeting with Damon and government officials, including Education Secretary Arne
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    Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Why TFA is Dangerous for Our District (or any other)

    Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Why TFA is Dangerous for Our District (or any other):

    Education Advocacy Roster My, but there sure are a lot of education advocacy groups in and around Seattle. There are so many, I'm not sure how the Gates Foundation (which, I think, funds them all) keeps track of them. Let's see how many we can count. League of Education Voters ...

    Links to Latest SPS/TFA e-mails For your reading interest: TFA 1 TFA 2 TFA 3 TFA 4 TFA 5 TFA 6 One last thing for anyone from SPS or anyone who works for a government entity - your work e-mails are public e-mails. That means anyone, at anytime can ask for them. Food for ...

    Why TFA is Dangerous for Our District (or any other) Lastly, on this latest batch of e-mails were two interesting ones from the e-mail of Maria Goodloe-Johnson. One is frightening and the other is a bit of schadenfrueden for our pal, Michelle Rhee. In June of 2010, Dr. Goodloe-Johnson wrote Wendy Kopp, ...

    SPS/TFA E-mails - If You're Not for It, Enfield Won't be Listening When Charlie had e-mailed the Board about his concerns over TFA (antedotal versus data-driven information), here was the response between Dr. Enfield and Janis Ortega (TFA): This immediately sparked a response from Enfield to Ortega, "*We need the ...

    New Education Blog in Seattle We are always delighted when others start their own discussions about education in Seattle. There are a number of blogs - some more active than others, some more public than others - in addition to this one. I would like to introduce a newcomer to the ...
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