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Mayor Emanuel’s budget show | Ben Joravsky on Politics

chicagoreader.com - It was hard to attend Mayor Rahm Emanuel's first-ever budget hearing last month without thinking of the mayor who ruled before him.That would be Richard M. Daley, of course, though Mayor Emanuel ne...

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Asking Hard Questions About “What Works”

edwize.org - [Editor's note: Data analysis conducted by Rhonda Rosenberg.] This week, the Daily News published yet another editorial taking an unjustly negative view of district schools in comparison to the cha...

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Well, Rick Perry, Since You Brought Up Galileo...

motherjones.com - Rick Perry was more than happy to embrace the anti-science title in Wednesday's GOP debate, repeating the claim that the "science isn't settled" on the question of whether human activity is causing...

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Inside the Koch Brothers' 2011 Summer Seminar: Part 1

truthout.com - Those of you who follow The BRAD BLOG closely may know that I've been working in the background, for a number of weeks, on an exclusive series concerning the billionaire Koch Brothers, the co-owner...

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Jobs Plan? End the Wars, Save 400,000 Jobs

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nypost.com - The number of homeless students in city public schools has quad-rupled since the economy tanked in 2008 -- weighing down an already overburdened system with an additional 30,000 kids lacking perman...

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National Guard on alert over blackout

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Blackout shuts down San Onofre nuclear reactors

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 08, 2011 Statement from Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO, GE, and Chairman, President's Council on Jobs and Competitivenes...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 08, 2011 “The Jobs Council has examined the important need for and potential benefits of fixing our nation's crumbling ...

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Climate Change Likely Influenced Mexican Migration North

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Last word on 'Class Warfare' | The Journal Gazette | Fort Wayne, IN

Last word on 'Class Warfare' | The Journal Gazette | Fort Wayne, IN:

Last word on 'Class Warfare'

Karen Francisco | The Journal Gazette

Diane Ravitch delivers what should be the last word on Steven Brill's new book, "Class Warfare." In a review for The New York Review of Books, Ravitch cuts to the core of Brill's wrongheaded assumptions about U.S. schools – primarily, that all problems are the fault of teachers and unions:

"Brill is completely ignorant of a vast body of research literature about teaching," she writes. "Economists agree that teachers are the most important influence on student test scores inside the school, but the influence of schools and teachers is dwarfed by nonschool factors, most especially by family income. The reformers like to say that poverty doesn't make a difference, but they are wrong. Poverty matters. The achievement gap between children of affluence and children of poverty starts long before the first day of school. It reflects the nutrition and medical care available to pregnant women and their children, as well as the educational level of the children's parents, the vocabulary they hear, and the experiences to which they are exposed."

Ravitch's broad knowledge of the history of American schools puts Brill's book in its proper context, deflating the myth of a current "crisis" by

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NJ Spotlight | Newark School Closure Sparks Statewide Debate

NJ Spotlight | Newark School Closure Sparks Statewide Debate:

Newark School Closure Sparks Statewide Debate
Critics claim that building troubles – mushrooms and all – are yet another example of School Development Authority's inefficiencies

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The school in Newark's Ironbound section stood silent yesterday, a brick edifice built more than a century ago, its gate chained and locked, its 800 students dispersed to other schools because of deteriorating conditions.

But for all its quiet, Wilson Avenue School has spurred a chorus of debate. Hundreds of parents and others turned out for a meeting Tuesday to protest the district's decision to shutter the school just three days before classes were slated to start, due to severe mold and water damage exacerbated by Hurricane Irene.

And showing how seriously the Christie administration is taking the situation, on hand were acting education commissioner Chris Cerf and Schools Development Authority (SDA) chief executive Marc

Podcast: Back to School for Gov. Christie

Governor talks up his education agenda, admits some of it may have to wait.
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S.D. Unified to review public records policy following complaint | SignOnSanDiego.com

S.D. Unified to review public records policy following complaint | SignOnSanDiego.com:

S.D. Unified to review public records policy following complaint

Parent was originally told she would be charged for staff time to make copies

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Download: Superintendent calendar released to parent Sally Smith

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Download: Superintendent calendar released to Voice of San Diego

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District seeks fee for viewing calendar

A parent-activist who was going to be charged for staff time so she could see San Diego Unified Superintendent Bill Kowba’s calendar won’t incur that cost, after her story was highlighted in The Watchdog.

The district ended up charging Sally Smith $2.70 — 10 cents a page — for the cost of duplicating the public record.

Smith had been told she would be charged 10 cents per page “plus clerical time for the actual duplication, at a rate of $20 to $28 per hour.”
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Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - “Does Grade Level Retention Work?”

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - “Does Grade Level Retention Work?”:

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“Does Grade Level Retention Work?” Does Grade Level Retention Work? is the new “question of the week” at my Education Week Teacher blog. Actually, the full question is: *Does grade-level retention work as an accountability tool for students and parents?* Please contribute your ...
New 9/11 Resources Are Coming Online Pretty Darn Quickly Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Help Teach About 9/11: The Reckoning: America and the World A Decade After 9/11 is a massive feature unveiled by The New York Times. The Lessons is a particularly interesting part of that feature. ...
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Arne Duncan: CPS deserves ‘badge of shame’ for short school day - Chicago Sun-Times

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Arne Duncan: CPS deserves ‘badge of shame’ for short school day

By Rosalind Rossi Education Reporter/rrossi@suntimes.com September 8, 2011 9:14PM

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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan answers a question after his speech Thursday evening at the Radisson in Merrillville. | Jeffrey D. Nicholls~Sun-Times Media

Updated: September 9, 2011 4:58AM



U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Thursday that Chicago Public Schools deserve the “badge of shame’’ for having such a short school day, and he wished he could have lengthened it while he was Schools CEO here.

“Chicago has had the shortest day and year among [large] urban districts for far too long,’’ Duncan told the Chicago Sun-Times in advance of a Friday visit to Schurz High School.

“That’s not a badge of honor. That’s a badge of shame.’’

Extending the school day and year is “absolutely ... something I wish we could have done’’ under his leadership, Duncan said. But, he said, during that time — from 2001 to early 2009 — “the system couldn’t afford it.’’

Chicago Teachers Union officials question how CPS —

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