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Questioning the conventional wisdom

takingnote.learningmatters.tv - John’s book, The Influence of Teachers, is currently available on Amazon. The phrase “conventional wisdom” is often an oxymoron, at least in education. At a bare minimum, conventional wisdom ought ...

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OWS Protesters Lose NYC Site But Not Spirit

bloomberg.com - Enlarge image Wall Street Protesters Lose Campsite But Not Appetite Demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street movement wave court orders to reopen Zuccotti Park on Nov. 15, 2011. Demonstrators from...

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12 Essential Reads for Your Education

huffingtonpost.com - By Arafat Kazi, TNGGI read too much. I'm a media addict. I say stuff like, "Ha ha, it's like that fart joke from that Jonathan Swift poem from 1732." Most people find it annoying. But it sometimes ...

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Blessings in Disguise | Edwize

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Blessings in Disguise | Edwize:Blessings in Disguiseby Miss Endurance[Editor's note: Miss Endurance is the pseudonym of a fourth-year teacher in an elementary school on Staten Island.]It’s never a ...

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Protesters and Officers Clash Near Wall Street

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - This is a live stream from The Other 99’s channel. Another live feed is below. Hundreds of protesters from Zuccotti Park clashed with the police as they tried to reach the New York Stock Exchange T...

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Wall Street clashes start Occupy's day of action

cbsnews.com - Demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement confront a police officer as they march through the streets of the financial district Nov. 17, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo) Occupy Wal...

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Newt Gingrich's Freddie Mac work draws new scrutiny

latimes.com - Newt Gingrich, who has built his now resurgent presidential candidacy in part around virulent criticism of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, found himself Wednesday defending the at least...

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Big midyear hit for Prop 98 likely

toped.svefoundation.org - By The first shoe fell with a thud Wednesday, when the Legislative Analyst’s Office predicted that a $3.7 billion state revenue shortfall this year would result in $2 billion in midyear “trigger” c...

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#N17 Mass Day of Action | Occupy Together #OWS

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - #N17 Mass Day of Action | Occupy Together:#N17 Mass Day of ActionNovember 16th, 2011 · Ella · AnnouncementsNo commentsOWS is calling upon you to participate in a national day of direct action on No...

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    High School Students Are Occupying Public Education - Education - GOOD #ows

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    High School Students Are Occupying Public Education

    by Liz Dwyer

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    As thousands of people of all ages marched around the country as part of the Occupy movement's "Day of Action" yesterday, teachers and students joined in to protest the devastating budget cuts wreaking havoc oncolleges and K-12 schools. A group of secondary students from the South Bronx who call themselves The Resistance has developed a 10-point list of demands they say would put the "public" back in public education and give the nation’s children a quality learning experience.

    The students, who formed the group through the DreamYard A.C.T.I.O.N. Project—a four-year arts, activism, and

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    Making Sense of the Whole "Are Teachers Overpaid?" Thing :: Frederick M. Hess

    Making Sense of the Whole "Are Teachers Overpaid?" Thing :: Frederick M. Hess:

    Making Sense of the Whole "Are Teachers Overpaid?" Thing

    by Frederick M. Hess • Nov 18, 2011 at 8:00 am
    Cross-posted from Education Week

    A couple weeks ago, Andrew Biggs, an AEI colleague, and Jason Richwine of the Heritage Foundation, authored a controversial study on teacher pay. They used federal wage, benefit, and job-security data, along with measures of cognitive ability, to argue that teachers are overpaid compared to what they'd earn in the private sector. The analysis generated heated reaction, including an unusual, personal attack by Secretary of Education Duncan. In the aftermath, given that I'm director of ed policy studies at AEI, there were a number of inquiries regarding my thoughts on this provocative analysis.

    My take is threefold. (An earlier version of this originally appeared as an Ed Week commentary last week, but I thought it worth sharing a tweaked version here with RHSU readers.)

    First, claims that teachers are, in Duncan's words, "desperately underpaid," are a familiar refrain. Yet, given that we've steadily boosted staffing and after-inflation spending in recent decades to little obvious effect, and that states and districts are wrestling with structural shortfalls, it's healthy to question such orthodoxies. Biggs and Richwine remind us that the costs of teacher benefits dramatically inflate the cost of compensation, even if the results aren't always obvious when scanning a paycheck. Recall, for example, that University of Arkansas

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    Why we need those 15,000+ local governments? « School Finance 101

    Why we need those 15,000+ local governments? « School Finance 101:

    Why we need those 15,000+ local governments?

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    Neal McClusky at Cato Institute makes a good point about our casual, imprecise use of the term “democracy” in the post linked here. I did not delve into this in my previous post, and more or less allowed the imprecise terminology to slip past. Clearly there are huge differences between simple majority rule through direct democracy and our constitutional republic with separation of powers, and I certainly favor the latter.

    My original point was that Bowdon completely misrepresents not just a single judicial decision in Georgia, but the notion of the “will of the people” as expressed through our form of government, especially in Georgia and especially in this case. By Bowdon’s strange logic, the will of the people in Georgia is only expressed through the legislation adopted by elected state officials – the state legislature. Local elected officials apparently don’t count – and in Bowdon’s view, the choice of these local elected officials to challenge the constitutionality of state

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    The Definition of Education « Cooperative Catalyst

    The Definition of Education « Cooperative Catalyst:

    The Definition of Education

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    Receiving education in America once meant a chance to escape the ramifications of a limited knowledge. It once provided children a chance to better themselves and move beyond the implications of imprudence that could be forced upon their impressionable minds through those who essentially are in the same position as they are. It’s through education did America once ensure that children learned so they wouldn’t become incompetent thus leading them to become productive citizens of a dynamic land of opportunity.

    Today, the definition of education has been fundamentally altered from the definition that it held 20 years ago. The definition of education today is intertwined with the definitions of government, big pharmaceutical companies, special interest, and politically based decisions. In order to understand the

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