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PISA, poverty, and profits. - Topeka K-12

examiner.com - The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) released its 2009 test results in early December, 2010. Conducted by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), PISA t...

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Town Hall: 140 Characters at a Time

ed.gov - “I love my job,” Secretary Duncan said at the close of yesterday’s second #AskArne Twitter Town Hall, moderated by education journalist John Merrow. Merrow covered a wide-range of education topics ...

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Why were they placed in pairs?

deltascape.blogspot.com - I wrote before how GVSU's Teacher Assisting semester is a fairly unique program. The Mathematics Department has gone one step further by placing pairs of Teacher Assistants [TAs] in classrooms (or ...

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Leahy | Sex | Violence Against Women Act

dailycaller.com - Campus activists are cheering a decision by Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to do away with a portion of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) rea...

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Law Schools May Face Senate Hearings

online.wsj.com - BY ASHBY JONES U.S. Senate staff members are gathering a trove of information about legal education in the U.S., including figures on law school job placement and student-loan debt, in response to ...

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Leahy | Sex | Violence Against Women Act

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PISA, poverty, and profits. - Topeka K-12

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In what other profession... - Topeka K-12

examiner.com - I’m going to step out of my usual third-person writing voice for a moment. As a parent I received a letter last week from the Kansas State Board of Education, informing me that my children’s school...

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Did the Obama administration assist in coordinating an attack on Occupy Wall Street? Putting FOIA to good use. « Fred Klonsky #OWS

Did the Obama administration assist in coordinating an attack on Occupy Wall Street? Putting FOIA to good use. « Fred Klonsky:

Did the Obama administration assist in coordinating an attack on Occupy Wall Street? Putting FOIA to good use.

by Fred Klonsky

Instead of some right-wing anti-union cult like Kyle Olson’s Education Actin Group using the Freedom of Information Act to go through an elementary teacher’s emails and personnel file (that would be me), David Lane, a well-known civil rights attorney in Denver will put the FOIA to a very different purpose.

Lane wants to know what did the Obama administration know and when did they know about the coordinated attacks on Occupation camp sites in half a dozen cities?

How would the answer to that question impact Obama’s ability to appeal to the progressive wing of the

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This Week In Education: Update: What Reformers & Critics Don't Quite Get About Occupy Wall Street #OWS

This Week In Education: Update: What Reformers & Critics Don't Quite Get About Occupy Wall Street:

Update: What Reformers & Critics Don't Quite Get About Occupy Wall Street

by Alexander Russo
XDHAoIt seems like no one can resist making comparisons between what's going on at Occupy Wall Street and what's going on in education reform. And you can't blame them. Some of school reform's most well known names -- Mike Bloomberg, Whitney Tilson, Boykin Curry, Bill Gates, Eli Broad -- are quite literally members of the 1 percent (albeit Democrats). Many other reforms aren't One Percenters but have enough of the trappings -- Ivy League educations, Rhodes Scholarships, Bain and McKinsey pedigrees, a corporate style of dressing and speaking and a certainty and rigidity about their ideas -- that they are easily lumped in. Many of their ideas -- public
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License to Experiment on Low Income & Minority Children? « School Finance 101

License to Experiment on Low Income & Minority Children? « School Finance 101:

License to Experiment on Low Income & Minority Children?

by schoolfinance101

John Mooney at NJ Spotlight provided a reasonable overview of the NJDOE waiver proposal to “reward” successful schools and sanction and/or takeover “failing” ones.

The NJDOE waiver proposal includes explanation of a new classification system for identifying which schools should be subject to state intervention, ultimately to be managed by regional offices throughout the state. This new targeted intervention system classifies districts in need of intervention as “priority” districts, with specific emphasis on “focus” districts. Mooney explains:

In all, 177 schools — known as Focus Schools — fell into this category, largely defined as the

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Shifting course, East Harlem nonprofit evicts charter school | GothamSchools

Shifting course, East Harlem nonprofit evicts charter school | GothamSchools:

Shifting course, East Harlem nonprofit evicts charter school

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One of the city’s oldest and highest-performing charter schools is being evicted by an unlikely landlord: the community organization that founded it.

Harbor Science and Arts Charter School, which opened in 2000, will have to find a new space in coming years after Boys & Girls Harbor, a 74-year old nonprofit that serves East Harlem youth, told the school’s board that it was ending an 11-year partnership.

The sudden news has jolted school administrators and unnerved families — and also illuminated a strange irony: While charter schools are sometimes criticized for disrupting other schools’ space, they too are at the

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Opinion | Diane Ravitch: putting education reform to the test | Seattle Times Newspaper

Opinion | Diane Ravitch: putting education reform to the test | Seattle Times Newspaper:

Diane Ravitch: putting education reform to the test

Education historian Diane Ravitch has amassed a devoted following, and impressive book sales, with searing polemics about the horrors of education reform. Wade beneath the rhetoric and Ravitch is still a reformer at heart.

By Lynne K. Varner

Seattle Times editorial columnist


Education historian Diane Ravitch has amassed a devoted following, and impressive book sales, with searing polemics about billionaires privatizing public schools and students tortured by standardized tests.

Ravitch is visiting Seattle, bringing a long lens on American public education, both as a former assistant education secretary under President George H.W. Bush and early leader of the education-reform movement and now as a speaker on the crusade to expose education reform efforts as a sham.

Read "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are

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State Education Reforms (SER) - Welcome to the Website on State Education Reforms

State Education Reforms (SER) - Welcome to the Website on State Education Reforms:

Welcome to the Website on State Education Reforms

This site, which draws primarily on data collected by organizations other than NCES, compiles and disseminates data on state-level elementary and secondary education reform efforts in the five areas indicated below.

School finance is also an important area of educational reform. A few tables on this topic are included in the Accountability section. Additional state-level information on school finance is available in "Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education", a report available at the NCESEducation Finance Statistics Center.

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Report on proposed online, or virtual, school courses cites lack of regulation » The Commercial Appeal

Report on proposed online, or virtual, school courses cites lack of regulation » The Commercial Appeal:

Report on proposed online, or virtual, school

courses cites lack of regulation




Cyberschools, the fastest-growing alternative to K-12 public education, are almost totally unregulated and in immediate need of oversight, according to research from the University of Colorado.

More than 30 percent of the nation's 16 million high school students have taken at least one online class -- Memphis City Schools now requires it for graduation.

But report authors Gene Glass and Kevin Welner say cash-strapped school districts use online education -- including full-time virtual schools with little face-to-face contact with teachers -- as a lower-cost alternative to traditional public schools.

They say five companies dominate the online curriculum business, including Virginia-

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We are the 99%. | Seattle Education #OWS

We are the 99%. | Seattle Education:

We are the 99%.

by seattleducation2011

If you are unemployed, underemployed or concerned about being next in line to lose your job, if you have given up on finding a job, if you are the sole provider in your family because your partner/spouse lost their job, if your children don’t have enough teachers, resources, materials in their schools and the PTA or parents have to pitch in financially just so that your children can have what you would consider a basic public education, then you are part of the 99%. If it’s difficult to pay your bills even though you’re working at least 40 hours a week or to pay your mortgage or rent or buy groceries for your family or pay for medical coverage, you are the 99%. If you have felt that those in power, the folks that you voted for, have no concern about the welfare of you of your family, no concern about your environment or your plight financially, then you are a part of the 99%.

That said, it’s interesting that the revolution was not televised until all of the tents in towns and cities throughout the United States and Canada began to be torn down. What is more ironic is that the media continued to cover it

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Last Day To Get Your Stuff Back | OccupyWallSt.org #OWS

Last Day To Get Your Stuff Back | OccupyWallSt.org:

Last Day To Get Your Stuff Back

by OccupyWallSt

If you were present when the NYPD attacked Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park) in the middle of the night to raze our encampment and destroy our homes, today is the last day the city is willing to return the personal possessions they stole.

Date/Time
Date(s) - 18 Nov 2011
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Location
Manhattan District 7 Garage (Map)
650 West 56th St.
Manhattan, NY

Tips From The Screen Printing Guild

NYC Sanitation facility is 650 West 56th St near 12th Ave, nearest train is Columbus Circle/59th St.

They said everything wasn’t ”processed” yet, and more would be out Thursday morning. Half of that warehouse was inaccessible and full of stuff from the park when I was there 4pm Weds. (We’re still looking for our squeegees, industrial spray bottles, and the Tshirt blanks. And the big flat box of foam core.)

SO – you write a list of what you’re looking for before they let you in. Be specific in a general kind of way — “bin of art supplies”, not “chalk and brushes” so you have flexibility. You climb three flights of stairs to get to the warehouse, although there’s an elevator in the next building that they let me use for the two tables and big bins I reclaimed. There’s lots of empty bins — pretty much everything has been separated from its container as far as I can see. I found if you talk to the workers enough, and then talk to their supervisors and then talk to theirsupervisors, you can get by without receipts and they get used to the idea that this is your stuff that you are entitled to retrieve.

The place is open 8a-4p Thurs/Friday but get there by 3ish or they won’t let you in.

If you’ve got something out of the ordinary to find, werq that room. They are all in the Sanitation union, not cops. Talk to people working there, persistent, friendly, calm, and endlessly persistent. Our silk screens appeared where the guys I was talking to were standing, and I’m pretty sure I would have noticed them the first time I walked by..or maybe I was just tired.

You need picture ID, which they check repeatedly against the name/address/phone you wrote on your form. They do not xerox your ID and they do not take your picture. They take a picture of your stuff before you leave. Get your zen together before you go, you’ll need it. xo

I have a friend with a pickup truck parked at Pratt — it’s stick (which I don’t drive) and another friend w a minivan available Friday 3p to do a run 56th Street to downtown. A cab from that facility down to Wall Street is around $30 in traffic – a car service quoted us $60. If you’d like in on a group move, let me know. There were quite a few FOLDING TABLES and POWER TOOLS that were not broken, for instance. There are a lot of tarps, put them on your list. A guy got back his loaded full backpack, with his original locks still on it.

And another note: You do not need ID if you tell them it was taken. Write it on your itemized list. They also have forms to fill out for losses & damages to property.

http://www.nycga.net/events/event/get-your-stuff-back/

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Education Research Report: State of K-12 Online Learning:

Education Research Report: State of K-12 Online Learning::

State of K-12 Online Learning:

by Jonathan Kantrowitz
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Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning: An Annual Review of Policy and Practice (2011) is the latest in a series of annual reports that began in 2004 that examine the status of K-12 online education across the country. The report provides an overview of the latest policies, practices, and trends affecting online learning programs across all 50 states.





Some findings:

• Full-time, multi-district online schools continue to grow.

o Even as district programs grow, multi-district schools continue to flourish as well. There are now 30 states with
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Mortgage, Student Loan Debt a Major Driver of Economic Malaise | FDL News Desk

Mortgage, Student Loan Debt a Major Driver of Economic Malaise | FDL News Desk:

Mortgage, Student Loan Debt a Major Driver of Economic Malaise

by David Dayen

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I found this to be a very good connect-the-dots story from the New York Times.

Like most of her friends, Hollis Romanelli graduated from college last May and promptly moved back in with her parents.

As a result, she didn’t pay rent — or a broker’s fee or renters’ insurance, for that matter. She also didn’t buy a bed, desk, couch, doormat, mop or new crockery set. Nor did she pay the cable company to send a worker to set up her TV and Internet, or a handyman to hang a newly framed diploma. She didn’t even buy drinks and snacks for a housewarming party.

In other words, Ms. Romanelli, 22, saved a lot of money. But she deprived the economy of a lot of


Live Blog for #Occupy Movement: Aftermath of a Massive Day of Action

by Kevin Gosztola

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Occupy Wall Street marked its two-month anniversary with what organizers called a historic day of action. More than thirty thousand people turned out to rally in New York City and march across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Earlier in the day, Occupy Wall Street pushed the NYPD to fortify the area in and around the New York Stock Exchange as hundreds participated in nonviolent civil disobedience. The morning protests led many police in riot

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Bolivian migrants ride out hard times - The Washington Post

Bolivian migrants ride out hard times - The Washington Post:

Bolivian migrants ride out hard times

Emily Alpert/FTWP - COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA - OCTOBER 1: Large homes, many of them unfinished, sit alongside the road on the outskirts of Cochabamba. (Photo by Emily Alpert for The Washington Post)

By Emily Alpert, Updated: Friday, November 18, 3:30 AM

CLIZA, Bolivia — Everything seems to be under construction in this town in central Bolivia. McMansions topped with tile and ornamental swans look as though they dropped from the sky. Hulking concrete shells sit on stilts. Metal spikes rise from countless roofs in hopes of a second floor.

But even when the grandest new houses are finished, many sit empty and dark while their owners are away working in Spain or Argentina, building houses for other people.

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