Saturday, November 19, 2011

Big Education Ape: 11-19-11 PM Rocketship incorporated is blasting off EDition #ows #edreform

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How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools

thenation.com - As attendees stood up to leave the hall, the phalanx of lobbyists surrounding the room converged, buttonholing legislators and school officials. On a floor above the main hall, an expo center had b...

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Rocketship soars to Common Council approval

jsonline.com - Milwaukee's Common Council easily passed a deal with a California-based, tech savvy charter school network to set up a city-sponsored charter elementary school in Milwaukee. The vote was 14-1, with...

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MoveOn.org Civic Action: Save Social Security

civic.moveon.org - Save Social SecurityA report in The New York Times suggests that the "Super Committee" in Congress—which has the power to fast-track it's recommendations to reduce the deficit—is close to backing m...

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Charter schools: public in form but private in essence

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - "With these charter schools, people are trying to say, ‘I want a custom-tailored education for my children, and I want you, as my neighbor, to pay for it.’ ” -- Matthew Stewart, resident of up...

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Believing the reformers

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - 140 Chicago schools targeted Columnist Gene Lyons, posting at Salon.com, warns us: "Don’t believe the education “reformers.” Public schools, he says, are better than we think and efforts to quant...

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From Gingrich, an Unconventional View of Education

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - November 19, 2011, 1:37 pm By TRIP GABRIELNewt Gingrich has some unconventional ideas about education reform. He wants every state to open a work-study college where students work 20 hours a week d...

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Vilifying Rival, Wall St. Rallies for Senate Ally

nytimes.com - The warning has ricocheted around the financial world in recent weeks, in conversations at Midtown restaurants and Washington fund-raisers, carrying urgent appeals for money from financial executiv...

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Personalized Assesment Part 2

ideasandthoughts.org - It might help to read Part 1. I've been teaching a course at the University of Regina for over 5 years. I've taught it for roughly 12 sections over that time. I really don't enjoy the assessment pr...

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Saturday coffee + Old school . « Fred Klonsky #ows

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky:Saturday coffee.by Fred KlonskyThis morning Anne and I headed over to Peets for coffee and a bagel. My Thanksgiving week off has begun.The week before Thanksgiving m...

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Agricultural program helps keep youth out of gangs

boston.com - WOODLAKE, Calif.—When Manuel Jimenez first set eyes on the land below a levee, thick with brush and weeds, the one-time field worker envisioned a place where youngsters could escape the temptations...

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UPDATE: State of Seized Library

peopleslibrary.wordpress.com - by Michael | November 16, 2011 · 11:22 (This post is being updated as news comes in, check back regularly.) We’re getting our first report back from the folks who went to the Sanitation Garage. May...

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City crews remove Occupy San Francisco tents, protesters

latimesblogs.latimes.com - San Francisco city crews are removing an Occupy encampment near the city’s financial district Saturday afternoon, an area newspaper is reporting. The crews, in blue disposable jumpsuits and paper m...

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    #ows DC, Others Occupy Abandoned Buildings. Streaming Video. | OccupyWallSt.org

    DC, Others Occupy Abandoned Buildings. Streaming Video. | OccupyWallSt.org:

    DC, Others Occupy Abandoned Buildings. Streaming Video.

    by OccupyWallSt

    Occupy K St./DC has taken over the empty city-owned Franklin School. The school was closed several years ago and was initiatially reopened as a homeless shelter. The city government later closed the shelter and -- despite widespread public opposition -- announced plans to turn the building either into condos or a hotel for the 1% lobbyists on K St.

    Watch live streaming video from occupykst at livestream.com

    Meanwhile, members of Occupy London have occupied a a vacant office building owned by a subsidiary of the

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    #ows Oakland Commune Assembles to Retake a Space « occupy california

    Oakland Commune Assembles to Retake a Space « occupy california:

    Oakland Commune Assembles to Retake a Space

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    OAKLAND, California – The Oakland Commune’s general assembly called this past week for a march to reclaim a space today. This day has also been called as a day of action against police repression by the Oakland Commune’s GA. As of around 2:30pm, around 1000 people have assembled in Oscar Grant Plaza and at the adjacent 14th and Broadway intersection, which has been shut down.

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    The crowd is still forming and growing. There is a strong showing of unions here including ILWU members from Oakland and Longview, WA.

    2:38pm – thw soundtruck is here

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    First Teachbad Survey: Please Help | Mr. Teachbad

    First Teachbad Survey: Please Help | Mr. Teachbad:

    First Teachbad Survey: Please Help

    by teachbad
    Here’s what I would like to do. Eventually I would like to develop a survey of teacher satisfaction that will be answered by tens of thousands of teachers and former teachers and will be disseminated inter-galactically and change teaching forever, for the better. I know that I skipped some steps just there and the details are lacking. But here is what we are doing now. I am experimenting with some new survey software. I put together a pretty meaningless survey that I am hoping you will complete Read more […]
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    #ows NYC Public School Parents: What's the real story behind the threatened bus strike: are the bus drivers the enemy or part of the 99%?

    NYC Public School Parents: What's the real story behind the threatened bus strike: are the bus drivers the enemy or part of the 99%?:

    What's the real story behind the threatened bus strike: are the bus drivers the enemy or part of the 99%?

    by Leonie Haimson

    The real facts behind the threatened school bus strike are difficult to untangle. As the NY Times explainedtoday, the mayor's position is a reversal of his previous one:
    The specter of a strike is an interesting turn of events for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. For years, his administration had fought alongside the union to keep the seniority-based protections in the contracts, in part because removing them could have prompted the union to strike. In July, however, the city made an about-face, asking Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to veto a bill it had helped develop that would have extended the protections to
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    Young People – The World’s Last Chattel? | Lefty Parent

    Young People – The World’s Last Chattel? | Lefty Parent:

    Young People – The World’s Last Chattel?

    by Cooper Zale

    This latest round of high-profile revelations of at times systemic cover-ups of the sexual abuse of young people at Penn State and elsewhere has been topping the news lately. There seem to be ongoing issues with this within the Catholic denomination but that is no longer news. Still in much of the world young people are coerced into military service, marriage or as sex workers under the threat of violence and often death. They are essentially “chattel”, human assets that are either owned and controlled by adult family members by accident of birth, or by “legitimate” or illegitimate sale to or seizure by

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