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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Big Education Ape: 11-24-11 AM It's the substance & the stress (not the salary), stupid EDition #OWS #EDreform

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It's the substance & the stress (not the salary), stupid.

allthingsedu.blogspot.com - As some of you know, I am starting to look for, ahem, a job, including positions that would put me back in the classroom. The position of "unpaid writer" isn't exactly putting food on the table and...

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Oliver Sicat. The Closer. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Oliver Sicat is 32 years old. He has been a teacher and a principal. This is one of the screwy things that has occurred in recent years. Some guy gets his teaching certification. He teaches in a cl...

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Is Illinois broke? And if so, why? « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Ty Fahner and the Civic Committee spent a million and a half dollars to spread lies like this billboard. My friend Glen Brown, retired teacher, blogger, and wonderful poet, raises the question: Is ...

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Community groups offer plan to counter school closings

wbez.org - Nine community groups from Albany Park to Roseland Tuesday presented a “Neighborhoods Agenda for Schools,” a wide-ranging plan that calls for significant investment in struggling neighborhood schoo...

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School Tech Connect: Multiple Measures

schooltechconnect.com - I've seen some Twitter traffic lately on multiple measures. Duncan is always blathering on about multiple measures, and how he's in favor of them. The trouble is that multiple measures is an empty ...

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Left Agents of the 1% | Dissident Voice

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Left Agents of the 1% | Dissident Voice:Left Agents of the 1%by Frank Scott / November 23rd, 2011As the Occupy Wall Street movement spread across the nation, mistakes and setbacks occurred which ar...

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A Misconception About Asian Schooling

nytimes.com - Nicholas Kristof (“When school comes first,” Views, Nov. 11) is right when he says Americans should care more about education, like people do in Asia. However, the key to building human capital is ...

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Emanuel picks fights with unions - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - Letters to the Editor November 22, 2011 10:04PM Updated: November 23, 2011 2:18AM Unfortunately, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s claim in the Nov. 20 Sun-Times that he is “working well with Chicago’s unions” ...

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Raindrops on Roses, and Whiskers on Kittens...

edupln.ning.com - … EdTech and iPads, and Tools for the Teacher! ….These are a few of my favorite things! Two days into owning an iPad and I’ve become obsessed, so I figured I could share a f...

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"What's Love Got to do With It?" Ask Your Students!

edupln.ning.com - Once upon a time there was a little 2nd grade boy. He was new to a school, and he brought with him, all his problems and issues. Sent to live with dad after mom "couldn't take it any more", a...

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My First Entry - The Educator's PLN

edupln.ning.com - The day before Thanksgiving and I have been cooped up all day in the house. This past weekend I attended NYSCATE and am still trying to digest all of the information taken in. Since last night, I h...

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Occupy Fort Collins: Cast out into the Darkness

my.firedoglake.com - Packing Up & Down The Road (Photo: mejuan, flickr) What city along the base of Colorado’s Front Range is home to a large state educational institution of higher learning, supplies electricity and w...

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School Tech Connect: Multiple Measures

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Multiple Measures:Multiple Measuresby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)I've seen some Twitter traffic lately on multiple measures. Duncan is always blathering on about multiple measure...

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Kids’ health researchers talk turkey « MomsRising Blog

momsrising.org - At an all-day seminar last week, I listened to university researchers discuss this startling question: Are we poisoning our children? Quite a provocative topic — some might even say alarmist. Yet s...

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Arsenic, Antibiotics and Asthma Drugs in Your Turkey? Yes!

dissidentvoice.org - So far, 2011 has not been a great year for turkey producers. In May, an article in Clinical Infectious Diseases reported that half of U.S. meat from major grocery chains–turkey, beef, chicken and p...

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Occupy Fort Collins: Cast out into the Darkness

my.firedoglake.com - Packing Up & Down The Road (Photo: mejuan, flickr) What city along the base of Colorado’s Front Range is home to a large state educational institution of higher learning, supplies electricity and w...

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Left Agents of the 1% | Dissident Voice

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Left Agents of the 1% | Dissident Voice:Left Agents of the 1%by Frank Scott / November 23rd, 2011As the Occupy Wall Street movement spread across the nation, mistakes and setbacks occurred which ar...

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    The Harvest – The story of the children who feed America | Being Latino Online Magazine

    The Harvest – The story of the children who feed America | Being Latino Online Magazine:

    The Harvest – The story of the children who feed America

    by Eileen Rivera de la Hoz

    by Eileen Rivera

    “Every time you eat a salad, every time you eat a vegetable, you have to realize that this might have been picked by a child.” – Eva Longoria

    “In some countries, children work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week. In some countries, children twelve and younger pick crops. The United States of America is one of those countries.” These are the opening lines of an eye-opening documentary that follows three adolescents as they travel and work with their migrant farmer families. The children portrayed in the film are in this country legally and some were born here.

    First, we meet Zulema Lopez at her 12th birthday party. The next morning finds her grandmother dragging her out of bed and promising that she could sleep in the truck on the way to the fields. Zulema is shown pushing through growth to find the strawberries for which she is paid sixty-four dollars a week.

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    Student Activists Deserve Our Thanks | California Progress Report

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    Student Activists Deserve Our Thanks

    by megan
    By Randy Shaw
    These are not the best of times to be a college student in the United States. Spiraling tuition costs, huge post-graduation debt, and a shrinking job market could understandably demoralize an entire generation. But recent events demonstrate that college students are responding to the tough economic times not by giving up, but rather by redoubling efforts to create a more just society. In fact, as was true with the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960’s, today’s college students are in the vanguard of highlighting the profound disconnection between the nation’s stated ideals and its actual practices.
    Students have played leading roles in the Occupy movement both on an off campus, inspiring longtime activists to regenerate their own efforts for change. On this Thanksgiving week, the students risking physical harm and school discipline to demand greater social and economic fairness truly deserve the nation’s thanks.

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    Tax the Rich! In Fact, Let's Double Their Taxes

    by megan
    By Richard (RJ) Eskow

    Conservatives say they want to "bring back" the old USA, the one that existed during those decades of the twentieth century they only seem to see through a gauzy golden haze. Whatever its problems, that country was a place where Republicans and Democrats agreed on two simple principles: That the most fortunate among us should pay their fair share, and that our government must invest in the nation and its future.

    When Rick Perry says he wants to bring back "the America I where I grew up," he's talking about the era when Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican President, built the Federal highway system. One of the reasons Eisenhower was able to do that is that the top tax rate was much higher than it is today. While today's highest marginal today is 35% and capital gains are taxed at only 15%, the highest tax bracket was 91% the year Rick Perry was born.

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    NYC Educator: Generosity: A Post for Thanksgiving

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    Generosity: A Post for Thanksgiving

    by Miss Eyre
    The scene: Miss Eyre's tenth-grade English class. After reading nonfiction pieces about responses to tragedies, a small group is discussing the topic of generosity.

    STUDENT 1: I am generous. If any of y'all got kicked out of your house, I would let you sleep on my couch.

    STUDENT 2: Your couch? Why not your bed?

    STUDENT 1: Ewwww! You nasty.

    STUDENT 2: Then why don't
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    Movement for Justice in El Barrio | OccupyWallSt.org #ows

    Movement for Justice in El Barrio | OccupyWallSt.org:

    Movement for Justice in El Barrio

    by OccupyWallSt

    UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF OCCUPY WALL ST., THE PEOPLE OF COLOR CAUCUS (POCCUPY), WOMEN OCCUPYING WALL ST., QUEERING OWS, IMMIGRANT/WORKERS WORKING GROUP, OUTREACH WORKING GROUP, SPANISH WORKING GROUP (OWS en Español), THE ANTI-RACISM ALLIES GROUP, ARTS & CULTURE WORKING GROUP, & EMPOWERMENT AND COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP.

    Movement for Justice in El Barrio

    “Liberty is like the morning. There are those who sleep and wait for it to arrive, and those that stay awake and walk through the night to reach it.” - Words of the Zapatistas

    An Invitation from Movement for Justice in El Barrio:

    To members and families of organizations, community members, and people of good heart, who are resisting in their communities,
    To Occupy Wall Street and their supporters,
    To those who fight for humanity,

    NYC Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism
    An Encuentro is a space for people to come together; it is a gathering. An Encuentro is not a meeting, a panel or a conference, it is a way of sharing developed by the Zapatistas as another form of doing politics: from below and to the left. It is a place where we can all speak, we will all listen, and we can all learn. It is a place where we can share the many different struggles that make us one.

    EL BARRIO, NYC
    SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4TH, 3:00 PM

    We are here. We are a community in resistance. Here in the streets of East Harlem we have fought multinational corporations who try to take away our homes and destroy our community. We have fought the politicians who try to buy our dignity and sell our community. We have fought by exercising our autonomy and building a democratic space without hierarchy where we make decisions through community-wide consultation and direct democratic participation. We continue to fight.

    We fight against the capitalist system and all politicians, both Democrat and Republican, that tend and maintain the system in order to reap its benefits for themselves. We refuse to be bound and gagged by politicians who betray us and we will build something outside of the boxes they build to contain us.

    In our first three Encuentros, we connected our stories and our resistance with other rumblings of resistance from across the city and across the world. We have joined our voices with our other compañer@s who have been ignored, forgotten and marginalized by the neoliberal capitalist system throughout history and into the present. We have stood together as people of color, as women, as transgender people, gays and lesbians, as youth, as the elderly, as workers, as immigrants. We have made each others struggles our own.

    We have stood together with communities who reject the assistance of those from above, from those that speak of democracy with their lips and try to crush and silence us with their hands.

    We are a river, boiling underground, making our path and growing everyday, connecting with others. Those from above seek to ignore our rumblings, seek to ignore our voices, seek to ignore our existence. But we have found ways to make our voices heard and let our voices echo with the voices of other marginalized people resisting across the world.

    Now, we hear new rumblings, new shouts and new dreams. A new moment has arrived. The capitalist system is being revealed to more eyes as the destruction that it is. The tide is rising rapidly and more people are drowning or struggling to stay afloat. More are looking with clear eyes on a system that has been dismantling communities, crushing spirits and destroying lives for years. The mask is being lifted slowly but surely.

    Here we stand in resistance in our corner of the world and we welcome the rest of the 99%.

    Together we will build a world where many worlds fit.
    Un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos.

    So once again we invite to our corner of the world those who are struggling for housing, for education, for health, for freedom, for justice, for love, for a voice, for a space to exist, for peace, for respect, for themselves, for their community, for dignity…for humanity.

    We invite those who will build something new and beautiful out of the rubble of a failed neoliberal capitalist system.

    Groups fighting for humanity across New York will share our struggles and use this gathering to find ways to mutually support each other. We will share whatever form of expression we choose, whether it be verbally, through song, poetry or rhyme, through a video, through artwork or however people can best express their struggle.

    PLEASE RSVP BY Monday, November 28th
    P.S. Children are especially invited to come break open the “Neoliberal” Piñata!

    We will provide dinner, childcare and Spanish/English translation.
    Please RSVP by Monday, November 28th with the number of adults and children that will be attending, their names and an address at which you would like to receive your tickets.
    Once you have RSVP’d you will receive your tickets and more details on the Encuentro.

    For more info or to RSVP please contact us at (212) 561-0555 or movementforjusticeinelbarrio@gmail.com


    Who We Are
    Movement for Justice in El Barrio is an immigrant- and people of color- led, grassroots community organization that fights for dignity and against neoliberal displacement from East Harlem to Chiapas and beyond. For seven years, Movement has built a 700-member-strong, local movement for dignity that has taken on and defeated multi-national corporations and corrupt politicians. Committed to the principles of autonomy and self-determination, Movement practices participatory democracy and horizontal decision-making on a community-wide scale. Movement is part of the Zapatista-initiated The Other Campaign and fights for the liberation of women, people of color, transgender people, lesbians and gays, immigrants and poor people.

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    Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Advanced Learning Task Force

    Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Advanced Learning Task Force:

    Advanced Learning Task Force

    by Charlie Mas
    The new Advanced Learning Task Force (or Steering Committee or Advisory Committee or whatever) has had its first meeting. It's kind of a mess.



    I'm on the committee. So is Melissa. So are Dr. Vaughan and Dr. Thompson. There are principals, central staff, teachers and community members. The committee is too big for any real discussion. It will be almost impossible for it to reach any authentic consensus. I suspect that staff will just write our conclusions for us and then allow us a final meeting to argue for small edits - which they will unilaterally decide to accept or reject. That's how the Demographic Task Force worked.

    The committee met once in November and will meet again in December. By that time we will already be overdue with our recommendation to FACMAC on the placement of elementary north-end APP. FACMAC needs it now. Without it, they will just move forward with their decisions without input from the Advanced Learning Committee.
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    Here comes the neighborhood - Bites - Opinions - November 24, 2011 - Sacramento News & Review

    Here comes the neighborhood - Bites - Opinions - November 24, 2011 - Sacramento News & Review:

    Here comes the neighborhood



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    This past spring, the Sacramento City Unified School District changed its logo. The familiar red apple will be replaced with a green apple—to remind everyone that the district is “going green.” At least, it will be as soon as the old stationary runs out. It’s a small gesture, but an important one.
    A bigger and more important gesture would be to bring back the idea of the neighborhood school.
    That’s the notion behind the Sacramento Comprehensive High School Coalition—a group of parents in the central city and East Sacramento trying to create a public high school in their neighborhood. They aim to replace the one that was lost when Sacramento High was handed over to Kevin Johnson’s St. Hope organization to run as a charter school.
    Their argument for a “pedestrian-friendly comprehensive high school” seems pretty reasonable and straightforward to Bites.
    After all the Bitescave was chosen for similar reasons— it’s in a neighborhood that will allowNibbles and Bits to walk or bike to decent schools all the way through 12th grade. (Plus, it has
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    Duncan to State: No way on Race to the Top | Thoughts on Public Education

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    Duncan to State: No way on Race to the Top - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

    by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
    (TOP-Ed writer Kathy Baron co-wrote this post.) In another cockfight between California and Washington over education, the U.S. Department of Education has rejected California’s application – and only California’s application – in the third round of Race to the Top. The denial exasperated the seven California school districts that led the state’s effort and were counting [...]


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