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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Big Education Ape: 1-18-12 AM Standardized tests undermine our education system EDition #EDREFORM

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Do standardized tests undermine our education system?

scpr.org - Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images How do you measure a teacher’s ability to teach?The answer to this simple question is not so simple, according to author, education policy analyst, and research profess...

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How Can Smart People Do Dumb Things?

larrycuban.wordpress.com - Top Federal Reserve officials in 2006–recall that was the time that the housing bubble was about to burst–”laughed about cars that builders were offering as signing bonuses.” These economists and i...

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mobile.philly.com - 01/17/2012 10:49 AM By James Osborne Inquirer Staff Writer New Jersey education officials had a dilemma last summer: Following the approval of a record number of charter schools, questions were fly...

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Occupy movement takes protest to Capitol Hill

latimes.com - Occupy D.C. is occupying the West Front Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. Protesters marched from their encampments on K Street and near the White House on Tuesday for a rally and "teach-in" on the Hill. O...

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The Griffins -- hedge fund power couple

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Ken Griffin and wife Anne, have become two of the most prominent and powerful names associated with Chicago's corporate-style school reform. As the founder and head of the Chicago-based hedge fund ...

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Staying Above the Fray, Romney Keeps Eye on Obama

nytimes.com - FLORENCE, S.C. — Mitt Romney sought to keep the upper hand in his effort to swiftly wrap up the Republican presidential nomination, urging voters here on Tuesday morning to take the long view and b...

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NCSE | National Center for Science Education

ncse.com - Welcome to the National Center for Science Education’s climate change education initiative. Long respected for its work in defending and supporting the teaching of evolution in the public schools, ...

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Obama will accept nomination at N.C. stadium

politico.com - The Charlotte Observer reports that President Obama will formally accept the Democratic nomination at Bank of America stadium in Charlotte, N.C. — an outdoor venue: The move to the Carolina Panther...

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The CESMACH Story Retold « Small Farmers. Big Change.

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Support PURE! » PSAT for 1-17-12: Time to put pressure where it really hurts

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PSAT for 1-17-12: Time to put pressure where it really hurts

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For the past few years I’ve been trying pretty much single-handedly to goad people into a boycott of Microsoft, WalMart, and other corporations behind the attack on public education. Three years ago, I publicly vowed to stop using the Microsoft operating system, and I did. The bottom point under Take Action on the right hand side of this site urging the boycott has been there for at least a year.

So far, Microsoft and WalMart seem to be doing pretty well without me.

Boycotts are tough. Maybe impossible on this scale.

So, more recently, I’ve been zeroing in on a related idea that may be a more effective, easier way to challenge the power of what Diane Ravitch calls the Billionaire Boys Club.

Sticking those school reform vultures right in their corporate image. It’s their Achilles heel.

A business’s corporate image is its overall reputation, the way its activities, products or services are perceived

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Duncan, Rhee starring at our-hearts-belong-to-data summit - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Duncan, Rhee starring at our-hearts-belong-to-data summit - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Duncan, Rhee starring at our-hearts-belong-to-data summit

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The king and queen of data-driven education reform — Education Secretary Arne Duncan and former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee — are starring at the National Data Summit that starts on Wednesday in the nation’s capital.

Amassing and using data to assess schools and principals and students and teachers and school districts and states is, of course, at the heart of the education accountability movement championed by Duncan and Rhee.

For the past decade, with No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top

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Investing in Public Programs Matters: How State Policies Impact Children's Lives | Foundation for Child Development

Investing in Public Programs Matters: How State Policies Impact Children's Lives | Foundation for Child Development:

Investing in Public Programs Matters: How State Policies Impact Children's Lives

January 17, 2012

Investing in Public Programs Matters: How State Policies Impact Children's Lives, focuses on the results of the 2012 STATE Child Well-Being Index (CWI) — a comprehensive state-level index of child well-being modeled after the Foundation for Child Development’s (FCD) NATIONAL CWI.

The STATE CWI draws from the most comprehensive set of data used to form a state index of child well-being. With these data, the STATE CWI ranks children’s well-being in seven different domains for each state and compares them across states. In addition to state rankings, this report includes new findings about the strength of relationships between state policies and selected economic and demographic factors indicative of child well-being.

The key findings from this study are:

  • Higher State Taxes Are Better for Children. States that have higher tax rates generate higher revenues and have higher CWI values than states with lower tax rates.
  • Public Investments in Children Matter. The amount of public investments in programs is strongly related to CWI values among states. Specifically, higher per-pupil spending on education, higher Medicaid child-eligibility thresholds, and higher levels of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits show a substantial correlation with child well-being across states.
  • A Child’s Well-Being Is Strongly Related to the State Where He or She Lives. Child well-being varies tremendously from state to state, ranging from a 0.85 index value for New Jersey, the highest ranked state, to a negative 0.96 index value for New Mexico, the lowest-ranked state. The six states that had the highest CWI values were New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Utah, Connecticut, and Minnesota. On the other end of the spectrum, Arizona, Nevada, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico were found to have the lowest index values.

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All Things Education: Opportunity to Extend the School Year

All Things Education: Opportunity to Extend the School Year:

Opportunity to Extend the School Year

by Rachel Levy
Yesterday, I posted the first post in a series of five in response to Governor McDonnell's recently announced education agenda, entitled, "Opportunity to Learn." The first post provided an introduction and discussed McDonnell's ideas to advance literacy.

Another major piece of Governor McDonnell's agenda included "Reducing Mandates on Local School Divisions," which in this case means a repeal of the "Kings Dominion Law." In substance, this is mostly uncontroversial and seems to make sense, i.e., letting districts decide how to set their calendars. Some have made the leap to, "the Governor is pushing a longer school year," but so far, I don't see it. Many school districts don't like the law, and thus the Governor wants to repeal it.

Now, I'm in a bit of a bind here because my county, the home of Kings Dominion (otherwise known as The
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