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Daily Kos: "American Teacher" - American Hoax

dailykos.com - The movie American Teacher finally premiered in Portland, Oregon, where I live. I had been curious to see it since it was promoted on ABC's Education Nation in September. The movie is said to be b...

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Lessons Shared At California Forum

huffingtonpost.com - STANFORD, Calif. -- Finland is this decade's shiny icon of classroom success, the repeat winner of top results in a global ranking of national school systems. That's why academics, teachers and gov...

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Shame of a nation

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - After a decade of No Child Left Behind and three more years of Race To The Top, Black and Lation teenagers in U.S. schools are performing at academic levels equal to or lower than those of 30 years...

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Readers sound off on Eli and the Giants, upstate and down

nydailynews.com - That golden ruleHolbrook, L.I.: To Voicer Michael W. Domis: I totally agree we should be better than our enemies, and we are. Are the Taliban building schools, etc.? And the Golden Rule applies to ...

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Alan Singer: The School-to-Prison Pipeline

huffingtonpost.com - Rethinking Schools is a magazine written for teachers by teachers. It is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and covers local issues, but really its concerns are national in scope. Its Winter 2011-2012 i...

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Making waves. Backing good guys. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Will Guzzardi in the 39th House District in Chicago. The Chicago Democratic Machine has been famous for promoting the theory of, “Don’t make no waves. Don’t back no losers.” What is surprising is h...

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Florida Poverty Outstrips U.S. « CBS Miami

miami.cbslocal.com - (Source: U.S. Census Bureau )TALLAHASSEE (CBS4)- The recession of the last couple years put more Florida residents into poverty and resulted in a decrease of median family income in much of the sta...

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Showdown Averted: ILWU and EGT Reach Agreement

dissidentvoice.org - The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the international conglomerate EGT Development came to a tentative agreement on Monday to resolve their long simmering labor dispute. The...

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New Book Critiques 'Corporate' School Reform

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - New Book Critiques 'Corporate' School Reform:DescriptionNeoliberal education reforms, including No Child Left Behind and Chicago's Renaissance 2010, tend to "marketize" schools and threaten to dism...

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Protesters take over cottage on Quad | Davis Enterprise #ows

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Protesters take over cottage on Quad

In their first major action of the winter quarter, Occupy UC Davis protesters on Tuesday afternoon took over the former home of the campus’ Cross-Cultural Center.

Though numbers fluctuated, at mid-afternoon about 50 remained inside the cottage, one of the campus’ oldest buildings, across from the Quad.

Since breaking camp on the Quad in December, protesters have been relatively quiet, holding workshops, meetings and small protests, without incident, at the U.S. Bank branch inside the Memorial Union.

“Over the winter break, people took time to refocus, re-energize and reorganize,” said Brett Lempke, a junior anthropology and philosophy major from Madison, Wis. “While I think there was the misconstrued perception that we were going away, that’s simply not the case.”

While protesters are always quick to say each has his or her own reason for

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A different view from Denver | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

A different view from Denver | Philadelphia Public School Notebook:

A different view from Denver

by Guest blogger

This guest blog post comes from Andrea Mérida, a director of the Denver School Board.

Andrea MeridaRecently, a mayoral delegation from Philadelphia traveled to Denver to visit Denver Public Schools. Given their reaction, you would have thought that they were journeying to an educational Shangri-La.

But in reality, DPS has been a national flashpoint for the battle between corporate-style education reformers and those focusing upon a more child-centric, collaborative approach to improving student achievement.

In Denver, reforms for the past half decade have focused upon strategic changes in the district, including student-based budgeting and a relentless push for more charters. At the same time, traditional neighborhood public schools have received less emphasis and resources, as well as more school closings, cleverly spun as "phase-outs."

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Support PURE! » PSAT SOTU edition: Here’s how to join in

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PSAT SOTU edition: Here’s how to join in

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From ed.gov:

Watch the State of the Union Live Tonight

Tonight at 9 pm EST, President Obama will give his annual State of the Union address, with education being a likely topic of discussion during the speech. You can watch an enhanced version of the speech with graphics and data at whitehouse.gov/live, and join the conversation on Twitter during the speech by using the hashtag #sotu.

Following the speech, a panel of senior advisors, including Secretary Duncan, will answer your questions. Ask

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Slaves, Oranges and Arithmetic: The Dangers of Too Much Content Integration | Mr. D's Neighborhood

Slaves, Oranges and Arithmetic: The Dangers of Too Much Content Integration | Mr. D's Neighborhood:

Slaves, Oranges and Arithmetic: The Dangers of Too Much Content Integration

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In that ever-growing list of educational untouchables, the enslavement of African Americans is among the most sensitive and nerve-rattling.

So why in Hell would a teacher build a set of math problems based on slavery? The misguided belief that social studies can—and should—be integrated into everything.

One of the offending questions, courtesy of ABC News

If ever there was proof that social studies deserves to remain a separate and distinct subject, it is the recent“slave math” controversy. Luis Rivera, a third grade teacher in the Atlanta suburb of Gwinnett County, Georgiaresigned when he assigned math homework that included problems involving slavery and beatings. Samples of

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Support PURE! » PSAT for 1-24-12: Call for a moratorium on school closings

Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » PSAT for 1-24-12: Call for a moratorium on school closings:

PSAT for 1-24-12: Call for a moratorium on school closings

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We’ve done it before, but the momentum for demanding a citywide moratorium on school closings grows stronger than ever.

Why do I say that?

1) The front-page headline story in the Sun-Times exposing the rent-a-protesters at school closing hearings hasturned up the heat on CPS and its refusal to listen to the real people in the school communities who are affected by district actions.

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New Book Critiques 'Corporate' School Reform

New Book Critiques 'Corporate' School Reform:

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Neoliberal education reforms, including No Child Left Behind and Chicago's Renaissance 2010, tend to "marketize" schools and threaten to dismantle public education as we know it, according to a new book edited University of Illinois at Chicago education researcher William Watkins.




New Book Critiques 'Corporate' School Reform

Released: 1/24/2012 3:15 PM EST
Source: University of Illinois at Chicago

Neoliberal education reforms, including No Child Left Behind and Chicago's Renaissance 2010, tend to "marketize" schools and threaten to dismantle public education as we know it, according to a new book edited by a University of Illinois at Chicago education researcher.

William Watkins, professor of curriculum and instruction, criticizes the replacement of neighborhood schools with charter schools and the replacement of education leaders with corporate officials in "The Assault on Public Education: Confronting the Politics of Corporate School Reform" (Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 2012), a collection of essays by scholars across the country.

Watkins writes that free-market principles should not be applied to school reform.

"The corporate intrusion into school reform is connected to realignments in the labor market. Renaissance 2010, for

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Students Occupy Former Cross Cultural Center at UC Davis « occupy california

Students Occupy Former Cross Cultural Center at UC Davis « occupy california:

Students Occupy Former Cross Cultural Center at UC Davis

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Students at UC Davis have occupied the former Cross Cultural Center, the center having moved to a new $22 million building.

They have declared their solidarity with UCR, Egypt, the hotel occupation in San Francisco and Occupy Oakland – especially with their upcoming moving day on January 28th.

Pictures will be posted soon, here is the communiqué:

The spaces we live in are broken: occupation is our defense.

As capital spirals further into crisis, we are constantly confronted with the watchword of austerity. We are meant to imagine a vast, empty vault where our sad but inevitable futures lie. But we are not so naïve. Just as Wall

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Ravitch: Why California gives me hope - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Ravitch: Why California gives me hope - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Ravitch: Why California gives me hope

by Valerie Strauss

This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Deborah Meier on the Education Week website. Ravitch and Meier exchange letters about what matters most in education. Ravitch, a research professor at New York University, is the author of the bestselling “The Death and Life of the Great American School System,” an important critique of the flaws in the modern school reform movement that she just updated.

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Teacher from troubled district to sit with Michelle Obama at State of Union (updated)

by Valerie Strauss

This post has been updated.

A teacher from a Pennsylvania school district whose union voted to work for free when the system ran out of money said she would “humbly” sit with first lady Michelle Obama at tonight’s State of the Union address.

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Competitive Grants Will Make Our Students Winners & Losers « EdVox

Competitive Grants Will Make Our Students Winners & Losers « EdVox:

Competitive Grants Will Make Our Students Winners & Losers

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by Zakiyah Ansari

I understand the importance of successful performance for holding the bar high. My eldest daughter Anisah graduated high school with an Advanced Regents diploma, graduated from Baruch College Cum Laude, B.A. Sociology, and last year graduated from Hunter Graduate School of Social Work with her Master’s Degree. She will begin her PhD in Criminal Justice in March 2012. My daughter Aliyah graduated valedictorian from her high school also with an Advanced Regents diploma and last year graduated from NYU with a B.A. in Africana Studies.

My four eldest daughters’ educational foundation began with a great Pre-K program and an elementary and

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RheeFirst! » 5 biggest lies about the right-wing corporate-backed war on our schools

RheeFirst! » 5 biggest lies about the right-wing corporate-backed war on our schools:

5 biggest lies about the right-wing corporate-backed war on our schools

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More school choice is one of Rhee’s top corporate reform platforms. This article points to its fatal flaws.

Written by Kristin Rawls for AlterNet. Read the entire post here.
“Carrie Rogers, a Wake County parent and former teacher who describes herself as a moderate Republican… says school choice largely benefits well-educated middle and upper-middle class students. Rogers notes that

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NYC Public School Parents: Resolution on busing, with FOILed data showing DOE granted more busing thru safety variances to private school students

NYC Public School Parents: Resolution on busing, with FOILed data showing DOE granted more busing thru safety variances to private school students:

Resolution on busing, with FOILed data showing DOE granted more busing thru safety variances to private school students

by Leonie Haimson
The DOE unilaterally eliminated middle-school busing from many areas of Queens and Staten Island that have no public transportation, and this may have contributed to the death of at least one public school student. Along with some news clips, the data on how few safety variances the DOE has granted in authorizing busing in hazardous areas is here, FOILed by Michael Reilly of CEC 31. What's somewhat shocking is how DOE has approved more safety variances
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