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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

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livestream.com - The mission of Teach Plus is to improve outcomes for urban children by ensuring that a greater proportion of students have access to effective, experienced teachers. It is founded on the premise th...

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First in, first out? | Minnesota Public Radio News

minnesota.publicradio.org - US President Barack Obama, left, and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, right, smile as the 2011 National Teacher of the Year award recipient, Michelle Shearer, speaks during a ceremony in the Ros...

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McGill: Consequences to raising teacher pay - times

times-journal.com - State Sen. Shadrack McGill defended a pay raise his predecessors in the Legislature passed, but said doubling teacher pay could lead to less-qualified educators. At a prayer breakfast in Fort Payne...

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The test score hypothesis

edexcellence.net - yes Michael J. Petrilli / January 31, 2012 The entire school reform movement is predicated on a hypothesis: Boosting student achievement, as measured by standardized tests, will enable greater pr...

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A Revitalizing Day of PD

urbanedmusic.blogspot.com - When I visited GothamSchools.org today I was pleased to see Geoff Decker’s piece, At P.D. day,teachers discuss challenges of their profession (1/31/12); the insight provided by veteran teachers is ...

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The "education crisis" myth - Media Criticism

salon.com - These pieces were clearly written with a very specific objective in mind: to draw media attention to the supposed “education crisis” in America — a favorite topic of these publications’ elite reade...

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Daily Kos: Breaking: Oakland Arrestees Tortured

dailykos.com - I just got word from a friend of a friend about the conditions that arrestees from the actions. It isn't pretty, in fact it's disgusting. "Just got out of Santa Rita Jail last night the prisoners ...

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Do I Still Have a Place Here? « Cooperative Catalyst

coopcatalyst.wordpress.com - I teach in the shell of a once-suburban enclave of Phoenix. We have pretty euphemisms for it. Low-SES. Title One. Poverty. Underprivileged. Diverse (in the deep-red state of Phoenix, it’s the new r...

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The Pink Badge of Cowardice | TBogg

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Pink Badge of Cowardice | TBogg:The Pink Badge of Cowardiceby TBoggI have to say that killing women with breast cancer before they might consider abortion sometime in their lives is one way to ...

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Civilian Deaths Due to Drones Are Not Many, Obama Says

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday defended the use of drones to strike suspected terrorists in Pakistan and elsewhere, saying the clandestine program was “kept on a very tight leash” and enabl...

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Second Year In, Republican Governors Moderate Tone

nytimes.com - A year after a coterie of new Republican governors swept into the statehouses and put in place aggressive agendas to cut spending and curb union powers, sparking strong backlashes in many places, m...

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RI Gov. calls for new taxes, more school spending

boston.com - PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee made his pitch for new taxes on restaurant meals, pet grooming, car washes and taxi fares Tuesday, saying higher taxes on discretionary spending is...

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Romney, Bain took over test giant Princeton Review

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - One of Bain's takeover targets while Gov. Romney ran the predator investment firm, was Princeton Review, one of the largest testing and test-prep operations in the country. In 2007, Bain and Prides...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 31, 2012 Administration Takes Immediate Steps to Accelerate Startup and Small Business GrowthToday, on the one-year anniv...

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Illinois nuclear reactor shutdown probed

cbsnews.com - In this March 2011 photo, steam escapes from Exelon Corp.'s nuclear plant in Byron, Ill. (AP) (AP) CHICAGO - Officials are investigating the events surrounding a power failure at a nuclear reactor...

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Officials investigating Illinois reactor shutdown

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How our dues are being used. « Fred Klonsky

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - How our dues are being used. « Fred Klonsky:How our dues are being used.by Fred KlonskyIn preparation for the IEA RA in March, local Regions held budget hearings last night. The meeting I was at ha...

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Kimble's Corner: Jack Kimble Suspends Presidential Campaign

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Kimble's Corner: Jack Kimble Suspends Presidential Campaign:Jack Kimble Suspends Presidential Campaignby Representative KimbleI just got off the phone with my Mitt Romney. Once again, he attempted ...

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The Pink Badge of Cowardice | TBogg

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In Washington, Large Rewards in Teacher Pay

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — During her first six years of teaching in this city’s struggling schools, Tiffany Johnson got a series of small raises that brought her annual salary to $63,000, from about $50,000. Th...

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NJ Spotlight | Newark Special Ed Settlement, A Decade in the Details

NJ Spotlight | Newark Special Ed Settlement, A Decade in the Details:

Newark Special Ed Settlement, A Decade in the Details
With an agreement in place, the real work of honoring promises begins

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By John Mooney, February 1, 2012 in Education |Post a Comment

Ten years in the courts and with some of its original plaintiffs long out of school, a federal lawsuit contending that Newark effectively cheated thousands of students of special education services has been settled -- with promises all around.

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But the agreement finalized last week in U.S. District Court between the district, the Christie administration, and the plaintiff families may be more a beginning than an ending, since now the tough work starts in making those promises stick.

"Is this finally the end?" said Ruth Lowenkron, an attorney with the Newark-based Education Law

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Straight Up Conversation: Departing Kasich Edu-Advisor Bob Sommers on Reform in Ohio :: Frederick M. Hess

Straight Up Conversation: Departing Kasich Edu-Advisor Bob Sommers on Reform in Ohio :: Frederick M. Hess:

Straight Up Conversation: Departing Kasich Edu-Advisor Bob Sommers on Reform in Ohio

For the past year, Bob Sommers served as newly elected Ohio Governor John Kasich's education advisor and helped to spearhead the Governor's reform efforts. This put Sommers in the thick of things during a year when Ohio enacted an ambitious agenda, including legislation that curtailed collective bargaining (and that was overturned in a heated referendum last fall). Effective yesterday, Bob officially departed his post to return to the school management business. He is forming a new company, StudentmindED Schools, to help launch and scale more great schools. Especially given that Ohio's been through some dramatic developments, I thought it worth checking in with Bob to get his thoughts and observations as he moves on. Here's what he had to say.

Rick Hess: What do you see as the agenda for Ohio school reform unfolding in 2012?
Bob Sommers: It will be a smaller agenda because we moved 13 out of 15 major reforms we wanted last year

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NYC Educator: Everything Old Is New Again

NYC Educator: Everything Old Is New Again:

Everything Old Is New Again

by NYC Educator
Good morning New York. As your mayor, I'm entrusted with the welfare of our city, the best darn city in America. As you know, I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. What I am is an Opportunist, saying whatever the hell it takes to buy elections. That's why I support recycling.

For example, I'm now suggest a merit pay program that will give 20 thousand extra bucks to teachers who will shut the hell up and get with the damn program. If we had more teachers like that we wouldn't have such pandemonium at the PEP. You see, under mayoral control, I get 8 of the 13 votes. My reps patiently sit there and pretend to listen to the public, then vote like their told, or I fire their asses. That's the way democracy works over here.

Now a lot of people are giving me flack just because
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Daily Kos: international war on poor people

Daily Kos: international war on poor people:

international war on poor people

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

I was driving to school this morning and listening to NPR and heard a report on Greece. It has arranged a credit swap which could cut its debt in half, but is having trouble resolving its financial problems because international financiers are refusing an additional bailout unless it cuts its minimum wage.

This is a pattern that is all too familiar, that we are also seeing in our own nation.

If there are government financial problems, those who have not suffered financially will not step up and pay more into government coffers by taxes and fees.

No, instead they want the income of those on the bottom to be cut.

They want government benefits to be cut - social security, medical care, nutrition

They demand privatization of government-run programs and facilities - overseas it is already happening with water supplies, in our nation it is schools and prisons. The Navy no longer builds its own ships.

International corporations play off one nation against another, just as companies have played off one American state against another - demanding tax breaks and infrastructure to be built as a condition of locating or keeping a

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Life in Rahm’s Chicago: Wednesday edition. « Fred Klonsky

Life in Rahm’s Chicago: Wednesday edition. « Fred Klonsky:

Life in Rahm’s Chicago: Wednesday edition.

by Fred Klonsky

It’ll be a hot time in the old town in May.

Salon:

The stage is set for dramatic street scenes in Chicago this May during the G-8 and NATO summits. The actors are ready: Mass actions in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, followed by solidarity marches across the country Sunday indicate that


Guest post: “Teach for America” as a two-year prelude to Wall Street.

by Fred Klonsky

By MIT Prof

I teach at MIT. I have several traditions associated with my last class of the semester, one of which is to give a short speech to my students on why they, the best and the brightest, should go into K-12 education. Last month, I encountered a new response. One of my students, a very bright management senior, told me that JP Morgan Chase is offering her a job as an analyst but also offering to postpone the position for two years while she spends that time in the “Teach for America” program.

The class discussion that followed her statement was interesting. I asked the class if they thought they would be good teachers after a five-week boot camp. With one exception, they all thought it would take more time for a teacher to learn his or her craft. I asked students how many of their favorite teachers had just started teaching. There was a general consensus that their best teachers had been teaching for at least four or five years.

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Eww. Seriously. That Is So Gross. | The Jose Vilson

Eww. Seriously. That Is So Gross. | The Jose Vilson:

Eww. Seriously. That Is So Gross.

by Jose

Eww. Seriously? So Gross. (GEICO Commercial)

Ever have a baby sleeping right on your stomach when you see a hilarious commercial and you’re trying to suppress your laughter which only makes you laugh harder? That was the premise for tonight when I watched this Geico commercial about a guy who uses some popular girls from the local high school to help him with his diet. Watch:

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SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: The World James Waslawski Created At MS/PS 279 in The Bronx

SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: The World James Waslawski Created At MS/PS 279 in The Bronx:

The World James Waslawski Created At MS/PS 279 in The Bronx

by noreply@blogger.com (Bronx Teacher)
MS/PS 279 Principal James Waslawski
Every so often we here at SBSB are lucky enough to get some information that shows what a sham the NYC DOE and it's foot soldiers, the principals and assistant principals, truly are.

Last week we were fortunate enough to have an expose on MS/PS 279, District 10, The Bronx come across our newsroom. The lies, manipulation, and intimidation current principal, Leadership Academy grad, and Cahn Fellow, James Waslawski uses has not saved the school from the incompetence of principal Pedro Santana who left, or was forced out in 2004, but rather has made things worse to the point where nothing might be salvageable.

Anyone and everyone at 279 who dares to disagree with Waslawski instantly becomes a target of his wrath. Yes, as previously mentioned, Waslawski
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Brown renews call for pension reform | Thoughts on Public Education

Brown renews call for pension reform | Thoughts on Public Education:

Brown renews call for pension reform

Without pressure from initiative, will lawmakers act?

Posted on 2/01/12 • Categorized as Pensions, Uncategorized

By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

Someone watching State Sen. Joe Simitian’s annual education presentation in Palo Alto from an adjoining room last week passed along a comment. “I’m for more money for schools; I support the governor’s tax initiative,” the person wrote, “but I won’t vote for it unless the Legislature passes pension reform.”

How representative is this not-so-silent minority? Gov. Jerry Brown no doubt has been wondering, too, and increasingly calling on lawmakers to pass his 12-point pension reform plan.

“Please take up the issue and do something real,” he told the Legislature in his annual State of the State address. And Brown has come back to the issue repeatedly during speeches

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