Tuesday, March 27, 2012

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Diane Ravitch Speaks

us-intellectual-history.blogspot.com - I'm excited. Tonight, Diane Ravitch speaks on my campus. She is to give a talk at Braden Auditorium, which seats just under 3,500 people. Based on the fact that ISU has one of the largest colleges ...
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Dissent Magazine - Spring 2012 Issue

dissentmagazine.org - For Barkan’s other writing on the self-proclaimed “education reform movement,” click here, here, and here. If you want to change government policy, change the politicians who make it. The implicati...
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One Hundred Scholars Take On Rahm In Chicago

schooltechconnect.com - If I hadn't started my own blog and searched out the RSS feeds of the great school advocates in this town, I might not have heard about the Chicagoland Researchers and Advocates for Transformationa...
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The Pattern on the Rug - Bridging Differences

blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah,There comes a time when you look at the rug on the floor, the one you've seen many times, and you see a pattern that you had never noticed before. You may have seen this squiggle or th...
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LAUSD Should Fund Schools in Need, Not District Offices

huffingtonpost.com - Dear LAUSD School Board Members, Superintendent Deasy, Secretary Duncan, and President Obama,We all want to provide the educational opportunities for children and our communities. Please help me re...
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Lobbyists, Guns and Money

nytimes.com - Florida’s now-infamous Stand Your Ground law, which lets you shoot someone you consider threatening without facing arrest, let alone prosecution, sounds crazy — and it is. And it’s tempting to dism...
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Support in U.S. for Afghan War Drops Sharply, Poll Finds

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — After a series of violent episodes and setbacks, support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped sharply among both Republicans and Democrats in recent months as increasing numbers of A...
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One Drug to Shrink All Tumors

democraticunderground.com - Source: Science/AAASA single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver, and prostate tumors that have been transplanted into mice, researchers have found. The treatm...
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Name droppers: UCD’s Pham receives medical scholarship

davisenterprise.com - Yvonne Thanh-Nga Pham of Orange County, a fourth-year student at the UC Davis School of Medicine, is the winner of a scholarship for female medical students. She will receive $3,000 as the recipien...
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Climate Change Nearing “Irreversible” Stage

news.firedoglake.com - The new EPA rules on future power plants will limit but not reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the near future, and maybe ever, if natural gas prices remain low. No coal-fired plants are really on ...
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Japan warns of nuclear safety 'myth'

democraticunderground.com - Source: Sydney Morning HeraldTHE Japanese Prime Minister warned a nuclear security summit yesterday that the world must not be lulled into a ''myth of safety'', following lessons learnt from the ts...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 26, 2012 From 1949 through 1989, the Soviet Union conducted hundreds of underground nuclear tests and experiments at the fo...
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more on pta fundraising with ps 295

nycschoolhelp.com - You may have seen the NY Times article about changing neighorhoods and school fundraising. I truly admire PS 295's PTA for going to the mat for their school and their out of the box creative fundra...
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How much 'pink slime' beef do schools serve?

californiawatch.org - Anfuehrer/FlickrGround beef (pictured here) purchased by the USDA for its national school lunch program may contain "pink slime," or lean finely textured beef. Tomato, tomahto. Pink slime, lean fin...
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David Stovall, Notes From The Ground

schooltechconnect.com - Professor David Stovall, University of Illinois Chicago, spoke at yesterday's CReATe event.  He works with one of Chicago's small high schools, Social Justice."At the same time that we were placed ...
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Closed Schools Ten Years Later: Who Goes There Now? | Edwize

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Closed Schools Ten Years Later: Who Goes There Now? | Edwize: Closed Schools Ten Years Later: Who Goes There Now?by Jackie BennettIn case you have not been paying attention, the mayor is vowing to ...
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David Stovall, Notes From The Ground

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Jersey Jazzman: Why Weren't Charter Teachers Teaching Today?

Jersey Jazzman: Why Weren't Charter Teachers Teaching Today?:


Why Weren't Charter Teachers Teaching Today?

by Duke
I'm sure you will be as shocked as I was to find out that hundreds of teachers were not in school today; instead,they were in Atlantic City!
ATLANTIC CITY -- Administrators and teachers packed Bally's for a 2-day education conference. The event is titled "Navigating Toward Quality Education". Which is the main focus on developing and sharing teaching techniques to help strengthen charter schools throughout the state.

New Jersey educators from through out the state all traveled into the heart of Atlantic City for the fourth annual New Jersey charter school conference. The teachers and administrators totaled over 700 in 
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Trabajadoras: A Union Voice for Working Women - Lily's Blackboard – Lily's Blackboard

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Trabajadoras: A Union Voice for Working Women

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Trabajadoras: A Union Voice for Working Women

Mar 27th, 2012 
by Lily.
Trabajadoras is the Spanish word for Working Women. Today was an important day for Latina Working Women. Not necessarily a happy day. But an important day.
Because an organization that fights for them, The Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, released a first-of-its-kind report on the working world of Latinas in our country and the challenges they face. It’s not a pretty picture.
Trabajadoras: Challenges and Conditions of Latina Workers in the United States has stark graphs of statistics that clearly show the high poverty rates; the low education attainment; low homeowner rates; the dismal employment ratios; lack of health insurance and any sort of retirement plans of Latinas.
The report is not a cry for pity or charity. It’s a call to action.
We ignore the reality of these numbers to our peril. To our communities’ peril. To the country’s peril. These women are hardworking, talented people with as much 
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Closed Schools Ten Years Later: Who Goes There Now? | Edwize

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Closed Schools Ten Years Later: Who Goes There Now?

by Jackie Bennett
In case you have not been paying attention, the mayor is vowing to dismantle about 30 school communities for reasons that pretty much no one can figure out. In fact, things have reached such a level of absurdity in New York that there are very few New Yorkers who actually believe that the campaign against our schools has anything to do with “school quality” or a desire to make things better for at-risk kids.
I mention this because in the face of such a situation, it seems ridiculous for me to continue my private crusade to correct the DOE’s misrepresentations about the schools that close and the new ones that rise up in their midst. The DOE mask, truly, is off. Still, even though no one in New York believes the mayor, New York City mayors often have national ambitions. It can’t hurt to set the record straight.
So, let’s look at a few big old schools and the new ones that replaced them in the same building. In particular let’s look at the schools’ comparative reading levels and comparative math. Until very recently, I didn’t have these files, and until very recently I didn’t think about same-building schools (called campus schools) too much, either. But then, the DOE made an inaccurate and unsupported claim about one of these campuses, and a few weeks 
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Parents decry cuts to ELL services to Council | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

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Parents decry cuts to ELL services to Council

by Dale Mezzacappa
Although one in eight students in Philadelphia public schools now come from homes in which English is the second language, services for them are being dismantled through the District's budget cuts, activists told City Council.
Schools serving these students lack materials, are largely staffed by inexperienced teachers in overcrowded classrooms, do not have enough counselors, and have cut back crucial translation and outreach services to parents, they said.
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Engaging Parents In School… - St. Paul Mayor Wants To Support Parent Engagement

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St. Paul Mayor Wants To Support Parent Engagement

March 27th, 2012 by 
The Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota has just called for spending $300,000 on expanding parent engagement efforts. Here’s a video clip of his comments. I don’t know the specifics, and the devil is always in the details, but it sure sounds good:
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Geaux Teacher!: Check This Out!

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CAN WE TALK ABOUT EDUCATION?

Visit Follow The Bill Louisiana! to join a live conversation on the home page, while you watch a live video of the current legislative proceedings in another window.

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Free Webinar: Common Core Assessment Shifts — Whole Child Education

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Free Webinar: Common Core Assessment Shifts

Klea Scharbergby Klea Scharberg


Discover the kinds of formative and summative classroom assessments that best coordinate with the new generation of testing consortia for the common core. Join ASCD author Susan Brookhart in a discussion of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessments and discover how to create classroom assessments that form a balanced system that supports student learning and aligns to the Common Core State Standards.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 3:00 p.m. eastern time
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In this webinar, Brookhart will
  • Provide an overview of SBAC and PARCC assessments.
  • Identify assessments shifts.
  • Share the implications of the Common Core for school-based formative and summative assessments.
Brookhart is an ASCD Faculty member, author, and senior research associate in the School of Education at Duquesne University. She has spent the last 20 years studying and writing about classroom assessment and specializes in combining research-based strategies and practical applications, working with classroom teachers and administrators to customize strategies for their schools. Listen to Brookhart discuss the future of assessment on the Whole Child Podcast and connect with her on the ASCD EDge® social network and by e-mail at susanbrookhart@bresnan.net.
Explore forthcoming and archived ASCD webinars and learn more about the Common Core Webinar Series.
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