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High-Profile Black Political Scientist to Lead New Center on Race, Gender and Politics in the South

High-Profile Black Political Scientist to Lead New Center on Race, Gender and Politics in the South

High-Profile Black Political Scientist to Lead New Center on Race, Gender and Politics in the South

by Jamal Eric Watson , January 24, 2011

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Melissa Harris-Perry
Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry is leaving Princeton for Tulane University.

Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry, the witty Black political scientist who has developed a loyal following as a television pundit on MSNBC and a columnist for The Nation,has decided to leave her teaching post at Princeton University to join the faculty at Tulane University, where she will head up a new center focused on race, gender and politics in the South.

The 37-year-old Harris-Perry held a joint appointment in Princeton’s political science and African-American studies departments and will begin at Tulane in the fall. Her chief responsibility will be to develop a center to critically examine the role of progressive politics and the intersection of race, religion and gender in the South.

Harris-Perry, who received her doctorate from Duke University, was recruited to Princeton from the University of Chicago as a tenured associate professor a

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solidaridad: Public Education Activists: Answers to very important PSC 2.0 questions

solidaridad: Public Education Activists: Answers to very important PSC 2.0 questions

Public Education Activists: Answers to very important PSC 2.0 questions

by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene
"[S]ome charters are known to discourage less academically inclined students from enrolling." — Los Angeles Times

California Charter Schools Association Charlatans are a vehicle for vouchers
CRES 14 Para La Comunidad volunteers were out this weekend and this morning encouraging parents to participate in the PSC 2.0 advisory vote, and of course to vote for the public school plan (Local District 4 and Echo Park Community Partners Design Team Plan) as opposed to the privatization plan proffered by the outside corporate charter-voucher company CNCA. We will be leafleting for the remainder of the week.

Several parents have asked us important questions about eligibility to vote, whether they needed ID, and more.

Fortunately UTLA's website has the answers to these questions
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Closing schools serve students with greater needs, report says | GothamSchools

Closing schools serve students with greater needs, report says | GothamSchools

Closing schools serve students with greater needs, report says

by Maura Walz

picture-3The 25 schools the city is trying to close are low-performing, but their students are among the city’s most challenging — and are only getting needier over time.

Those are the findings of a report released today by the Independent Budget Office, the city’s data watchdog.

City officials argue that these low-performing schools should be closed because other schools serve similar student populations with better results. But critics of the closures often counter that the schools were set up to

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Larry Ferlazzo: 5 Questions For Diane Ravitch

Larry Ferlazzo: 5 Questions For Diane Ravitch

Larry Ferlazzo: 5 Questions For Diane Ravitch

by Larry Ferlazzo
Diane Ravitch is one of the most visible advocates in the United States today for quality public schools, and one of the most outspoken opponents of much that is being done in the name of "school reform."

Ravitch, education historian and author of the bestselling book The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education recently agreed to answer a few of my questions:

What got you interested in education issues -- was there a specific incident or family experience?

I have been interested in education as long as I can remember. My first paper in a political science course in college -- in 1956 -- was a study of the influence of a far-right fringe group on school board elections in Houston,
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A Call for Equity: Watch the video! « EdVox

A Call for Equity: Watch the video! « EdVox

A Call for Equity: Watch the video!

by edvoxny

Parents writing letters to Gov. Cuomo and making phone calls to their legislators

Yesterday evening the Alliance for Quality Education and the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice were joined by hundreds of parents, teachers, education advocates and community members from across the state to launch a budget fight campaign to ensure that ALL students are college and career ready, and sound the alarm that more cuts will devastate our schools. These kickoff events occurred in the five big cities across the state, all with the aim of raising parent voices to put pressure on legislators and the Governor so that they do right by our

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Ill teachers' union head will run for reelection

Ill teachers' union head will run for reelection

Ill teachers' union head will run for reelection

Superintendent Art Johnson listens to teachers' union President Robert Dow Wednesday morning. The proposed agreement would not give teachers any raises but would give them a one-time $500 bonus, Johnson said.
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Superintendent Art Johnson listens to teachers' union President Robert Dow Wednesday morning. The proposed agreement would not give teachers any raises but would give them a one-time $500 bonus, Johnson said. "It's not a lot of money," Johnson said. "It's really more symbolic."
Robert Dow in his hospital room at Good Samaritan Medical Center January 20, 2010.
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Robert Dow in his hospital room at Good Samaritan Medical Center January 20, 2010.

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Robert Dow speaks at a school board meeting in October.
By KEVIN D. THOMPSON

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Updated: 12:41 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011

Posted: 11:51 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011

Robert Dow, Palm Beach County's fiery teachers' union president, will seek re-election, despite suffering from an incurable form of leukemia he said could kill him at any time.

"I almost feel like this isn't my choice," Dow said. "It's a calling to duty and what I'm supposed to do."

Dow, who was elected by almost a 2-1 margin in 2008 after

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School Tech Connect: The Man Is Not Sincere

School Tech Connect: The Man Is Not Sincere

The Man Is Not Sincere

by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
Changey McStory has come out with a soft-pedaled distortion of his real opinion, over at Fox.


Which all sounds a little different from back before he realize
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On Recovering My Mother Tongue: Speaking Spanish from the Bronx to Mรฉxico « Feminist Teacher

On Recovering My Mother Tongue: Speaking Spanish from the Bronx to Mรฉxico « Feminist Teacher

On Recovering My Mother Tongue: Speaking Spanish from the Bronx to Mรฉxico

by feministteacher

During the first five years of my life, I grew up speaking both English and Spanish with my Puerto Rican family in the Bronx. Both languages reflected the kaleidoscope of my life at the time: I could switch easily from speaking English while romping around Randalls Island and the Williamsbridge playground to speaking Spanish while dancing salsa and merengue at my grandmother’s house in Parkchester.

Once we moved from the Bronx to Long Island in the early eighties, however, a critical shift happened. I was no longer in a community where Spanish was commonly spoken and on top of that, racist school counselors “advised” my mother not to speak Spanish to my brothers and me, in case it might “confuse” us. Respectful of school authorities, my mother obliged this narrow and misinformed demand.

This shift marked the beginning of being robbed of my mother tongue. I have been on a search to recapture it

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Wendy Kopp may or may not want to be schools chancellor | GothamSchools

Wendy Kopp may or may not want to be schools chancellor | GothamSchools

Wendy Kopp may or may not want to be schools chancellor

by Elizabeth Green
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Wendy Kopp says she doesn't want to be schools chancellor, but it's a great job. Photo courtesy of Tulane Publications.

The occasion of Teach For America’s twentieth anniversary, along with a new book by founder Wendy Kopp summarizing the lessons she’s learned, is pulling the usually low-profile don out of her shell — and leading her to say some interesting things.

Yesterday, the Daily Beast’s Dana Goldstein published a profile in which Kopp said she would love to run the New York City schools.

Or, at least, she seemed to say that. When I asked her to follow up yesterday afternoon, Kopp dismissed the

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Queens Teacher: Ravitch Weighs in on Obama Speech

Queens Teacher: Ravitch Weighs in on Obama Speech

Ravitch Weighs in on Obama Speech

by Queens Teacher
Testing Remains the Problem
January 26, 2011


Diane Ravitch is the author of "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education."

President Obama's address contained no surprises about education policy. His goals are unarguable: He wants Americans to be better educated. He wants schools to encourage creativity, innovation and imagination. He wants teachers to be treated with respect.

The centralized Race to the Top discourages creativity, innovation and imagination..Unfortunately, his Race to the Top program, which he called "the most meaningful reform of our public schools in a generation," undermines these goals. It is not a repudiation of the unpopular No Child Left Behind law, but a continuation. Like No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top places high priority on tests of reading and mathematics.

The president wrongly asserted that Race to the Top is not a "top-down mandate, but the work of local teacher
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Hechinger Report | How can we reform science education?

Hechinger Report | How can we reform science education?
How can we reform science education? Ask a scientist in their mid 50s or older where they were in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy spoke to Congress about the urgency of sending a man to the moon, and chances are they’ll remember. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first ...
Why are other countries doing better in science than the U.S.? Students in the United States generally start to learn about the human eye in elementary school. Students in many other countries, though, don’t discuss the eye until eighth grade. At first glance, this difference would seem to indicate that our ...
The future of U.S. science education The state of science education in the United States may seem grim, but some in the field are optimistic that science may actually be poised to enter a new golden age. A recent report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology ...
Timeline: Important dates in U.S. science education history * * * * *1956 * The College Board introduces college-level science courses for advanced high-school students: AP Chemistry, AP Biology, AP Physics B/C (which become AP Physics B and AP Physics C in 1969). Sputnik *1957 * The Soviet Union ...
What makes a good science teacher? Janice Crowley (Courtesy College Board) What are the essential ingredients of good science teaching? Janice Crowley, chair of the science department at Wichita Collegiate Schoolin Kansas, faced that question last year when she had to choose between ...
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This Week In Education: Media: Politico Puts Obama Advisor On Then Off Charter Board

This Week In Education: Media: Politico Puts Obama Advisor On Then Off Charter Board

Media: Politico Puts Obama Advisor On Then Off Charter Board

by Alexander Russo

Oops! ScreenHunter_01 Jan. 26 11.13 The folks at Politico interviewed DPC chief Melody Barnes about the SOTU and initially identified her as a charter school board member, then corrected the post to say that she's no longer in that position. They also report that NCLB was enacted in 2001 not 2002. But mostly they dutifully pass along the White House hopefulness about revamping NCLB. That's how it works. You get an interview if you do what they want you to do.

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Why Is Kelley Williams-Bolar In Jail For Sending Her Kids To A Suburban School? | Education | Change.org

Why Is Kelley Williams-Bolar In Jail For Sending Her Kids To A Suburban School? | Education | Change.org

Why Is Kelley Williams-Bolar In Jail For Sending Her Kids To A Suburban School?

by Carol Scott

Update: 11 a.m. EST, Jan. 26, 2011 Edward Williams, Kelley Williams-Bolar's father, called to clarify that her decision to enroll her children in the suburban district had nothing to do with the academic quality of the school and was because of safety issues. Williams-Bolar's house had been broken into and she'd had to file 12 different police reports due to crime in the area, he said. Enrolling the children in the district where her father lived was a safety-based decision, and Williams wants to dispel any

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New Posts on Parents 4 democratic Schools 1-26-11 Get Involved- Read Education News

New Posts on Parents 4 democratic Schools

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