Friday, October 21, 2011

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Education

Are top students being shortchanged? - The Answer Sheet

washingtonpost.com - This was written by Paul Thomas, an associate professor of education at Furman University in South Carolina. A version of this was published on Daily Kos.By Paul Thomas One aspect of the education ...

DianeRavitch

Proving Why Parents Need a Revolution

huffingtonpost.com - Last week, Dr. Diane Ravitch launched a broadside against Parent Trigger and the parent empowerment movement, calling it a "stealth assault" and a "deceptive scheme" to undermine public education. ...

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W. enters my wife's schoolboard race - Campaign Finance

salon.com - Emily knew it would be a tough race against her opponent, a deep-pocketed investment banker, but she felt confident she could run a solid campaign. She thought her experience as a social worker and...

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Video

nypost.com - The city teachers union threatened to derail a new evaluation system, claiming school principals have used it to punish teachers before it even started.But Department of Education officials counter...

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Video

nypost.com - On Tuesday, the state Board of Regents approved measures to address long-obvious weaknesses in test administration and scoring procedures and to thwart the rigging of results. Yet only one of the s...

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Fighting for Upper West Side Schools

westsidespirit.com - Posted by West Side Spirit on October 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment By Dan Rosenblum Even though Noah Gotbaum came from a family of teachers, labor leaders and political figures, he never thought he’...

leoniehaimson

Shanker Blog » The Teachers' Union Hypothesis

shankerblog.org - For the past couple of months, Steve Brill’s new book has served to step up the eternally-beneath-the-surface hypothesis that teachers’ unions are the primary obstacle to improving educational outc...

DianeRavitch

Melody Barnes to Exit White House - Politics K-12

blogs.edweek.org - 20985 « Early-Learning Race to Top Contests: 35 State Applicants | Main | Senate Education Panel Approves ESEA Rewrite Bill »By guest blogger Lesli A. MaxwellMelody Barnes, President Obama's top do...

mikeklonsky

No Child Left Behind; Parents Need to Take Responsibility

huffingtonpost.com - Recent headlines in our newspaper blare out the results of the Academic Performance Index and the No Child Left Behind.Interesting, and not surprising, schools in poorer district didn't fare well. ...

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Proposed charter school expects to run surplus

northjersey.com - A new proposal for an online charter school for 1,000 children statewide comes with an unusual twist: After its first year, the public school expects to have nearly $4.7 million left in the bank. T...

K12NN

Charter schools / Time to reassess

pressofatlanticcity.com - New Jersey has 80 charter schools. Next year, 25 more are scheduled to open, and another 42 applications are being considered by the Department of Education. But 15 years into the state's experimen...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Stupid

huffingtonpost.com - “The Economy Stupid” were the words on the now famous sign in successful presidential candidate Bill Clinton’s 1992 war room. Today, that sign should be in the war rooms of all candidates—from thos...

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High school applications due Oct. 28

thenotebook.org - The application deadline is just one week away. This weekend, Oct. 22-23, the High School Expo will be held at District headquarters, 440 N. Broad St. The Notebook will be at the expo, with a table...

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What Back to School is Like for An Unschooler

democraticeducation.org - Posted in DemEd in Real LifePhilosophy of EducationParenting on Aug 21, 2011 - 08:07 PM For unschoolers like us, there is no back to school. There is continual learning, all of the time. We don't b...

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Occupy Columbus Circle | OccupyWallSt.org

occupywallst.org - bobby 1 points 18 minutes ago VOTE COUNTING MINISTRY, DIRECT DEMOCRACY EBALLOT: http://www.usparliament.org/v-h-dd.php Results to be announced on November 6th, 2012. See the sole eballot cast, on t...

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Quick Hits (10.21.11)

quickanded.com - ESEA mark-up aftermath. The reauthorization chatter continued this morning via tweets and blog posts. Eduwonks weighed in, betting on the bill’s chances of passage and nit-picking at amendments pus...

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From a probation officer to a top teacher

signonsandiego.com - SAN PASQUAL VALLEY — Mark Burroughs’ route to his teaching career was an unlikely one.The fifth-grade teacher at San Pasqual Union School in the San Pasqual Valley toiled 10 years on the darkest si...

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Introducing the #OccupySupply Fund | The Dissenter

dissenter.firedoglake.com - I’m really excited to announce the Occupy Supply Fund, a new effort at FDL to truly support the thousands of Occupiers protesting economic injustice and inequality across the country. 100% of donat...

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Are Colleges Really Like Cable Companies?

missourieducationwatchdog.com - Education is big business, big money. In fact, it is easy to see which business model colleges and universities use when developing their degree programs. I am writing today about colleges in the w...

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Psychologists Defend The Importance Of Working Memory Capacity

educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ΩIn a new paper in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science, psychologists David Z. Hambrick of Michigan State University and El...

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Blog posts on this issue

whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 21, 2011 East Room2:09 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Welcome, everybody. Please have a seat. It is a great pleasure to be with s...

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Missouri repeals teacher-student Internet restrictions

northjersey.com - JEFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation repealing a contentious law that had limited online discussions between teachers and students. Nixon's Friday action eliminates a...

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