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Saturday, October 22, 2011

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Wisconsin Public Radio - Kathleen Dunn

wpr.org - Kathleen Dunn can be heard on WPR's Ideas Network stations Monday through Thursday mornings from 9-11am, leading balanced discussions about the issues of the day and the issues of our time. To join...

DianeRavitch

NYC DOE: Careers in NYC Schools

hostedjobs.openhire.com - Note: This grant funded assignment is for one (1) year with the possibility of renewal for up to three (3) years. Position Summary: The New York City school system is the largest in the country, c...

leoniehaimson

Virtual charter school plan prompts review of laws

northjersey.com - A proposal for a virtual charter school based in Teaneck that would end its first year with $4.7 million of taxpayer money left in the bank has sparked concern and calls Friday for deeper scrutiny....

DianeRavitch

Testing "Experts"

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - Leonie Haimson points us to this report on the New York Regents Exam:The state is finally cracking down on the practice of teachers grading their own students’ standardized tests. The state Board o...

leoniehaimson

Gates: We know more about teaching than educators do

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Bill & Melinda Gates tell schools to operate like a business. They claim that they know more about how to teach than do teachers themselves. It may surprise you—it was certainly surprising to us—bu...

mikeklonsky

Jeb Bush's Cyber Attack on Public Schools

motherjones.com - In June 2010, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush traveled to Columbus, Ohio, to give the commencement speech for the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, the state's largest virtual charter school. ECOT, wh...

DianeRavitch

Occupy the Classroom

nytimes.com - Occupy Wall Street is shining a useful spotlight on one of America’s central challenges, the inequality that leaves the richest 1 percent of Americans with a greater net worth than the entire botto...

K12NN

Senate Panel Approves Bill That Rewrites Education Law

nytimes.com - Legislation rewriting the No Child Left Behind education law finally gained traction this week, and the Senate Democrat whose committee passed the bill said on Friday that progress became possible ...

DianeRavitch

Larry Strauss: My Class Size Matters

huffingtonpost.com - My very first day as a full-time teacher, I arrived at what was then a chaotic and dysfunctional high school to discover that my first period class had 34 students, my second period had seven, and ...

leoniehaimson

Bill and Melinda Gates on Teacher Evaluation

online.wsj.com - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation English teacher Angela Haskell, above, in Tampa, Fla., has agreed to have her classroom performance evaluated. Most teachers say they would do the same. America's sc...

leoniehaimson

Following State Law and School Board Policy

saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - From the Seattle Times of 21 October 2011: School Board President Steve Sundquist said he plans to talk with interim Superintendent Susan Enfield about enforcement of the pledge policy."The School ...

coopmike48

Students can attend Obama speech in Denver at Tivoli

denverpost.com - For the second time this month, President Barack Obama will visit Denver this Tuesday and Wednesday pushing his American Jobs Act. The President's only public appearance will be a Wednesday morning...

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Pete Seeger & Friends: This Little Light of Mine #ows

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Pete Seeger singing "This Little Light of Mine" at the 2009 Newport Folk Festival, accompanied by most of the day's other performers: Tao Rodriguez Seeger, Billy Bragg, Gillian Welch & David Rawlin...

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Women making slow, sure strides in science, math

boston.com - For many of the women, the chemistry lab was a home away from home -- a sorority for nerds, of sorts, that hints at the slow but steady shift in technical fields that have been traditionally filled...

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voiceofsandiego.org: Education

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - voiceofsandiego.org: Education:Morning Report: The Risk of the School Board PrezComments | 7:28 am San Diego Unified school board President Richard Barrera says the decisions he's faced have boiled...

coopmike48

On Occupy Wall Street goals, tactics, operations

my.firedoglake.com - This is an extended response to wbgonne’s comment on the Occupy Wall Street liveblog. It is just some observations prompted by the comment. There are some good insights in this comment. Let me tel...

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Drinks Are on the House (and Senate)

dissidentvoice.org - “Got any idea how to make a frozen daiquiri?” Saturday. 6 a.m. A question no one else would have asked at that hour. I knew it had to be Marshbaum, my faux-friend foil. “Too early to be drinking,” ...

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More of Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top AM Posts

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - More of Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top AM Posts Thoughts on Improving the School Funding Reform Act (SFRA) in NJ « School Finance 101 Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - ...

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Schools Matter: NCLB 2.0 and the New Feuderalism

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: NCLB 2.0 and the New Feuderalism:NCLB 2.0 and the New Feuderalismby Jim HornEverybody connected to Washington's corporate legislative process badly needs some good PR. With approva...

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Video

nypost.com - Mayor Bloomberg yesterday blasted teachers- union complaints over a new evaluation system that’s not even operational yet -- saying the UFT is just trying to subvert a real measure of teacher quali...

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Geaux Teacher!: Why NOT School Performance Scores?

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Geaux Teacher!: Why NOT School Performance Scores?:Why NOT School Performance Scores?by noreply@blogger.com (Lee Barrios, M.Ed., NBCT)This blog by Gary Rubinstein at "TEACHFORUS" is a great example...

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16 steps forward, 2 backward – Editorial Blog

community.statesmanjournal.com - Here is an updated draft of our Sunday editorial: It’s disappointing that the Oregon City School District has quit one of the nation’s leading school-reform efforts. But that decision shouldn’t dis...

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'Clarity' sought on charter schools | Richmond Times

timesdispatch.com - The Richmond School Board will ask Virginia to change the law on charter schools so the people who work in the schools aren't required to be employed by the public school district. The proposed cha...

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