Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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The choice not taken | Editorials

arktimes.com - The Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, which is subsidized by $200,000 annually in city tax dollars, continues its work to tear down the best hope for a vibrant community — its public school...

DianeRavitch

Are union-bashing charter reformers sobering up?

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - NYT's Joe Nocera ("Teaching With the Enemy") says Steven Brill was shocked when AFT prez Randi Weingarten held a book party for him at her home. To tell you the truth, I was too. But the real story...

mikeklonsky

ESEA needs parent input! « Parents Across America

parentsacrossamerica.org - Nov 8, 2011 pureparents Today, Parents Across America sent a letter to the members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee after noting that panelists testifying this morning...

leoniehaimson

CT News Junkie | OP-ED

ctnewsjunkie.com - by Dianne Kaplan deVries | Nov 7, 2011 10:54pm(0) Comments | Log in to Post a Comment Posted to: Education, Opinion “Singing to the choir because the choir needs support,” that’s what Diane Ravitch...

DianeRavitch

Teachers Leave the Classroom to Occupy Wall Street in NYC

missourieducationwatchdog.com - Teachers Leave the Classroom to Occupy Wall Street in NYCThe video is entitled: Educators use Occupy Movement to Empower Students, Defend Public Education. Questions:What do you think of this video...

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Don't Fear It, Use It – SchoolBook

nytimes.com - Nov. 8, 2011, 4:10 p.m. A new, mandatory sex education program for city middle and high school students will start in January, requiring a semester of sex education in 6th or 7th grade, and again i...

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What’s a Connected Educator? - The Educator's PLN

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - What’s a Connected Educator? - The Educator's PLN:What’s a Connected Educator?Posted by Thomas Whitby on November 8, 2011 at 2:19pm View Blog The idea of being connected in the Twentieth Century ha...

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Stopping Tomorrow’s Bullies Now « MomsRising Blog

momsrising.org - My five-year-old daughter started kindergarten ten weeks ago. She is excited, happy, and reasonably well-adjusted to life at our neighborhood public school. Yet, she recently confided in me that ...

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At Least Mussolini Made the Trains Run On Time

bluejersey.com - Chris Christie says he's for promoting business in New Jersey. What he fails to understand is that the engine of business is not capital from his greedy Wall Street friends, but the people who buil...

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Common Core: Caution on narrative writing | catalyst

catalyst-chicago.org - There’s certainly a lot to like in the new Common Core State Standards embraced by the Chicago Public Schools – serious attention to writing, emphasis on reading non-fiction (which college students...

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Is this the best we can do for our kids?

dangerouslyirrelevant.org - Deron Durflinger, a high school principal in Van Meter, Iowa, says:We need a system that isn't based on doing well on NAEP and PISA, but in which students are able to actually develop a love for le...

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Quick Hits (11.8.11)

quickanded.com - ESEA saga. Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) hosted the hearing they promised Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., last month during the mark-up of the Elementary and Seco...

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Cooking in the classroom to fight childhood obesity

educationresearchreport.blogspot.com - ΩBased on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other reports that childhood obesity has tripled over the past 30 years, we recognize the importance of reaching our children early to form ...

coopmike48

Don't Fear It, Use It – SchoolBook

nytimes.com - Nov. 8, 2011, 4:10 p.m. A new, mandatory sex education program for city middle and high school students will start in January, requiring a semester of sex education in 6th or 7th grade, and again i...

coopmike48

Agendas For This Week's Meetings

saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - The agendas for the Executive Committee meeting on Wednesday morning and the Audit& Finance Committee meeting (Audit) on Thursday afternoon have been posted.Executive Committee Agenda - There is a...

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Confirmation Bias in Everything - Forbes

forbes.com - Image via Wikipedia In June of 2010, Daniel Klein and Zeljka Buturovic published a study which they said proved that liberals and progressives were less enlightened about economic issues than their...

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Lectures Are Good. There I Said It.

ideasandthoughts.org - Unless you've spend the last several years on another planet, you've been hearing about how the awful lectures are for learning. Often associated with these phrases, "sit and git", "stand and deliv...

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SARC Template Restored - Year 2011 (CA Dept of Education)

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - SARC Template Restored - Year 2011 (CA Dept of Education):State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Restores Time-Saving Web Tool for School DistrictsSACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction T...

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OCCUPY EDUCATION

occupyedu.tumblr.com - I occupy education because: The big picture is being shattered into smaller and smaller pieces. We need less competition and more cooperation—now more than ever. The labels we assign to students (a...

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Newspaper Corrects NYSUT Salary Story; Still Not Right

eiaonline.com - I apologize for not following the ongoing melodrama surrounding the front-page publication of “NYSUT’s leaders get double-digit raises” in the October 28 Albany Times-Union. Sure, I raised some que...

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