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2011′s TOP TEN MEDIA FALLACIES ABOUT TEACHERS « Teachers Fight Back

2011′s TOP TEN MEDIA FALLACIES ABOUT TEACHERS « Teachers Fight Back:

2011′s TOP TEN MEDIA FALLACIES ABOUT TEACHERS

10. Charter schools are the answer to what ails our public school system.

9. Teacher salaries are as high or higher than they should be.

8. Teacher unions are preventing education reforms.

7. Tenure prevents teacher firings and protects incompetent teachers.

6. Test scores should be way more important than

John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)


John Lennon -"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"Lyrics
(Happy Xmas Kyoko
Happy Xmas Julian)

So this is Xmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Xmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Xmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Xmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight

A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Xmas
And what have we done
Another year over
A new one just begun
And so happy Xmas
We hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
War is over, if you want it
War is over now

Happy Xmas

Preach, Jersey Jazzman. Preach. « Fred Klonsky

Preach, Jersey Jazzman. Preach. « Fred Klonsky:

Preach, Jersey Jazzman. Preach.

From Jersey Jazzman blog:

Forgive me, but I’m going to preach a little here. Because this teacher-blogger has walked the walk, and I have some words for those of you who sit on the sidelines and point fingers at my brothers and sisters standing in front of these classrooms: back off. Shallow comparisons between the Branch Brooks and the Camden Streets are useless and more than a little dangerous. Unless and until you’ve really looked at these schools – or any schools – and made the case that something has to change, you have absolutely no right to assume that the people who lead them or work in them are the problem.

Have you ever sat with an autistic child and tried to get her to look you in the

Big Education Ape: 12-23-11 PM Three Kinds of Charter Schools: Largely Segregated, Intensely Segregated, and Apartheid #EDPOLICY #EDreform

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School Tech Connect: Dumb Ideas

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Dumb Ideas:Dumb Ideasby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)Race To The Top. If I weren't so lazy, I'd still be racking by brain trying to figure out which constituency is supposed to be...

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Jindal's School Of Louisiana Ethics Gold Standards Rules

bayoubuzz.com - Written byDATE_FORMAT_LC2Here’s a news flash: if you are Chas Roemer and you never inquire into the propriety of voting on issues that directly affect the financial well-being of your sister, you w...

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2011: Best and worst in education - The Answer Sheet

washingtonpost.com - My guest is Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, a nonprofit public policy research organization, writes about education, equal opportunity and civil rights. This appea...

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Schools Look to Donors - WSJ.com

online.wsj.com - Wealthy donors have created a fund to pay the salary of a new Bridgeport school superintendent, ushering in hopes of a new era of private money for reform efforts in Connecticut's most troubled sch...

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What the Mayor Wants, the Mayor Gets

m.nbcchicago.com - Did Mayor Rahm Emanuel overturn a time-honored aldermanic privilege in order to place a charter school on the Northwest Side? The United Neighborhood Organization, a Latino community group, wanted ...

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When single-issue advocacy causes multiple-issue empowerment

allthingsedu.blogspot.com - Education journalist Joy Removits recently wrote this article on the education "reform" lobby. The article was not particularly remarkable, but I did discern a bit of pivoting on the part of some o...

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What the Mayor Wants, the Mayor Gets

nbcchicago.com - Nicholas Sposato | 36th Ward A true David versus Goliath victory, Sposato defeated John Rice, a man who had been appointed to the 36th ward by former Mayor Daley, as well as endorsed by Mayor Emanu...

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The Post-Truth Campaign

nytimes.com - Suppose that President Obama were to say the following: “Mitt Romney believes that corporations are people, and he believes that only corporations and the wealthy should have any rights. He wants t...

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Why the ProPublica Remap Yarn is Nonsense « Calbuzz

calbuzz.com - The pseudo investigation by Olga Pierce and Jeff Larson of New York-based ProPublica, purporting to expose “How Democrats Fooled California’s Redistricting Commission,” is misleading at best, disho...

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A Christmas Message From America's Rich |

rollingstone.com - Dario Cantatore/Getty It seems America’s bankers are tired of all the abuse. They’ve decided to speak out. True, they’re doing it from behind the ropeline, in front of friendly crowds at industry c...

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The Mix Tape Metaphor - Teacher in a Strange Land

blogs.edweek.org - When I was growing up, my family's (exceedingly modest) Christmas record collection was composed of LP compilations, the kind you get at the Marathon station--ONLY 99 CENTS WITH FILL-UP!! I loved t...

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Dairy Christmas, and a happy moo year!

davisenterprise.com - Dairy Barn resident Katie Helland visits with her favorite cow, Kaylee. "She was born during my freshman year at UC Davis. Last year, I halter-broke her and showed her in the Young Cattleman's Asso...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 23, 2011 James S. Brady Press Briefing Room1:25 P.M. ESTTHE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. I know you're all lo...

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Protesters, police tussle as tents fall

timesunion.com - ALBANY — The lengthy detente between the city and Occupy Albany ended Thursday evening when police used pepper spray on demonstrators in a struggle to dismantle their last remaining tent. The Occup...

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Peace Corps cites safety in pullout from Honduras

sfgate.com - (12-23) 09:42 PST TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- Honduran officials are lamenting a U.S. decision to pull 158 Peace Corps volunteers out of the country for safety reasons. Foreign Minister Arturo Co...

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San Diego D.A. probes school construction contracts

latimesblogs.latimes.com - December 23, 2011 | 10:49 am The San Diego district attorney's office raided the homes of several school officials and construction company employees this week as part of a months-long corruption p...

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Japan and Nuclear Radiation

dissidentvoice.org - “Radiation and life cannot go together.” So said 64-year-old Chieko Shiina, a member of the group Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation and a traditional farmer from Miyagi Prefectur...

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The Mix Tape Metaphor - Teacher in a Strange Land

blogs.edweek.org - When I was growing up, my family's (exceedingly modest) Christmas record collection was composed of LP compilations, the kind you get at the Marathon station--ONLY 99 CENTS WITH FILL-UP!! I loved t...

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Person of the Year | Lefty Parent

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Person of the Year | Lefty Parent:Person of the Yearby Cooper ZaleI caught the cover art of the recent Time magazine piececalling out the “Protester” as its “Person of the Year” and thought it was ...

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