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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Contact Senate Ed Committee Members Today

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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Contact Senate Ed Committee Members Today:Contact Senate Ed Committee Members Todayby Melissa WestbrookToday is the last day to bring bills out of committee and there still has not been movement on the charter bill in the Senate. I urge you to express your opinion as soon as possible. Below are the members of the Senate committee. Chairman Rosemary McAuliffe needs as much support as possible. One of the sponors of the bill, Rodney Tom, is on ... more »

Schooling in the Ownership Society: ALEC Education "Academy" Launches on Island Resort

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Schooling in the Ownership Society: ALEC Education "Academy" Launches on Island Resort:ALEC Education "Academy" Launches on Island Resortby Mike KlonskyRitz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida.Yesterday, hundreds of state legislators from across the nation gathered at an "island" resort on the coast of Florida for a so-called "education academy" sponsored by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). There were no students or teachers invited to the Ritz resort. Instead, legislators, representatives from right-wing think tanks and for-profit education corporations met behind cl... more »

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Friday edition. « Fred Klonsky

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Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Friday edition. « Fred Klonsky:Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Friday edition.by Fred KlonskyJuan Williams thinks Rahm and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie belong on the honor roll of education reformers.And I guess so do I.Or maybe not the honor roll.More like the dishonor roll.Williams and Rahm appear together on an anti-union, anti-public school video put out by the right-wing Education Action Group, home of Ben Velderman and Kyle Olson (my stalkers).Are sick days a “perk” or deferred ... more »

Q & A: Former Assistant Education Secretary Diane Ravitch on Why She Changed Her Mind | StateImpact Ohio

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Q A: Former Assistant Education Secretary Diane Ravitch on Why She Changed Her Mind | StateImpact Ohio:Q A: Former Assistant Education Secretary Diane Ravitch on Why She Changed Her MindFEBRUARY 3, 2012 | 6:00 AMBY IDA LIESZKOVSZKYIDA LIESZKOVSZKY / STATEIMPACT: OHIODiane Ravitch is an education historian and the former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education.Controversial education advocate Diane Ravitch is spending the day in Cleveland to talk about school reform.The one-time supporter of school choice and standardized testing now backs teacher ... more »

HBCUs and black education in America | Star-Exponent

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HBCUs and black education in America | Star-Exponent:HBCUs and black education in AmericaBy: Preserving History - Zann Nelson | Culpeper Star Exponent Published: February 03, 2012» 0 Comments | Post a CommentThe acronym HBCUs is deeply rooted in American history and represents an almost endless wealth of stories encapsulated in the full title of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.Institutions of higher learning dedicated to the education of primarily black students in America established a presence long before the abolition of ... more »

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm's imposed longer school day -- "Messing up what works"

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm's imposed longer school day -- "Messing up what works":Rahm's imposed longer school day -- "Messing up what works"by Mike Klonsky“They [CPS officials] should look at the quality of the school day, not the quantity. ... If the system is working for Northside, why do they want to mess up what works?” -- Northside College Prep parentNorthside College PrepThe elite public schools in Chicago want no part of Rahm's longer school day boondoggle. For one thing, ... more »

Newark Public Schools: Let’s Just Close the Poor Schools and Replace them with Less Poor Ones? « School Finance 101

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Newark Public Schools: Let’s Just Close the Poor Schools and Replace them with Less Poor Ones? « School Finance 101:Newark Public Schools: Let’s Just Close the Poor Schools and Replace them with Less Poor Ones?by schoolfinance101This week started with several individuals from the Washington DC area asking if I would address a school closure/turnaround report produced by an outside consulting firm on contract with the DC Public Schools (as I understand it). That consulting firm basically made a map of ... more »

Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top 2-3 Mid Morning Posts #ows #edreform

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New York Teacher | EdwizeBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-10 hours agoNew York Teacher | Edwize:New York Teacherby W.J. LevayHighlights from the Feb. 2 issue of New York Teacher:Schools with high-needs students most likely to face axTen years into Bloomberg’s education reforms, the New York City school system has come full circle and is now shutting down new high schools at the same rate as old ones. High schools established by Bloomberg represent about 40 percent of all existing ... more »

Carrots, Sticks, & the Bully Pulpit :: Frederick M. Hess

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Carrots, Sticks, the Bully Pulpit :: Frederick M. Hess:Carrots, Sticks, the Bully Pulpitby Frederick M. Hess • Feb 3, 2012 at 9:23 amCross-posted from Education Week Print Send RSS ShareInteresting day at AEI on Wednesday. Hosted a lively discussion on "Education 2012: What the Election Year Will Mean for Education Policy," looking at what the year ahead holds for education in Washington and nationally. I was joined by a wickedly smart crew that featured Democrats for Ed Reform chief Joe ... more »

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Red flag flying at Davos? #ows

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Schooling in the Ownership Society: Red flag flying at Davos?:Red flag flying at Davos?by Mike KlonskyFunny -- Occupiers at Camp Igloo have Davos billionaires quoting Marx. Andy Robinson, in The Nation, reports:CEOs and private-equity fund managers—even some of the seventy Forbes billionaires attending—interrupted their search for distressed assets in the eurozone this year to attend lectures by grim-faced New York University economist and Davos regular Nouriel Roubini or Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz. More than half the 1,200 investors, analysts ... more »

New York Teacher | Edwize

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New York Teacher | Edwize:New York Teacherby W.J. LevayHighlights from the Feb. 2 issue of New York Teacher:Schools with high-needs students most likely to face axTen years into Bloomberg’s education reforms, the New York City school system has come full circle and is now shutting down new high schools at the same rate as old ones. High schools established by Bloomberg represent about 40 percent of all existing high schools and 38 percent of the high schools on the closing ... more »

Join Arne for a Twitter Town Hall on Hispanic Education | ED.gov Blog

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Join Arne for a Twitter Town Hall on Hispanic Education | ED.gov Blog:Join Arne for a Twitter Town Hall on Hispanic EducationPosted on February 2, 2012 by dterryTo follow up on the President’s State of the Union Address—in which critical topics like college affordability, dropout rates, teachers, and job training were addressed—Secretary Duncan will engage with the Hispanic community through a Twitter town hall at 3:00 p.m. ET on February 8. The conversation on Twitter will be conducted in both ... more »

Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Early Evening Posts #ows #edreform 1-12

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Many in Rosemont Consider Waldorf-Style School - Rosemont, CA PatchBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-4 minutes agoMany in Rosemont Consider Waldorf-Style School - Rosemont, CA Patch:Many in Rosemont Consider Waldorf-Style SchoolMany families from the Rosemont area send their kids to George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science in Rancho Cordova.By Cody KitauraEmail the author11:15 am Email Print Comment PHOTOS (6) Upload Photos and VideosNote: This is the second part in a series about enrollment at Rosemont High School ... more »

Apple, Textbooks and the Education-Industrial Complex | Lefty Parent

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Apple, Textbooks and the Education-Industrial Complex | Lefty Parent:Apple, Textbooks and the Education-Industrial Complexby Cooper ZaleApple has certainly come a long way as the corporate insurgent (capturing the imagination of my kids and many of their peers) challenging and now outperforming “the man” Microsoft of the computer industry. Of course, Apple has sought brand loyalty from the younger generation for years by marketing their computers to schools, to put them in front of all those young consumers cloistered in those ... more »

Oakland gets serious about school food - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

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Oakland gets serious about school food - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:Oakland gets serious about school foodWednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 6:36 pm in health2 Comments »photo by D. Ross Cameron/StaffFor the first time in 15 years, the federal government has rewritten the rules for what must — and can’t — be served in its public school lunchrooms. Meanwhile, some OUSD staff, parents and local organizations are formulating some plans of their own, which they ... more »

RheeFirst! » One more myth (about Rhee) bites the dust

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RheeFirst! » One more myth (about Rhee) bites the dust:One more myth (about Rhee) bites the dustby adminWritten by Guy Brandenburg for his blog. Read the entire post here.“‘Former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee [...] failed miserably — as she conceded — in recruiting and training great principals, the key to turning a school around. She relied on a slapdash recruitment process and her instincts about which of the administrators she interviewed would be good and which wouldn’t.’What’s more, Rhee ... more »

Many in Rosemont Consider Waldorf-Style School - Rosemont, CA Patch

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Many in Rosemont Consider Waldorf-Style School - Rosemont, CA Patch:Many in Rosemont Consider Waldorf-Style SchoolMany families from the Rosemont area send their kids to George Washington Carver School of Arts and Science in Rancho Cordova.By Cody KitauraEmail the author11:15 am Email Print Comment PHOTOS (6) Upload Photos and VideosNote: This is the second part in a series about enrollment at Rosemont High School and Albert Einstein Middle School. Click here to read part one.For many parents, one of the main ... more »

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How Race to the Top is like ‘Queen for a Day’ - The Answer Sheet - The Washington PostBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-22 minutes agoHow Race to the Top is like ‘Queen for a Day’ - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:How Race to the Top is like ‘Queen for a Day’by Valerie StraussThis was written by James Arnold, superintendent of Pelham City Schools in Pelham, Ga.By James ArnoldHow wonderful it was when we were told that ... more »

Missouri Education Watchdog: The Global Agenda in America and the Players Setting the Educational Agenda for your Human Capital

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Missouri Education Watchdog: The Global Agenda in America and the Players Setting the Educational Agenda for your Human Capital:The Global Agenda in America and the Players Setting the Educational Agenda for your Human Capitalby stlgretchenWhen I turn on my computer every morning, I wonder what information I will find today relating to education or other matters. When we first started the blog a couple of years ago, there wasn't much on the common core standards, longitudinal data system, etc. But ... more »

Noam Chomsky: The Purpose of Education - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.

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Noam Chomsky: The Purpose of Education - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.:Noam Chomsky: The Purpose of Educationby CJ Westerberg"Education is really aimed at helping students get to the pointwhere they can learn on their own. . . " - Noam Chomsky Video BelowNoam Chomsky, Institute Professor and Professor Emeritus at MIT, presented "The Purpose of Education" recently at the "Learning without Frontiers" Conference in London.Video runs about 20 minutes and topics include the role of technology and ... more