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Change This! - Arlington, VA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post
edge.ascd.org - Change is a challenge. It’s not easy. It goes against self-interest. It alters the path we thought we saw just ahead. It creates discomfort and uncertainty. And yet it’s the only way to improve exi...
Daily Kos: Dear Mitt,
dailykos.com - Working in the real world might mean flipping burgers at a fast-food joint. Working in the real world might mean that your third job, with no union protections, is changing the bed linens in the ho...
Third Whistleblower Suit Filed Against Mavericks Charter Schools - Broward/Palm Beach News
blogs.browardpalmbeach.com - maverickshigh.comA former special education teacher at Mavericks High in Palm Springs has filed a whistle-blower lawsuit alleging the charter school is inflating enrollment records and fabricating ...
Stephen Krashen: Testing and Teaching to the Test: It's going to get Worse - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - Guest post by Stephen KrashenPhillip K. Howard tells us that "To fix America's bureaucracy, we need to destroy it." The part most in need of destruction is not yet fully grown: The new national sta...
Schools to take more fire
palmbeachpost.com - By The Palm Beach PostPosted: 7:23 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, 2012Those scanning the horizon for still more legislative assaults on public education in Florida should notice a provision buried on Pag...
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State arts council could lose the OK to raise money via tax forms
latimesblogs.latimes.com - The California Arts Council is in jeopardy of losing its recently won ability to solicit donations via state income tax forms. Beginning last year, filers could donate to the state’s chronically un...
Are Pre-Kindergarten Programs About To Get Gutted? | TIME Ideas
ideas.time.com - New cuts in early education spending are endangering young children and costing all of usCharles Thatcher / Stone Sub / Getty ImagesWhen a little girl, who I’ll call Tina, arrived in a pre-kinderga...
My Island View
tomwhitby.wordpress.com - April 5, 2012 by tomwhitby What is not to love about a zone of comfort; it is a comfy cocoon. It is a pleasurable place that is safe, sound, and satisfying. It is a place where alliterative adjecti...
StoriesSee all
Open to Hope: Getting Faith Back in Your Life | Maria Shriver
mariashriver.com - Open to Hope: Getting Faith Back in Your Life By Gloria HorsleyApril in Paris. Chestnuts in blossom. April showers bring May flowers.Since I was a child Easter has always been a special time for me...
A letter from a black mother to her son - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by Dyan Watson(watson@lclark.edu), an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education and Counseling at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore. She is an editorial associa...
Ecuador sabbatical a real ‘eye
stalbertleader.com - Noah Wilson hops up onto the couch in the living room of his family’s Kingswood home, the photo book made by his mother in his hands, eager to share. It’s been a few months since Noah, 9, mom Kendr...
SocietySee all
Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness | Maria Shriver
mariashriver.com - Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness By Erin MerrynI was born at home 27 years ago after putting my mother through 57 hours of all natural labor.The incredi...
Sexual Misconduct Complaints Are Up, Investigator Says – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - April 5, 2012, 12:26 p.m. WNYC School investigator sees spike in complaints In the first three months of 2012, the Special Commissioner of Investigation for the New York City School District receiv...
Conservatives, ALEC, and Vouchers Lose—Temporarily—in Arizona
nepc.colorado.edu - Governor Brewer (R-AZ) caused a bill to be killed that would have greatly expanded the Arizona voucher program. Enacted a few years ago, the program gave vouchers, pegged at 90% of the average per ...
PoliticsSee all
Robert Reich (The Fable of the Century)
robertreich.org - Imagine a country in which the very richest people get all the economic gains. They eventually accumulate so much of the nation’s total income and wealth that the middle class no longer has the pur...
Today in Pseudo-Outrage -- Daily Intel
nymag.com - The political industry requires the constant generation of pseudo-outrage. Pseudo-outrage is in a different category than normal political disagreement, and even hyperbolic political disagreement, ...
Today In Labor History: April 6
modeducation.blogspot.com - April 6, 1712 - New York City saw its first slave revolt, which occurred just north of Wall Street, in response to the execution of twenty-one blacks for killing nine whites. Conditions were ideal ...
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msnbc.com Entertainment - MPAA changes 'Bully' rating to PG
entertainment.msnbc.msn.com - By Bob Tourtellotte, ReutersThe filmmaker and studio behind documentary "Bully" on Thursday won their battle to have the movie's rating lowered, allowing kids as young as 13 years-old to see it.Dir...
With Some Profanities Edited, 'Bully' Receives PG-13 Rating : The Two-Way : NPR
npr.org - Enlarge Lee Hirsch/The Weinstein Company Alex, one of the kids who struggles with bullies in Lee Hirsch's documentary Bully. Lee Hirsch/The Weinstein Company Alex, one of the kids who struggles wit...
The Year's Most Important Film
huffingtonpost.com - I'm not a movie reviewer, but I strongly recommend that you take your child by the hand this weekend -- or several children -- to see the new documentary film, Bully. The only problem is, you might...
HealthSee all
The Effect of Work First Job Placements on the Distribution of Earnings: An Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression Approach
nber.org - NBER Working Paper No. 17972Issued in April 2012NBER Program(s): LSFederal and state employment programs for low-skilled workers typically emphasize rapid placement of participants into jobs and ...
If You Sleep After You Study, You'll Remember More—Duh?
modeducation.blogspot.com - Effective Studying in Action (Image from Flickr, by Mrehan)That sleep improves memory ought to be common sense knowledge, but apparently it is not, even after numerous studies have shown a strong c...
Meet the Three ALEC Supporting Corporate Giants Who Dare You to Boycott Them
politicususa.com - By: Jason EasleyApril 5, 2012see more posts by Jason EasleyAs the ALEC boycott continues to grow some corporations are not getting the message. Executives from Pfizer, Reynolds American, and Procte...
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My Island View
tomwhitby.wordpress.com - April 5, 2012 by tomwhitby What is not to love about a zone of comfort; it is a comfy cocoon. It is a pleasurable place that is safe, sound, and satisfying. It is a place where alliterative adjecti...
Smart-Briefing and Zite-Seeing « My Island View
tomwhitby.wordpress.com - April 6, 2012 by tomwhitby There are few questions that I get from teachers about social media, or sources that I haven’t gotten in some form before over the last three or four years. Two similar q...
Will · The Real Shift is Not Technology
willrichardson.com - From the “I Know I Keep Saying This But I Just Can’t Stop Dept.” comes yet another example of how out of whack our language is when talking about what student learning should be. In this long, cele...
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Q&A: Vicki Phillips, head of Gates Foundation education, talks school reform
bizjournals.com - Business Journal photo | Stephen Brashear Vicki Phillips, director of Education, College Ready for the United States Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationVicki Phillips is the director of ...
A Real Victory For Parents Against Reforminess!
jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - I can't let this pass without noting that parents in New Jersey gained a major victory this week in the battle to reclaim public education: The founders of Tikun Olam, a proposed Hebrew-language hi...
Troubled terms galore :: Reclaiming Reform
reclaimingreform.org - We put out a call for Troubled Terms a while back, and have gotten some excellent submissions. (Click here to read some of the others, and share one of your own!) Thanks so much for sharing your th...
