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Friday, February 14, 2014

2-14-14 Schools Matter

Schools Matter:







Part 4: Classroom Video Camera Project . . . Where The Cameras Are in Over 120 TN Schools
Part 4: Classroom Video Camera Project . . . Where The Cameras Are in Over 120 TN SchoolsDenise Wilburn and Jim HornAfter two weeks of waiting, the State of Tennessee today released the list of school districts and schools in the state that are participants in the video data gathering project sponsored by the Gates Foundation in the amount of $3.2 million.  ThereNow.com, a Utah company with ties t

Truth Numbers
From DailyKos:Do not follow this troublemaker, @RubenBolling.And whatever you do, do not join the INNER HIVE, which is surely some kind of secret cabal of secular, humanist, moral-relativist, evolution-hugging mathe-manics who get comic strips emailed to them BEFORE publication, which is clearly unnatural.


Mark Weber on the Destructive NJ Ed Commish, Chris Cerf (Broad Academy '04)

from NJ Spotlight: The state education chief’s so-called reforms may have stirred up something more powerful than frustration and resignation Chris Cerf says he’s not leaving his post as New Jersey’s Commissioner of Education because of Bridgegate, and I believe him. When Cerf departs at the end of March, he’ll be continuing a pattern of sliding back and forth between the private and public se
2-13-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Another Former KIPP Teacher Steps ForwardPosted at Edushyster:A former KIPP teacher in New Orleans finds her voiceI was never much of a champion [reference to Teach Like a Champion, Doug Lemov's exhausting checklist that serves as a bible for TFA and KIPP], to be honest. KIPP defines a successful teacher as someone who keeps children quiet, teaches children how to answer each quest