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Answer Sheet: Strauss: Why college freshmen need to take Emotions 101Too many college students face challenges for which they are emotionally ill-equipped to handle. In fact, suicide is the second leading cause of death for college students. In this piece, from OpEd Project’s Yale Public Voices Fellowship program, two mental health experts explain how colleges and universities can better deal with

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Life at the Intersections | …of spirit, people, and politics

Life at the Intersections | …of spirit, people, and politics: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT PROTESTS CREATE HEADACHES FOR SOME, HOPE FOR OTHERS Recent spontaneous and unprecedented high school student protest movements are causing a growing panic among the wealthy investor class who want to convert much of American education from public, democratic control to corporate investor control for their profits. It

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9-28-14 the becoming radical | Jesusland?: Bible Belt Raises Welt of Corporal Punishment - A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness

the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): Jesusland?: Bible Belt Raises Welt of Corporal Punishment“Jesusland” by Ben Folds includes a powerful verse against the energetic piano and soaring harmonies: Town to town broadcast to each house, they drop your name but no one knows your face Billboards quoting things y

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9-28-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: How Are Schools Supposed To Work When Everything Else Around Them Is Broken?Had a discussion with NY Daily News reporter Ben Chapman over the "disruption" that education reformers bring to the education system (and the money they make off of that "disruption") that went like this the other day:@NYDNBenChapman Cuomo's Smart Schools jive all about "dis

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9-28-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Sunday reads.. Following a teacher strike, the Galesburg, Illinois school board refuses to return school days to the calendar. Why don’t we have real data on charter schools? The Koch brothers toxic empire. It extends to Chicago’s 10th Ward. Vote for Susan Sadlowski Garza for Alderman. “No excuses” ch

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9-28-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online: NYCFIRST LEGO League Kickoff - PhotosI had a great time yesterday at NYU/Poly on Jay Street at our annual FLL kickoff. We have about 170 NYC teams registered so far for the Challenge which is called World Class, all about learning. Kids not only build a robot for the game field - below - represent different styles of learning - but also do and present an extensive research project

by mike simpson / 13min

Man in Red - Two Teachers and a Microphone featuring Erich Schneider - YouTube

Man in Red - Two Teachers and a Microphone featuring Erich Schneider - YouTube: Man in Red - Two Teachers and a Microphone featuring Erich Schneider"Man In Red" - A reimagining of "Man in Black" by Johnny CashTwo Teachers and a Microphone featuring Super Substitute Teacher Erich SchneiderWell, you wonder why on Tuesdays I wear red,Did I wake up on the wrong side of the bed?And

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A level playing field at school can't make up for a broken democracy - LA Times

A level playing field at school can't make up for a broken democracy - LA Times: A level playing field at school can't make up for a broken democracy In the fall of 2010, after a14-year hiatus from the classroom, I began a one-year job filling in for a teacher on leave from the same rural Vermont high school that I'd entered as a rookie 30 years before.Almost from my first day, I was moved by the

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Decriminalizing School Discipline | Marian Wright Edelman

Decriminalizing School Discipline | Marian Wright Edelman: Decriminalizing School DisciplineI believe the purpose of public schools is to educate not exclude children and to help identify and meet child needs, not make children serve adult convenience, self interest, and systems. So huge reforms are required in school discipline policies and practices across our nation as school pushout has worsen

by mike simpson / 1h

LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 9-28-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Veteran Teacher In California Named Teacher of the YearGlendale Unified School District in California named math teacher Win Saw its teacher of the year. The son of two teachers in Burma, Win Saw never expected to be a teacher. But while in college at Santa Barbara, he realized that was his calling. He has been inspiring students f

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9-28-14 Hemlock on the Rocks

Hemlock on the Rocks: Breakfast is served | The Crimson Chroniclehttp://www.thecrimsonchronicle.com/2014/09/breakfast-is-served/ Breakfast is served Posted on September 26, 2014 by Erika Salazar in News Erika Salazar Editor-In-Chief Breakfast in the Classroom, a district-wide initiative that aims to offer morning meals to those students who do not eat one on a regular basis, will be implemented on

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9-28-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Five Most Popular Posts Of The Week© 2010 Paul Townsend, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Here’s the second post in this now every-Sunday feature. These are the posts appearing this blog that received the most “hits” in the preceding seven days (though they have originally been published on an earlier date). Here they are: 1.

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NYC Educator: When the News is Too Strange to Believe...

NYC Educator: When the News is Too Strange to Believe...: When the News is Too Strange to Believe...I'm sure you remember how Mulgrew popped up in the news last May when his private words to his caucus went public. He had pushed for twenty-two domains of Danielson to "gum up the works" as one defensive strategy against the ed "reformers" in this ongoing war to protect our publ

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Kimble's Corner: Jack Kimble's Speech to the 2014 Values Voter Summit

Kimble's Corner: Jack Kimble's Speech to the 2014 Values Voter Summit: Jack Kimble's Speech to the 2014 Values Voter Summit

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Students Protest ‘Slut Shaming’ Dress Codes | PopularResistance.Org

Students Protest ‘Slut Shaming’ Dress Codes | PopularResistance.Org: Students Protest ‘Slut Shaming’ Dress CodesRESIST! EDUCTION, STUDENT ACTIVISM, STUDENT PROTESTS By Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.comSeptember 28th, 2014 Powered by TranslateStudents Around US Organise Mass Walkouts to Protest Administrators Who Made Them Wear ‘Shame Suits’ or Mandate Hemline LimitsA spate of revolts against scho

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Lessons from SF: UESF Teachers Push for Strike Vote in Contract Negotiations | Classroom Struggle

Lessons from SF: UESF Teachers Push for Strike Vote in Contract Negotiations | Classroom Struggle:Lessons from SF: UESF Teachers Push for Strike Vote in Contract Negotiations We repost an article below which comes to us from two members of the leftist teacher’s caucus in UESF, EDU (Educators for a Democratic Union). They and other EDU and UESF members have been fighting for a strike authorization

by mike simpson / 10h

Remarkable Idiocy: “Economically-driven Education” | deutsch29

Remarkable Idiocy: “Economically-driven Education” | deutsch29: Remarkable Idiocy: “Economically-driven Education”September 27, 2014On October 2, 2014, I will be speaking in Indiana to an audience chiefly comprised of university students who have a passing understanding of the intentions of moneyed interests to usurp control of public education.With a mind toward preparing for my upcoming engageme

by mike simpson / 10h

Oregon Save Our Schools: OEA Needs to Follow its Members' Vote Against High-Stakes Testing

Oregon Save Our Schools: OEA Needs to Follow its Members' Vote Against High-Stakes Testing: OEA Needs to Follow its Members' Vote Against High-Stakes TestingOn September 17, the Oregon Education Association (OEA) made a report to the Oregon Senate Committee on Education & Workforce regarding Common Core and Assessment. While OEA's report was a welcome change from its previous responses (rangin

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Nite Cap 9-27-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT

James Baldwin said it best: "For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAP2nd Banana 9-27-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post 2nd Banana 9-20-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post2nd Banana 9-13-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post2nd Banana 9-6-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post2nd Banana 8-30-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post2

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NYC Public School Parents: NYC DOE still putting out false discharge data and inflating the graduation rate

NYC Public School Parents: NYC DOE still putting out false discharge data and inflating the graduation rate: NYC DOE still putting out false discharge data and inflating the graduation rateThroughout the Bloomberg years, when the administration would trumpet rising graduation rates, I noticed how the discharge numbers were very high and seemed to be increasing. Every student listed as a “discharge

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gulftoday.ae | By Randi Weingarten, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, Otha Thornton and Carol Joyner: Paid sick days for parents benefit kids

gulftoday.ae | By Randi Weingarten, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, Otha Thornton and Carol Joyner: Paid sick days for parents benefit kids: By Randi Weingarten, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, Otha Thornton and Carol Joyner: Paid sick days for parents benefit kidsSeptember 28, 2014 Print Send to FriendIt’s back to school season! Educators and students are back in school, after many have prepared much of the summe

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The Political Lens: What Global Warming and Wright v. New York Have in Common | 34justice

The Political Lens: What Global Warming and Wright v. New York Have in Common | 34justice: The Political Lens: What Global Warming and Wright v. New York Have in CommonDuring the 2003-2004 school year, my chemistry teacher told my class that global warming wasn’t occurring. I believed her. When I attended New Jersey’s Governor’s School of International Studies in the summer of 2005, a professor

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2nd Banana 9-27-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform

BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANARECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POSTVenture Capitalists Are Poised to ‘Disrupt’ Everything About the Education Market | The NationVenture Capitalists Are Poised to ‘Disrupt’ Everything About the Education Market | The Nation: Venture Capitalists Are Poised to ‘Disrupt’ Everything About the Education MarketVenture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating over the explod

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Morning Wink 9-27-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSLouisiana Educator: Educators Speak Up Now or Forever Live With VAM and The Dog and Pony Show Called COMPASSLouisiana Educator: Educators Speak Up Now or Forever Live With VAM and The Dog and Pony Show Called COMPASS: Educators Speak Up Now or Forever Live With VAM and The Dog and Pony Show Called COMPASSNote to readers: Legislators got so many complaints

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