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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Blog U.: Rating and ranking, measurement and management, and maybe a little doing in your spare time - Getting to Green - Inside Higher Ed

Blog U.: Rating and ranking, measurement and management, and maybe a little doing in your spare time - Getting to Green - Inside Higher Ed

Rating and ranking, measurement and management, and maybe a little doing in your spare time

By G. Rendell July 20, 2010 7:36 pm
As David Moltz reported in these pages Tuesday, a number of campus sustainability officers have issued an open letter describing the characteristics they'd like to see in higher education sustainability surveys, rankings, and evaluations. The letter was sent to The Princeton Review, the US Green Building Council, the Sustainable Endowments Institute, Sierra Magazine, the National Wildlife Federation, Peterson's Guide to Four Year Colleges, and Greenopia. It calls for
  • transparency of calculations,
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Mr. Allen's 3rd Grade Blog: Thing #11 -What might my digital citizenship lesson look like and why? Five things I will tell my students about being good digital citizens.

Mr. Allen's 3rd Grade Blog


Mr. Allen's 3rd Grade Blog: Thing #11 -What might my digital citizenship lesson look like and why? Five things I will tell my students about being good digital citizens.:

Thing #11 -What might my digital citizenship lesson look like and why? Five things I will tell my students about being good digital citizens.

1. Be respectful of other peoples’ feelings. Just because you find something to be funny does not mean that it does not offend others. Be courteous of those around you and before you post something on the internet, think how others may react to it.

2. Be careful of what you access on the internet. Most sites are useful, entertaining and safe. However, there are people in this world with bad intentions that may put inappropriate material online. Luckily for us, Spring Branch Independent School District works hard to keep that type of material off our school internet. But even with that protection, there are risks. Think of it this way, would you show a family member the material you are seeing. If not, stay away from it. If you are not sure if what you are seeing is inappropriate, ask me and I will look at it to help you
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Mayor: Schools Report is ‘Cause for Great Concern’

Mayor: Schools Report is ‘Cause for Great Concern’

Mayor: Schools Report is ‘Cause for Great Concern’
A coalition of philanthropists, parents, academics and business leaders aired an updated study of San Diego Unified schools at a press conference today, touting it as a call to action to change the way a "failing school system" is governed.
The University of San Diego study, commissioned by businessman Rod Dammeyer, is likely to be the opening salvo in a longer battle to alter how the school district is run. It draws no conclusions. But simply by airing data on test scores and finances and diagnosing the schools as failing, the group is taking its first public step toward a more concerted, more specific campaign.
The report was built largely on publicly available data from the California Department of Education from 2002 to 2009. Mayor Jerry Sanders, who has had little involvement in the schools so far, attended the event, calling the report "cause for great concern." Its findings
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Es el momento - #Educacion, Becas, Universidades, Aprendizaje #edu #education

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D.C. Schools Insider - New special education rate structure delayed

D.C. Schools Insider - New special education rate structure delayed

New special education rate structure delayed

Heeding protests from parents and educators, District officials have put off implementation of a new rate structure for private schools that serve about 2,700 D.C. special education students at public expense. The rates, scheduled to take effect this fall, would have limited tuition payments to $215 per day ($38,700 for a 180-day school year). Tuition can range from $20,000 to more than $100,000 a year.
Parents and private school operators said the rate schedule was a rigid "one size fits all" approach that would create hardships for schools that had already set their budgets and hired staff for the coming year. They also said that the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), the agency charged with monitoring the progress of privately placed students, was trying to rush the new rates onto the books over the summer. The attorney who represents students under the Petties class action suit governing tuition and transportation said earlier this month that he would seek a court injunction delaying imposition of the revised rates.
Tameria Lewis, assistant state superintendent for special education, said Tuesday that OSSE would extend final rule-making into November and that new rates would not be effective until July 2011. The new
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Racial tensions roil NC school board; 19 arrests

Racial tensions roil NC school board; 19 arrests

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Racial tensions roil NC school board; 19 arrests

By MIKE BAKER, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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In a February 2010 photo, Wake County School Board member Debra Goldman, left, and Chairman Ron Margiotta are shown just after Superintendent Del Burns announced his intention to resign over the Wake County Board of Education's decision to scrap a much-praised busing-for-diversity program. The Wake County Board of Education's decision to scrap a much-praised busing-for-diversity program has sparked a public backlash not seen for decades in these parts.
(07-20) 15:47 PDT Raleigh, N.C. (AP) --
Protesters and police scuffled Tuesday at a school board meeting in North Carolina over claims that a new busing system would resegregate schools, roiling racial tensions reminiscent of the 1960s.
Nearly 20 people were arrested, including the head of state NAACP chapter who was banned from the meeting after a trespassing arrest at a June school board gathering.
"We know that our cause is right," Barber said shortly before police put plastic handcuffs on his wrists before the meeting started.
Inside, more than a dozen demonstrators disrupted the meeting by gathering around a podium, chanting


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/07/18/national/a091549D97.DTL&type=education#ixzz0uGXwBUFp
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Remainders: Do Americans like checks and balances too much? | GothamSchools

Remainders: Do Americans like checks and balances too much? | GothamSchools

Remainders: Do Americans like checks and balances too much?

by Anna Phillips
  • Why are unions still powerful? Americans like checks and balances too much. (Antonucci)
  • Russ Whitehurst says Harlem Children’s Zone works, but not as advertised. (Brookings)
  • Joel Klein is now partnering with Microsoft to make a school e-mail system. (Datamation)
  • Why forcing teachers to work at struggling schools doesn’t work. (This Week in Education)
  • A first look at the first step in the federal education budget process. (Ed Money Watch)
  • Meanwhile, edujobs isn’t totally dead — not yet, at least. (Politics K12)
  • The University of Phoenix took more than a billion in Pell grants, a record. (Quick and the Ed)
  • Charter school critic Sen. Bill Perkins was endorsed by two former mayoral candidates. (Daily Politics)
  • Round 2 admissions for public pre-K are underway and seats are open. (Insideschools)
  • John McWhorter and Richard Thompson Ford debate the merits of segregated schools. (Bloggingheads)
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Eduflack: Data in Education Storytelling

Eduflack: Data in Education Storytelling

Data in Education Storytelling

by Eduflack
How do we use data to better tell the local story? That was the big question Eduflack was asked over the weekend speaking at the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media's Harold W. McGraw Hr. Seminar for Reporters New to the Education Beat.

For those who don't know (and you really should), the Hechinger Institute is a terrific outfit being run out of Teachers College, Columbia University. Back in May, Eduflack wrote about Hechinger's new efforts in education reporting. But at its core, Hechinger is about supporting members of the education media, providing the technical assistance and support necessary to support a strong and effective cadre of education reporters across the nation.

In talking with a terrific group of new education reporters (though not necessarily new to reporting) about how
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AM News: CPS Finally Releasing Magnet School Data [upd] - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

AM News: CPS Finally Releasing Magnet School Data [upd] - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

AM News: CPS Finally Releasing Magnet School Data [upd]

CPS set to release new data on selective and magnet school admissions Catalyst: CPS officials will release on Tuesday the long-awaited racial breakdowns of admissions to selective enrollment and magnet schools, and will announce a blue-ribbon committee to examine them... [UPDATE: Click "Read More" to see CPS release.]

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Illinois Cancels State Writing Exams to Save MoneyEdWeek: The move is provoking concern that writing instruction will taper off and fewer students will master the critical skill... 'A War Out Here' Tribune: Sometimes we're reminded by one horrifying example. Sometimes it's a cumulative statistic that gets to us. And sometimes we are seized by the startling commonality of it all... Former Jesse White tumbler sues group after paralyzing injury Tribune: The Fenger High School senior had learned to make the jaw-dropping stunts look routine, just as thousands of other youngsters had done as members of the famous team named after Jesse White... Voice of the People, Jul. 20: I'm an inner-city teacher who would like to
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