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VALERIE STRAUSS
A School Survival Guide for Parents (And Everyone Else)

Posted at 8:59 AM ET, 05/15/2010

Literacy kudzu

Will Fitzhugh, editor of The Concord Review, questions, no, savages, the way students are taught to read in school.
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JAY MATHEWS
What's Right and Wrong With Our Schools

Posted at 5:30 AM ET, 05/14/2010

Why education reporting will live on and thrive

"Until people perceive education journalism as a route to long-term professional success, it will be hard to re-invigorate school-related coverage," they conclude. "Just as we undervalue the teaching profession, so do we undervalue education journalism. Our schools will not achieve as we would like them to until we give adequate respect and reward to teaching." Sorry, guys. It isn't going to happen
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Social conservative on state ed board to press church-state fight | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

Social conservative on state ed board to press church-state fight | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News| Latest News

Social conservative on state ed board to press church-state fight



11:53 PM CDT on Friday, May 14, 2010

By TERRENCE STUTZ / The Dallas Morning News
tstutz@dallasnews.com

AUSTIN – A leading social conservative on the State Board of Education will push for further doubt to be cast on separation of church and state when the board goes back to work on proposed curriculum standards for social studies next week.
Board member Don McLeroy, R-College Station, has distributed several changes he will propose before board members take a final vote on the standards. The curriculum will dictate what is taught in classrooms and must be included in textbooks for U.S. history, government and other social studies courses in Texas schools.


Trainer urges Plano ISD trustees to back superintendent, avoid dissent



11:48 PM CDT on Friday, May 14, 2010

By MATTHEW HAAG / The Dallas Morning News
mhaag@dallasnews.com

Plano's newest school board members gathered Friday for a five-hour crash course in local governance.
"You want to do everything you can to make your superintendent successful," said Don McAdams, a 69-year-old education consultant from Houston who led the training. "Governance is hard work."
The three newly elected trustees, along with existing members and Superintendent Doug Otto, scribbled notes on everything from how to

US to raise standards for school beef Education news - Boston Globe - MCAS results - latest education news - Boston.com

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US to raise standards for school beef

WASHINGTON — Ground beef purchased by the federal government for school cafeterias will have to meet higher safety standards by July, officials said yesterday.(Associated Press)

37 years after earning degree, Simmons grad takes the walk

Some things really are better late than never. Just ask Faith Gobuty. Although she received her bachelor’s degree from Simmons College 37 years ago, Gobuty finished school early and did not get to attend commencement, until yesterday morning. (By Stefanie Geisler, Globe Correspondent)

Archdiocese to help banned student

The Archdiocese of Boston said yesterday that it would help find a new Catholic school for a boy who was barred from a Catholic elementary school in Hingham because his parents are lesbians. (By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff)

Teachers union, Johnson reach stalemate on plan

The Boston Teachers Union and School Superintendent Carol R. Johnson have reached stalemate over her plan to extend the school day and make other changes at 12 underperforming schools, pushing the monthlong dispute into the hands of an arbitrator. (By James Vaznis, Globe Staff)

Schools move to educate staff, students on response to bullying

For the longest time, bullying has fallen into the “kids will be kids’’ category, a negative yet somewhat unavoidable part of growing up. But following the suicides of Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, a Springfield 11-year-old who took his own life last year after being bullied, and Phoebe Prince, the 15-year-old Irish immigrant in South Hadley who hanged herself in January ... (By Christine Legere, Globe Correspondent)

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Schools Matter: Whoops, Again: Duncan Has Opposition from National Academy of Education

Schools Matter: Whoops, Again: Duncan Has Opposition from National Academy of Education

Whoops, Again: Duncan Has Opposition from National Academy of Education

Valerie Strauss has posted remarks from Susan Fuhrman, President of the National Academy of Education, on a new report urging extreme caution on the use of standardized tests to make pay and promotion decisions. It is a good summary of reasons to be skeptical about growth models for making such decisions, most of which hav

Remainders: On the virtues of teachers who aren’t PC | GothamSchools

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Remainders: On the virtues of teachers who aren’t PC

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Sacramento's Hmong, Mien, and Lao communities will have a chance Tuesday to talk to Sacramento City Unified School District Superintendent Jonathan Raymond.
School will be out in a few weeks and officials in Citrus Heights and Sacramento are ready to counter any complaints from the young that "there's nothing to do."
Peter Lambert has been tapped to be principal at McClatchy High School.

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A Woodland teacher who allegedly confessed to FBI agents that he distributed child pornography on the Internet made his second appearance in federal court Friday.
Students at Union Mine High School arrayed 20 empty desks on a lawn at their school this week.
Peter Lambert has been tapped to be principal at McClatchy High School.


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Edujobs Hits the Editorial Pages - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Edujobs Hits the Editorial Pages - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Edujobs Hits the Editorial Pages

So on the heels of the Obama administration sticking its neck out to support the edujuobs bill, the Washington Post editorial page put out this op-ed urging lawmakers to reject the legislation.
The editorial points to some issues underlying the debate over the edujobs bill, including that it a) isn't offset if it becomes part of the emergency spending bill financing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and b) doesn't include any sort of provision urging districts to rethink seniority-based layoffs.
Here's a snippet from the editorial:
The congressional measure fails to use dollars in a way that would have the most impact. The

Two Weeks Left To Contribute To The ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival! | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

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Only two weeks left to contribute to the next edition of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival!
Karenne Joy Sylvester hosted the Sixteenth Edition of the ESL/EFL/ELL Carnival, which she titled the

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Williams' charter school has had rocky times | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/14/2010

Williams' charter school has had rocky times | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/14/2010

Williams' charter school has had rocky times

In his quest to be the Democrats' nominee for governor, State Sen. Anthony Williams is calling for expanding educational choice and targeting taxpayer funds to charters and other schools that produce results.
But the Southwest Philadelphia charter school he founded as Renaissance Advantage in 1999 and oversaw as board chairman for a decade has experienced rocky times.
The school, which Williams renamed Hardy Williams Academy in 2009 for his late father, was nearly closed in 2003 because of academic and management problems.
Academically, the charter has failed to meet federal No Child Left Behind benchmarks for the last three years. And, despite receiving taxpayer money, the school did not file federal tax returns for five years. Last school year, the school received $9.2 million.
Williams, whose candidacy was boosted by $3.2 million in contributions from supporters of charters and school vouchers, pledged that the school would do better. He cited the school's leadership under a seasoned executive, its new principal, and an increasing number of certified teachers.
"At the end of the year, I want to measure it based on academic outcomes," said Williams, who remains on the school's board although he stepped down as chair in September. "I'm pretty tough on everybody. I don't want excuses and neither do parents."
The charter, which enrolls 807 students from kindergarten through ninth grade, has posted test scores that lag the state's and the district's.
In 2009, 30.1 percent of the school's fifth graders were on grade level in math and 28.9 percent in reading compared with 52.4 percent and 40 percent in the school district. Statewide, the figures were 73.5 percent on grade level in math and 64.5 in reading.
Nonetheless, parents sing the school's praises.
"They're getting a good education," said Charlene Madison, who has four children at the charter.
Her oldest, Malik Jones, a seventh grader, has attended since first grade. Madison said the school moved quickly to provide special-education services for Malik.
"I'm pleased with the administration, the teachers, and the all-around academics," said Tamika Golson, whose son


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N.J. panel OKs private-school aid for low-income students

In an unusual, and at times raucous, outdoor hearing attended by hundreds of school-choice advocates, a New Jersey Senate committee unanimously approved a bill Thursday that would create scholarships for some low-income children to attend private or out-of-district public schools.

Phila. schools to open two hours late on primary day

Philadelphia schools will open two hours late on Tuesday, Pennsylvania's primary election day, but an official who oversees elections says that's not good enough.


South Phila. principal, lacking credential, resigns

The beleaguered principal of South Philadelphia High resigned Thursday, abruptly ending her controversial tenure after it was revealed that her state certificate was inactive.

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