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National Journal Online -- Education Experts -- Save Teachers Or Education Reform Programs?

2010-Jul-6

National Journal Online -- Education Experts -- Save Teachers Or Education Reform Programs?Save Teachers Or Education Reform Programs?Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., defied the White House and shook the education community with his decision last week to cut from the administration's education reforms to pay for $10 billion in federal aid to avert teacher layoffs (see related story here). The jobs money is part of a military supplemental package passed by the House last Thursday. Now it is up to the ...

Federal concern preceded California's $416 million school reform award | California Watch

2010-Jul-8

Federal concern preceded California's $416 million school reform award | California WatchFederal concern preceded California's $416 million school reform awardJuly 8, 2010 | Corey G. JohnsonFlickr photo by Woodley WonderworksIt appears that the quest to get $416 million in federal aid for California schools wasn't exactly a walk in the park.As first reported by Education Week, state education officials had to revise their application for School Improvement Grant money four times after turning it into the U.S. Department of Education ...

Meghan Murphy: Education cash crunch signals need for reform | recordonline.com

2010-Jul-7

Meghan Murphy: Education cash crunch signals need for reform | recordonline.comMeghan Murphy: Education cash crunch signals need for reformCosts go up; NY enrollment slipsText Size: A | A | APrint this Article Email this ArticleShareThisPublished: 2:00 AM - 07/07/10Last updated: 9:46 AM - 07/07/10Everyone last week seemed to be running around scraping together money to save education jobs. While they scramble, I have to ask: Is pouring money at the same old broken system a solution?Thursday, the U.S. House of ...

Local News | Seattle Schools superintendent sets ambitious agenda | Seattle Times Newspaper

2010-Jul-6

Local News | Seattle Schools superintendent sets ambitious agenda | Seattle Times NewspaperSeattle Schools superintendent sets ambitious agendaSeattle schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson, who just ended her third year in the city, is about to embark on a handful of academic initiatives, including a new school-improvement plan that will support and pressure schools to improve.By Linda ShawSeattle Times education reporterPREV 1 of 2 NEXT Maria Goodloe-JohnsonIn her first three years in Seattle, schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson closed schools, oversaw a new ...

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: KIPP San Antonio

2010-Jul-5

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: KIPP San AntonioKIPP San Antonioby The Perimeter PrimateCHARTER SCHOOL FUNDS, EMPLOYEE VANISH, January 14, 2010, San Antonio Express-NewsLeaders of KIPP San Antonio, a branch of one of the most successful charter school programs in the country, are reeling after learning a former employee may have embezzled tens of thousands of dollars from the school district's accounts.According to KIPP board member Michele Brown, a member of the district's financial operation's team who was working from home last Thursday ...

Michael Hiltzik: Is outsourcing community college education serving students? - latimes.com

2010-Jul-4

Michael Hiltzik: Is outsourcing community college education serving students? - latimes.comIs outsourcing community college education serving students?By Michael HiltzikCalifornia Community Colleges' deal with for-profit Kaplan University has a few catches — among them Kaplan's higher costs and the question of whether its credits would even be transferable.Scholastic makes inroads into Arabic children's book marketBy Geraldine BaumSensing a business and cultural opportunity, Scholastic carefully translates English-language books like "Heidi" and "The Magic School Bus" to be used at schools in several ...

Quote of the day. « Fred Klonsky’s blog #edu

2010-Jul-8

Quote of the day. « Fred Klonsky's blog. Quote of the day. JULY 8, 2010 tags: Valerie Strauss by preaprez Valerie Strauss, Education columnist, Washington Post. And it would be useful if policymakers would look back nearly a decade ago, when they approved No Child Left Behind, certain that all of the changes that it forced upon [...]

Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Obama Aides Shunned at Teachers’ Union Convention: Union Prez Says “This Is Not the Change I Hoped For”… #NEARA10 #edu

2010-Jul-5

Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Obama Aides Shunned at Teachers’ Union Convention: Union Prez Says “This Is Not the Change I Hoped For”…. Obama Aides Shunned at Teachers’ Union Convention: Union Prez Says “This Is Not the Change I Hoped For”… Hope and Change! Yes We Can!  We Are The Ones We’ve Been Waiting [...]

Religion is Not the Problem… Patriarchy Is | Lefty Parent #edu #education

2010-Jul-10

Religion is Not the Problem… Patriarchy Is Lefty Parent. Religion is Not the Problem… Patriarchy Is by Cooper Zale Conventional wisdom of many on the progressive side of politics and social change is that religion, particularly Christianity, is a key source of our culture’s problems if not evil in general. John Lennon’s classic song “Imagine” [...]

Free Technology for Teachers: ISTE Unplugged Recordings Now Available #edu

2010-Jul-8

Free Technology for Teachers: ISTE Unplugged Recordings Now Available. ISTE Unplugged Recordings Now Available by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne) The recordings from ISTE Unplugged are now available on the ISTE Unplugged site. To access the recordings simply find the session in which you're interested and the recording link should be present at the end of the session description. Bear [...]

Obama Spars With Democrats over #Education Reform Funding – ABC News #edu

2010-Jul-7

Obama Spars With Democrats over Education Reform Funding ABC News. Obama, Democrats At Odds Over Education Reform Funding White House threatens to veto war spending bill over education cuts The White House is locked in a standoff with Democratic leaders in Congress over funding for school reforms, as deficit concerns and Afghanistan War politics [...]

Ravitch Speaks to #NEARA10 Choir – Teacher Beat – #Education Week #edu

2010-Jul-6

Ravitch Speaks to NEA Choir Teacher Beat Education Week. Ravitch Speaks to NEA Choir By Stephen Sawchuk on July 6, 2010 1:19 PM No Comments No TrackBacks Education historian and advocate Diane Ravitch, the author of the bestseller The Life and Death of the Great American School System, came to the RA today to [...]

Newsweek: ‘We better do much better next time’ « The Legible Bits #edu #education

2010-Jul-5

Newsweek: ‘We better do much better next time’ « The Legible Bits. Newsweek: ‘We better do much better next time’ Posted by Rebecca McKinsey under Editing, Education, Journalism, Print Media Tags: print media, journalism, magazines, Newsweek, America's Best High Schools, Lakewood, Ohio, Colorado, Lakewood High School, Jay Mathews, Sun News, David George, The Columbus Dispatch, Independence High School, Columbus,Shaker Heights High School, Shaker Heights, Faith Hampton, error, Newsweek.com,Advanced Placement, IB test, Cambridge test, White Station High School, Memphis,Heritage High School, Lynchburg, Seattle, correction, Lakewood Observer, Jim O'Bryan,Lakewood [...]

2theadvocate.com | News | Teachers receive training on oil spills — Baton Rouge, LA #edu #spill

2010-Jul-3

2theadvocate.com News Teachers receive training on oil spills — Baton Rouge, LA. Teachers receive training on oil spills Click Image to Enlarge ARTHUR D. LAUCK/The Advocate Edward Overton, an expert in oil leaks and spills, speaks Thursday about the BP oil leak to teachers-in-training at the Louisiana Resource Center for Educators. The talk [...]

NEA RA: Candidate A. Candidate B. « Fred Klonsky’s blog #edu #NEARA #education

2010-Jul-2

NEA RA: Candidate A. Candidate B. « Fred Klonsky's blog. NEA RA: Candidate A. Candidate B. JULY 2, 2010 tags: Brady, budget cuts, IEA, Jim Reed, Quinn, RA by preaprez It was a weird morning at the Illinois caucus meeting here at the Marriott on Canal in New Orleans. The first session of the NEA RA isn’t until tomorrow. I woke up [...]

Comparability and “Forced Assignment” � The Quick and the Ed

Comparability and “Forced Assignment” � The Quick and the Ed

Comparability and “Forced Assignment”

by Kevin Carey

Per this discussion of the comparability loophole and “forced assignment” : There are many ways a district could comply with a legitimate comparability rule that don’t involve transferring veteran teachers to high-poverty schools. Instead of hiring teachers who make more, they could hire more teachers and reduce class size, which makes particular sense given that the benefits of class size reduction are mostly limited to at-risk students. Presumably veteran teachers at wealthier schools could handle more students on the other end–if not, why are they being paid more money? Or, the district could pay teachers in high-poverty schools a bonus. Or it could stop tying pay to seniority. Or it could increase spending on non-salary items in schools that serve the most poor children.
All of that said, there could be instances when districts have to rearrange the distribution of teachers. Let’s be perfectly clear: forced assignment of teachers to schools where they’d rather not teach is nobody’s idea of a

Schools Matter: Bill Gates, the Oligarchs' Oligarch

Schools Matter: Bill Gates, the Oligarchs' Oligarch

Bill Gates, the Oligarchs' Oligarch

by Jim Horn

Beneath the creaky boyishness and slightly demented grin of Billy Gates beats the heart of a ruthless capitalist intent upon shaping the world in ways that make the future safe for the production of his line of cure-alls to the problems that he spends so much of his time marketing. After all, the inevitability of accepting the Gates-Broad-Walton-Fisher cure depends entirely upon the framing of the problem in ways that make such cures inevitable.


One of his favorite problems these days is disguised as "underperforming" schools and teachers, when, in fact, Gates's real problems, if acknowledged, would include the real costs of urban renewal, the threat of unionism, the potential costs of any social disorder, inefficiency, and anything less than an oversupply of politically-fumigated, obedient, trained technical workers and technocrats to manage them.


The current Gates solution: KIPP Schools, where untrained white female Ivy Leagues temps engage the

For working mothers in academia, tenure track is often a tough balancing act

For working mothers in academia, tenure track is often a tough balancing act

By Daniel de Vise

Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 11, 2010

The tenure system of academia is uniquely incompatible with the biological clocks of working women, according to a new study, one of the first to examine the persistent "leak" of talented women from the pipeline that produces professors.

For women intent on becoming both scholars and mothers, the timing of the tenure track could not be worse. The average female doctorate is awarded at 34, an age when many college-educated women are starting families. Tenure, a defining moment in a professor's career, is decided roughly seven years later, just as the parenting window is closing.
Researchers from Barnard College in New York interviewed 21 women, all striving to be supermoms at the most demanding time in their careers. Many of the women portrayed their work and family lives in irreconcilable conflict. One mother described working in "survival mode," just doing "the things that I can to not be kicked out." Another said she was no longer being invited to career-building speaking gigs. A third faced the hard truth that she was "never going to be one of those superstars."
The findings, presented last month at a conference of the American Association of University Professors, challenge the common perception that a faculty job might be a

At camp kids with special needs find fun, therapy

Children with special needs can find summer fun and therapy, for a hefty price tag.

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National teachers union brings ideas to Seattle - Boston.com

National teachers union brings ideas to Seattle - Boston.com

National teachers union brings ideas to Seattle

By Donna Gordon Blankinship

Associated Press Writer / July 9, 2010

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SEATTLE—The president of the American Federation of Teachers is reminding teachers they are part of the solution for failing schools, not the problem.

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Randi Weingarten opened the federation's convention on Thursday by responding to critics who hold teachers responsible for failing schools.

"It is simply wrong to suggest that there is an epidemic of bad teachers, and at the same time ignore poverty, budget cuts, the absence of curriculum and the attrition of good teachers," Weingarten said.

She vowed to lead a union that doesn't look for someone to blame but instead

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“Seeking Shelter” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

“Seeking Shelter” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

“Seeking Shelter” Seeking Shelter is a really exceptional interactive from The New York Times on Haiti six months after the earthquake. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About The Earthquake In Haiti.

“Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality” Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality is the headline of a column in the New York Times today. It cites recent studies questioning whether providing home computers enhances student achievement. I’ve already written about one of the ...

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Sac City Unified gets corporate look - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

Sac City Unified gets corporate look - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

Sac City Unified gets corporate look

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By Melody Gutierrez
mgutierrez@sacbee.com

Published: Sunday, Jul. 11, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 1B

Nearly a year into the job, Sacramento City Unified Superintendent Jonathan Raymond's vision is becoming more apparent: He wants a more corporate-like education structure with streamlined responsibility.

As part of the reorganization, Raymond has added several high-paying positions, eliminated others and added corporate-sounding titles.

To accomplish this, Raymond is shaking up Serna Center – the district's central office – through a massive reorganization where he is asking many employees to reapply for their positions.

Raymond and his staff have kept the reorganization chart shrouded as they tinkered with it the past several months. Raymond said

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Jonathan Raymond, Sacramento City Unified School District superintendent, said he will combat concerns of nepotism and cronyism through his restructuring and by having employees reapply for their jobs.

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  SAC CITY UNIFIED'S EXECUTIVE CABINET
  Chief accountability officer: Currently hiring, $119,537 to $149,914.
  
  Chief family and community engagement officer: Currently hiring, $109,199 to $136,717.
  
  Chief academic officer: Olivine Roberts, $119,537 to $149,914.
  
  Chief human resources officer: Robert Garcia, $143,233.
  
  Chief communications officer: Gabe Ross, $114,178.
  
  Chief of staff: Teresa Cummings, $102,000.
  
  Chief business officer: Patty Hagemeyer, $130,591.

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