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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

The Educated Reporter: Now THIS is a cool job.

The Educated Reporter: Now THIS is a cool job.

Now THIS is a cool job.

by Linda Perlstein
EWA has a bunch of great ideas in the pipeline that, eventually, will help not just journalists but anyone interested in the conversation about education. To move them forward, we are looking for a multimedia producer to join the staff—someone with writing skills, online experience, energy and a steady stream of ideas. Are you interested? Know anyone who might be? Encourage them to apply.
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Colorado eligibility for Edujobs unclear | EdNewsColorado

Colorado eligibility for Edujobs unclear | EdNewsColorado

Colorado eligibility for Edujobs unclear

by Todd Engdahl
State officials are trying to figure out if Colorado is eligible for a slice of the new $10 billion “Edujobs” program, the State Board of Education learned today.

Colorado Department of Education
President Obama Tuesday signed the bill that will provide $10 billion in aid to school districts to avoid teacher
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Schools Matter: What Shelton's Waiver Tells Us About the Gates Foundation and DOE

Schools Matter: What Shelton's Waiver Tells Us About the Gates Foundation and DOE

What Shelton's Waiver Tells Us About the Gates Foundation and DOE

by Kenneth Libby
Just one day after his inauguration, President Obama issued an executive order outlining his Ethics Pledge. The Ethics Pledge is designed to establish baseline expectations about the behavior of top officials. It is also designed as a way to ensure the public trust and deter both real and perceived conflicts of interest.

The executive order banned lobbyists from entering government and put restrictions on all other
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Education Research Report: If You Build It, Will They Walk to School?

Education Research Report: If You Build It, Will They Walk to School?

If You Build It, Will They Walk to School? Ω Complete study Walking to school is as natural as gravity, right? An individual’s decision to walk to school is actually quite complex. It is influenced—perhaps—by distance and an attractive walkable environment, but also by intertwined social, ...
How kindergarten learning affects adult success Ω A good kindergarten learning experience can equate to about $1,000 more a year in adult earnings. There isn't a lot of research that links early childhood test scores to earnings as an adult. But new research reveals a surprising finding: Students ...
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BUDGET SNAPSHOT :: Improving Teacher Quality � SCUSD Observer

BUDGET SNAPSHOT :: Improving Teacher Quality � SCUSD Observer

SCUSD Observer

BUDGET SNAPSHOT :: Improving Teacher Quality

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Title II, Part A, Improving Teacher Quality
If you are familiar with reading the SCUSD budget reports, please take note.
Resource Code 4035
FY 0910 budget = $6,276,725.00
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Principals given more latitude in hiring, but only in the Bronx | GothamSchools

Principals given more latitude in hiring, but only in the Bronx | GothamSchools

Principals given more latitude in hiring, but only in the Bronx

by Philissa Cramer
Teaching jobs in the Bronx have been so slow to fill that the city today released many from year-old hiring restrictions.
The Department of Education informed Bronx principals this morning that they are now free to hire English, chemistry, math, social studies, and science teachers from outside the current teaching corps. In other boroughs, a hiring freeze in place since May 2009 require principals to fill most vacancies with teachers who are already working in the system.
When Ramon Gonzalez, the principal of MS 223 in the South Bronx, heard about the change, he snapped up four teachers in six minutes.

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by Elizabeth Green
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Statement by the President on the Occasion of Ramadan | The White House

Statement by the President on the Occasion of Ramadan | The White House

Statement by the President on the Occasion of Ramadan

by The White House
On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I want to extend our best wishes to Muslims in America and around the world. Ramadan Kareem.
Ramadan is a time when Muslims around the world reflect upon the wisdom and guidance that comes with faith, and the responsibility that human beings have to one another, and to God. This is a time when families gather, friends host iftars, and meals are shared. But Ramadan is also a time of intense devotion and reflection – a time when Muslims fast during the day and pray during the night; when Muslims provide support to others to advance opportunity and prosperity for people everywhere. For all of us must remember that the world we want to build – and the changes that we want to make – must begin in our own hearts, and our own communities.
These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings. Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality. And here in the United States, Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America and that American Muslims have made extraordinary contributions to our country. And today, I want to extend my best wishes to the 1.5 billion Muslims around the world – and your families and friends – as you welcome the beginning of Ramadan.
I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.
May God’s peace be upon you.

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Catalyst Notebook :: In the News: Federal aid for CPS; textbook fees rise statewide

Catalyst Notebook :: In the News: Federal aid for CPS; textbook fees rise statewide
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Catalyst writers and editors share their perspectives, analyses and the news behind the news on improving Chicago area public schools. Our on-the-ground reports will tell you what’s happening in schools and education circles here and elsewhere. Our views will tell you what to make of it.

In the News: Federal aid for CPS; textbook fees rise statewide

Chicago Public Schools could get more than $80 million from a federal bill aimed to prevent teacher layoffs.


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Posted By: Cassandra West On Wed Aug 11, 2010 In In the News
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College-going on the upswing for Chicago Public Schools graduates

College-going rates for CPS graduates continued on an upward trend, district officials reported Tuesday, although the rate remains far below national averages.


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Posted By: Sarah Karp On Tue Aug 10, 2010 In Post-Secondary Education
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In the News: Law creates CPS violence hot line; pushing turnaround expertise

Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law Monday requiring the Chicago Board of Education to work with city police to create a hot line that will allow students to report information about the possible outbreak of violence.


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CPS balances budget by draining savings

To finally balance its budget, Chicago Public School officials will lay off more than 2000 teachers and support staff, zero out the district's reserves, at least temporarily, and reduce the amount provided for charter school students by 6 percent.


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Diane Ravitch Website

Diane Ravitch

Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (New York: Basic Books, 2010).
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The Washington Teacher: What Will Become Of DC's Excessed Teachers?

The Washington Teacher: What Will Become Of DC's Excessed Teachers?


What Will Become Of DC's Excessed Teachers?

by The Wash. Teacher

Inquiring minds want to know WTU's official position ?

I have received a number of emails of concern this summer from excessed teachers who have not yet been hired by the Rhee administration. Recently, a colleague copied me in on an email asking Washington Teachers' Union President George Parker (whose term ended June 30) what is the official status of excessed teachers as well as DCPS hiring practice on this matter (email featured below).

In an August 5 Wash. Post article written by Bill Turque, Rhee stated that "although "two
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NYC Public School Parents: Please sign our letter to Klein and Liu re federal jobs funds


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NYC Public School Parents: Please sign our letter to Klein and Liu re federal jobs funds

Please sign our letter to Klein and Liu re federal jobs funds

Yesterday the President signed an education jobs bill that will provide $10 billion to save an estimated 160,000 teaching jobs nationwide

According to news reports, it will send about $608 million to NY State; and an estimated $200 million to NYC. Thanks to those of you that called or emailed the Congress about this critical bill. (You can see how your House member voted here.)

These funds are desperately needed to prevent the projected loss of 2,000 teaching positions in NYC schools this fall, which, along with a continued growth in enrollment, would otherwise lead to drastically increased class sizes.

As you know, class sizes have already risen on average for the last two years; and last year, more than half of Kindergarten students were in classes of 25 or more in many schools. This is simply unacceptable, especially as the city promised to reduce class sizes in all grades in return for receiving nearly a billion dollars in extra state funds.

Please sign onto our letter to Chancellor Klein below, urging him to use these new federal funds to avert the loss of any


Net Gain for Queens Students *August 11, 2010 (GBN News):* In an abrupt change of plans, a former tennis stadium, reportedly in line to be turned into condos, will instead be bought by the NY City Department of Education and used as a giant high school classroom. The historic ...
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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Hope Academy Charter School

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Hope Academy Charter School

Hope Academy Charter School STATE SAYS SCHOOL FACING BUDGET WOES, June 14, 2010, Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK - A Pine Bluff charter school is on shaky financial ground, according to a report presented Monday to the state Board of Education… Hope Academy Charter School in ...
Lotus School of Excellence Note: The Lotus School of Excellence is a Gulen charter school *STUDENTS PUT AT RISK, BUILDING CODE OFFICIAL CHARGES UNSAFE SCHOOL ALLOWED TO STAY OPEN, E-MAILS SAY,* June 16, 2007, Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) A state building code official told ...
Mystic Valley Regional Charter School SCHOOL NOT FORTHRIGHT WITH PAYROLL; GETTING MYSTIC VALLEY DATA A LENGTHY PROCESS, August 8, 2010, Boston (MA) Globe The Mystic Valley Regional Charter School says its mission is to provide its students a world-class education that incorporates ...
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Call It "Reform" & You Can Double Your Price - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

Call It "Reform" & You Can Double Your Price - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

Call It "Reform" & You Can Double Your Price

by Alexander Russo
Mayor Cermak: "You know I was elected as a reform candidate."
Frank Nitti: "What the hell does that mean, Tony?"
Mayor Cermak: "It means that the price is double."

This is apparently a favorite Saul Alinsky story about Anton Cermak and Capone lieutenant Frank Nitti discussing the cost of keeping prohibited liquor flowing in Chicago, as told in a new biography, according to



Seat Belts On School Buses -- Pro Or Con? Currently, only six U.S. states have laws that mandate seat belts in school buses - Illinois is not one of them. They are New York, New Jersey, California, Florida, Texas and Louisiana. (CNN: School Bus Seat Belt Debate Renewed After Fatal Missouri ...
What Next For "Edujobs" [image: ScreenHunter_10 Aug. 06 17.52.gif] Here's a helpful rundown from SSNS's Jim Broadway about what happens next for the $10B bailout passed by the House and signed into law yesterday. In short, the money is coming but not quite here yet, and will ...
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Gunmen kill 8-year-old Chicago girl as she plays

Gunmen kill 8-year-old Chicago girl as she plays

Gunmen kill 8-year-old Chicago girl as she plays

Wednesday, August 11, 2010
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(08-11) 05:58 PDT Chicago (AP) --
Police say two gunmen on bicycles killed an 8-year-old girl and wounded her younger cousin as the children were skipping rope in a Chicago neighborhood.
Deputy Police Superintendent Ernest Brown says the shooting happened Tuesday evening in Roseland onChicago's South Side.
Brown says the two men rolled up on bicycles, fired, then fled.
There is no word Wednesday on charges in the shooting.
Relatives say the girl killed was 8-year-old Tanaja Stokes. The Cook County medical


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Dear Robert. � Fred Klonsky's blog

Dear Robert. � Fred Klonsky's blog

Dear Robert.

by preaprez

Dear Robert,
I remember the first time I took notice of you. It must have been back in 2008. You were on Fox doing battle with Sean Hannity. Hannity had just handed over his TV show to some wing-nut, who it turned out was a notorious anti-Semite. You just nailed that son-of-a-bitch Hannity. I remember turning to Anne and saying,
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The Educated Reporter: Thinking private.

The Educated Reporter: Thinking private.

Thinking private.

by Linda Perlstein
According to a new NCES survey, private school teachers with one to three years’ experience have an attrition rate more than double their public school peers. Who knew? And why?

Gets me thinking that in all this discussion about teaching quality, nobody ever addresses private schools. How
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