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Local News | Ferndale teachers vote to strike | Seattle Times Newspaper

Ferndale teachers vote to strike

Ferndale teachers voted Tuesday to strike, postponing the start of classes that had been scheduled for Wednesday.

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FERNDALE, Wash. —

Ferndale teachers voted Tuesday to strike, postponing the start of classes that had been scheduled for Wednesday.

The Bellingham Herald reports that a bargaining session with a mediator Tuesday afternoon yielded no progress.

Ferndale Education Association President Tracie Morris says the sticking point is more planning time for elementary school teachers. Morris says they now average 24 minutes a day and the union wants at least

Back to school kicks off with one-day first week, Brooklyn parents and teachers peeved

Back to school kicks off with one-day first week, Brooklyn parents and teachers peeved

BY MIKE MCLAUGHLIN AND BEN CHAPMAN
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Wednesday, September 8th 2010, 4:00 AM

The Jewish New Year holiday of RoshBrooklyn parents and teachers are ticked off this year's public school schedule requires kids to show up for classes Wednesday - and then take the following two days off.

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City schools won't be giving flu vaccines this year: officials NEW YORK City schools won't offer flu vaccines this year, officials said yesterday.

More city kids likely to be left back with tougher state tests The boosting of standards on state tests will put many more kids at risk of repeating a grade - already a severe issue in some neighborhoods.

Schools lacking money to give boost to failing students City schools open Wednesday with higher expectations - but not necessarily the money to meet them. The number of kids reading and doing math below their grade level more than doubled this year, but schools won't get extra money to bring them up to ...

UCLA's business graduate school plans to forego state funding | California Watch

UCLA's business graduate school plans to forego state funding | California Watch

UCLA's business graduate school plans to forego state funding

by Erica Perez

Erica Perez

At a time when California's public universities are bemoaning the decline of state funding as a piece of their overall budgets, one highly ranked public graduate school is planning to forego state funding altogether in favor of greater flexibility.

Officials at UCLA's Anderson School of Management say forfeiting state funding would give the school more freedom to set fees and spend fee revenue. The plan – described by UCLA as financial self-sufficiency – woul

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Good riddance

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Good riddance

Good riddance

by Mike Klonsky

It seems like everyone is feigning surprise over Daley's "time to move on" announcement yesterday. Not me. The writing was on the wall back in July whenda mayor's poll numbers dropped down into the 30s. And why not? Daley's botched attempt to land the Olympic Games caused havoc and scandal in the ranks of his speculating business patrons--possibly even leading to the suicide of his real estate-speculating school board president, Michael Scott. His giant privatization yard sale of everything not nailed down, from the Skyway, to the schools, even the city's parking spaces, has left this once-proud city, on the brink and mortgaged up to its eyeballs with federal investigators once again, sniffing around City Hall.

Daley was the first of the big-city mayors to take control of the public schools, which he then turned into another wing of his patronage machine. He reshaped

Teachers Discuss Local Impacts of Block Scheduling � The Quick and the Ed

Teachers Discuss Local Impacts of Block Scheduling � The Quick and the Ed

Teachers Discuss Local Impacts of Block Scheduling

by Rob Manwaring

Last week I posted my concerns about schools that are using block scheduling to allow students to take more classes in a year with less instructional time in each class. Several teachers discuss their local take on block scheduling on Joanne Jacobs blog. The most disconcerting post was from David:

” When I worked in NYC, we did this deliberately. In fact we offered 9 periods per day so the

Blog U.: They’re Baaack... - Confessions of a Community College Dean - Inside Higher Ed

Blog U.: They’re Baaack... - Confessions of a Community College Dean - Inside Higher Ed

They’re Baaack... Dean Dad

3 Things Non-Profits Can Learn From For-Profits Joshua Kim

Good, Simple Lesson Plans on Religion | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Good, Simple Lesson Plans on Religion | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Good, Simple Lesson Plans on Religion

by Larry Ferlazzo

Teaching Tolerance has some nice, simple lesson plans on religion:

Proposed slogan: 'Low pants, no chance' - Boston.com

Proposed slogan: 'Low pants, no chance' - Boston.com

Proposed slogan: 'Low pants, no chance'

September 7, 2010

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BATON ROUGE, La.—A Baton Rouge Metro Council member wants the parish to support a public awareness campaign against men who wear their pants so low that their boxer shorts show. Councilwoman C. Denise Marcelle has a slogan for the campaign: "Low pants, no chance."

"I hate to see it and I see so much of it in my district," Marcelle said. "It's disrespectful to the elderly, to young kids and to women."

Her resolution, on the agenda for discussion Wednesday, says wearing saggy pants creates negative stereotypes and that "those who wear saggy pants are hurting their chances of becoming employable, educated and productive

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The Educated Reporter: The strong union-strong schools suggestion.

The Educated Reporter: The strong union-strong schools suggestion.

The strong union-strong schools suggestion.

by Linda Perlstein

PolitiFact takes on the strong union state/strong student performance claim, repeated by Randi Weingarten in her ABC’s This Week appearance. They declare it half-true: Yes, strongly unionized states tend to rank above

Schools Matter: What Makes Mike Petrilli An Expert on Anything, Particularly Anything about Teachers?

Schools Matter: What Makes Mike Petrilli An Expert on Anything, Particularly Anything about Teachers?

What Makes Mike Petrilli An Expert on Anything, Particularly Anything about Teachers?

by Jim Horn

The NYTimes has an interesting piece on schools run by teachers, and who is the first neolib sludge tanker to condemn it. That's right:

. . . . They say that most teachers have neither the time nor the expertise to deal with the inner workings of a school, like paying bills, conducting fire drills and refereeing faculty disputes.

“Ever try to plan a vacation with a large extended family? That’s what it’s going to be like,” said Michael J.

Congratulations to Margaret Dano, the Top March on Alzheimer's Fundraiser for August!

Congratulations to Margaret Dano, the Top March on Alzheimer's Fundraiser for August!

Congratulations to Margaret Dano, the Top March on Alzheimer's Fundraiser for August!

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Margaret is marching in honor of her father, Thomas Dano. Her three sisters will be flying in from all over the U.S. to march with her: Patricia Dano from Maine, Eileen Dano-Tkacik from Pennsylvania and Dr. Jaculeen Dano from Texas.

When Margaret and her sisters were young, their father encouraged them to believe in themselves and to dream big. He was always there to coach, inspire, teach and nurture them to fulfill their potential.

When Margaret’s successful and otherwise healthy father turned 50, he started showing signs of Alzheimer’s: forgetting where he was, forgetting where things were, forgetting who people

Economists oppose Oklahoma education ballot measure | NewsOK.com

Economists oppose Oklahoma education ballot measure | NewsOK.com

Economists oppose Oklahoma education ballot measure

A proposed Oklahoma ballot measure to increase education funding would tie lawmakers' hands during fiscal emergencies and decimate funding for other state services, economists from the state's top two public universities said Tuesday.

By The Associated Press 7

Published: September 7, 2010

A proposed Oklahoma ballot measure to increase education funding would tie lawmakers' hands during fiscal emergencies and decimate funding for other state services, economists from the state's top two public universities said Tuesday.

The two professors joined fiscal analysts from a pair of Oklahoma think tanks during a press conference at the Capitol to oppose State Question 744, one of 11 questions on the November ballot. If approved, it would amend the state's constitution to require

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Padres y maestros involucrados en la educaci�n - Doctora Isabel

Padres y maestros involucrados en la educaci�n - Doctora Isabel

Padres y maestros por la educación
Para que tus hijos alcancen sus sueños

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El papel de lospadres y los maestros en la educación es sumamente importante para que los estudiantes logren sus metas académicas.

Este martes, la doctora Isabel contó con la presencia de la educadora Ingrid Robledo que habló sobre la necesidad de comunicación entre unos y otros.

Una relación muy estrecha

"Como padres tenemos el compromiso de buscar que nuestros hijos tengan el entusiasmo de llegar más lejos de lo

Susan Ohanian's Testing Outrages (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)

Susan Ohanian's Testing Outrages (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)

Oprah Screening Waiting for Superman

What do you think the chances are that Oprah will reveal any of the material we reveal in Fewer than Six Degrees of Separation Between Barack Obama and Waiting for Superman?

Will she reveal the Gates connection? Probably. Oprah would see it as a positive plug for the film.

by Staff

ATTENTION Parents with children in Public School!

One school’s solution to the one-day first week problem | GothamSchools

One school’s solution to the one-day first week problem | GothamSchools

One school’s solution to the one-day first week problem

by Anna Phillips

What does a school do when the first day back is a Wednesday, but students have the rest of the week off?

While some parents and students are threatening to boycott the first day of school, one school has found a different way to use the day, though not for instruction.

The Beacon School, a selective high school on the Upper West Side, is using tomorrow as a purely

Election 2010 - California Teachers Association

Election 2010 - California Teachers Association

• CTA RECOMMENDS
• WHERE WE STAND
• CAMPAIGN RESOURCES

• Political action is very important to public education. CTA takes an active role in the political process to ensure friends of education are elected to public office and bills that enhance education and the teaching profession are enacted. Since 1863, CTA has been committed to keeping public education a top priority in California. This election year is no exception.

  CTA recommended candidates for the November 2010 General Election

  CTA initiative recommendations

  What is Proposition 24? Read Op-Ed on Prop. 24

  How does CTA make its recommendations? It begins with YOU!

Writing: Are we Teaching it Wrong? �Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech

Writing: Are we Teaching it Wrong? �Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech

Writing: Are we Teaching it Wrong?

by Dean Shareski

For this school year, I've been asked to support teachers in the writing portion of the English Language Arts Curriculum. I'm not a writing teacher by speciality but I'm a writer and a teacher so that's start.

As I scan the list of concepts and issues I've been asked to support, I continue to wonder about the relevance of these ideas for today's students:

· Writing benchmarks