Sunday, September 19, 2010
Fordham Foundation study on school reform gets Baltimore wrong - baltimoresun.com
A chance to learn from Rhee's mistakes
A chance to learn from Rhee's mistakes
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Post editors and reporters appear to have latched on to every possible explanation for the public's rejection of Mayor Adrian Fenty. Racial politics this week. Fenty's personality. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee's failure to communicate.
But Fenty's defeat isn't about race or personality. It's about bad decisions, particularly on school reform. His school reform strategies, as shoved through by Rhee, alienated the voters.
Rhee certainly rates as smart, charismatic and bold. But she made decisions early in her tenure that alienated every constituency she needed, and she rested her
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Penn State seeking tuition hikes up to 4.9% | Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/18/2010
Penn State seeking tuition hikes up to 4.9%
By Robert Moran
Inquirer Staff Writer
Tuition would increase by up to 4.9 percent at Pennsylvania State University under a proposed appropriation request to the state, approved Friday by the university's board of trustees, for the 2011-12 school year.
The university will ask for $17.2 million more from the state than the $347 million it received for the current school year.
Budget strains and the distressed economy make it uncertain whether the legislature and governor will grant the request. State leaders rejected Penn State's last request for an increase and kept the university's funding flat with the inclusion of $15.8 million in federal stimulus money.
Without more state funding, the university would have to consider further tuition increases as well as operating cuts, spokeswoman Annemarie Mountz said.
If the increase is approved by the state, instate residents would face a 4.9 tuition hike at the main campus and a 2.9
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While Cal State University raises tuition, over-60 students get in free - San Jose Mercury News
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Bandwidth is the Library Card of the Modern Age
Bandwidth is the Library Card of the Modern Age
Diving in the Maya Sacred Pools
gives UP TO DATE information on current discoveries in science. In this video, divers discuss how they have found some ancient artifacts in Belize and also you can see the fascinating way that they go through the bottom of a pool into an area where water comes out of the spring. You'd have to see it to believe it at the beginning! (So cool.)
The point is that the Internet is our library and that between features like this and services like Discovery
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Week in Lab Week Two for 2010 | Reflections on Teaching
Week in Lab Week Two for 2010
Hello! I was a little reticent in last week’s posting about the lab. I think that reflected some of where I was at then. The first week is about establishing routines. Every year, the kids get cranky because I insist we review the rules, and wait to let them on the computers and Internet. Also, I have to do a lot of direct instruction going through the rules. The classes are short, due to the short week (four days, and I don’t take classes on day one,
Candidate drops out of HISD District VIII race | School Zone | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Candidate drops out of HISD District VIII race
Cheryl Moodie, one of six people who filed last month to run for the District VIII school board seat, has withdrawn from the race because she failed to meet the state mandate that candidates have lived in Texas for a full 12 months. Moodie, a consultant and former high-level hospitality executive, moved to a luxury highrise in Houston earlier this year from Louisiana. (Candidates must live in the district in which they are running for six months, and Moodie said she met that requirement.)
Moodie's withdrawl leaves five people in the running for the Nov. 2 special election to fill the
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Old school.
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Saturday coffee.
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We took Ulysses to the dog beach this morning just before the rains came down. It feels like it is going to be one of those day-long soaking rains rather than just a quick passing storm.
This was a good week, politically. The privateers got their heads handed to them by the voters of DC. Whatever deals they end of making, whatever buy-out or foundation job Michelle Rhee finally ends up with, none of that will
We took Ulysses to the dog beach this morning just before the rains came down. It feels like it is going to be one of those day-long soaking rains rather than just a quick passing storm.
This was a good week, politically. The privateers got their heads handed to them by the voters of DC. Whatever deals they end of making, whatever buy-out or foundation job Michelle Rhee finally ends up with, none of that will
YAF ED Stumps for Pot Legalization � Student Activism
YAF ED Stumps for Pot Legalization
Not sure what, if anything, to make of this, but Jordan Marks, the executive director of Young Americans for Freedom, has taken a seat on the board of marijuana legalization group Just Say Now.
YAF, a right-wing student group created by William F. Buckley in 1960, has long been a major conservative force on the American campus. They have historically opposed drug legalization, and as far as I can glean from
Saturday, September 18, 2010
UC Berkeley's sports dilemma
UC Berkeley's sports dilemma
Credit Cal with taking up a third-rail topic: the runaway costs of college sports. After trimming...
California needs more charter schools
The California Department of Education issued a news release Monday touting 10 years of uninterrupted...
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Academy of Art students show at Lincoln Center
- The careers of 22 students from San Francisco's famed Academy of Art University once again got a jump start at Lincoln Center during...
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