U.S. Recruiting Fewer Teachers From Top Ranks Education Week: From the Wires

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Student-Led Conferences Benefit Parents, Kids

The practice of holding student-led conferences has been gaining momentum at high schools and middle schools around Washington since the late 1990s.

October 15, 2010

UT district considers high school diploma choice

October 15, 2010

Suburban Prodigies Carve Own Paths

October 15, 2010

Breast Cancer Bracelets Clash With School Codes

October 15, 2010

Gov. Candidates Joust Over Furloughs, School Board

October 15, 2010

For-Profit Schools Reel as Rules Affect Enrollment

October 15, 2010

Baltimore Teachers Reject Proposed Contract

October 15, 2010

Education conference to focus on teacher contracts

October 14, 2010

For-Profit College Stocks Tumble On Apollo Warning

October 14, 2010

Crowd hurls rocks, epithets at Pa. school band

October 14, 2010

Layoff notices sent to 124 Eugene teachers, staff

October 14, 2010

Ed Secretary Arne Duncan visits Florida schools, 1st Ld

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US House candidate Miller releases education plan

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SD teen pleads not guilty in school plot case

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U.S. Recruiting Fewer Teachers From Top Ranks

While top-performing nations draw all their teachers from the top-third of the academic pool, the United States draws only 23 percent. (October 15, 2010)

Early Grades Become the New Front in Absenteeism Wars

While efforts to reduce chronic absenteeism typically focus on adolescents, experts say that the early grades are the place to start. (October 14, 2010) | Comments (11)

Okla. Districts Balk at Special Education Vouchers

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Baltimore Teachers Reject Proposed Contract

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Student-Led Conferences Benefit Parents, Kids

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New Orleans in Early Phase of School-Building Boom

A $1.8 billion, federally funded effort aims to deal with the physical damage still evident from Hurricane Katrina five years after the storm.(October 15, 2010)

Breast Cancer Bracelets Clash With School Codes

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RI gov candidate Chafee's campaign manager resigns - Boston.com

RI gov candidate Chafee's campaign manager resigns - Boston.com

RI gov candidate Chafee's campaign manager resigns

By Michelle R. Smith

Associated Press Writer / October 15, 2010

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PROVIDENCE, R.I.—The campaign manager for independent Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate Lincoln Chafee resigned Thursday after he acknowledged he received unemployment benefits while listed on the payroll of the Chafee campaign.

J.R. Pagliarini stepped down after inquiries from the media, although he maintains no intentional wrongdoing occurred, according to Mike Trainor, the acting campaign manager, and a statement from Pagliarini. They both called it a political attack, with Trainor saying it was orchestrated by Democratic rival Frank Caprio's campaign.

"This is a chapter out of Karl Rove's playbook," Trainor said. "Attack the strength of your opponent."

Caprio campaign spokesman Nick Hemond said no one in the campaign was

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Interim D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson accepts reform challenge

Interim D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson accepts reform challenge

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Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 14, 2010; 7:18 PM

As Chancellor Michelle A. Rheewinds down a turbulent 31/2 years in the District, she leaves in her wake a question that will be largely Kaya Henderson's to answer: Can school reform continue with the same velocity and ambition under a leadership that values consensus and collaboration over blunt force and broken crockery?

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Henderson's charge from presumptive mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray (D), who wants her to be his interim - and possibly permanent - chancellor, is to make sure that the answer is yes.

"I'm totally confident we can come together and push reforms with the same urgency," she said in a phone

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: L.A. UNIFIED CONTRACTS WITH OUTSIDE CONSULTANT TO ISSUE ITS OWN ‘VALUE-ADDED’ RATINGS OF DISTRICT SCHOOLS

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: L.A. UNIFIED CONTRACTS WITH OUTSIDE CONSULTANT TO ISSUE ITS OWN ‘VALUE-ADDED’ RATINGS OF DISTRICT SCHOOLS

L.A. UNIFIED CONTRACTS WITH OUTSIDE CONSULTANT TO ISSUE ITS OWN ‘VALUE-ADDED’ RATINGS OF DISTRICT SCHOOLS

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Photo by Louis Freedberg - Supplies in a California kindergarten class

October 15, 2010 | For the past year, the Los Angeles Unified School District has contracted with an outside consulting firm that has been doing its own "value-added" analysis of how effective schools are contributing to student outcomes.

The researchers with the firm, Education Strategy Consulting, said the results they have come up with are substantially different from those published for individual schools by the Los Angeles Times in its pathbreaking but controversial series of reports "Grading the Teachers."

Most of the attention generated by the L.A. Times series has focused on the paper's evaluations of individual teachers and its decision to publish their names alongside their "effectiveness" rating.

The Times also rated entire schools by effectiveness and included a list of the "most effective" schools in the district. California Watch was

Friday Churn: CSAP replacement on tour | EdNewsColorado

Friday Churn: CSAP replacement on tour | EdNewsColorado

Friday Churn: CSAP replacement on tour

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What’s churning:

The group charged with revising the state testing system – otherwise known as CSAP – is slated to hold its final meeting today, nearly one year to the day after its first gathering on Oct. 26, 2009. The Assessment Stakeholders Committee is scheduled to meet from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Golden. According to a news

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The Associated Press: Cancer bracelets raise debate over school codes

The Associated Press: Cancer bracelets raise debate over school codes

Cancer bracelets raise debate over school codes

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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A $4 rubber bracelet meant to raise breast cancer awareness has done that and more: Students nationwide are wearing the "I (heart) boobies" wristbands, and running afoul of school administrators.

Schools from California to Florida have banned the bracelets because they believe the "boobies" language is inappropriate.

The bracelets are marketed by a California-based nonprofit created to raise breast cancer awareness among youth. The Keep A Breast Foundation has sold 2 million of the bracelets so far, with the money going to breast cancer research and education programs.

The group believes a bracelet with a catchy, envelope-pushing slogan such as "I (heart) boobies" is a better way to teach kids about breast cancer than more traditional methods like pink

Tea Party Candidate David Harmer Wants to Abolish Public Schools

Tea Party Candidate David Harmer Wants to Abolish Public Schools

Tea Party Candidate: Abolish All Public Schools

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(Oct. 14) -- School's out ... forever?

Tea Party candidate David Harmer, who is running as a Republican for the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 11th District, thinks the nation's public education system should more closely resemble the way it looked in 1825. In other words, Harmer would abolish public schools altogether.

In an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2000, Harmer wrote the following:

To attain quantum leaps in educational quality and opportunity, however, we need

Baltimore teachers reject proposed contract

Baltimore teachers reject proposed contract

Oct 15, 2010 8:06am

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BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Teachers Union says the city's public school teachers have rejected a contract that would have tied pay to classroom performance.

Union President Marietta English said Thursday that the results reflect misinformation about the contract.

The proposed contract included pay raises and kept health benefits at their current rate. But some were wary of a provision that would have replaced a system where seniority and degrees determined pay with one where they were paid by effectiveness in the classroom and pursuit of professional development.

The union and schools officials say 58 percent of the more than 2,000 teachers in the