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Teachers fired for flirting on Facebook with students
10.18.10 - They threw the Facebook at 'em. At least three educators from city public high schools have been fired in the past six months for having inappropriate dealings with students on Facebook -- one of which culminated in a sexual...

Santa Fe uses radio frequency tracking badges
10.18.10 - SANTA FE - Students in the Santa Fe district are required to wear badges on campus that track their whereabouts using radio frequency identification technology. ...

Americans split over public education for illegal immigrants, poll shows
10.18.10 - Few favor government benefits for illegal immigrants, a Monitor/TIPP poll shows. Less than half back admitting them to public schools. ...

Complaints trouble state autism fund
10.18.10 - Investigators uncover problems with record keeping, overbilling and underqualified teachers in program that helps parents enroll youngsters in private services ...

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Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

News: Academic Freedom Verdict - Inside Higher Ed

Academic Freedom Verdict

Faculty panel at Illinois finds that university may have legitimate reasons to dismiss adjunct who sent anti-gay e-mail, but that his offending students is not one of them.

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The Next Student Health Problem?

Ramapo College bans potent and inexpensive alcoholic energy drinks, illustrating increasingly widespread concern about the beverages' popularity among students.

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The Thinking LMS

U. of Phoenix plans to 'hyper-personalize' learning experience for all 400,000 of its students by building an online learning platform that thinks.

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More Legal Risk for Canada's Universities

In finding that U. of Calgary wrongly punished students for their Facebook comments, court says universities are government actors.

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Revived Antioch Gets a President

Test Prep - The Steroids of Student Achievement - Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas

Test Prep - The Steroids of Student Achievement

As a life-long NYS educator, the NY Times article “Warning Signs Long Ignored on New York’s School Tests” came as no surprise. I’ve been posting on the impact of NCLB-driven standardized testing for years.

While business leaders and politicians lauded the success of the corporate-inspired standards movements, teachers knew that the impressive gains in student achievement were an illusion. As the NY TImes piece reports, for the last decade, a generation of NY students has been force-fed a steady diet of test prep designed to ready them for predictable tests.

“The fast rise... of New York’s passing rates resulted from the effect of policies, decisions and missed red flags that stretched back more that 10 years ... The process involved the direct warnings from experts that went unheeded by the state and [NY] city administration that trumpeted gains in student performance... It

Seven vie for East Side Union High School board seats - Inside Bay Area

Seven vie for East Side Union High School board seats
Amid a seven-way contest for three East Side school board seats, last year's disputes have all but vanished like fireworks dissipating into the dark -- even though the focus of last year's uproar is one of the candidates. Former Superintendent Bob Nuñez is seeking to join the board that ousted him from his job.

San Jose: Teen suspects in Trace School fire charged as adults, face life in prison

Incumbent faces four challengers for two Hayward school board seats

Oakland Tribune editorial: Oust the incumbents in Peralta Community College district

Study finds low-income students perform better in affluent schools

Alameda teacher named county teacher of the year

Two teens arrested in Trace School fire; district hopes to install fire sprinklers in rebuilding

Produce stands at Oakland schools offer families healthy choices

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KEEPER OF A GOLDEN GATE: A TEACHERS REACH - The teacher who nurtured a young Vietnamese immigrant with empathy and kindness opened the way to a new culture, new possibilities, a new life. By Andrew Lam | Op-Ed essay from the L.A. Times | http://lat.ms/9kz7aE October 17, 2010 - The man who stood at the entrance to my New World was my first English teacher, Ernie Kaeselau. He passed away recently, and though I hadn't seen him in decades, ...

TEACHING TEACHERS - As educators struggle with the issue of teacher improvement, a program in Tennessee shows that struggling teachers can gain a lot from watching great teachers in action. By Emily Hanford – Op-Ed/Essay from the L.A. Times | http://lat.ms/a1Bn2c October 17, 2010 -- Teachers are at the center of the great debate over how to fix American education. We're told the bad ones need to be fired; the good ones, rewarded. But what ...

LA charter group lays off sixth of staff | Thoughts on Public Education

LA charter group lays off sixth of staff
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Squeezed by state budget cuts and unwise borrowing

Posted on 10/18/10 • Categorized as Uncategorized

By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

The Los Angeles charter school organization ICEF Public Schools laid off 100 staff members – about a sixth of its work force – last week as part of a reorganization to keep its doors open.

The financial troubles facing ICEF, a network of 15 charter schools serving 4,500 primarily low-income African-American children in South Los Angeles, offer a cautionary tale of a non-profit organization that tried to expand too fast – 11 schools in three years alone – and then failed to make tough choices when state budget cuts hit hard.

Last month, the trustees of ICEF (Inner City Education Foundation) came within days of declaring bankruptcy and closing schools immediately, leaving students to transfer to Los Angeles Unified schools and other charter schools. Instead it called in the cavalry: Caprice Young, the former LAUSD board president and former president of the California Charter Schools Association, and philanthropists Eli Broad and former Los Angeles mayor Richard

Schools Matter: Weekend Wrap-Up

Weekend Wrap-Up

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The Answer Sheet - Why 'Superman' film should be 'Waiting for Batman'

Why 'Superman' film should be 'Waiting for Batman'

This was written by Susan Graham, a teacher of family and consumer science (formerly "home ec") for 25 years. She is a National Board-certified teacher, a former regional Virginia teacher of the year, and a fellow of the Teacher Leaders Network. This appeared on the Teacher magazine website. By Susan Graham I was "Waiting for Superman," but I was disappointed. A lot of other people who see this movie -- which paints a distorted view of urban education and unfairly portrays teachers -- are going to be disappointed too, because it should have been entitled "Waiting for Batman." Waiting for Superman director Davis Guggenheim is just too young to have met the Superman and Batman from my formative years. He should watch more TV because he’s got his superheroes mixed up. When I was a kid, I came home from school and watched the black and white 1950s Superman series

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Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

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Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

Chapter 2. Practice to Accumulate Knowledge
10.18.10 - John Jensen, Ph.D - Practice is comprised of clear input and repeated output. What's the point of it? Where are we going with

LA charter group lays off sixth of staff
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