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Saturday, November 20, 2010

The Big Education Ape Daily

The Big Education Ape Daily
The Big Education Ape Daily

parents4democraticschools.wordpress.com - Fighting Pneumonia is a Year-Round Commitment | Human Rights | Change.org.by Andrew GreenThe calender for a committed global health activist can be quite full. There’s World Malaria Day in April, W...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - THE ASSOCIATED PRESSOLYMPIA, Wash. -- Gov. Chris Gregoire is asking Washington citizens and educators to go online by Thanksgiving to fill out a survey on education reform.The survey will help stat...

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womensenews.org - (WOMENSENEWS)-- Cheers The Senate Judiciary Committee met Nov. 18 to discuss ratifying the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The act was si...

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parents4democraticschools.wordpress.com - Damn Good Education Daily, Education. Damn Good Education DailyEducationscholasticadministrator.typepad.com – Obama should declare himself out of the running for 2012! Congress should get rid of t...

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parents4democraticschools.wordpress.com - Reported by Claire Simms – bio |email RALEIGH, NC (WECT) – With a Republican majority in the state legislature, the North Carolina School Boards Association has decided to pull its opposition to li...

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edweek.org - Published Online: November 12, 2010Published in Print: November 17, 2010, as Why I Will Not Teach to the TestCommentary —Bob Dahm ByKelly Gallagher Premium article access courtesy of Edweek.org.In ...

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globecampus.ca - A national student group has started a fight to de-regulate textbooks, claiming that opening up the market could save debt-ridden students up to $30-million per year. Since book importation reg...

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edreformer.com - by Tom Vander ArkNovember 19, 2010 The education sector has not historically been very dynamic, but this year things changed. Despite the recession, we have seen more start-ups and more cool applic...

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commondreams.org - Whittier Elementary School is a lot like other public schools in low-income areas of Chicago. Located in the Mexican immigrant neighborhood of Pilsen, it lacks many basic resources that parents and...

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virtualschooling.wordpress.com - Another item that was posted in one of the iNACOL forums during the Virtual School Symposium. iNACOL Announces Updated National Report: A National Primer on K-12 Online Learning, Version 2 Glendale...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - THE ASSOCIATED PRESSOLYMPIA, Wash. -- Gov. Chris Gregoire is asking Washington citizens and educators to go online by Thanksgiving to fill out a survey on education reform.The survey will help stat...

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Social Justice, CPS, School Reform, conservative - TrackitFan

Social Justice, CPS, School Reform, conservative - TrackitFan
Social Justice vs Conservative View of School Reform


Here is the progressive social justice point of view for school reform:

Principles of School Reform:
1. *Public schools are responsible to the community, not to the marketplace.
2. *Schools must be actively multicultural and anti-racist, promoting social justice for all.
3. *Curriculum must be geared to learning for life and the needs of a multicultural democracy.
4. *All children and all schools must receive adequate resources.
5. *Reform must center on the classroom and the needs of children.
6. *Good teachers are essential to good schools.

Read more: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/trackitfan/2010/11/social-justice-vs-conservative-view-of-school-reform.html#ixzz15poYDyia
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District's poor deserve same public-school education as its affluent

District's poor deserve same public-school education as its affluent

District's poor deserve same public-school education as its affluent


Friday, November 19, 2010; 9:31 PM
The uneven distribution of teacher talent in the D.C. schools is unacceptable in a nation that views education as the path to the American dream. ["Top teachers have uneven reach in District," Metro, Nov. 13].
Across the United States, school districts that have a mix of affluent and high-poverty neighborhoods are vulnerable to creating an "opportunity gap" in which the more wealthy kids have better resources and those better resources lead to better outcomes.
In some instances, not only are their teachers better credentialed, more experienced and more talented, but children in affluent areas also have a stronger, more challenging curriculum and learn in buildings that are in far better condition than those of their poorer peers.
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War Culture « Bill Ayers

War Culture « Bill Ayers

War Culture

by billayers

Currently teaching a seminar in Europe, I’m reminded once again just how isolating it can be to live inside the US, breathing the anesthetizing air of privilege and walking the treacherous terrain of denial. Wherever I go, discovering that I’m an American, folks strike a kind of pitying stance, assuming that as an American, educated in American schools, I will have no facility with language (and likely a relatively weak grasp of English), a badly distorted and in large parts vacant sense of history, and zero geographic literacy—quick! Draw a free-hand sketch of Iraq or Afghanistan! Find Palestine on a blank map of the world! Name every country with a US military base inside its sovereign territory!

Thankfully, people have an almost universal capacity to make a hard distinction between the American people and the US government. Bus drivers, bakers, waitresses are as kind and generous and hospitable as they can possibly be, but spend an extra minute or two, and each will explain in no uncertain terms the contempt they share for US policy in the world. It’s a wake-up, and that’s why I think we all need to get out more, to scrape some of the scales off our vision and to see the US through other eyes.

Don’t get me wrong: there’s much to love and to cherish in America, starting with the land itself and its wild and unruly people, our dizzying diversity, our restless traditions of migration and our admirable history of resistance and rebellion and disobedience, our vast creativity and large imaginative spaces, our overall queerness. Admit

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LULAC mentoring has Farmers Branch mayor, principal at odds | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

LULAC mentoring has Farmers Branch mayor, principal at odds | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

LULAC mentoring has Farmers Branch mayor, principal at odds

08:15 AM CST on Saturday, November 20, 2010

By AVI SELK / The Dallas Morning News
aselk@dallasnews.com

A student mentoring program has kicked off a furor in Farmers Branch, once again pitting some city leaders against the League of United Latin American Citizens.

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The principal was thrilled this year when LULAC picked R.L. Turner High School for a two-year, $20,000 national grant-funded dropout prevention program. Similarly to others it runs in schools across the country, the Hispanic advocacy group brings in community role models to steer at-risk students toward graduation and college.

LULAC mentoring has raised barely a murmur outside the hallways of other North Texas schools. But in Farmers Branch, where the group

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