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Página oficial de seguimiento de Santa Claus en NORAD « Parents 4 democratic Schools

Página oficial de seguimiento de Santa Claus en NORAD « Parents 4 democratic Schools

Página oficial de seguimiento de Santa Claus en NORAD

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Página oficial de seguimiento de Santa Claus en NORAD.

Trucos y sugerencias sobre el Programa de seguimiento de Papá Noel del NORAD

Este año, únete al NORAD para seguir el vuelo de Papá Noel en Nochebuena desde tu teléfono móvil

Para estar preparado, descarga Google Maps para móviles si aún no lo tienes. El 24 de diciembre, abre Google Maps para móviles y realiza una búsqueda con las palabras clave “Papá Noel” para ver su ubicación más reciente.

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Boston Mayor Menino warns of tough education choices statewide - Newton, Massachusetts - Newton TAB

Boston Mayor Menino warns of tough education choices statewide - Newton, Massachusetts - Newton TAB

Boston Mayor Menino warns of tough education choices statewide

By State House News Service
State House News Service
Posted Dec 24, 2010 @ 02:00 PM
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As the Menino administration tries to navigate through difficult school closing efforts, Mayor Thomas Menino is warning all cities and towns that they may soon face similar, tough decisions.

“Every city and town in Massachusetts is going to go through this change in their school systems,” Menino told Channel 5’s “On the Record,” according to a webcast that will be aired on Sunday morning.

“It’s so expensive. There isn’t money coming from the feds and the state government. Municipalities don’t have the money they had in the past.”

Menino said the “different era” that the state’s cities and towns face, after several years of budget cuts, will be a focus of his

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Mike Klonsky: Can the Philanthropic Billionaire and the President of the AFT find common ground?

Mike Klonsky: Can the Philanthropic Billionaire and the President of the AFT find common ground?
Mike Klonsky

Mike Klonsky

Educator, Author of "Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society"

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"You know, a quarter of our teachers are very good. If you could make all the teachers as good as the top quarter, the U.S. would soar to the top of that comparison." -- Bill Gates

Someone should probably point out to Mr. Gates that his statistical approach to teacher evaluation doesn't allow for all teachers to be as good as the top quartile. If they were, there would still be a top and a bottom 25 percent as there is in any other field. There's nothing wrong, of course, with trying to raise the bar on teacher quality or trying to attract and retain good teachers within the public school system. But if Gates' reform strategy is to make all teachers equal in skill, he's barking up the wrong tree.

Gates reveals more of his misunderstanding of the teaching profession and school reform in general in a Newsweek interview given jointly with American Federation of Teachers president

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NYC Makes Small Schools Out of Large | NewsHour Extra: Video ClipBoard | PBS

NYC Makes Small Schools Out of Large | NewsHour Extra: Video ClipBoard | PBS
Posted on December 24, 2010

NYC Makes Small Schools Out of Large


Summary
In the past decade, graduation rates in New York rose 10 percent. School reform in New York City, led by schools chancellor Joel Klein, is seen as a model for other urban areas facing high dropout rates and dangerous schools.
One of Klein's strategies is to replace large, over-crowded schools with small specialized schools where principals and teachers can better look after each student. He has closed 26 "dropout factory" schools where less than half the students graduated.
Justin Martinez is a good example of how the reforms work. Two years ago, Martinez started ninth grade in a crowded school where students had to stand or sit on the teacher desk because there were not enough chairs. The final straw was when he was threatened with a gun by gang members in the hallway. He ran from the school and never returned.
Instead, he enrolled in Williamsburg Prep, which has 500 students, compared to 2,000 in his old school. Martinez says that everyone knows each other in his new school, he feels safe
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Omss-Poem: Christmas Cards of Robert Frost - Article

Omss-Poem: Christmas Cards of Robert Frost - Article

Christmas Cards of Robert Frost - Article

Biography
"I can't help wishing I could send you one,
In wishing you herewith a Merry Christmas."

So ends the first of Robert Frost's Christmas "cards," chapbooks printed annually by Spiral Press from 1929 to 1962. Each year, Frost would select a poem, often writing an original piece for the occasion, and send it to his friends and loved ones—and his publisher's friends and loved ones. Now collectors' items, these annual cards started out simply as a way for Frost to honor the winter season with a poem.

As reported in the New York Times, Joseph Blumenthal, who headed Spiral Press from 1926 to 1971, had been working on a separate edition of Frost's poetry in 1929 when, without the poet's knowledge, he printed 250 copies—for his wife and a small group of colleagues—of a letterpress chapbook of Frost's early poem "Christmas Trees." When the poet saw the
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Achieving QEIA Schools

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