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Education Department says Klein was OK with 'Antigone' play - no request to censor

Education Department says Klein was OK with 'Antigone' play - no request to censor

Education Department says Klein was OK with 'Antigone' play - no request to censor

Saturday, January 1st 2011, 4:00 AM

Education officials say Joel Klein (l.) had no problems with a planned school play based on 'Antigone.'
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Education officials say Joel Klein (l.) had no problems with a planned school play based on 'Antigone.'

Top Education officials Friday denied censoring a school play that slammed outgoing schools Chancellor Joel Klein.

Students at Jamaica High School and Queens Collegiate were shocked when administrators dropped the curtain on their city-centric update of the Greek tragedy "Antigone."

But a spokeswoman for Klein, whose last day in office was yesterday, insisted leaders of the two schools, not officials at Tweed, made the controversial call.

"The principal made the decision on his own," said spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz. "When Chancellor Klein learned of it last week, we contacted the school and told them that the kids should be allowed to perform the play."

She added education officials were under



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Daily Kos: Overlapping cycles of time and memory

Daily Kos: Overlapping cycles of time and memory

Overlapping cycles of time and memory

Yes, it is the beginning of a Civil New Year.

There are things to which to adjust

... I need a new accordion folder for the bills I pay this year

... I must remember to change the year to 2011 on those checks I write, although nowadays I pay most of my bills by computer

... I can now calculate the amounts I will claim in various categories on deductions for the tax year just ended

New Year’s Day coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blog

New Year’s Day coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blog

New Year’s Day coffee.

As predicted, we went to bed before twelve. The two-day drive back from New York was easy enough, but still. We were ready for a long restful night’s sleep.

Anne slept through the fireworks and gun shots at midnight. Not me. What is the deal with people shooting guns in the air to celebrate things? Do they think that the bullets don’t come down somewhere?

No matter now. This morning the coffee is good and hot and the oatmeal has some maple syrup we brought

Old school.

Patti Smith.


Yong Zhao » Blog Archive » Chinese version of Catching Up

Yong Zhao » Blog Archive » Chinese version of Catching Up

Chinese version of Catching Up

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The Chinese version of my book Catching Up or Leading the Wayhas been published recently by East China Normal University.

Happy New Year(s): Peering into the Future of my Autistic Son

Happy New Year(s): Peering into the Future of my Autistic Son

Happy New Year(s): Peering into the Future of my Autistic Son

On the tail-end of our Central Coast vacation, I awoke last night to the sounds of merrymakers welcoming the new year–hooting, honking–which was quickly covered by the slow motion heartbeat of the Pacific Ocean. I fell back to sleep, waking up a few minutes ago with a concern that will never change. How will my boy fare as he grows up? Will he have psychological problems? What will be his needs? All of my worries are fodder for Google

Friday, December 31, 2010

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Happy New Year 2011 - Auld Lang Syne ( lyrics)

Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel 3 - Kodachrome/Maybellene: RIP Kodachrome Film

RIP Kodachrome Film



It’s the end of the line for Kodachrome, the first commercially successful color film, created by Kodak in 1935. The iconic film will no longer be processed, as Thursday marked the last time Dwayne’s Photo — a lab in Parsons, Kansas — was willing to accept Kodachrome rolls that needed developing.
Kodachrome’s demise was first announced in June 2009. Kodak cited a decline in sales as photographers had traded their old film for digital memory cards — or, in some cases, newer films. This meant that the company also stopped producing the chemicals needed to develop the film.
As The New York Times reported Wednesday, there was a time when there were about 25 labs in the world that could process Kodachrome film. But the number of labs began to decline a few years ago when the last Kodak-run facility in the U.S. closed, followed by another closure in Japan and another in Switzerland. Dwayne’s Photo was the last place still developing Kodachrome, but last week, the lab opened the last of the chemicals used to process the film.
Even though Kodachrome saw diminishing sales toward its end, this is the end of an era for a number of photographers and photography buffs. The film — currently trending at number seven on GoogleGoogle in the U.S. 


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OUR LEARNING COMMUNITY DAILY
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Eduflack: Some Resolutions for 2011

Eduflack: Some Resolutions for 2011

Some Resolutions for 2011

Another year about to go down in the history books. Are we any closer to truly improving our public schools? For every likely step forward we may have taken in 2010, it seems to be met with a similar step back. For every rhetorical push ahead, we had a very real headwind blocking progress.

So as we head into 2011, your friendly neighborhood Eduflack offers up a few "resolutions" for all on the education reform boat to consider as we start a new year. We need to come to accept the following:

1. True reform does not happen at the federal level. The federal government is an important lever in the school improvement process, offering some necessary financial resources and some bully pulpit language to inspire reform. But true improvement happens at the state and local levels. It is about what our SEAs and LEAs do with those resources and whether they embrace the call from the bully pulpit. Just as all politics is local, so too is all education reform. Why do you think groups like DFER are so keen on launching new statewide efforts, like the new one in California?

2. ESEA reauthorization really doesn't matter. As much as we want to fret about when ESEA is going to be

Last Stand for Children First: Ryan Wilson wishes everybody a rip snorter of a New Year

Last Stand for Children First: Ryan Wilson wishes everybody a rip snorter of a New Year

Ryan Wilson wishes everybody a rip snorter of a New Year

This New Years Eve finds me about to leave for a B & S I'm having with some of my fellow expatriates and a few Sheepshaggers as well, but before I do I wanted to wish everybody an Ace New Year. I won't bore you by recapping all the news that Myron did yesterday, but needless to say 2010 was alright and 2011 will be even better.

You know, I know that teachers and their reunions are responsible for the bodgy schools in this country and sometimes I think they're about as useless as an ashtray on a

Education-Related Predictions For 2011 | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Education-Related Predictions For 2011 | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Education-Related Predictions For 2011

Earlier this week, I asked readers to contribute their education-related predictions for 2011. I received some great responses, and I’ll share them all in this post.

If you didn’t get a chance to contribute earlier, though, I’d encourage you to leave one-to-three of them in the comments section. At the end of the year, I’ll revisit them and we’ll all see who among us has good powers of prognostication.

And, if some of you wonder what the point is in making predictions, you can go to The New York Times which recently published a piece on Why Do We Need Predictions? Here are a few of the reasons commentators there gave: it’s fun, we need “positive illusions,” it helps us gain a “sense of control,” the human identity is based in