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Big Education Ape: Ed News Now

Big Education Ape: Ed News Now

Big Education Ape: Ed News Now

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harvinmoore.com - How do you get in there? And how can they see out? This provocative editorial from Chester Finn of the Fordham Foundation. Think about it – how does tenure help children? Opinion: Nobody deserves ...

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ny1.com - To view our videos, you need toenable JavaScript. Learn how.install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. Hundred of parents, students and teachers swarme...

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thefightback.org - At the height of their power, former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee closed 23 schools. The Fenty/Rhee goal had been 24. The parents at John Burroughs Elementary School...

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huffingtonpost.com - CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — The teachers at Central Falls High School struck a deal to get their jobs back last year after the entire staff was fired in a radical, last-ditch attempt to raise student per...

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ednotesonline.blogspot.com - It is our only form of expression, the only place victims can tell their side of the story. It is a charade, it is a rubber stamp for pre-made decisions by faceless powerful bureaucrats, but it is ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Report cards that detail test scores, expulsion rates, teacher salaries and other information on San Diego Unified schools are tardy once again, making it harder for them to serve their supposed pu...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Several groups, including the Los Angeles public schools teachers union, are expressing concern that the L.A. Unified School District has postponed a decision on who will run three low-performing s...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Compton, Calif.A Los Angeles judge issued a temporary injunction Thursday against the Compton Unified School District after six parents and their children sued, alleging that district officials wer...

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nydailynews.com - Lanzilote for News A protest against proposed school closings outside Brooklyn Technical High School gathers Thursday night. Hundreds of parents, teachers and students turned up Thursday night for ...

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nepc.colorado.edu - While the Heritage Foundation receives this award for publishing Closing the Racial Achievement Gap, byMatthew Ladner and Lindsey Burke, it should really share this award with the think tanks in Co...

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chicagomag.com - Feb 2, 2011 By Carol Felsenthal Miguel del Valle doesn’t have much money—peanuts compared to Rahm Emanuel and Gery Chico, and way less even than Patricia Watkins and Carol Moseley Braun. When I ask...

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gothamschools.org - A Marist College poll released this evening shows that new Schools Chancellor Cathie Black has less public support than her predecessor, Joel Klein, did when he took the job eight years ago. Curren...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The federal budget is $3.8 trillion.The Republicans have just come up with their plan to cut the federal budget. They’ve found $32 billion of cuts.Their fiery campaign rhetoric, fierce determinatio...

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suntimes.com - Del Valle links rivals to convicted ex-Streets and San boss By Abdon M. Pallasch Political Reporter/apallasch@suntimes.com Feb 3, 2011 07:12PM City Clerk Miguel del Valle on Thursday tried to conne...

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modeducation.blogspot.com - Duane Campbell, from the Sacramento Progressive Alliance, and the Choosing Democracy blog, sent California Gov. Jerry Brown an alternative budget proposal, in response to the request for budget sug...

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dailynews.com - Galpin Ford in North Hills and three other local car dealerships will provide paid internships for automotive-technician students at Los Angeles Trade Technical College and Pierce College under an ...

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blogs.wsj.com - By Sara MurrayNearly a year and a half into the economic recovery, some 43.6 million Americans continued to rely on food stamps in November. More than 14% of the population drew food stamps in Nove...

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latimes.com - By Hector Tobar February 4, 2011 Some bright lights in Washington have come up with another solution to the problem of illegal immigration. This one won't ever become law, because it involves tinke...

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suntimes.com - Ex-Streets and Sanitation boss Sanchez gets 2 1/2 years in prison By NATASHA KORECKI Federal Courts Reporter / nkorecki@suntimes.com Feb 3, 2011 05:49PM Al Sanchez at Dirksen Federal Building, 219 ...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 6:26 pm, February 3, 2011 Two Haitian children found inside a church in Puerto Plata did not die of cholera Dominican Republic authorities are saying. The two deceased children were fo...

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nybooks.com - Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush in The King's SpeechThere is nothing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences loves more than movies about people with physical or mental disabilities (or addic...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - It’s probably the first test for many going off to college, and they take it without setting foot inside a classroom. Unfortunately for some, they don’t always get an A.The “test” is filling out Th...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - This was written by Rebecca Levey, a writer who maintains a blog called Beccarama. She has written for the Silicon Valley Moms Group, and her posts have been nationally syndicated by McClatchy/Trib...

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Save Our Schools - National March and Days of Action July 28-31, 2011

Save Our Schools - National March and Days of Action July 28-31, 2011


Save Our Schools
March & National
Call to Action
July 28, 2011
to July 31, 2011

For the future of our children,
we demand the following . . .

  • Equitable funding for all public school communities

  • An end to high stakes testing for student, teacher, and school evaluation

  • Teacher and community leadership in forming public education policies

  • Curricula developed by and for local school communities


Welcome to the Save Our Schools March
and National Call to Action!

As concerned citizens, we demand an end to the destructive policies eroding confidence in our public schools, demoralizing teachers, and reducing the education for too many of our children to nothing more than exercises for test preparation.

A well-educated society is essential to the future of the United States of America. Our students must have access to a fully funded, world-class public education system and it is our responsibility to act now by holding our government accountable for providing the means to achieve it!


DC March July 28 - July 31



We, a collection of people from all walks of life and every corner of this nation, embody a mixture of ideas and opinions regarding how we can improve educational opportunities for all children. We stand united by one belief - it’s time for teachers and parents to organize and take back control of our schools.

Please join us. . .

July 30, 2011
Save Our Schools March in Washington, D.C.

July 28, 2011 - July 31, 2011
Save Our schools Days of Action events in D.C., including workshops,
film festival, speakers and educational events - with concurrent regional
and local events organized around the country.


What do Diane Ravitch (The Death and Life of the Great American School System),
Yong Zhao (Catching Up or Leading the Way), Deborah Meier (The Power of Their Ideas), and Vicki Abeles (Race to Nowhere) all have in common?

They support the SOS March & National Call to Action!
View our full list of endorsers here.




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Waiting for…a Champion of Progressive Education « Students For Education Reform

Waiting for…a Champion of Progressive Education « Students For Education Reform

Waiting for…a Champion of Progressive Education

Alexander Russo at This Week in Education has an outstanding post today about watching out for the “anti-reform wrecking ball.” I think the TFA/Michelle Rhee/KIPP/etc reformers can get incredibly frustrated when their opponents consistently tear down new ideas and models in education without proposing solutions of their own or pointing to models that they think are working. And I absolutely agree with Russo that “it’s time for a more positive, hopeful narrative, with a new set of examples and heroes illustrating an alternative path to success.” But here’s one problem I see: the anti-reform wrecking ball may have already done too much damage. That is, opponents of reform have spent so much time using the wrecking ball that they’ve actually torn down their own progressive models of education.

Here’s an example. There’s a school in Harlem that many might describe as a “community school.” It’s small, with a joyfu

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This Week In Education: Ideas: A Preliminary List Of "Non-Reform" Education Heroes

This Week In Education: Ideas: A Preliminary List Of "Non-Reform" Education Heroes

Ideas: A Preliminary List Of "Non-Reform" Education Heroes

by Alexander Russo

image from dulemba.comThere was lots of behind-the-scenes reaction to last week's "wrecking ball" post. Most of the folks I sent it to seemed to think that such a thing wasn't possible given lack of money, or wise given recent inroads, or were understandably exasperated that I didn't know their heroes and accomplishments already. But there were also some examples of new and worthy stories of a more positive version of educators responding to the reform agenda including the Save Our Schools march being planned for this summer, the ongoing work of the Broader, Bolder coalition (Elaine Weiss was at the Fordham event yesterday), a call from Pedro Noguero for

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