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Modern School: TEACHERS’ UNIONS IN HARD TIMESTEACHERS’ UNIONS IN HARD TIMESby noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dunn)What is the relationship between strikes and teachers salaries and working conditions? Well, according toWilliam Boyd, David Plank, and Gary Sykes, it is a pretty direct link: In the 1970s and 1980s, teachers’ unions in Michigan and Pennsylvania were amongthe most powerful in the United States. They won rapid and substantial gains for their members,in large part because of their readiness to send teachers out on strike, ...

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This Week In Education: Thompson: Early Performance Pay Results Are Not Promising

2011-Feb-4

This Week In Education: Thompson: Early Performance Pay Results Are Not PromisingThompson: Early Performance Pay Results Are Not Promisingby john thompsonHouston's "reform" superintendent, Terry Grier complains that his performance pay system identified 92% of teachers as deserving bonuses, so he plans to cut it back. After the first year of the District of Columbia's performance pay plan, 40% of the teachers who earned bonuses turned them down because they did not trust their system's IMPACT

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Big Education Ape: Ed News Now

2011-Feb-4

Big Education Ape: Ed News NowBig Education Ape: Ed News Now as shared by 6 people on Coopmike48’s Twitter listNext update in about 7 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONPOLITICSBUSINESSLIVINGART ENTERTAINMENTSTORIES#EDUThe Transformation Times 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 ...coopmike48Additional School Closures Expected At Brooklyn PEP Meeting ny1.com - To view our videos, ...

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Robert Reich (The Jobs Report, and America's Two Economies)

2011-Feb-4

Robert Reich (The Jobs Report, and America's Two Economies)The Jobs Report, and America's Two EconomiesAt a time when corporate profits are through the roof, the Dow is flirting with 12,000, Wall Street paychecks are fat again, and big corporations are sitting on more than $1 trillion in cash, you’d expect jobs be coming back. But you’d be wrong.The U.S. economy added just 36,000 jobs in January, according to today’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Remember, 125,000 are needed ...

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Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Decision 2011: Miguel del Valle's CatalystChicago Questionnaire

2011-Feb-4

Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Decision 2011: Miguel del Valle's CatalystChicago QuestionnaireDecision 2011: Miguel del Valle's CatalystChicago Questionnaireby Joanna2011Miguel del Valle was elected City Clerk of Chicago in 2006, following almost 20 years in the Illinois Senate, where he chaired the elementary and secondary education committee. He was the first Hispanic senator in the Illinois General Assembly. Currently, he chairs the states P-20 Council, which seeks to align education at all levels. He co-founded ...

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Where’s the Pork? Mitigating the Damage of State Aid Cuts « School Finance 101

2011-Feb-4

Where’s the Pork? Mitigating the Damage of State Aid Cuts « School Finance 101Where’s the Pork? Mitigating the Damage of State Aid Cutsby schoolfinance101This is a very long and complicated post, so I’ll give you a few take home points up front…Take home pointsCrude assumptions advanced by the “new normal” pundit crowd that across the board state aid cuts are a form of shared sacrifice are misguided and dreadfully oversimplified.State aid cuts hurt some districts and the children they serve ...

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40 Percent of Latinos in Toronto High Schools Drop Out - Hispanically Speaking News

2011-Feb-4

40 Percent of Latinos in Toronto High Schools Drop Out - Hispanically Speaking News40 Percent of Latinos in Toronto High Schools Drop OutAccording to a recent study, the high school drop out rate for Latinos in Toronto is now 40 percent, and despite attempts to change this, the school district has, so far, been unable to find a solution.The study, by University of Toronto states that the drop out rate is almost double that of the overall population. So what ...

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Shanker Blog » School-Based Early Childhood Education Program Yields High Economic Benefits

2011-Feb-4

Shanker Blog » School-Based Early Childhood Education Program Yields High Economic BenefitsSchool-Based Early Childhood Education Program Yields High Economic Benefitsby Burnie BondEach dollar spent on a high-quality early childhood program in the Chicago Public Schools yields $4 to $11 in benefits to the economy, according to a new cost-benefit analysis. (Full disclosure: Barbara Bowman, Chicago’s Chief Early Childhood Education Officer, who oversees the program, was a key advisor on our early childhood education report.)According to a press release from the ...

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This Week In Education: Thompson: Early Performance Pay Results Are Not Promising

2011-Feb-4

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Big Education Ape: Ed News Now

2011-Feb-4

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Robert Reich (The Jobs Report, and America's Two Economies)

2011-Feb-4

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Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Web Video: Boost Neighborhood Schools--Progress Illinois

2011-Feb-3

Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Web Video: Boost Neighborhood Schools--Progress IllinoisWeb Video: Boost Neighborhood Schools--Progress Illinoisby Joanna2011From Progress Illinois, 2.3.2011by Micah MaidenbergMiguel del Valle's mayoral campaign is highlighting an effective new web video that emphasizes a point so simple it seems to have been largely overlooked in the debate about education in Chicago's mayoral race: the vast, vast majority of Chicago Public School students don't attend selective enrollment schools. They don't attend charters. They ...

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Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Del Valle Casts His Ballot--NBC5 Ward Room

2011-Feb-2

Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Del Valle Casts His Ballot--NBC5 Ward RoomDel Valle Casts His Ballot--NBC5 Ward RoomJANUARY 31, 2011From NBC5 Chicago Ward Room, 1.31.2011View more news videos at: http://www.nbcchicago.com/video.Continuing his record of "firsts" in the race, Miguel del Valle is the first major candidate to cast his ballot.

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Evening Edition: Big Education Ape: Ed News Now, Education

2011-Jan-31

Big Education Ape: Ed News Now, EducationBig Education Ape: Ed News Now as shared by 6 people on Coopmike48’s Twitter listNext update in about 11 hoursBack to front pageHEADLINESEDUCATIONPOLITICSLIVINGSTORIESHEALTHART ENTERTAINMENT#CHICAGOMAYOR#EDPOLICYEducationThe Daily Reveille - Bobby Jindal to announce legislative reform for higher education lsureveille.com - Published: Monday, January 31, 2011 Updated: Monday, January 31, 2011 10:01 Gov. Bobby Jindal will speak today at noon to discuss his legislative agenda for reforming higher education. Few details ...coopmike48The Answer Sheet - The 'thinking ...

Secretary Duncan on Fixing NCLB and Elevating the Teaching Profession – ED.gov Blog

Secretary Duncan on Fixing NCLB and Elevating the Teaching Profession

“We’re absolutely committed to…[fixing No Child Left Behind] and doing it in a bipartisan way as we move forward this year,” Secretary Duncan said in this video response to questions. “It’s too punitive, it’s too prescriptive, it’s led to a dummying down of standards, and it’s led to a narrowing of the curriculum. We have to fix all of those things.”

“We’re also going to do everything we can to elevate the teaching profession,” he said. “The President talked about in other countries like South Korea, teachers are seen as nation builders. That’s exactly what they are here. We need to recognize them as such.”

Duncan also talked about recruiting “the next generation of great talent” into the teaching profession and the TEACH.gov website.

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Celebrities 123 مشاهير

Celebrities 123 مشاهير
Video girl - Princess Samir was killed by a stray bullet

In the painful incident occurred in the midst of protests in Egypt, is that a young girl named Amir Samir that are not older than sixteen and she was a child studying in a regular middle school if it had been monitoring the protests innocence from the balcony of her home.
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Would not know it would be the final moments of her life, after standing for 15 minutes overlooking from window to if a stray bullet hit her in the heart directly, leading to bleeding large (she says her mother, such as the liver) When her parents are based download it for Okhaddha to the hospital stop her heart beating and was smiling the deceased. It's about the right of a human story moving.

Schools Matter: Corporate Primitivism as Education Reform

Corporate Primitivism as Education Reform

by Jim Horn

Th corporate education futurologists (Gates, Broad, etc.) who appear hellbent to define tomorrow's education systems represent, to borrow a phrase from Marquard, antiquarians turned to face in the opposite direction. Let me briefly explain.

In Choosing Equality: The Case for Democratic Schooling, the authors offer this synopsis of the “neo-conservative position” on education reform:

Reform efforts should concentrate on a return to academic basics and more rigorous demands on student and teacher performance. The program calls for standardizing pedagogy and curriculum, mandating more time on more core curriculum . . . increasing the use of standardized and competitive testing . . . lengthening the school day and year, legislating more stringent promotion and graduation requirements. Proposals from improving teaching quality center on merit pay

Ready to Serve? «

Ready to Serve?

February 7, 2011 by Irene Sege

Gen. Shalikashvili

Three-quarters of young Americans are not qualified to apply for the military, a Pentagon official told a congressional hearing in 2009 – because they are physically or mentally unfit, have a criminal record or lack a high school diploma. To General John M. Shalikashvili, US Army (Ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, poor education is the major culprit. And the solution lies in expanding children’s access to high-quality early education.

“The situation is so serious that nearly 200 retired generals and admirals are calling on Congress to consider major educational reform, with a special emphasis on increased investments in high-quality early education, Shalikashvili writes in a recent op-ed column in USA Today. “Why early education? Because research shows that

Zinn Education Project – Globalization: A View from Below

Globalization: A View from Below

Reading – PDF. By Jean-Bertrand Aristide. 5 pages.
An essay on the impact of globalization, with the story of Haiti as an example.

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Our planet is entering the new century with fully 1.3 billion people living on less than one dollar a day. Three billion people, or half the population of the world, live on less than two dollars a day. Yet this same planet is experiencing unprecedented economic growth. The statistics that describe the accumulation of wealth in the world are mind-boggling. From where we sit, the most staggering statistics of all are those that reflect the polarization of this wealth. In 1960 the richest 20% of the world’s population had 70% of the world’s wealth, today they have 86% of the wealth. In 1960 the poorest 20% of the world’s population had just 2.3% of the wealth of the world. Today this has shrunk to just barely1%.

Imagine that the five fingers of your hand represent the world’s population. The hand has $100 to share.

10 Most Controversial College Professors | Online Universities

10 MOST CONTROVERSIAL COLLEGE PROFESSORS

February 6th, 2011

Students aren’t the only ones who can stir up a controversy on a college campus. Sometimes the faculty is the source of great speculation, public outcry and media controversy. These ten professors have been some of the most talked about, hated and controversial in the past few decades, sometimes spurred on by what they’ve said or taught and other times their own actions or associations. Read more to learn about some of the most contentious professors ever to teach in the United States.

William Ayers. More popularly known as Bill Ayers, this controversial figure was an elementary education theory professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, before recently retiring. That alone doesn’t sound particularly controversial– and it isn’t– it’s Ayers’ views on politics that have gotten him into hot water. Ayers was an outspoken anti-war activist during the Vietnam War, but is perhaps most controversial for his involvement with the Weather Underground, a violent communist revolutionary group responsible for bombings during the 60′s and 70′s. Ayers became a household name when connections between this so-called socialist revolutionary and Barack Obama were made by political pundits.
Alberto Gonzales. Alberto Gonzales was the 80th Attorney General of the United States under George W. Bush, but accusations of perjury forced him to resign. It is these allegations and his potential involvement in multiple illegal government activities that made him a controversial figure when he was chosen to teach a class in political science at Texas Tech. After it was announced that Gonzales would be taking on a role at Texas

Naomi Wolf Doubles Down on her Julian Assange Misrepresentations « Student Activism

Naomi Wolf Doubles Down on her Julian Assange Misrepresentations

by Angus Johnston

Wow. I wasn’t expecting this.

Back on December 7 of last year, erstwhile feminist Naomi Wolf wrote an op-ed for the Huffington post in which she claimed that sexual assault charges lodged against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange were no more than accusations of “consensual sex” with two women who were “upset that he began dating [the] second woman while still being in a relationship with the first.”

This was a gross misrepresentation of what was known about the charges at the time Wolf wrote — as well as a misrepresentation of the sources on which Wolf herself relied in writing her piece. Ten days later, Wolf’s account

AOL to purchase Huffington Post - Feb. 7, 2011

AOL acquires Huffington Post

By CNN Wire staffFebruary 7, 2011: 8:22 AM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- AOL, the online media company that has recently snatched several smaller content firms, has agreed to purchase news blog service The Huffington Post for $315 million, the two companies announced Monday.

The companies said Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post's co-founder and editor-in-chief, will be named president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which will include all Huffington Post and AOL content.

Huffington Post is known for its political coverage, with a left-of-center bent, as well as blogging about sports, entertainment and local news in selective markets.

Arianna Huffington told CNN's Christine Romans in an e-mail message that her blog has 26 million unique visitors a month, a Web traffic measurement used by marketers.

Media Advisories | U.S. Department of Education

February 07, 2011

Education Secretary Duncan to Speak at National School Boards Association (NSBA) Federal Relations Network Conference

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will deliver remarks at the National School Boards Association¹s (NSBA) Federal Relations Network Conference on Monday, Feb. 7, in Washington, D.C. Duncan will discuss the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the role of school boards in leading school reform.

February 07, 2011

Assistant Deputy Secretary to Participate in Anti-Bullying Forum at Montclair, New Jersey

NEW JERSEY — Kevin Jennings, assistant deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, will participate in an Anti-Bullying Forum in New Jersey beginning at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 7, at Montclair State University.

February 07, 2011

U.S. Education Official to Participate in Northeast Ohio Education Conference Hosted by Sen. Brown

Michael Yudin, deputy assistant secretary for policy and strategic initiatives for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, will join Ohio State Superintendent of Education Deb Delisle in participating in a panel discussion on education improvement sponsored by U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.

Queens Teacher: Deformers Want Our Catholic Schools Too

Deformers Want Our Catholic Schools Too

by Queens Teacher

Donors Demand a Bigger Voice in Catholic Schools
By PAUL VITELLO

Private philanthropists have changed the face of public education over the last decade, underwriting the rise of charter schools and promoting remedies that rely heavily on student testing and teacher evaluation.

But with much less fanfare, wealthy donors have begun playing a parallel role in the country’s next-largest educational network: Roman Catholic schools.

In New York — as in Boston, Baltimore and Chicago — shrinking enrollment and rising school deficits in recent years have deepened the church’s dependence on its cadres of longtime benefactors. Donors have responded generously, but many who were once content to write checks and attend student pageants are now asking to see school budgets, student reading scores and principals’ job evaluations.

In the jargon of education reform, they want transparency and accountability; and though the church

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Monday, February 7, 2011

Secretary Duncan on Fixing NCLB and Elevating the Teaching Profession

Ready to Serve?

Globalization: A View from Below

10 MOST CONTROVERSIAL COLLEGE PROFESSORS

AOL acquires Huffington Post