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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Walker’s Two-Year Budget Shows Repair Bill to Be Trojan Horse | FDL News DeskWisconsin Gov. Walker’s Two-Year Budget Shows Repair Bill to Be Trojan Horse for Attacks on Workersby David DayenHey, Wi...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Wis. Citizens File Recall Petitions Against Anti-Worker Senators | AFL-CIO NOW BLOGWis. Voters File Recall Petitions Against Anti-Worker Senators by James Parks, Mar 2, 2011650Share This morning...

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wisconsininsider.typepad.com - 8:00pm: Great moment. Eight protesters claim the first floor for the people. They marched right up there and circled the rotunda above us, bypassing any officers in front of them. Good news, they r...

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tcpalm.com - St. Lucie teachers and school employees are planning two protests to urge Gov. Rick Scott and lawmakers to make children's needs a priority.The first protest that the St. Lucie Classroom Teachers' ...

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Bernanke to budget-cutting state and local governments: Don't shortchange education

Bernanke to budget-cutting state and local governments: Don't shortchange education

Bernanke to budget-cutting state and local governments: Don't shortchange education

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Kroszner Says Inflation Expectations Are `Well Anchored'
March 2 (Bloomberg) -- Former Federal Reserve Governor Randall Kroszner talks about U.S. inflation and Federal Reserve monetary policy. Fed Chairman Bernard S. Bernanke, while delivering his semiannual testimony before Congress yesterday, signaled he's in no rush to tighten credit after the central bank finishes an expansion of record monetary stimulus, seeing little inflation risk and still-slow job growth. Kroszner speaks with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop." (Source: Bloomberg)
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011; 10:38 PM

Even as state and local governments take difficult steps to balance their budgets and address long-term shortfalls in their pension systems, they should not neglect the education and training programs that are the key to the nation's competitiveness, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernankeargued Wednesday.

Sticking his toe into an increasingly fraught political issue - a standoff over bargaining rights for public workers in Wisconsin is only the most vivid example of a debate happening in many states - Bernanke acknowledged that the trade-offs facing state officials are "daunting," but he made the nuance

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NJEA argues teacher evaluation based on student test scores not practical | NJ.com

NJEA argues teacher evaluation based on student test scores not practical | NJ.com

NJEA argues teacher evaluation based on student test scores not practical

Published: Thursday, March 03, 2011, 6:00 AM
Star-Ledger Staff By Star-Ledger Staff
keshishian.jpgRobert Sciarrino/The Star-LedgerNJEA President Barbara Keshishian center, defers a question to NJEA executive director Vincent Giordano during a state Senate Education Committee hearing on tenure and dismissal procedures for public school teachers. At far left is Michael Cohan, director of professional development for the NJEA.

TRENTON — With a governor-appointed task force’s report on teacher evaluations expected to be released today, the state’s largest teacher’s union Wednesday argued basing teacher effectiveness on student test scores is unworkable.

The New Jersey Education Association Wednesday issued a statement saying tying performance reviews to standardized test scores could narrow curriculum in schools and reinforce teaching for the sake of passing a test.

"We believe student test scores have a place in the evaluation process, but we also agree with highly regarded researchers that they should not play a determining role in high-stakes personnel decisions," NJEA president Barbara Keshishian said.

The issue of teacher evaluations is a hot-button one. A five-point reform proposal that would tie a new type of renewable tenure to student performance was unveiled by acting Education

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School Tech Connect: Bill Gates, Crackpot

School Tech Connect: Bill Gates, Crackpot

Bill Gates, Crackpot

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Bill Gates apparently is going into full let-them-eat-cake mode. Apparently now that it has been established that teachers are the cause of poverty, the next step is to shore up the idea that pensions are the reason public education isn't funded.

In contrast to his own father, Bill Gates will never come out and advocate that wealthy people pay their share of taxes like they used to. Instead, he's invested in some slick website material that will demonstrate how evil it is for public employees to have an economically secure retirement:

I have no doubt that these tools will have impact, but I do doubt they will include any kin
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Very Useful Diane Ravitch Interview | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Very Useful Diane Ravitch Interview | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
Very Useful Diane Ravitch Interview Thoughts on Public Education is a very good blog covering California education issues. Their writers did a two part interview with Diane Ravitch today (of course, Diane will be on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show Thursday night, so I suspect she’s on a ...
“What are some must-see TED talks?” “What are some must-see TED talks?” was a question raised at Quora. It includes the vote total based on responses, as well as a tabulation of likes and dislikes on YouTube. The results are intriguing. I’m adding the link to The Best Teacher Resources ...
Another Lesson Combining Metacognition, Writing, Speaking, & Listening Late last year, I wrote a post titled A Pretty Darn Good Lesson — If I Say So Myself [image: :)] . In it, I described, and included links to student examples, of how our Intermediate English students “wrote about how they were going to write” and ...
The Best Posts Responding To Bill Gates’ Appallingly Clueless Op-Ed Piece Readers of this blog are familiar with the op-ed piece that Bill Gates wrote for the Washington Post this week where he said class size should be increased that teachers haven’t gotten any better over the years (unlike other professions). Believe me, ...
“A picture is worth a thousand thoughts: inquiry with Bloom’s taxonomy” A picture is worth a thousand thoughts: inquiry with Bloom’s taxonomy is the title of a very useful resource from Learn NC. It shows a photo, along with the original Bloom’s Taxonomy pyramid. By clicking on each thinking level, you are shown ...
Pacific Islander Resources We have quite a few Pacific Islander students, and I have a number of useful related resources at The Best Sites For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Here are two new additions to that list: Despite its tacky name, The South Pacific’s Fantasy ...
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Daily Kos: Quest for Dignity

Daily Kos: Quest for Dignity

Quest for Dignity

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is the title of a piece about the Middle East in today's Boston Globe by historian Richard Norton Smith and former ranking CIA analyst for the region Emile Nakhleh. It is subtitled "Sustained demonstrations cripple government, compel change" and is well worth reading. Here's the link

There are 4 key points in the piece, which I will quote, but which I then wish to explore as they might or might not be applicable to our own society.

Popular demonstrations provide American policy makers with several lessons and challenges. First, the generation calling for change is generally youthful, inclusive, tolerant, and not beholden to the regime. Nor are they controlled or directed by Islamist radicals. In Tunisia, Egypt, and Bahrain, Islamist movements had to play catch-up with the revolt. Second, Islamist leaders quickly realized that they are only one of many voices in the movement and that they must collaborate with emerging centers of power to help chart their country’s future.

Third, imperiled Arab autocracies are now in a rush to clean up their act. Whether the sitting

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This Week In Education: Photo: Duncan, First Lady, Jessica Alba Attend NEA Event

This Week In Education: Photo: Duncan, First Lady, Jessica Alba Attend NEA Event
Photo: Duncan, First Lady, Jessica Alba Attend NEA Event [image: image from i.huffpost.com] The NEA may not be doing much to reinvent the public's perception of teachers unions but it did hold a Dr. Seuss reading event where Duncan, the First Lady, and Jessica Alba read to kids. (Huffington Post Michelle ...
AM News: Union Battle Could Hinder Reform Efforts [image: DC_WP] Midwest union battles highlight debate over improving schools WP: The Republican faceoff with labor unions in the Midwest and elsewhere marks not just a fight over money and collective bargaining but also a test of wills over how to ...
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Jeb Bush and Obama plan joint appearance to support NCLB | Dailycensored.com

Jeb Bush and Obama plan joint appearance to support NCLB | Dailycensored.com

Jeb Bush and Obama plan joint appearance to support NCLB

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MIAMI – When President Barack Obama and former Florida Gov. JebBush stand side by side at a Miami high school, it will be an opportunity for the Democrat to show a bipartisan approach to education reform while allowing the Republican to push his own nationwide message on the issue.

Obama and Bush have common ground on education. Both support increasing the number of charter schools, tying teacher evaluations to student performance on standardized tests and setting high standards and accountability. They also believe education is key to invigorating U.S. competitiveness.

The joint appearance comes as Obama aims to rewrite the No Child Left

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The Answer Sheet - The Diane Ravitch myth

The Answer Sheet - The Diane Ravitch myth

The Diane Ravitch myth

Anybody reading much of the commentary written on education policy could be forgiven for thinking that education historian Diane Ravitch is somehow the Wizardess of Ed, the woman behind the curtain secretly pulling the strings. So many commentators take verbal shots at her that you’d think she had the policy-making power of, say, President Obama, or Education Secretary Arne Duncan, or billionaire education philanthropist Bill Gates. (When Gates decides to fund a particular initiative, it immediately becomes the reform approach of the hour.) Gates has, in fact, mocked her. Billionaire Whitney Tilson has made a second career out of attacking her. Even my colleague Jay Mathews wrote a column on his Class Struggle blog that called “erudite” a Tilson piece in which Tilson personally attacked Ravitch, and then took Ravitch to task for something she said about Teach for America about which I don't think she was wrong.
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NYC Educator: "You Feel Punched in the Stomach"

NYC Educator: "You Feel Punched in the Stomach"

"You Feel Punched in the Stomach"

by Miss Eyre
Well, it's another fun-filled day of being a public educator in a union here in the U.S. in 2011. After rising at 5 a.m. to work on a lesson plan for the day, I'm making a quick blog post before getting dressed, climbing into my 13-year-old car, and driving over to the school in which I work. Today will be a day full of calling parents to try to cajole them into making their children not curse, drink soda, and/or sleep all the way through one of my classes. As you can see, I have one of those cushy unionized public worker jobs, and then I have the nerve to take the summer off as well.

So I enjoyed this article from the Times, which explores the public schizophrenia about teachers pretty well. The public wants good teachers, but maybe doesn't want to pay them; the public believes that they collectively had good teachers
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: More "reform" Rhode Island style

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: More "reform" Rhode Island style

More "reform" Rhode Island style

by Mike Klonsky
"It's for the kids," say Providence officials
About 1,500 people jammed the street in front of City Hall in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday to protest last week's dismissal of the city's entire teaching force. "I thought the only insanity was in Wisconsin, not in Rhode Island," Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, told the crowd, which raised signs and banged drums... Providence officials say their
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Bully Free: It Starts With Me…and You - Lily's Blackboard – Lily's Blackboard

Bully Free: It Starts With Me…and You - Lily's Blackboard – Lily's Blackboard

Bully Free: It Starts With Me…and You

Mar 3rd, 2011
by Lily.

Bullied students that go it alone because they don’t know who to turn to are far more likely to fall behind in their studies, get sick and/or depressed, miss school, and drop out. And in the most tragic cases, the bullied student commits suicide, or “bullycide,” as it has come to be known. However, research tells us that one caring adult can make all the difference in a bullied student’s life.

That is why at the National Education Association, we are launching a Campaign Against Bullying which aims to identify caring adults in our schools and communities who are willing to stand out as someone pledged to help bullied

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