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The Service of Democratic Education | The Nation

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thenation.com - At the commencement ceremony for Columbia University's Teachers College on May 18, Stanford education professor Linda Darling-Hammond—a nationally renowned leader in education reform and former edu...
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Questions Follow Leader of For-Profit Colleges

nytimes.com - In 2004, when Todd S. Nelson was chief executive of the University of Phoenix, the nation’s largest for-profit college, he signed a $9.8 million settlement with the Department of Education, which f...
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Battle against co-location continues at Brooklyn school

uft.org - Cara MetzUFT President Michael Mulgrew, flanked by the co-plaintiffs, explains the details of the lawsuit against the Department of Education. PS 308 in Brooklyn is still battling plans by the Depa...
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Friday morning TYs

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Now that I've turned another year older, I'm trying to act my age, a little more mature if you will. So I've dropped my Friday morning FUs in exchange for Friday morning TYs (thanks) in order to ge...
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CENSUS: Hispanic Population Grew 4x National Rate, Up 43%

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 8:20 pm, May 27, 2011 Photo Credits: U.S. Hispanic Population Up 43% The U.S. Census Bureau today released a 2010 Census brief on the nation’s Hispanic population, which shows the Hisp...
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Gil. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - News item: Gil Scott-Heron dies at the age of 62. Looking for a way Out of this confusion I’m looking for a sign Carry me home Let me lay down by a stream And let me be miles from everything Rivers...
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angry reader of the week: lisa lee

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Backyard Jazz Club Birdland Goes Viral in Berkeley

baycitizen.org - EDITOR'S NOTE: The author is a friend of Mike Parayno, the founder of Birdland, and sometimes volunteers there as a photographer.Not many people can say they have a jazz club in their garage. But t...
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Sanders Accuses CFTC of Breaking the Law

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This week's healthy schools highlights

ednewsparent.org - The chocolate milk wars: A mom’s perspective As any parent knows, you can prepare healthy food but you can’t make your kids eat it. So there are a few tricks we parents have up our culinary sleeves...
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    Schooling in the Ownership Society: Rhee helped design Ohio's union-busting bill for T-Party Gov. Kasich

    Schooling in the Ownership Society: Rhee helped design Ohio's union-busting bill for T-Party Gov. Kasich

    Rhee helped design Ohio's union-busting bill for T-Party Gov. Kasich

    by Mike Klonsky
    Michelle Rhee, operating with close to a billion-dollar war chest from Gates, Broad and other power philanthropists and conservative groups, played a major role in drafting Ohio's union-busting legislation.
    Between January and April of 2011, [Rhee's] StudentsFirst groupemployed Robert Klaffky, the president of firm Van Meter, Ashbrook & Associates and a close adviser to Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) to help push various aspects of education policy. In particular, the group, established by Rhee
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    Why relationship-building is vital in schools - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    Why relationship-building is vital in schools - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    Why relationship-building is vital in schools

    by Valerie Strauss

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    This was written by Yvette Jackson, chief executive officer of the National Alliance for Effective Education in Syosset, N.Y., which works with schools and districts to deliver professional development and school improvement plans that integrate culture, language and cognition. She is the former director of gifted programs in New York City as well as past executive director of instruction and professional development for the New York City Board of Education. Jackson is also the author of the recently published “Pedagogy of Confidence: Inspiring High Intellectual Performance in Urban Schools.”

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    Connecticut May Limit 4-Year-Olds in Kindergarten - NYTimes.com

    Connecticut May Limit 4-Year-Olds in Kindergarten - NYTimes.com

    Too Young for Kindergarten? Tide Turning Against 4-Year-Olds

    Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times

    Erin Ferrantino helps Bernard Alexander, 5, at Rawson Elementary School in Hartford. Ms. Ferrantino says she has seen firsthand the challenges for kindergartners who start at 4 years old.

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    Published: May 27, 2011

    Erin Ferrantino rarely has to consult the birthday chart in her kindergarten classroom to pick out the Octobers, Novembers and Decembers. This year, there was the girl who broke down in tears after an hour’s work, and the boy who held a pencil with his fist rather than his fingers.

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    Those two, along with another of Ms. Ferrantino’s pupils who were 4 when school started, will be repeating kindergarten next year.

    “They struggled because they’re not developmentally ready,” said Ms. Ferrantino, 26, who teaches in Hartford. “It is such a long day and so draining, they have a hard time holding it together.”

    Soon, Ms. Ferrantino may not have to be on the

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    The Best Posts/Articles On National Research Council Finding That Carrots & Sticks Don’t Work | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

    The Best Posts/Articles On National Research Council Finding That Carrots & Sticks Don’t Work | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
    The Best Posts/Articles On National Research Council Finding That Carrots & Sticks Don’t Work Earlier this week, the National Research Council released a very important report detailing how the rewards and punishments offered by No Child Left Behind are not effective in helping schools, teachers or students. I’ll be writing a more in-depth ...
    More Memorial Day Resources Here are the newest additions to The Best Websites For Learning About Memorial Day: Memorial Day through the years is a Washington Post slideshow. The choreography of the changing of the guard is another Washington Post slideshow. Flags placed at ...
    May’s “The Best…” Lists Here’s my monthly round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted in May: The Best Resources For Learning About Osama bin Laden — May, 2011 The Best Resources For Learning About The “Freedom Riders” — May, 2011 The Best Sites For Learning About The ...
    What I’m Teaching Next School Year It’s always subject to change, of course, but it looks like next school year I’ll be teaching Beginning English Language Learners; United States History to English Language Learners; and my usual International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge class. ...
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    Jersey Jazzman: Reformy Logic

    Jersey Jazzman: Reformy Logic

    Reformy Logic

    by Duke
    I really do mean it when I say that many in the corporate reform movement appear not to have thought their arguments through. For example: I took another look at "Restructuring Teacher Pay to Reward Excellence" from the National Council on Teacher Quality, and found this:

    As painful as the recession has been on
    school districts, it provides a useful
    opportunity to reexamine how money is spent.
    When negotiating new teacher contracts, most districts, no doubt, are focusing discussions on averting
    wage freezes and massive layoffs. But prudent districts—those looking for long-term solutions to budget
    problems as well as those seeking to more fairly compensate the most effective teachers—are reconsidering
    the traditional salary schedule, which rewards teachers for years of experience and graduate credits.
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    4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: VALUE-ADDED MEASURES: What’s It All About?

    4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: VALUE-ADDED MEASURES: What’s It All About?
    LAUSD, TEACHERS UNION REACH AGREEMENT ON NEW CONTRACT By Connie Llanos Staff Writer | Daily Breeze/Daily News | http://bit.ly/lA3uCj Posted: 05/27/2011 07:47:16 PM PDT - Capping weeks of heated negotiations, Los Angeles Unified officials announced Friday they had tentatively come to an agreement with the ...
    VALUE-ADDED MEASURES: What’s It All About? Themes in the News for the week of May 23-27, 2011 by UCLA IDEA | http://bit.ly/iE86Ay 05-27-2011 | With Memorial Day signaling the approach of summer, we start to look back on a school year that has brought massive and unfairly distributed financial ...
    THE CASE FOR/AGANST CALPADS: 5 advocates, one opponent share their perspectives By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess | http://bit.ly/km8mWO ●●smf: In the interest of fairness, 5 for/1 against isn’t. For all of the shortcomings in its implementation, the data system CALPADS has always had plenty of supporters. Gov. Jerry Brown ...
    LAUSD, UTLA REACH TENTATIVE AGREEMENT+L.A. TEACHERS UNION AGREES TO FURLOUGH DAYS + AGREEMENT TEXTLAUSD, teachers union reach tentative agreement Adolfo Guzman-Lopez | KPCC & wire services | http://bit.ly/iVzAkO AUDIO: MP3 Download Mike Roe/KPCC - Demonstrators protest LAUSD's proposed budget cuts at a rally at L.A.'s Pershing Square on Friday, ...
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    White House Details Steps in Improving Achievement of Latinos - Hispanically Speaking News

    White House Details Steps in Improving Achievement of Latinos - Hispanically Speaking News

    White House Details Next Step in Improving Academic Achievement of Latinos

    White House Details Next Step in Improving Academic Achievement of Latinos

    Yesterday more than a dozen new members of the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics were announced at the White House and later sworn-in at an official ceremony with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the Smithsonian Institution Castle. These historic events mark the next step in improving the academic achievement of Latino students and the lives of all Hispanics nationwide according to the White House.

    Hispanic success in education and the labor market is important to America’s economy. At more than 54 million strong – including nearly 4 million in Puerto Rico—Hispanics are both the largest and fastest-growing minority group, yet they have the lowest education attainment levels of any group in the country. In addition, Hispanics are the largest minority group in the public education system, with more than 1 in 5 students in our elementary, middle and high schools; however, it this group that has the lowest education attainment levels overall, according to the report recently released by our office.

    This two-day inaugural meeting brings together a group of well-respected individuals from the education,

    Athlete Scores Touchdown with Latino Children During Awareness Day for Improved Latino Mental Health

    Athlete Scores Touchdown with Latino Children During Awareness Day for Improved Latino Mental Health

    In a recent visit to Boston, New England Patriot tight-end, Aaron Hernandez, participated in two events to raise awareness of the need for more mental health providers to care for the Latino population and a unique program to train such professionals—Lucero Latino Mental Health Program at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP).

    Hernandez, who is of Puerto Rican descent, has taken up the cause because of his own childhood in an underserved community in Bristol, Connecticut and because of the growing crisis in Latino mental health nationwide. Nearly one in eight people in the United States are Latino, but only approximately two percent of psychologists are linguistically and culturally capable of caring for them.

    As one of the few Latinos in the National Football League and with a great rookie campaign this year, Hernandez has a unique platform from which to speak to fans and the public. At age 20, he caught 45 passes for 563 yards


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    ThinkProgress » Gov. Rick Scott Uses Sheriffs To Eject ‘Liberal-Looking’ People From Budget Signing Event In Town Square

    ThinkProgress » Gov. Rick Scott Uses Sheriffs To Eject ‘Liberal-Looking’ People From Budget Signing Event In Town Square

    Gov. Rick Scott Uses Sheriffs To Eject ‘Liberal-Looking’ People From Budget Signing Event In Town Square

    Anxious over their increasing unpopularity, Republicans lawmakers across the country arebanning media from chronicling the blowback at public events. Florida’s now deeply disliked Gov. Rick Scott (R) adopted a similar tactic yesterday at a “campaign-style” budget signing ceremony at a town square in The Villages retirement community in Central Florida. Before putting his pen to the $69.7 billion state budget, Scott took an ax to $615 million of what he called “shortsighted, frivolous, wasteful spending.” Scott conveniently failed, however, to mention exactly what some of those “frivolous” programs were, including ones that provide help for the most vulnerable in society:

    In his speech Thursday, Scott omitted many of the serious-sounding programs he cut: homeless veterans, meals for poor seniors, a council for deafness, a children’s hospital, cancer research, public radio,

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    Gil Scott-Heron - 'Me And The Devil' (Official HD Video)


    Spoken-word musician Gil Scott-Heron dies in NYC

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    NEW YORK (AP) -- Musician Gil Scott-Heron, who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry on songs such as "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," died Friday at age 62.

    A friend, Doris C. Nolan, who answered the telephone listed for his Manhattan recording company, said he died in the afternoon at St. Luke's Hospital after becoming sick upon returning from a European trip.

    "We're all sort of shattered," she said.

    Scott-Heron's influence on rap was such that he sometimes was referred to as the Godfather of Rap, a title he rejected.

    "If there was any individual initiative that I was responsible for it might have been that there was music in certain poems of mine, with complete progression and repeating `hooks,' which made them more like songs than just recitations with percussion," he wrote in the introduction to his 1990 collection of poems, "Now and Then."

    He referred to his signature mix of percussion, politics and performed poetry as bluesology or Third World music. But then he said it was simply "black music or black American music."

    "Because Black Americans are now a tremendously diverse essence of all the places we've come from and the music and rhythms we brought with us," he wrote.

    Nevertheless, his influence on generations of rappers has been demonstrated through sampling of his recordings by artists, including Kanye West.

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    Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Goodloe-Johnson Applies to be Florida Education Commissioner (along with 18 other people)

    Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Goodloe-Johnson Applies to be Florida Education Commissioner (along with 18 other people)

    Goodloe-Johnson Applies to be Florida Education Commissioner (along with 18 other people)

    by Melissa Westbrook
    Dr. Goodloe-Johnson continues to seek employment this time in Tampa Bay, Florida. The deadline was May 25th but they are thinking of extending the period to Monday, June 6th.

    The Commissioner of Education in Florida is the equivalent to the State Superintendent in Washington State. He/she reports to the Governor as an agency head. The salary range is $195k-275k.

    Reading through the qualifications, I noted a few areas where Dr. Goodloe-Johnson might run into trouble:

    • Inspires trust, possesses self-confidence, and models high standards of integrity.

    SPS News and Events

    by Melissa Westbrook
    According to the SPS website, Open Enrollment letters are to be mailed out Tuesday, May 31st.

    There will also be an online lookup tool and automated phone line that families can use to check assignment and waiting list status. These should be available by mid-day May 31, so check back here for the online link and phone number.

    Also, the district wants to remind families that there will be no SPS summer programs but there's a summer resource list .

    Free Youth Cardiac-Screenings at Garfield on Wednesday, June 1st from 8 am to 5 p.m. These are in partnership with the Nick of Time Foundation. The screening takes about 25 minutes.

    Screening packets are available at the Garfield office or Teen Health Clinic or can be downloaded. You can also
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    Gay & Dusty: The Great Basin :: Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action

    Gay & Dusty: The Great Basin :: Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action
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    Gay & Dusty: The Great Basin

    by NancyFlanagan

    MAY 27, 2011

    Terrible headwind today. A windstorm of 40 mph gusts was blowing out of the East impeding our progress. In spite of that we moved ahead 61 miles.

    Much of Nevada is within the region called the Great Basin where rivers flow from mountain tops and evaporate in the valleys below. In contrast to our slow movement across the terrain fighter jets from a nearby military installation screamed overhead seemingly skimming the sandy desert floor.

    Water is a scarce commodity but we were able to find a spring (wink, wink – see photo). In Middlegate Gay stopped at the store/saloon to buy some ice. Inside were authentic, real-life, modern cowboys enjoying a cold beer and watching TV. Imagine Gay’s surprise to note that they were watching a French Open Tennis match, an event which is a world away.

    Now past Eastgate to almost Eureka. Heading across Nevada is a roller coaster ride, at slow speed, of course.

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    Gil. « Fred Klonsky's blog

    Gil. « Fred Klonsky's blog

    Gil.

    by Fred Klonsky

    News item: Gil Scott-Heron dies at the age of 62.

    Looking for a way
    Out of this confusion
    I’m looking for a sign
    Carry me home
    Let me lay down by a stream
    And let me be miles from everything
    Rivers of my Fathers
    Can you carry me home
    Carry me home

    Rub your soul against the concrete
    And the concrete is my smile
    Got to change my way of living
    Got to change my style
    Let me lay down by a stream
    Miles from everything
    Rivers of my fathers
    Could you carry me home
    Carry me home

    Looking for a way
    Got to find a way out of this confusion
    Looking for a sign
    Point my way home
    Let me lay down by a stream
    Miles from everything
    Rivers of my fathers, rivers of my fathers
    Carry me home, please carry me home
    Carry me home, carry me home
    Carry me home, carry me hom

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    Wikispaces anuncia wikis libres para mayor ed | vivirlaeducacion

    Wikispaces anuncia wikis libres para mayor ed | vivirlaeducacion
    Ayuda para Lorca (Murcia) 12 mayo, 2011 por Psicólogos Bonnet Desde psicólogos bonnet nos solidarizamos con Lorca. En las siguientes cuentas se puede ayudar a los hermanos lorquinos, cualquier cantidad es buena. ...
    Wikispaces anuncia wikis libres para mayor ed www.Wikispaces.com Para aquellos de ustedes que conocen mi enseñanza y escritura, saben que soy un fan de los wikis, en particular de Wikispaces. Desde mi curso de 315 ENG para el proyecto de escribir de río Chippewa, de mi propia wiki llena de ...
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    School Tech Connect: Don't Ask A Question If You Don't Want An Answer

    School Tech Connect: Don't Ask A Question If You Don't Want An Answer

    Don't Ask A Question If You Don't Want An Answer

    by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
    This is a clip of Republican Thomas Morrison, who gave a little soliloquy that the Trib didn't find objectionable. I'm going to play the whole thing, including the part where Henry Bayer makes mincemeat of him and is stopped by whoever the heck was chairing (McCarthy?). When you respond to the guys like Morrison, you have to point out certain basic truths that they've never even been exposed to, and it all sounds like some occult, heathen incantation to them instead of the crystal clear answer that it is.

    As you listen in, remember, the state has been promising long (its share of the pension contributions) and delivering short...



    Morrison was indeed a teacher, here, and he seems like a nice guy, but it's totally outside of his universe that
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    Mainstream Media's Inability To Tell The Truth About LAUSD (Incapacidad principales medios de comunicación a decir la verdad sobre el LAUSD) - Perdaily.com

    Mainstream Media's Inability To Tell The Truth About LAUSD (Incapacidad principales medios de comunicación a decir la verdad sobre el LAUSD) - Perdaily.com

    Mainstream Media's Inability To Tell The Truth About LAUSD (Incapacidad principales medios de comunicación a decir la verdad sobre el LAUSD)

    by Leonard Isenberg
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    (For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)

    I talked with Connie Llanos today of the Daily News. She is an excellent reporter and could be much better, if she was allowed to do any story she has knowledge of. Given the time, research, and access she has already achieved covering the topic of public education, it is clear to me that she knows a hell of allot more than she is actually allowed to report.

    Reporter Llanos tried to justify what appears to me to be the clear limits as to what she is allowed to report by saying, "I have to pitch stories to her editor" and "I don't have 6 months to research a story." Given the blatant and overt corruption of LAUSD and UTLA and the entree she and other reporters have, I doubt that a reporter as good as she would need 6 months to catch LAUSD and UTLA colluding to the detriment of their students and parents, teachers, and other employees.

    As the conversation continued and I gave Ms. Llanos specific stories that we have covered here at perdaily and voice my frustration about the blackout of these stories by her and the other mainstream media. All Ms. Llanos could do was chastise me by saying, "This is not the way to get me to do a story." If having the documentation that she and her colleagues
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