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A new miracle school in Chicago

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - I’m not an education reporter. I’m just a guy with a computer and a healthy amount of skepticism and internet access. I also am someone whose been in education for twenty years and am fearful abo...
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NYC Educator: "Why Wait?" Asks Duncan

nyceducator.com - US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today lamented that only a third of Joplin, Missouri was leveled by tornadoes. "Unfortunately, the fact that so much of the city remains standing will not enab...
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City Hall Hellion: 'Daily News' Bureau Chief Erin Einhorn

neptune.observer.com - May 25, 2011 | 9:20 a.m. Erin Einhorn, the new City Hall bureau chief for the Daily News, can seem confrontational even when she's being polite. Take last month, when she referred to the City Counc...
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Some students are being left behind

natchezdemocrat.com - Published 12:03am Monday, May 30, 2011From grade school to high school, the No Child Left Behind of 2001 has handicapped children of all ages. Instead of this strategy doing what its words spell ou...
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Too Much For Tests to Bear - Room for Debate

nytimes.com - You could almost hear a collective groan in the city’s schools when the Department of Education announced it would require still more tests.Principals, parents and even the children know perfectly ...
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GOP looks at N.J. school strategy

articles.philly.com - The plan includes supporting a constitutional amendment that would end judicial involvement in school-funding decisions and give the state wiggle room to reduce funding in lean budget years. The re...
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Home - Inside Higher Ed

insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ...
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Teacher sings Barney tune to kids during shootout

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SB 512. It comes down to today. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - We thought the vote might be last Friday. Then Saturday. But Saturday they adjourned early for the Memorial Day holiday. They reconvened last night. It was long enough to turn SB 175, which had bee...
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49% of Americans Think Memorial Is Most Important Holidays

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 3:47 pm, May 30, 2011 Photo Credits: Memorial Day Important Holiday Forty-nine percent (49%) of Americans view Memorial Day as one of the nation’s most important holidays. A new Rasmus...
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Robert Reich (The Truth About the American Economy)

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Robert Reich (The Truth About the American Economy)The Truth About the American Economy8 people liked thisThe U.S. economy continues to stagnate. It’s growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is b...
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States and Localities Review and Revamp Minority Contract

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Recently, a number of state and local governments have begun taking a close look at their existing Minority and Women-owned contracting programs. A number of intergovernmental groups, such as the N...
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Robert Reich (The Truth About the American Economy)

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Robert Reich (The Truth About the American Economy)The Truth About the American Economy8 people liked thisThe U.S. economy continues to stagnate. It’s growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is b...
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School Tech Connect: The Work Is Just Beginning

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: The Work Is Just BeginningThe Work Is Just Beginningby effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)Who the hell knows what kind of kabuki just transpired down in Springfield, but for now SB...
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    May’s Best Posts | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
    What Will You Do Differently Next Year? In early June of last year, I asked readers to think about the question: “What will you do differently next year?” I thought then, and think now, that this is a pretty good time to think about those potential changes. I invited people to contribute ...
    May’s Best Posts I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see back issues of those newsletters here and my previous ...
    Hmong Resources Here are the newest additions to The Best Websites To Learn About The Hmong: Family History: The General, His Sisters And Me is from NPR. Outsiders Unable to Investigate Vietnam Protest Reports comes from Voice of America. Taking advantage of Hmong ...
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    Email Newsletter Just Sent-Out I just sent-out my free monthly email newsletter. You can read this month’s issue here and view previous issues. It has about 1100 subscribers. You can subscribe to it here.
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    7 districts primed for Race’s round 3 | Thoughts on Public Education

    7 districts primed for Race’s round 3 | Thoughts on Public Education

    7 districts primed for Race’s round 3

    CORE districts already doing work on their own

    Posted on 5/30/11 • Categorized as Race to the Top

    By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

    The seven school districts that led the state’s second round application to Race to the Top –and did better than expected – are eager to go after money that the Obama Administration has reserved for California and eight other states in round three. And although the $50-plus million that California can expect as its share would be less than a tenth of the $700 million it sought last time, that amount would mesh nicely with the seven districts’ plans, according to Rick Miller, the former Deputy Superintendent of Education who was in charge of the first round bid and now, in a new role, would organize the third round, too.

    Miller is executive director of the California Office to Reform Education, or CORE, the non-profit organization that the seven unified districts – Los Angeles, Sacramento City,

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    Conservatives in the ivory tower - The Boston Globe

    Conservatives in the ivory tower - The Boston Globe

    Conservatives in the ivory tower

    By Naomi Schaefer Riley
    May 31, 2011

    LAST WEEK, Florida State University announced it would review the terms of a $1.5 million gift from the Charles G. Koch Foundation to ensure the school’s integrity was protected. The gift allows a Koch Foundation representative to have input into the hiring of some faculty members in the economics department. The foundation says the goal of the gift is “to provide resources to faculty and students to facilitate a deeper understanding of the nature of free societies and the reasons why they foster the highest levels of well-being for the overwhelming majority of people.’’ Critics have accused the school of selling its academic freedom to the highest bidder.

    With university budgets being cut around the country, colleges will increasingly be looking to private philanthropy to make up the difference. So it is worth examining the Koch gift and its

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    Ableism

    Ableism

    Ableism

    by California Father

    Giving tests–the California Standards Test, DIBELS, Woodcock-Johnson NU–all week to my special ed students has made me wonder on more than one occasion just what I’m trying to prove. Okay, I’m a little worn down. By the end of next week I will have given the End of Year (EOY) DIBELS assessment to 40 kids, the CST to 12 students, and the W-J NU to five kids for IEPs. Am I trying to help them–identify and address areas of weakness–or am I practicing what some disability studies people call “ableism”, punishing disabled kids for not conforming to what able kids can do?

    A number of social model theorists argue that the act of problematizing individuals amounts to a

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    Who runs Illinois? The members of the Civic Committe and Ty Fahner? « Fred Klonsky's blog

    Who runs Illinois? The members of the Civic Committe and Ty Fahner? « Fred Klonsky's blog

    Who runs Illinois? The members of the Civic Committe and Ty Fahner?

    by Fred Klonsky

    Bully-boy head of the Civic Committee, Ty Fahner.

    The shocking inclusion of bully-boy Ty Fahner’s name on the pension surrender (for now) statement from GOP House Leader Tom Cross and Democratic Speaker Mike Madigan raises tons of questions about the corporate Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago and their role in state decision making.

    This from the State Journal Register in Springfield:

    Claims of strong-arm political tactics, numerous legislators with state facilities and public employees in their districts, and concerns about fairness sunk a bill that would have increased the amount current public employees would have to

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    Those Who Would Block the School House Door « City School Stories

    Notes from the Field « City School Stories

    Those Who Would Block the School House Door

    Submitted by Frank Murphy, May 31, 2011

    Across the state of Pennsylvania, school district administrators are struggling to grapple with the painful process of reducing services to the children whom they serve. They do so in response to the billion-dollar reduction in state education funding proposed by Governor Corbett. Cutting full day kindergarten classes is one of the most troublesome of options on the reduction list of some district leaders.

    This will mean that an effective and proven strategy for assisting young children to build the prerequisite skills that they will need for future literacy achievement will be denied them. Any individual who purports the belief that all children should have access to a high quality instructional program should consider this possibility as unacceptable. Indeed, I would think that the corporate school reformers and their political allies who dominant America’s educational agenda would be right on top of this serious problem. They claim that they are on a civil

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