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Teacher's fight to renew visa a first for Oakland

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Teacher's fight to renew visa a first for OaklandTeacher's fight to renew visa a first for OaklandStephanie Rice, Special to The ChronicleSaturday, June 18, 2011PrintE-mailShareComments (122)Font |...
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Rick Scott hits a new low « Tangerine, Florida

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Rick Scott hits a new low « Tangerine, FloridaRick Scott hits a new lowby 5redherringsFlorida Governor Rick Scott has come up with a novel way to reverse his negative ratings with the public. Inste...
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michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Teacher Anthony Cody Teachers and parents feel abandoned - even betrayed - by this administration. We were there for you in 2008, President Obama. Where are you now when we need you? -- The Answe...
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Schieffer: A history lesson on education - CBS News

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Fake President’s Convention Act Is Cut Short

nytimes.com - NEW ORLEANS — A comedian impersonating President Obama who was hired to perform here on Saturday at the Republican Leadership Conference delivered racially tinged remarks about Mr. Obama’s heritage...
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Arizona historian explains importance of Juneteenth Day

asunews.asu.edu - June 19, 2011 Matthew C. Whitaker, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Arizona State University spoke about the history and celebration of Juneteenth Day – June 1...
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Justice Thomas Caught Up In Yet Another Ethical Tangle

thinkprogress.org - The New York Times reports on Justice Clarence Thomas’ longstanding — and highly fruitful — relationship with a leading conservative donor named Harlan Crow. Crow has donated nearly $5 million to R...
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As Survivors Dwindle, Tulsa Confronts Past

nytimes.com - TULSA, Okla. — With their guns firing, a mob of white men charged across the train tracks that cut a racial border through this city. A 4-year-old boy named Wess Young fled into the darkness with h...
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NPR Owns Up

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NPR Owns UpNPR Owns Upby KEVIN CAREY on JUNE 19, 2011in UNCATEGORIZEDShareNPR did a fun story on “All Things Considered” yesterday (audio here) riffing on the TNR piece I wrote a couple of weeks ag...
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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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Oh no! I agree with Mike Thomas « Tangerine, Florida

tangerineflorida.com - Mike Thomas, the Orlando Sentinel opinionated columnist who is often at odds with Tangerine Florida’s views, posted a column today that makes partial sense. Neither of us think the Casey Anthony ca...
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E. coli 'passed from human to human'

democraticunderground.com - Source: BBC World News EuropeThe E. coli bug responsible for a deadly recent outbreak in Germany has been passed from human to human for the first time.Health officials said the discovery was made ...
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Cancer: Education may play role - latimes.com

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Cancer: Education may play role - latimes.comCancer deaths and education: Exploring the linkShare1Comments1The effects of higher education may play a role in much-discussed cancer statistics. (Gena...
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Schieffer: A history lesson on education - CBS News

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NPR Owns Up

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NPR Owns UpNPR Owns Upby KEVIN CAREY on JUNE 19, 2011in UNCATEGORIZEDShareNPR did a fun story on “All Things Considered” yesterday (audio here) riffing on the TNR piece I wrote a couple of weeks ag...
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      Research Studies Of The Week | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

      Research Studies Of The Week | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

      Research Studies Of The Week

      by Larry Ferlazzo

      I often write about research studies from various field and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature:

      The many health perks of good handwriting is an article that discusses several studies. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Handwriting & Learning.

      How People Learn:Bridging Research and Practice is a new book from The National Academy Of Sciences and can be read for free online. It focuses on three teaching strategies — activating prior knowledge, focusing on big concept ideas and encouraging pattern recognition, and developing awareness of metacognition.

      In the article “Why Can’t More Poor People Escape Poverty?” The New Republic reports on a study attributing

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      Summer School keeps the gap at bay | Thoughts on Public Education

      Summer School keeps the gap at bay | Thoughts on Public Education

      Summer School keeps the gap at bay

      Students lose ground during lazy days of summer

      Posted on 6/20/11 • Categorized as Equity issues

      By Kathryn Baron

      A couple hundred middle school students will set up their camcorders and interview state legislators at the Capitol tomorrow, asking about their fondest summer memories. The recordings will be uploaded to a website called “Summer Matters to You.” It’s not simply a higher tech version of “What I did on my Summer Vacation” – there’s a slight ulterior motive. The students are part of National Summer Learning Day, and the recordings are also meant to promote summer school by showing the academic, cultural, and financial schism that separates kids when summer starts. Many public officials aren’t aware of it.

      While middle-income kids may go to camp or on family vacations or even spend time over the summer reading, that’s not how it is for many low-income kids, said Jennifer Peck,

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      Civics education report: The sky is falling….again! - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

      Civics education report: The sky is falling….again! - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

      Civics education report: The sky is falling….again!

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      This was written by Mark Phillips, professor emeritus of secondary education at San Francisco State University and author of a monthly column on education for the Marin Independent Journal.

      By Mark Phillipps

      Media responses to educational reports have become predictably semi-hysterical, simplistic, and taken to invalid conclusions. So it was with the recent report from the Department of Education:

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      Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

      Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

      WEEKEND QUOTABLES

      by Mike Klonsky
      Teacher Anthony Cody
      Teachers and parents feel abandoned - even betrayed - by this administration. We were there for you in 2008, President Obama. Where are you now when we need you? -- The Answer Sheet
      Montgomery County Supt. Jerry Weast

      Unfortunately, federal dollars from the Obama administration’s Race to the Top program are not going where Dr. Weast and the PAR program need to go. Montgomery County schools were entitled to $12 million from Race to the Top, but Dr. Weast said he would not take the money because the grant required districts to include students’ state test results as a measure of teacher quality.

      “We don’t believe the tests are reliable,” he said. “You don’t want to turn your system into a test
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      California: Reforming Ourselves Into Oblivion | California Progress Report

      California: Reforming Ourselves Into Oblivion | California Progress Report

      California: Reforming Ourselves Into Oblivion

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      By Peter Schrag

      As the Sacramento Democrats huff and puff about Gov. Jerry Brown’s veto of their gimmick-heavy budget and the punditocracy decides which of them is most at fault, the real story gets missed -- again.

      The most obvious culprit is the ever-more insular Republican cult, which has spent the past three decades exploiting California’s minority veto. It enables one third of the state’s legislators to out-vote the other two thirds on any tax or other revenue increase.

      Beyond that is an electorate that can’t make up its collective mind what it wants – or rather, stubbornly demands California services with Mississippi taxes. And beyond that there are thirty years of “reforms” and ballot box budgeting that have so convoluted the system it hardly functions at all.

      The most recent of those fixes was Proposition 25 that the voters passed last November, which lowers the two-thirds vote required to pass the budget to a simple majority, but leaves intact the supermajority needed to raise taxes.

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      The Patriot Act and the Quiet Death of the US Bill of Rights

      by kaldveer

      By Zack Kaldveer
      Consumer Federation of California

      With the stroke of an autopen from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the once articulate critic of the Patriot Act signed a four year extension of the most dangerous assault on American civil liberties in US history without a single additional privacy protection.

      One would think that this reauthorization would have incited vigorous debate in the halls of Congress and at least a fraction of the breathless 24/7 media coverage allotted the Anthony Weiner “sexting” scandal. Instead, three weeks ago the House (250 to 153) and Senate (72 to 23) approved, and the President signed, an extension of this landmark attack on the Bill of Rights with little notice and even less debate.

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      Jersey Jazzman: More "White People... Destroy and Leave"

      Jersey Jazzman: More "White People... Destroy and Leave"

      More "White People... Destroy and Leave"

      by Duke
      Good luck, Detroit:
      Gov. Rick Snyder will create a new authority to run several failing Detroit Public Schools as part of a sweeping reform package to be announced Monday for the struggling district, sources said.
      The plan would restructure the failing school district, which has a $327 million budget deficit, by moving underperforming DPS schools under a new authority to be run by current DPS Emergency Financial Manager Roy Roberts, according to sources.
      [...]
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      NYC Educator: Bring Back Child Labor

      NYC Educator: Bring Back Child Labor

      Bring Back Child Labor

      by NYC Educator
      That's what some Republicans want, and it wouldn't surprise me at all to see Democrats chiming in any moment now. Employers would love to put kids to work at any and all hours, and the hell with school and all that other nonsense. If it weren't for all this education crap, they'd be ensured of an extremely low-paid work force with even less hope for advancement than there already is now.

      Last Friday I proctored an English Regents exam and the young woman in the seat closest to the door kept falling asleep. I had to keep asking her if she was OK,
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      To Solve the Education Crisis We Must Refute Faulty Assumptions « Cooperative Catalyst

      To Solve the Education Crisis We Must Refute Faulty Assumptions « Cooperative Catalyst

      To Solve the Education Crisis We Must Refute Faulty Assumptions

      by zoeweil

      For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for Common Dreams, a progressive news site. Here’s an excerpt from“To Solve Education Crisis We Must Refute Faulty Assumptions”:

      Among the biggest challenges we face in “educational reform” are the many faulty assumptions that underlie our efforts to fix the problems we perceive in schools. Because we fail to deeply assess and evaluate these underlying assumptions, we continue to misunderstand the problems, propose answers to the wrong problems, or address only a portion of a much larger overall challenge.

      What are some of the common educational assumptions to which I’m referring? Here are a few:

      Assumption 1: The goal of schooling should be to graduate students who are verbally,

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      solidaridad: A Conversation With Dr. Diane Ravitch at Lesley University

      solidaridad: A Conversation With Dr. Diane Ravitch at Lesley University

      A Conversation With Dr. Diane Ravitch at Lesley University

      by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene
      In conversation with President Joseph Moore at Lesley University, Dr. Diane Ravitch discusses the effects of school choice and voucher plans on public schools, the new emphasis on testing, and a new market-based educational environment on community schools.



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