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Sickness and student loans | USA TODAY College

usatodayeducate.com - Severe car accidents can be devastating. When such an event includes a passenger who owes private student loans, the financial trauma makes it downright ruinous. Just ask Deborah Schutz. In Decembe...
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School Tech Connect: We're Just So Thrilled!

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: We're Just So Thrilled!We're Just So Thrilled!by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)Typically, when you're bargaining a contract, you walk away with a tentative agreement and then ...
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Featured Alumni - The Broad Superintendents Academy

broadacademy.org - Superintendents Serving in Large Urban Districts Class of 2004 Superintendent Aurora Public Schools, Colo. Class of 2009 Superintendent Denver Public Schools Class of 2004 Superintendent Worcester ...
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Chicago Shopping

chicagotribune.com - By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Tribune reporter 3:16 p.m. CDT, June 20, 2011 Salary negotiations between Chicago Public Schools officials and its teachers union could veer to the subject of longer schoo...
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At Netoots Nation

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Frustration with the administrationThat's what I found at the Netroots Nation conference in Minneapolis last week. Lots of mostly-young, progressive, media-savvy activists, union members, staffers ...
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AZ Fires Caused by Aliens?

modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/06/az-fires-caused-by-aliens.html"; The ongoing “Wallow Fire” in Arizona is already the largest in state history. John McCain has claimed that the...
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N.L.R.B. Rules Would Streamline Unionizing

nytimes.com - In a move that will undoubtedly please labor unions, the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday morning proposed new rules to speed up unionization elections, largely by streamlining various pro...
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Why I sail. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - Pulitizer Prize winning author, Alice Walker. This column appears on CNN and will appear on her blog. Why am I going on the Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza? I ask myself this, even though the answer i...
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N.L.R.B. Rules Would Streamline Unionizing

nytimes.com - In a move that will undoubtedly please labor unions, the National Labor Relations Board announced on Tuesday morning that it was proposing new rules to speed up unionization elections, largely by s...
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Tea Partier slugs Solidarity Singer in WI

teamsternation.blogspot.com - A Tea Partier punched a union supporter today, breaking a tooth, during the daily noon singalong in the Rotunda. Another Tea Partier in a wheelchair -- former state Sen. Dave Zien -- ran over peopl...
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CityTime Project Awash in 'Fraud'

online.wsj.com - BY MICHAEL HOWARD SAUL Fraud permeated "virtually every level" of the development of New York City's long-delayed and over-budget automated payroll system, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Monday a...
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nypost.com - It might be the most-scandal plagued project of his administration, but Mayor Bloomberg today pronounced the $722 million CityTime timekeeping project a great success."We actually did a pretty good...
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Growing share of income for the rich

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Inequality in the U.S. has has grown steadily since the 1970s, following a flat period after World War II. In 2008, the wealthiest 10 percent earned almost the same amount of income as the rest ...
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Two Executives Are Charged in Payroll Scandal

nytimes.com - Two top executives of a New Jersey technology company that played a central role in the city’s troubled automated payroll project have been indicted on federal fraud and kickback charges, and a key...
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Homework: THE USEFUL AND THE USELESS + NEW RECRUIT IN THE HOMEWORK REVOLT – THE PRINCIPAL

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Homework: THE USEFUL AND THE USELESS + NEW RECRUIT IN THE HOMEWORK REVOLT – THE PRINCIPAL

Homework: THE USEFUL AND THE USELESS + NEW RECRUIT IN THE HOMEWORK REVOLT – THE PRINCIPAL

THE USEFUL AND THE USELESS

BY VALERIE STRAUSS | THE WASHINGTON POST ANSWER SHEET | HTTP://WAPO.ST/IQKSKZ

6/17/2011 - We’ve come a long way from the 1930s, when the American Child Health Association put homework next to child labor as a leading cause of child deaths from tuberculosis and heart disease.

Yet the value — or lack thereof — of homework never seems to go away. The issue has been raised anew by a story on the front page of the New York Times (follows)about a number of school systems around the country that are either reevaluating their homework policies or have already found new, less stressful ways of giving kids work to do after school.

●●smf's2¢: Last October 4LAKids reblogged

THE LOWDOWN ON HOMEWORK: How much homework is too much? A Grade-by-grade guidelines for what kids can reasonably be expected to do by GreatSchools Staff |http://bit.ly/dpd45a

This is a controversial topic – and was not presented as an endorsement –though 4LAKids believes that “less-is-better” …especially for very-youngsters.

The definitive pieces on homework as far as I’m concerned are Orson Scott Card’s essays:

If you are concerned about your child’s homework load have a discussion with the teacher. Listen to the teacher and insist that the teacher listen to you – insist that the discussion be about your child, not ‘children this age’. If that is unsatisfactory have the discussion with the principal. Understand that there are widely varying opinions among educators on the subject. And that GreatSchools – the author of this article - is much like USA Today or 4LAKids– a good place to start but not the last word!


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Detroit Education Reform: Few Details Emerge On Michigan College Promise

Detroit Education Reform: Few Details Emerge On Michigan College Promise

Detroit Education Reform: Few Details Emerge On Michigan College Promise

Rick Snyder
First Posted: 06/21/11 06:25 PM ET Updated: 06/21/11 06:34 PM ET

When Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) presented sweeping reforms to Detroit's -- and, eventually, Michigan's -- schools on Monday, he accompanied the news of the drastic plan to create a new authority for the city's lowest-performing schools with a promise.
"We're going to launch a major initiative to raise resources from the business community," Snyder said, to pay for every one of Detroit's high school graduates to attend two years of college or vocational school.
That promise immediately received high praise from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Monday. If the plan succeeds, Duncan said, "you're going to see a massive influx of families back into the city."
"This will be great for children. This will be great for education. It will be great for the school system. But I also think it will be an amazing economic development tool."
Synder said the scholarship fund would be modeled after a similar program for residents of Kalamazoo, Mich. But few details on the plan -- its timeline, its funding, its parameters -- have been disclosed.
Philanthropic support of schools has been gaining ground as one way to shore up failing school
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School Funding: PUBLIC GOOD. PUBLIC CUTS - State budget shortfalls will bring a raft of cuts to public schools

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: School Funding: PUBLIC GOOD. PUBLIC CUTS - State budget shortfalls will bring a raft of cuts to public schools

School Funding: PUBLIC GOOD. PUBLIC CUTS - State budget shortfalls will bring a raft of cuts to public schools

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EDITORIAL FROM THE U.S. EDITION OF THE ECONOMIST | HTTP://ECON.ST/K3EL5C

Jun 16th 2011 | AUSTIN |IN 1783 Noah Webster, a schoolteacher, published the first edition of his American spelling book. It would become a standard text in classrooms around the country, selling 60m copies over the course of the next century. Webster’s view was that the new country deserved its own approach to English, more accessible than the version it had inherited. For Webster and his followers, literacy was a democratic goal as much as a pedagogical one.

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That vision of public education is a compelling one, although America has often fallen short in its pursuit of the ideal. This makes it troubling that many cities and states, struggling to make up budget shortfalls, have put schools on the chopping block. In Texas, for example, legislators expect $4 billion in cuts for schools over the next two years, a 6% decrease from the state’s projected funding formulas for 2012. The state convened a special legislative session to hash out the details, after a Democratic state senator filibustered the legislation in the regular session.

The cuts are also meeting resistance from pupils, teachers and, in some cases, the courts. In Los Angeles the teachers’

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This Week In Education: Five Best Blogs: Introducing "Mr. Teachbad"

This Week In Education: Five Best Blogs: Introducing "Mr. Teachbad"

Five Best Blogs: Introducing "Mr. Teachbad"

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Evaluating innovation is not an oxymoron Lucy Bernholz: Evaluating Innovation provides a framework for thinking about evaluating efforts at innovation, presents examples from the Knight, MacArthur...

Charter Supporter Gather in Atlanta (of all places) Tom VanderArk: About 5% of Georgia kids are educated in charter school but some of those are charter in name only...

Rage Against the Machine EIA: While the anger is boiling over in several locations, it’s still under a lid at the national level – though it does seem to be percolating...

First Year of Teacherpocalypse EIA: Last year’s workforce numbers, and

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