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Pedagogy and profits: Charter school bid raises questions

indypressny.org - Upper East Side A new charter high school proposed for Manhattan has close ties to a for-profit curriculum provider with family links to the chair of the state board that will decide on the school'...
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Great way to spend the morning

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - "This is what democracy looks like!" (M. Klonsky pic)I got to march this morning, with thousands of Chicago teachers and supporters who surrounded CPS headquarters to protest the mayor's latest as...
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Deal in Albany on Key Issues; Gay Marriage Still Unsettled

nytimes.com - ALBANY — Legislative leaders said Tuesday that they had reached a tentative deal with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on renewing New York’s rent laws, capping property taxes for homeowners and raising tuitio...
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Julian Assange's New Legal Strategy

tomhayden.com - This article originally appeared at The Nation on June 22, 2011. Julian Assange has chosen a new legal team to represent him in his quest to prevent extradition from London to Sweden, where authori...
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Big Money, Our Favorite Things « Failing Schools

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Big Money, Our Favorite Things « Failing SchoolsBig Money, Our Favorite ThingsJUNE 22, 2011by mariasalleeThe Summer Solstice has just passed, and it feels like a time to play with rhyming words. Af...
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BMW trashes US workers after getting loans from Fed

teamsternation.blogspot.com - BMW Rally from Alas Media on Vimeo. Literally. The company is trying to treat these long-time employees like so much trash to be thrown into the street. Earlier this month, BMW told 65 Teamsters th...
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America's hungry seniors should turn to charity

dailykos.com - Sen. Bernie Sanders (Chris Helgren/Reuters)It's a seriously fucked up new world in Washington, DC. A Senate subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders, held a hearing ...
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Health Insurance Policies are Inherently Complex

fdlaction.firedoglake.com - The Affordable Care Act will eventually start requiring health insurance policies to be explained in a simpler to understand manner. While this a good thing there is still the huge problem that si...
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What Can We Learn From Feeling Hungry?

mariashriver.com - June 22, 2011 Creative Experts What Can We Learn From Feeling Hungry? By Penny Hoff Do you just want to eat, or do you want to stop being hungry? There is vital distinction between these two desire...
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Charter Schooling & Citizenship :: Frederick M. Hess

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Charter Schooling & Citizenship :: Frederick M. HessCharter Schooling & Citizenshipby Frederick M. Hess • Jun 22, 2011 at 10:00 amCross-posted from Education Week Print Send RSS ShareU. Missouri'...
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      Modern School: CTA’s New Idiot Wimp Boss

      Modern School: CTA’s New Idiot Wimp Boss

      CTA’s New Idiot Wimp Boss

      by Michael Dunn

      In a recent interview with Thoughts on Public Education (Top-Ed), Dean Vogel, the new CTA boss, told Top-Ed’s John Fensterwald that the CTA “is really about making things better for kids, and making learning environments better for kids, and – and that’s where our members are, and they’re the ones that know about that, and – and so I really want to help them feel a reconnection to the union that’s representing them and –and fight for what’s best for public education.”

      So what’s my beef with Vogel?

      First, this rambling, incoherent statement is as meaningful as Obama’s mantra, Change We Can Believe In. The quote says nothing concrete about what the union is or does or how it intends to get there. It’s simply a feel-good sound bite meant to portray the union as the preeminent child advocacy organization in the state, which it is not.

      This brings us to my second gripe: unions are supposed to fight for the interests of their members, not their clients. Obviously teachers care about their clients (i.e., students) and constantly make sacrifices to help them. However, a union that places the interests of the students above those of the teachers, as implied by Vogel’s quote, is not a union at all, but a child or education advocacy organization, of which there are already plenty.
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      Big Money, Our Favorite Things « Failing Schools

      Big Money, Our Favorite Things « Failing Schools

      Big Money, Our Favorite Things

      JUNE 22, 2011
      by mariasallee

      The Summer Solstice has just passed, and it feels like a time to play with rhyming words. After playing with nursery rhymes and lullabies that need more work, I crafted a loving tribute to the apparent agenda big business bigwigs have in mind for our public school system. Think Rodgers and Hammerstein, with Maestra Maria Sallee instead of Maria von Trapp, and sing it out loud:

      Trained career teachers’ inflated remittance
      Replaced by new people who’ll cost just a pittance
      Take unions’ bargaining powers away
      Tenure and contracts are all so passé

      Teaching by formula, oh how we love it
      True pedagogy, you know they can shove it
      Teachers with expertise threaten the plan,
      Find ways to shame them whenever we

      Save Our Schools March & National Call to Action, July 30, 2011

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      Students Mark School Closings With Memorial Service Outside DOE Headquarters « EdVox

      Students Mark School Closings With Memorial Service Outside DOE Headquarters « EdVox

      Students Mark School Closings With Memorial Service Outside DOE Headquarters

      by edvoxny

      One hundred high school students from the Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC), New York City’s largest student-led group, gathered on the steps of the Department of Education headquarters today to hold a memorial service for the four high schools being closed at the end of this school year and the more than 30 others that have been closed by the Bloomberg administration so far.

      The students held a funeral precession through City Hall Park up to the steps of the Tweed courthouse. There they conducted an entire service complete with coffins, flowers and eulogies as they mourned the schools’ untimely passing, and the administration’s failed policy of unnecessarily shutting down struggling schools instead of helping their students achieve success.

      “We mourn not only the closing schools, but the death of public participation in education under Bloomberg,” said

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      Hechinger Report | Q&A with Rocketship Education’s John Danner: ‘There are things that the computer does best and things that teachers do best’

      Hechinger Report | Q&A with Rocketship Education’s John Danner: ‘There are things that the computer does best and things that teachers do best’

      Q&A with Rocketship Education’s John Danner: ‘There are things that the computer does best and things that teachers do best’

      by Liz Willen

      Maricela Guerrero is principal at one of the Rocketship schools.

      In 2006, former software engineer John Danner co-founded Rocketship Education, a national nonprofit elementary charter school network based in San Jose, Calif., with Preston Smith. The network is gaining attention for its “hybrid” model of learning, which blends classroom teaching with small-group tutoring and individualized online learning. Danner, who won the John P. McNulty Prize last year for his innovations, has no small ambition: He wants to expand the Rocketship model to 50 U.S. cities and eliminate the achievement gap by 2020.

      Rocketship’s expansion agenda comes at a time when online learning is exploding and as President Barack

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