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Myth of Korean super teacher

koreatimes.co.kr - By Paul Karrer Recently, teachers at my elementary school were subjected to a poke in the eye with ``data” confirming that we were among the lowest 5 percent of performing schools in California. A ...

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2011 school test scores will be clean, Alonso vows

baltimoresun.com - www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-md-ci-school-cheating-announcement-20110623,0,5441924.storyBy Erica L. Green After announcing that cheating had occurred at two elementary schools in the past two years...

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Meet the "Christie Democrats" | Mother Jones

motherjones.com - The New Jersey legislature on Thursday joined Wisconsin, Ohio, and a handful of other states by drastically scaling back pension and health-care benefits for government workers and curbing collecti...

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Big Education Ape - Lost Weekend or Vacation?

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Big Education Ape on vacation - coverage sporadic (more than normal). Check out these Twitter Newspapers from paper.li for the latest from some of the very Best Education Bloggers. Paperli.Pap...

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Jersey Jazzman: Your Corrupt NJ Democratic Party

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: Your Corrupt NJ Democratic PartyYour Corrupt NJ Democratic Party National bloggers are noticing the schism in the NJ Democratic party and the corruption of the Norcross/Adubato mach...

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The Return of ZombieX: Rob Gaudette Teaches Outside the Test

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Return of ZombieX: Rob Gaudette Teaches Outside the TestThe Return of ZombieX: Rob Gaudette Teaches Outside the Testby CYNTHIA on JUNE 24, 2011ZombieX is a 12-year old public school 7th grader....

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Birth defects linked to pesticides, again « MomsRising Blog

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Bullshit freedom or freedom bullshit? « Cooperative Catalyst

Bullshit freedom or freedom bullshit? « Cooperative Catalyst

Bullshit freedom or freedom bullshit?

by kima

Imagine this scene: — You walk into a bank with your 7 year old daughter (or son) and ask to see an account manager as you would like to open an account in her name, so she can start saving money and use her own debit card when she chooses to buy something with her own money. Do you know what will happen?

Few weeks ago we decided with my wife that a piggy bank is not an appropriate way for our 7 year old daughter to learn how to manage her finances for reasons I suspect will be obvious to the readers of this blog. After all, I haven’t seen an adult yet to carry a piggy bank instead of a wallet when going to the store. We wanted her to not only learn how to save or spend and be in control of her money, but to also make at least one part of our adult lives closer to her — thus it seemed obvious to us that she should get a bank account and a card!

Ignoring the funny looks when announcing to the reception at our local bank branch that we’re there to see an account manager we previously set an appointment with for opening my daughter’s account, I was happy to learn that our bank offers savings accounts to young children — with a debit card on their own name! Wow, what a great country we live in, I thought. Here, we trust our kids and we empower them to be equal to adults for something as important as money. If only the truth was not so different!

Anyone under 12 years old — what’s that about 12 years old being such an important milestone that so many

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Funny thing about the agreement to prevent layoffs « JD2718

Funny thing about the agreement to prevent layoffs

by jd2718

I may be the only teacher in NYC who is hurt by the no-layoff agreeement

After months of Bloomberg threatening layoffs of teachers, there will be none. He’s been moving towards them for two years. And we said all along, layoffs were not necessary. And we were right.

What did yesterday’s deal do? We’ll have to look in the fine print to see if there’s any fine print. But what everyone knows now:

  1. No layoffs.
  2. Redeployment of ATRs (this one especially, we want to read about the details. )
  3. Extra resources from
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Daily Kos: Poverty is brutal, consuming and unforgiving. It strikes at the soul.

Daily Kos: Poverty is brutal, consuming and unforgiving. It strikes at the soul.

Poverty is brutal, consuming and unforgiving. It strikes at the soul.

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You defend yourself with hope, hard work and, for some, a helping hand. But these weapons grow dull in an economy on the verge of atrophy, in a job market tilting ever more toward the top and in a political environment that would sacrifice the weak to the wealthy.

The title is immediately followed by the words above. They are offered by Charles Blow in a New York Times op ed titled Them That's Not Shall Lose. It is a must read, by a man who knows whereof he writes:

I know the feel of thick calluses on the bottom of shoeless feet. I know the bite of the cold breeze that slithers through a drafty house. I know the weight of constant worry over not having enough to fill a belly or fight an illness.

Most of us do not know from experience as does Blow, but surely we should be able to understand.

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