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Big Education Ape: 6-25-11 AM Fred Said Rahm’s DNA everywhere Edition

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Leaked internal documents shows what Rhee really thinks of some Michigan legislators

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Leaked internal documents shows what Rhee really thinks of some Michigan legislatorsLeaked internal documents shows what Rhee really thinks of some Michigan legislators Here’s what Michelle Rhee re...

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Timothy D. Slekar: Deforming the Graduate Degree

huffingtonpost.com - "I actually don't want qualified teachers [ones with graduate degrees] in the classroom. I want highly effective teachers [test score manipulators] in the classroom." -- John Deasy, LAUSD Superinte...

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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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"Overpaid Teachers"

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - Great article deconstructing this myth:U.S. census data shows that annual pay for teachers has fallen drastically over the past 60 years when compared to the annual pay of other workers with colleg...

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How Did We Get To The Point of Attacking Teachers? by Paul Karrer

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Parent Advocates - ParentAdvocates.orgHow Did We Get To The Point of Attacking Teachers? by Paul KarrerThe public has gone from venerating teachers to vilifying them .How did things get to this sta...

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How to Keep Your Head Comfortable While in the Guillotine

nyceducator.com - I recently had the dubious pleasure of meeting an individual whose job it is to go to closing schools and advise the teachers how to better do their jobs. One teacher I spoke to told me he comes in...

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Why U.S. Teachers Work the Most But U.S. Students Stay Average - Business

theatlanticwire.com - Among 27 member nations tracked by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, U.S. teachers work the longest hours, the Wall Street Journal reports. This seems particularly impressi...

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A sample of 311 acknowledgements of parents' calls on the budget cuts

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Before the city budget cut deal was announced yesterday, I asked parents to call 311 to oppose the Mayor's proposed cuts that would eliminate 6100 teaching positions, and to send me the record of t...

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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blog

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blogSaturday coffee.by Fred KlonskyWhat a beautiful morning! Kind temperature. Blue sky.We had coffee outside. Back at Letizia’s on Division Street in West Town. O...

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Bullshit freedom or freedom bullshit? « Cooperative Catalyst

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Bullshit freedom or freedom bullshit? « Cooperative CatalystBullshit freedom or freedom bullshit?by kimaImagine this scene: — You walk into a bank with your 7 year old daughter (or son) and ask to ...

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Wis. Justice Prosser: No Comment On Report That I Grabbed Female Justice By The Neck

tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, a member of the court's 4-3 conservative majority who was just re-elected to a ten-year term in a heated race that involved a recount and vote-tabulat...

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If You Want to Understand What’s Really Going on in the World, Stop Thinking Like a Middle Class American

dissidentvoice.org - I was having a conversation with a professional colleague the other day who had spent some time working in Egypt and was reassigned back home shortly before the protests erupted that resulted in th...

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Today's Teamster News 06.25.11

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Can the Union Bill Be Rolled Back? Milwaukee Express ...State Rep. Mark Pocan and state Sen. Fred Risser—both Democrats—have announced that they're drafting legislation that would roll back the ...

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Daily Kos: Too Big to Fail versus too small to matter

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: Too Big to Fail versus too small to matterToo Big to Fail versus too small to matterby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)I was watching "Too Big To Fail" and an exchange caught my attention.C...

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Cook County, Illinois Is $108 Billion In The Red ,cook county news

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas oversees 553 local government bodies. They include school districts, municipalities and all the other line- item entries on property tax bills. Two years ago Papp...

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ObamaCare vs. RyanCare: Scarecrow Gets Confused With "Serious" Strawmen

my.firedoglake.com - Ever since Jon Walker and I pointed out the real and superficial similarities between Paul Ryan’s proposed RyanCare for future seniors and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) structure for non-seniors, n...

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We Party Patriots » Blog Archive » More People Die on the Job than Die in the War

wepartypatriots.com - Jun 2011 25 If we lost 12 soldiers every day in Iraq or Afghanistan, this country would be outraged! PhilaPOSH is the Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health and is made up of u...

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Nato admits civilians died in Tripoli bombing raid

telegraph.co.uk - Defence sources said a number of factors could be responsible for a missed target. The bomb could have been laser-guided, and the laser malfunctioned; it could have been a GPS bomb with the wrong g...

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How Did We Get To The Point of Attacking Teachers? by Paul Karrer

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No layoffs: Union agrees to concessions in budget deal | GothamSchools

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - No layoffs: Union agrees to concessions in budget deal | GothamSchoolsNo layoffs: Union agrees to concessions in budget deal *[Updated: 10:06]* Plans to lay off 4,100 teachers were averted late Fri...

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SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Budget Deficit Hysteria

Budget Deficit Hysteria

by Duane Campbell

Budget Deficit Hysteria: A Right-Wing Ploy to Defund Vital Government Social Programs

The Boys Who Cried Debt: The Case Against Cuts

Joseph M. Schwartz

Republicans and conservative Democrats are whipping up public hysteria about the debt ceiling and the size of the federal deficit to justify cutting social programs that benefit the middle and working class. These scare tactics are hypocritical because conservatives militantly pushed for these same cuts when the federal budget was in surplus during the Clinton administration. The United States is not broke. The long-term deficit problem has not been caused by wasteful social spending, as the right contends, but by conservatives’ thirty-year project of starving federal, state and local governments of revenue via tax cuts for the affluent and for corporations. As conservative activist Grover Nordquist quipped during the Reagan era, the goal of the right is to reduce the size of government and drown it in the bathtub. Of course, the “deficit problem” can readily be fixed without cutting Social Security or Medicare if we enact government policies that force the rich and corporations to pay their fair share in taxes and that curtail wasteful “defense” spending.

The Republican leadership never tells the public that well over half of the deficit spending from 2008-11 has nothing to do with the Obama administration’s policies. Rather, it is due to the lost revenue from the Bush tax cuts and excessive military spending,

The Best Resources On The “Summer Slide” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

The Best Resources On The “Summer Slide” We’re all familiar with the “summer slide” — the academic losses that many young people, especially in low-income communities, experience during the time they’re out of school. This “slide” is being exacerbated by budget cuts — a few years ago our ...

Resources On Torture The United Nations General Assembly has declared June the 26th to be International Day in Support of Torture Victims. I’ve just updated The Best Sites For Discussing The Morality Of Torture. Feel free to offer additional suggestions.

DREAM ACT Call to Action Jose Antonio Vargas Mentoring Challenge - Hispanically Speaking News

DREAM ACT Call to Action by Jose Antonio Vargas garners Mentoring Challenge

Urgent, national challenge to address Latino educational attainment deficit ties directly to need for passage of the DREAM Act; call to action for an educated America to return to number one spot by 2020 requires DREAMers to become college graduates too; Olga Milan-Howells, real-estate developer of San Francisco heeds call

After hearing the shocking news of Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas’ coming out about his immigration status, California author and entrepreneur Graciela Tiscareño-Sato decided to push her call for the “Two by 2020 Mentoring Challenge” harder than ever. The challenge asks college-educated Americans to commit to mentoring two young people for the next nine years, with a special focus on Latino youth. This includes assisting a high school or college dropout you may know to complete their education.

Why the urgency? By 2020, America needs 36 million new college graduates to become the most educated nation on Earth; because of rapid population growth, 5.5 million of those degrees must come from the Latino community—611,000 per year. This means America needs Latino high school students, including those that are DREAMers, to also graduate from college. “Active, intentional, long-term mentoring is the only way that a kid

Review: Profit At the Bottom Of The Ladder « MomsRising Blog

Review: Profit At the Bottom Of The Ladder

by Elisa Batista

Since coming back from Netroots Nation, I have been thinking a lot about workers’ rights. When did we get to the point in our country that workers like teachers and union members are the greedy and grubby ones? No one seems to care that much about the investors who don’t have to work, for example. Or asking the CEO to take a pay cut, or even worse, pay more in taxes. Gasp!

Finally, I spotted a story, in this case the Washington Post, scrutinizing CEO pay, which is at the highest levels in our history. Read on:

The evolution of executive grandeur — from very comfortable to jet-setting — reflects one of the primary reasons that the gap between those with the highest incomes and everyone else is widening.
For years, statistics have depicted growing income disparity in the United

Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Reporting Violations

Lowell Meeting 7PM Monday at Lincoln *Help Keep Lowell's APP community intact* Meeting at Lincoln, Monday June 27 at 7 p.m. The predicted overcrowding of Lowell next fall has prompted the district to address capacity at the school. That's good news. But the solution the district has ...

Odds and Ends Forgot to mention the last Director Community meeting for this school year: *Director Betty Patu, 10 am-noon at Tully's, at Rainier and Genesee * So apparently, the *John Marshall building *is being rented to a group called *Applied Scholastics Academy ...

Reporting Violations Since the Board has a new-found interest in governance, I have tried something new. I have tried reporting policy violations to them and asking them to enforce the policy. So far I have reported two. I reported the superintendent's failure to submit ...

The 3 most important questions in education - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Summer reading: Favorite books of Bill Clinton, Bill Gates... If you are searching for something new to read this summer, here are a few book lists that may give you an idea or two. Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, has asked thousands of people to list the books that ...

The 3 most important questions in education -- *This was written by Sam Chaltain, a D.C.-based writer, educator and strategist. He was the national director of the Forum for Education & Democracy, an education advocacy organization, and the founding director of the Five Freedoms Project , ...

LAUSD PLANS TO OFFER OPEN SPACE AT WALGROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN MAR VISTA TO CHARTER ORGANIZATION + smf's 2¢

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Walgrove (cont.): LAUSD PLANS TO OFFER OPEN SPACE AT WALGROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN MAR VISTA TO CHARTER ORGANIZATION + smf's 2¢

Walgrove (cont.): LAUSD PLANS TO OFFER OPEN SPACE AT WALGROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN MAR VISTA TO CHARTER ORGANIZATION + smf's 2¢

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SEE ALSO:4LAKidsNews - Wednesday, June 22, 2011- LAUSD MOVES FORWARD WITH PLAN FOR NEW CHARTER SCHOOL ON WALGROVE CAMPUS BY GARY WALKER – The Argonaut | http://bit.ly/jpO9L5 Thursday, June 23, 2011 4:21 PM PDT - Los Angeles Unified School District officials have initiated a process that will invite a charter operator to enter into a lease agreement to build a school on two acres of open

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